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alp227

(32,005 posts)
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 12:40 AM Mar 2016

Trump ends wild day on the campaign trail by calling for protesters to be arrested

Source: CNN

Donald Trump on Saturday called for protesters who disrupt his rallies to be arrested, one day after altercations and protests forced him to cancel a campaign rally in Chicago.

The comments capped a tumultuous day on the campaign trail in which a demonstrator rushed a stage where Trump was speaking, Trump accused Bernie Sanders' supporters of sowing unrest at his events and the GOP front-runner refused to back down from his rhetoric that some have cited as the cause of heightened tension at his rallies.

Trump's call to arrest protesters came at a campaign event in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was repeatedly interrupted at the beginning of his address.

"I'm going to ask that you arrest them," Trump said to the police. "I'll file whatever charges you want. If they want to do this ... we're going to go strongly for your arrests."

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/12/politics/donald-trump-protests/index.html



Remember when Donald Trump criticized GW Bush's Iraq War decision at that debate? He sure missed an opportunity to call on Bush to be tried for war crimes.
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Trump ends wild day on the campaign trail by calling for protesters to be arrested (Original Post) alp227 Mar 2016 OP
What if .... ? ificandream Mar 2016 #1
oh man that was good! Cavallo Mar 2016 #3
If Trump had had his way, those protestors dumping tea into Boston harbor would have been FailureToCommunicate Mar 2016 #2
Not to mention the armies that followed them into the jwirr Mar 2016 #9
Trump can't speak badly of GWB, his supporters are the same band of morons. olddad56 Mar 2016 #4
Has he called for his supporters and campaign staff to not use violence? sakabatou Mar 2016 #5
Trump can call his brown shirts into action. keithbvadu2 Mar 2016 #6
I keep hoping houston16revival Mar 2016 #7
In the 60s wasn't it part of the plan to overwhelm the courts jwirr Mar 2016 #8

FailureToCommunicate

(14,007 posts)
2. If Trump had had his way, those protestors dumping tea into Boston harbor would have been
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 12:47 AM
Mar 2016

arrested and jailed before they ever boarded the ships.

What country does he think he's in?

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
9. Not to mention the armies that followed them into the
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 12:06 PM
Mar 2016

revolution. He would have been fighting for the English unlike many of the Scots who delighted in being able to join the revolution.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
8. In the 60s wasn't it part of the plan to overwhelm the courts
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 12:03 PM
Mar 2016

by being arrested? I have never seen a protest action that did not involve the idea that one could be arrested.

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