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Source: New York Times
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.”
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/11/ted-cruz-says-donald-trump-is-to-blame-for-violence-at-his-rallies/
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“And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters"
Says Cruz... ::)
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Cruz starting to look pretty establishment to the GOP all of a sudden.
Trump getting a little carried away on this but then again if I had 30k people showing up to a rally I might feel like they need to get out as well...protest outside, etc.
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repubs have to be VERY scared of trump at this point.
IF this trend continues... IF people keep getting info bloody fights at rallies... eventually, I bet someone will get killed and then what?
what happens when a human life is lost, and it's lost after one of the candidates promised to pay the legal defense of anyone that kicks the shit out of a protester? and he said today, he's TRYING to pay for it still... not backing down from it!
when there's fights like this, eventually some idiot may bring a weapon. That's scary. Trump and the dem winner (hilary) should stand together and hug it out and order all supporters to STOP THE VIOLENCE. It's very bad.
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repubs have to be VERY scared of trump at this point.
IF this trend continues... IF people keep getting info bloody fights at rallies... eventually, I bet someone will get killed and then what?
what happens when a human life is lost, and it's lost after one of the candidates promised to pay the legal defense of anyone that kicks the shit out of a protester? and he said today, he's TRYING to pay for it still... not backing down from it!
when there's fights like this, eventually some idiot may bring a weapon. That's scary. Trump and the dem winner (hilary) should stand together and hug it out and order all supporters to STOP THE VIOLENCE. It's very bad.
Anyone want to wager which side does the killing. I know who I'm taking.
Trump obviously isn't responsible. The idiots who do the attacking are responsible.
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Anyone want to wager which side does the killing. I know who I'm taking.
Trump obviously isn't responsible. The idiots who do the attacking are responsible.
He promised to pay their legal bills if they assault protesters.
Yes, he bears some responsibility. These folks worship him. They think trump will love them and get them out of trouble.
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He promised to pay their legal bills if they assault protesters.
Yes, he bears some responsibility. These folks worship him. They think trump will love them and get them out of trouble.
Angry morons are looking for an excuse to act out. At the end of the day every person is responsible for their own words and actions.
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Angry morons are looking for an excuse to act out. At the end of the day every person is responsible for their own words and actions.
Agreed. All trump did was remove some of the financial consequences of sucker punching people.
Proof is in the pudding. People started punching protesters immediately.