Donald Trump Cancels Appearance After Protesters Cause Violence At Rally


As shameful as it is that groups like MoveOn, funded by George Soros, and Bernie Sanders supporters openly boasted about their disrupting the Trump campaign, the reactions of some of Trump’s Republican rivals are almost just as bad. Instead of defending him, they jumped at the opportunity to chastise him and accuse him of encouraging violence:

“The announcement that the billionaire businessman would postpone the rally until another day led a large portion of the crowd inside the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion to break out into raucous cheers. Meanwhile, supporters of the candidate started chanting ‘We want Trump! We want Trump!’

There were isolated physical confrontations between some members of the crowd after the event was canceled.

Speaking later with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, Trump said he had arrived in Chicago two hours earlier and about 25,000 people were trying to enter the arena.

After meeting with law enforcement authorities, he said, ‘I didn’t want to see people get hurt (so) I decided to postpone the rally…’

What we did was intelligent,’ Trump said. ‘A very good decision…a wise decision.’

He also told Van Susteren, ‘if we had the rally, I think it would not have been a good situation.’ But, he added, ‘Our First Amendment rights have been violated.’

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, second in delegates to Trump in the GOP race, said late Friday that the billionaire has created ‘an environment that encourages this sort of nasty discourse.’

‘When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that is escalates,’ Cruz said. ‘Today is unlikely to be the last such incidence.’

Trump returned to the First Amendment issue in a later conversation with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. ‘I have the right to speak and they (his supporters) have a right to listen,’ he said.

He also added that he was ‘getting a lot of credit for canceling…we did the right thing.’

Ohio Gov. John Kasich also took a shot at Trump. He said in a statement that the seeds of division his campaign had planted finally bore fruit, ‘and it was ugly.’

‘Some let their opposition to his views slip beyond protest into violence, but we can never let that happen. I urge people to resist that temptation and rise to a higher level,’ Kasich added.

See video about the Chicago rally below:

Source: Fox News, Infowars



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