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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I think he's smart enough to provoke the protestors to violence to his advantage, and convince his supporters he didn't do it.
Finally!
C'mon, nothing he said did that. It's where he held the rally. He could have held it at a lesser airfield and the riot wouldn't have happened.
Probably his most successful rally to date, and he didn't even have to be there.
Seriously? There never has been. There never will be. It is not possible. There is no salvation through politics.
The entire idea that there can be a perfect candidate or a perfected Utopia is a marxist/socialist idea to begin with. There is only ever the lesser of two evils. America was founded on a system of checks and balances to deal with the reality of human imperfection. It is in need of rebalancing.
Which candidate stands outside of it wanting to redevelop it on behalf of the American people, and which candidates are already in it and beholden to its monied interests?
You think he didn't know that?
“Do you suppose Trump is rethinking his condemnation of Pamela Geller?”
He should
"But I want you to understand that's just what I want you to think."
You enjoy having your rights taken away day by day, and your beliefs and choices criminalized, with no one to speak up for you? Sounds that way.
Yes, I and millions of others will not vote for any other Republican. Lets get the crash and destruction of society on. You remember your treason to your fellow conservatives this day...
NBC 2:30 PM
"SHARONVILLE, Ohio — Ohio Gov. John Kasich railed against his GOP rival Donald Trump on Saturday, accusing him of creating a "toxic environment" at his rallies."
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Cruz justified the violence against Republicans...he is toast.
Admit the Problem.
Republicans are weasels (as you are demonstrating).
We know this for sure.
The question is, what do we do about it? Our problem is that the Democrats have ideological conformity and the Republicans do not. So the Republicans lose to the Democrats on ideological grounds, over and over again.
This the third time in the past 1 and 1/2 hour that nbc has updated their online.
Possibly, but the Chicago cops thought they had it all under control.
Nobody’s dicussing where he had the rally being the cause of such violence, just his words.
I gotta admit, seeing that vicious BLM thug bleeding, face down on the pavement...made me feel all warm and fuzzy.
LOL...you guys are too funny! Little-ol-me...get real!
you are going to find real in just a few months when your whole world is in chaos. This is just the beginning. Cruz justifying mob violence along with his establishment cronies means a real war on Republicans is just beginning...
My treason? Strong words. And what treasonous act would that be exactly, just so I know when the shooting starts?
The left in this country has been screaming hatred of everything European-descended American patriot, everything Tea Party, everything pro-Christian for decades now. They teach it in universities, require it in CommieCore, and are even teaching our military that our proud military history and defense of the defenseless and our American Constitution are "white privilege." Their hate has bought off our news stations and mainstream media and most of our congress, and they are working hard to buy off our churches; they are already fining and ruining Christians for defending marriage.
One man tries to stand up for free speech and freedom of assembly, and the right to defend yourself against violence if the haters try to harm you, and you roll over and die, wheezing self-righteousness.
Tell me, have you found a job yet, so you can leave Mom's basement and start giving back to the nation that has given you so much?
That's easy. Donald J. Trump.
Well Bernie and Hillary are better men than Cruz.
No, he didn’t justify the violence. What part of ““Now the responsibility for that lies with protestors who took violence into their own hands.” don’t you understand?
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