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Trump blames 'thugs' for canceled Chicago campaign rally ["have totally energized America!"]
Reuters via Compuserve.com ^ | 03/12/2016 10:24 | Emily Flitter and Fiona Ortiz

Posted on 03/12/2016 7:47:34 AM PST by GonzoII

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday blamed organized "thugs" for protests that shut down his Chicago rally and said the incident had "energized America."

Trump, who will be at a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday, canceled the Chicago event on Friday after it turned chaotic, with scuffles breaking out between protesters and backers of the real estate magnate.

"The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!" Trump said on Twitter.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech and assembly. The Chicago rally came ahead of five primary elections on Tuesday, including contests in Ohio and Illinois.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; chicago; election2016; illinois; newyork; rally; riots; tedcruz; texas; thugs; trump
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To: L,TOWM

I suspect that is what you have read other trumpbots saying.

The logic in that trumpbot statement is faulty.


141 posted on 03/12/2016 12:08:08 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: Windflier

Wow, the faulty logic in your post is breathtaking.


142 posted on 03/12/2016 12:09:55 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: sargon
As I pointed out, and as is obvious by simply reading recent threads, Ted Cruz has lost many of his supporters who have read exactly what Cruz said.

False. If any true Cruz supporters have left, and I suspect some have, they have not read the entire Cruz statement, but rather the truncated portion that the anti-Cruz media, the left and the trumpbots have posted on the Internet.

143 posted on 03/12/2016 12:11:57 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: L,TOWM

tepid? A statement saying that the fault for the violent protests belongs to the protesters and the leaders is tepid?

Which dictionary did you refer to for such a singular definition of tepid?


144 posted on 03/12/2016 12:13:39 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: dp0622

I guess I’m so used to dealing with the really obnoxious cruzites that I forget that people have their own breaking point. Some don’t have a breaking point because theyre paid.

In any case welcome. And I am sorry that its come to these sort of revelations. Thank God for campaigns.


145 posted on 03/12/2016 12:34:35 PM PST by RKBA Democrat
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To: RKBA Democrat

i’m already over it. my sentimentality dies fast.

he’s dead to me.

i’m not saying i’m in love with Trump but he’s got GUTS which goes FAR in my book.

he’s putting his life on the line to run, what more can one ask?


146 posted on 03/12/2016 12:37:44 PM PST by dp0622
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To: savedbygrace

“Wow, the faulty logic in your post is breathtaking.”

Is that so?

Apparently, you seem to have a bullet proof resistance to simple logic and reason, as evidenced by your continued flailing attempts to brush away any and all appeals to your alledged intelligence.

At this point, I can only assume that you’re some misguided soul, whose blind faith in Cruz has forced you to reject even the words out of his own mouth.

Good bye.


147 posted on 03/12/2016 12:46:15 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: GonzoII

Black lives matter or black lib fascist bowel movement met with Obozo in the White Hut, so did Bern-out Sanders. Hmm..wonder what was discussed?

Most of the people on streets protesting from university didn’t look American, that UIC is rich in worldly bagrot, I see muzzies, Palestinian swine and assorted third world rats.

The rest of the anarchists perverts femi-nazis and libbie lightweights in their Justin Beiber tight pants love Chiraq, a bastion of filth and deviancy. There are people just minutes/miles away in Indiana who have not visited that dump in decades. It’s an elite cosmopolitan oasis of libtardom walled off from the outside real world.


148 posted on 03/12/2016 1:50:05 PM PST by TheBigJ
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To: savedbygrace

Cruz blaming Trump.


149 posted on 03/12/2016 4:20:03 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Windflier

We’ve found Baghdad Bob’s new home.


150 posted on 03/12/2016 4:26:21 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: savedbygrace

No I am not


151 posted on 03/12/2016 4:59:16 PM PST by reaganaut (Bible Scholars, Theologians and Evangelicals for Trump)
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To: reaganaut

He is not siding with the leftists. He said they are to blame for the violent protest.


152 posted on 03/12/2016 5:33:01 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: DuncanWaring

Cruz said the protesters and the leaders are to blame for the violent protest.


153 posted on 03/12/2016 5:33:52 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: savedbygrace

Keep telling yourself that.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.


154 posted on 03/12/2016 5:36:01 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: savedbygrace
Cruz said the protesters and the leaders are to blame for the violent protest.

Opportunist Ted Cruz: “Donald Trump is Responsible” For Organized Chicago Violence (video)…

155 posted on 03/12/2016 5:40:05 PM PST by Stentor
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To: mjp

Protesters dont even have a right to be in the building. They can protest from outside the building across the street. Thugs need to be arrested.


156 posted on 03/12/2016 5:40:37 PM PST by Carry me back (.Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: Stentor

The title of that is not true.


157 posted on 03/12/2016 6:09:30 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: dragnet2

Is it just me or do those ‘muslim’ protesters look like rich white college boys?


158 posted on 03/12/2016 6:26:35 PM PST by reaganaut (Bible Scholars, Theologians and Evangelicals for Trump)
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To: reaganaut

159 posted on 03/12/2016 6:27:53 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Windflier

And then the Cruzers wonder why we think they act like cultists and consider him to be the messiah...


160 posted on 03/12/2016 6:29:30 PM PST by reaganaut (Bible Scholars, Theologians and Evangelicals for Trump)
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