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3/10/2016 3:56 pm  #1


Trump Supporters get Physical

Of course, Donald will denounce and reprimand this guy.  Well,............. maybe not.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/10/donald-trump-rally-protester/?_r=0

 

3/10/2016 5:11 pm  #2


Re: Trump Supporters get Physical

Just Fred wrote:

Of course, Donald will denounce and reprimand this guy.  Well,............. maybe not.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/10/donald-trump-rally-protester/?_r=0

Actually Trump in a backhanded way endorses this when as the article states.... 

Later in the Fayetteville rally on Wednesday, when another in a series of demonstrators was being led out, Mr. Trump himself lamented what he called “the good old days” when “this doesn’t happen.”“They used to treat them very, very rough, and when they protested once, they would not do it again so easily,” said Mr. Trump, who last month lamented that once upon a time, someone who acted up would be carried out “on a stretcher.”

The good news is the man has been formally charged with assault as he should have been. 

Last edited by tennyson (3/10/2016 5:13 pm)


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3/10/2016 5:51 pm  #3


Re: Trump Supporters get Physical

Ahhhh, yes............. the "good old days" 

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3/11/2016 9:17 am  #4


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There is absolutely no place for physical assaults!  The guy has been charged by the Sheriff's office.

From the article:
On Thursday, the police charged John McGraw, 78, of Linden, N.C., with assault and battery and disorderly conduct. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said it was also preparing to charge Mr. McGraw with communicating a threat because of a video that later surfaced in which he expressed a desire to do additional harm to Mr. Jones.
 
 
Hope Hicks, a Trump campaign spokeswoman, called such incidents unfortunate but said the campaign had “no control” over its supporters’ behavior. She did note that the campaign plays a safety announcement before each event, instructing the crowd not to touch or harm protesters.
“We obviously discourage any kind of physical contact or engagement with protesters,” she said.

 


 “We hold these truths to be self-evident,”  former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”

 
 

3/11/2016 4:25 pm  #5


Re: Trump Supporters get Physical

Common Sense wrote:

There is absolutely no place for physical assaults!  The guy has been charged by the Sheriff's office.

From the article:
On Thursday, the police charged John McGraw, 78, of Linden, N.C., with assault and battery and disorderly conduct. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said it was also preparing to charge Mr. McGraw with communicating a threat because of a video that later surfaced in which he expressed a desire to do additional harm to Mr. Jones.
 
 
Hope Hicks, a Trump campaign spokeswoman, called such incidents unfortunate but said the campaign had “no control” over its supporters’ behavior. She did note that the campaign plays a safety announcement before each event, instructing the crowd not to touch or harm protesters.
“We obviously discourage any kind of physical contact or engagement with protesters,” she said.

 

I TOTALLY DO NOT buy that argument given the statements (see above) that Trump had made at previous events. It was kind of an "open invitation" for that type of actions. Somewhere along the line people have to be responsible for their comments. 

 


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