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Trump blames supporters of 'communist friend' Sanders for Chicago clashes
 [Al Ahram] US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday blamed supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... for protests that shut down his reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... rally, calling the US senator from Vermont "our communist friend". Trump's Republican rivals, meanwhile, hurled scorn at the New York billionaire, saying he helped create the increasingly tense atmosphere that is now sweeping the race for the White House with his fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... rhetoric.  Trump, who has rallies in Ohio and Missouri on Saturday, canceled the Chicago event on Friday after it turned chaotic, with scuffles breaking out between protesters and backers of the real estate magnate.The festivities follow a slew of recent incidents of violence at Trump rallies, in which protesters and journalists have been punched, tackled and hustled out of venues, raising concerns about degrading security leading into the Nov. 8 election. "All of a sudden a planned attack just came out of nowhere," Trump said at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, Saturday morning, calling the protest leaders "professional people". He said his own fans "were taunted, they were harassed by these other people, these other people by the way, some represented Bernie, our communist friend." "Now really Bernie should tell his people...he should really get up and say to his people 'stop, stop,'" he said. A front man for Sanders, a self-described Democratic socialist, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Earlier on Saturday Trump called the protesters thugs. "The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!" Trump said on Twitter. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-15 |
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