Delegates face death threats from Trump supporters.

[Hekate]

Source: Politico

Subtitle: At the Republican National Committee’s spring meeting, delegates describe vicious missives demanding they support the GOP front-runner.

First it was an email warning Steve House, the Colorado GOP chairman, to hide his family members and “pray you make it to Cleveland.” Then there was the angry man who called his cell phone and told him to put a gun down his throat.
“He said, ‘I’ll call back in two minutes and if you’re still there, I’ll come over and help you’,” House recalled.
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In hotel hallways and across dinner tables, many party leaders attending this week’s meetings shared similar stories. One party chair says a Trump supporter recently got in his face and promised “bloodshed” if he didn’t win the GOP nomination. An Indiana delegate who criticized Trump received a note warning against “traditional burial” that ended with, “We are watching you.”
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"A Trump supporter recently got in my face and threatened ‘bloodshed’ at the national convention and said he would ‘meet me at the barricades’ if Trump isn't the nominee,” said one party chairman, who spoke on condition of anonymity. .... Several delegates and party leaders told POLITICO that the rising atmosphere of fear has silenced some critics and led party leaders to eye extra security for state conventions and local gatherings where Trump supporters might take exception to the results.
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Amid conversations about convention security, Trump’s detractors face one harrowing fact: the fear wrought by threats and intimidation could be affecting convention rules — and, potentially, the GOP nomination fight itself — to Trump’s benefit.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/delegates-face-death-threats-from-trump-supporters-222302

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Trump is now pivoting to a more "presidential" look, and has hired Paul Manafort, who is now "in charge." But it may be too late as regards the violence he has stirred up.

I checked and didn't see the death threats story in LBN already.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. This is why the people Trump has demonized

Are at risk.

It's not up for 'debate' with me. His followers are not addle brained ninnies and they aren't 'stupid'. His langugage has normalized their inherent violence and anger at everyone in America who is not like him.

True anger will be the night gets his ass whooped by the Democratic nominee.

That's what Trump's FOLLOWERS are.

They are Hutus.

[MynameisBlarney]

7. Every drump supporter I've had the misfortune of meeting

have been total morons.
Other than that though, I agree with your post.

[floppyboo]

9. Not 'brain addled'?

It has been suggested that a good % of his supporters are on opioids. I've heard that that is also a great recruiting technique for ISIS.

Clinton needs to stand up for marijuana de-criminalization - and FAST!

[floppyboo]

11. And why are there record #'s of suicides? Let's get to the root of the problem

Stop the black/brown baiting in the south and fix the inequality. Make corporations pay their taxes and pay their workers. They don't need those obscene pay checks. No camel ever passed through the eye of a needle. Or will Cryogenics save Walt?

[MynameisBlarney]

12. Isn't that the same as

"Addle-pated"?

[floppyboo]

16. Ha! That's a great colloquiollism - perfect for the Trump +65 and addicts!

Reminds me of Laudanum! And some 3rd way believers.

[Hekate]

15. Funny thing about the Hutus and Tutsis: they lived in relative peace as neighbors until a radio....

Until a hate radio campaign set one side to murdering the other. You are the first person I've encountered who remembers what I remember about the Hutus and Tutsis.

I think about them every time I hear calls for civil war and secession and sovereign citizenship and who's to blame for all the troubles in the US. We have their ilk here at home.

Going back further, scapegoating worked really well for Mussolini and Hitler. Trump is a dangerous thug.

You can tell there are Republicans who were just going about their business who feel completely terrorized now. I hope the hell they can stand their ground at their convention and stop Trump from getting the nomination, because he is setting something loose on us that we cannot allow to stand. If he chooses to run third party, I'll cheer, because in this country all that does is split one of the major parties, which in this case would be the GOP and not us.

[JustAnotherGen]

17. I've seen a lot of Nazi/Mussolini comparisons to Trump

But it really is the Information DIGITAL AGE. It's a digital time - and mass communication is far more than the national Rwanda Radio station - it's citizen's media.

How quickly an angry and violent Trump Movement can go awry in July and November - that is the question. Not if . . .But how far and wide. What level?

I'd love a third party run - but they will be even ANGRIER come November.

Having engaged at the time in a federal internship role - and then years later as we sat on the sidelines and just let it happen in Darfur - as it continues in DR Congo . . From having worked with survivors of the Rwandan genocide to bring this to Senator Menendez . . .

It can happen again. As my friend Simone said - I never expected to give birth in my attic by myself while women who had been at my baby shower hunted me.

It's just like that.

[classof56]

2. Wish I still believed in a higher power.

I'd implore her/him to help us all. We're gonna need it!

[LongTomH]

3. ......and why am I not surprised???

WARNING: Donald Trump's supporters are armed and dangerous.....and, just how long have we known that???

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Trump booster Gary Pasquariello aka "Gary Forbes" has been advocating intimidation on his site.

From Wonkette:

http://wonkette.com/600818/trump-guy-has-this-one-weird-trick-to-ratfck-all-the-republican-delegates


Trump Guy Has This One Weird Trick To Ratf*ck All The Republican Delegates
By Robyn Pennacchia -
April 19, 2016 - 2:00pm


Though Donald Trump is the current frontrunner in the race to lose the presidency to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, or a stale piece of toast that isn’t Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, he still only has 744 delegates out of the 1,237 he needs to become the nominee without causing a contested convention. If there is a contested convention, he will probably lose the nomination since everyone other than his supporters is literally terrified by the idea of a Trump presidency.

But Trump supporter Gary Forbes has a PLAN. A totally good plan that will definitely work, and ensure that Trump gets the nomination. He wants a bunch of people to help him prevent the delegates from Wyoming and Colorado from voting in the convention, through means he says are totally legal. Like causing traffic jams and cancelling their flight and hotel reservations. Totally legal things like that!

Yes! These are all definitely things you can totally do without getting into trouble. And you can definitely just call up an airport and say you are a person you are not and cancel their flight, without any identifying information whatsoever! Also if they find out their flight has been canceled, there is nothing they can do about it, and the airline definitely won’t profusely apologize and restore their flight.

Forbes is also weirdly obsessed with bikers, and would like to invite a bunch of them to go harass party leaders and delegates at their homes to hand deliver his letters…

And then to get groups of 500 or more people to camp out at their houses until they obey the will of Gary Forbes the person.

Yes, this not at all psychotic plan to Altamont the Republican convention is certainly bulletproof, and will surely go off without a hitch.

Forbes claims on his website that he is a “Conservative Strategist” — although it does not appear that this is a thing he is actually paid to do by anybody. Mostly it seems like he runs a blog and makes up a bunch of “slides” about how great Donald Trump is, and calls it “Trump Magazine.” Luckily, the name is available for use, given that the actual Trump Magazine went under in 2009 after three years of publishing important stories about what yachts to buy and other things of importance to “WTP.”


Though it’s hard to find any evidence of this “strategist” work, there is work of another kind. Because Gary Forbes is not a real Forbes, but is in fact a real medigan named Gary Pasquariello. Also he is a “New Age Pianist,” who performs the kind of jams we so often hear whilst patiently waiting to argue with the cable company. Like this one, titled “Dream Chasin‘”

You chase your dreams, Gary Pasquariello! Chase them all the way to the closest penitentiary!

Read more at http://wonkette.com/600818/trump-guy-has-this-one-weird-trick-to-ratfck-all-the-republican-delegates#eApXiibIb7vjOLMD.99

[ananda]

5. Stay classy, trumpers!

Geez

[vkkv]

6. Ah, the JOYS of being a Republican !!

We all get what we deserve.

So sad our Democracy is now dead.. we are now an Oligarchy through and through.

We need more people to get pissed off about it enough to do something, at least:: GET OUT AND VOTE !!

STUPID F'ING AMERICANS!!

Milllions world-wide have shed their blood for the right to vote! Us???

[keithbvadu2]

8. All the more reason for open/concealed carry of guns at Cleveland

for the 'protection' of all those "good guys with guns".

[Renew Deal]

10. This is why they all need to be armed at the convention.

The good guys with guns need to defend themselves from the bad guys with guns. It's totally logical.

[keithbvadu2]

18. "logical" turns out to be confusing.

Between the Donald supporters and the Rafael supporters, which ones are the 'good guys' and which ones are the 'bad guys'?

A righteous test by firepower?

Last 'good guy' standing casts the winning vote.

[Turbineguy]

13. Death threats.

Now THAT's how you treat your fellow Americans!

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Are they sure want to allow guns at the Republican convention?

What could go wrong?