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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Yes, and, what an amazing coinkydink, it happened in his hometown — oh wait, it’s somebody else’s hometown, a community organizer there, I believe. Isn’t the Ci-cagoization of American National politics a big surprise? How can that have happened? I can’t imagine.
Right.
Trump caused, Watts, Rodney King, Ferguson, Twana Brawley, 40 black-on-black murders a week, the "Knockout game", The New Black Panthers, BLM, ANSWER, George Soros etc etc etc
Yeah, he's responsible for all that.
Cruz basically said that each person is responsible for their own actions. You don’t believe that to be true?
That was taken as a challenge by the protesters to ramp up their agression at Trump rallies.
But it was originally a weakness of Sanders that started it all. Now they find it convenient to blame Trump for it.
-PJ
Last night was probably Trumps most successful rally yet, and he didn’t even speak.
What he did is expose (community organizer) Obama, Cruz, the GOPe, ANSWER, BLM, moveon.org, Soros and the hyper-corrupt murder-capital city of Chicago as the enemies of the American People.
Yeah, he’s “not smart”.
Ted Cruz has brought out some of my better scrabble skills with his campaign’s trusTed signs: DIStrusTed
How did Cruz “join the fascist brown shirt in Chicago”, by saying that each person is responsible for his/her own actions - the violent people for theirs, and Trump for his?
I can’t believe what this place has become. Truth doesn’t matter to anybody, it seems.
Cruz has outed himself. He is clearly afraid to fight for his conservative constitutional principles.
Cowards make ne sick.
What part of ““Now the responsibility for that lies with protestors who took violence into their own hands.” don’t you understand?
Your behavior is leading to attacks on a candidate.. Physical attacks! My eyes are wide open.
Don’t pretend he didn’t blame trump for what he thought would be political advantage. Trump supports people defending themselves in their own homes. Do you?
Trumpsters never disappoint in that regard.
That is way too reasonable a response. You’re gonna get skinned alive by all the good, Christian, non-violent patriots right here on FR.
Of course I support people defending themselves in their own homes. Was Trump promising to pay the legal costs for people defending themselves in their own homes? Did he say he wanted to punch people who invade his supporters’ homes?
Cruz blamed the protesters for violence, and he blamed Trump for his own violent rhetoric. Which part of that is untrue, or wrong to hold accountable?
Funny how some folks are spewing the same venom that lesbian Rachel Maddow did last night.
I am saying the protesters were wrong, anti- 1sr amendment, by disrupting the Trump rally, comrade.
Did Cruz condemn his boy Beck for threatening to stab Trump? Cruz turned out to be a real piece of trash. The American people...... they get it.
Cruz said the protesters were responsible for their violence, and Trump was responsible for his comments encouraging violence.
How is that in any way justifying violence? He holds both parties accountable for their own actions.
The venom I’ve seen here has been entirely by those falsely claiming that Cruz sided with and/or excused BLM, moveon.org, and Bill Ayers, when in fact he came right out and said they were responsible.
Some of the things said to Haiku Guy by these non-violent Trump types might be classified as prosecutable verbal assault, if people weren’t hiding behind anonymity here.
And they don’t even see that their very words make Haiku Guy’s point for him.
“Your behavior is leading to attacks on a candidate.. Physical attacks! My eyes are wide open.”
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LOL...you guys are too funny! Little-ol-me...get real!
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