Posted on 03/12/2016 4:53:30 AM PST by jimbo123
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said on Friday that Donald J. Trump bore responsibility for “creating an environment” that encourages violence at his events.
Speaking to reporters at a local Republican dinner outside Chicago, where Mr. Trump had just canceled a rally amid fierce confrontations between his supporters and protesters, Mr. Cruz began by saying that the “protesters who took violence into their own hands” were responsible for the episode.
“But in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top,” Mr. Cruz continued. “And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that is facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discourse.”
Mr. Cruz invoked the protests and violent police run-ins at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and predicted that future skirmishes were likely.
“When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that it escalates,” Mr. Cruz said. “And today is unlikely to be the last such instance.”
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ANYONE who looks at his statement objectively would KNOW he is ANTI mob,ANTI violence.
We have all witnessed TRUMPS incendeary speech, even you Trumpsters if you care to go back and read threads where YOU ALL expressed concern for his aggressive speech.
William Ayers was photographed (and the photos have appeared here on FR within the last day) at the Chicago near-riots, protesting Trump.
Maybe even someone of your limited perspective and abilities, can realize that Ayers' love of violence predates Trump's candidacy.
Ha, supporting brown shirt tactics?
The brown shirts used to punch people in the face, but the low information cult doesn’t know history.
The BLM are the ones who disrupt people having brunch in a damn restaurant, for crying out loud. What provocation is that?!
Wow! You just one the trifecta. Had no idea who you were until today but you have defined who you are in two short posts.
“Ha, another example of Cruz being spot on with the low information Trump cult.”
One more time with that, and I’m going to start hitting the Report Abuse button.
If you dont have jack to say, other than calling people “cultists” then go do some morning chores and let the kids have the computer for a while.
A lot of Trump rallies, up to this point, have been in areas where the radical Left does not control the local police force.
In Chicago, he had a rally in a city where there was a large presence by the Left, AND they could get to his rally by public transportation.
Are y’all going to blame Ted for this cancellation, too? Since DT obviously has had no bearing on any of this, not even when he rallied his supporters with Ted Cruz is A Pussy 6wks ago, or maybe that’s ancient history and inapplicable.
That’s all right, I know facts don’t matter to the cult.
Whatever the dear leader says and does is to be obeyed........
Incidentally that guy needs to turn in his badassMOFO card, as he is apparently only 26, and yet got pwned by a 78 year old.
I’m not going to defend the ONE idiot that showed up at a rally with thousands of people. More people get whacked at football games.
The supporter was rightly arrested and charged.
“Also, Cruz is the candidate in this race who is the farthest from the GOPe”
So why did he meet with Jeb Bush then?
I guess the word got out to the Cruz people on that other site they set up to rush back to FR because he was getting hammered by his goofy comments?
Oh so Move On Dot Org, Black Lives Matter and George Soros is Trump’s fault???
GFYTC!!! You lying sack of $hit!
..and it is massive.
Cruz is right, and has stood up all along against the wrong, but I’m beginning to think most FREEPERS are now drunk with TRUMPS poisoned drink.
I could care less.
Is this a conservative site?
How creepy is it that Cruz, Rubio and Kasich have aligned with Move-On.org.
You drunk? You certainly haven’t been thinking before you post.
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