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Trump Rally in Chicago Cancelled Due To Gate Crashers

Mar 11, 2016 4:51PM PST

What a waste of time and energy to go out there and protest freedom of speech to try and deprive others of speech and those who want to hear the speech. These are the sort of garbage minded people, mush heads, who gate crash parties, who are always looking to create trouble at every opportunity, apparatchiks, Bolshevik mentality, neo-communists. They were there to create a riot during Trump's speech and I wouldn't be surprised if they riot later anyway. If they do, I hope the police deal with them forcibly.

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You can actually hire people to do this
Mar 11, 2016 5:00PM PST

You can fill your poorly attended rallies with paid supporters or you can disrupt your opponent's rallies the same way. It puts a whole new meaning to mercenary soldiers.

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Here's the announcement
Mar 11, 2016 5:27PM PST

It's in the last minute.



This is going to end in a riot, almost sure of it. Black Lives Matter is there and they are like the new black panthers of our day and time. They wanted a street battle with Trump supporters and cheated of that, I expect them to riot. Already many of the protestors have been arrested.

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Moveon.org is taking credit
Mar 12, 2016 1:54AM PST

and it's being reported that they plan to disrupt future Trump rallies as well.....

Since this was a college campus rally, and most colleges shut down Conservative/Republican speakers all the time now, Trump is saying that they will hold another rally in a different venue.

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RE:Moveon.org is taking credit
Mar 12, 2016 3:41AM PST

It is?...Taking "credit"?...Got a link showing that?

take credit for something
to allow people to believe that one has done something praiseworthy, whether or not one has actually done it. I can't take credit for the entire success. Toby helped a lot. Mary took credit for everything that Dave did.


Are you reading this...

“Mr. Trump and the Republican leaders who support him and his hate-filled rhetoric should be on notice after tonight’s events,” Ilya Sheyman, executive director of MoveOn.org, said tonight in a statement to that point. “These protests are a direct result of the violence that has occurred at Trump rallies and that has been encouraged by Trump himself from the stage. Our country is better than the shameful, dangerous and bigoted rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Trump campaign.

AND seeing "Moveon.org taking credit?

Sounds like Moveon is pointing the finger at Trump.

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Links....
Mar 12, 2016 5:20AM PST

CNN was the first to report that moveon.org was taking credit....(that wonderful 'news' agency that said Carson was dropping out and said something else recently that Cruz got blamed for).

http://www.mediaite.com/online/moveon-takes-partial-credit-for-trump-rally-cancelation/

http://www.gatorcountry.com/swampgas/threads/moveon-org-takes-credit-for-the-protesters-at-trump-chicago-rally.339822/

http://www.thenewscommenter.com/news/moveonorg-takes-credit-for-assault-on-trumps-rally-tonight/505028

There are lots more links IF you care to do a search.........

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Response
Mar 12, 2016 6:49AM PST

From your first link....I didn't bother checking the others...

It appears that MoveOn, a left-leaning activism organization and network of organizers, is taking partial credit for the troupe of protesters that descended on the rally this evening.


Appears?

Trump APPEARS to be an American version of that other nutbar with terrible hair that is running North Korea.

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You didn't 'bother'......
Mar 12, 2016 7:06AM PST

You see ONE word from ONE link provided and now you're convinced. Typical....since SOME news media are also saying that Trump 'appears' to be Hitler re-incarnated, are you also convinced of that since you 'appear' to be convinced and state as fact that Trump "APPEARS to be an American version of that other nutbar with terrible hair that is running North Korea."......?

Are you equally convinced that Trump is a racist and is inciting riots (remember that BO's support and encouragement of the OWS, Black Lives Matter groups, anti-cop rhetoric, et al can be interpreted along those lines as well and he's been doing it for over 7 years as our 'leader')?

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You said
Mar 12, 2016 7:18AM PST
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Seen it...posted it....earlier
Mar 12, 2016 11:30AM PST
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Not true....they
Mar 12, 2016 11:40AM PST

organized most of the crowd and printed the posters that were being carried around.

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So if someone hit you over the head
Mar 12, 2016 12:07PM PST

with a Trump poster.

Trump hit you over the head?

How do you know Moveon.Org told them where and when to display the poster?

Trump is now claiming it's Sanders people that are responsible. I guess he doesn't agree with you about Moveon.org.

UFC 196 from Las Vegas was last Saturday....Wonder who will be the Main Event of the evening tonight.

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Evidently you didn't bother to listen
Mar 12, 2016 12:16PM PST

to Trump at his Vandalia, OH rally....he specifically said that the protestors were organized by a 'group' that he didn't name but said they were a pretty well known bad group, and that there were some Bernie protestors as well and asked Sanders to tell his people to stay away (for their safety) since he expects this will happen again because Moveon.org has already stated that it will.

When the other candidates, including HC only hold 'town hall' meetings (Sanders has crowds that overflow like Trump does), the chances of them having hecklers or protestors is pretty small....the larger the crowds, the easier it is for protestors to infiltrate and disrupt/cause chaos and harder to control that.

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RE:he specifically said
Mar 12, 2016 12:22PM PST
he specifically said that the protestors were organized by a 'group' that he didn't name but said they were a pretty well known bad group,

IF he said what you claim he said...there is nothing "specific".

The man is a s*** disturber...nothing more...nothing less.
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Next year that will be...
Mar 12, 2016 12:29PM PST

.... President Trump to you. I saw your Trudeau leader on TV today. Does his mommy still part his hair and give him a pat on the backside when she sends him out to play with the other Canadian politicians?

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RE: Does his mommy still part his hair?
Mar 12, 2016 12:45PM PST

No one touches The Donald's hair. I watched the video with Trump and Eagle....The eagle probably looked at Trumps hair and thought....

WOW! Look at THAT nest.

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Stupid stupid stupid thought process by them
Mar 12, 2016 11:06AM PST

If that's true, then Obama is responsible for racist.
If that's true then police are responsible for creating criminals.
if that's true, then the black guy Jones who was punched at a rally by some old white guy is responsible for making it happen.
If that's true, then Hillary is even more responsible than previously charged for the killing of Ambassasdor Stevens.
If that's true, then Obama is responsible for creating ISIS.

Learn instead to blame those doing it, instead of their excuses (NOT reasons!) for doing it. They count it a pleasure to riot, and that's why they do it. Conservatives don't show up and create these problems at Hillary rallies, at Bernie rallies, but according to that way of thinking maybe they should and then blame Hillary and Bernie for it. This is the reason Trump will be President this next year, because America is sick and tired of backward thinkers and all the mush heads who stand behind their unreasoning stupidity.

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RE: unreasoning stupidity.
Mar 12, 2016 11:48AM PST

Trump?

Conservatives don't show up and create these problems at Hillary rallies, at Bernie rallies,

Because Hillary and Bernie speeches aren't as good/incendiary at "stirring the pot" as The Donald's are?

Donald has experience in the WWE.

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NO....it's because Conservatives AREN'T violent
Mar 12, 2016 12:20PM PST

(remember the Tea Party massive rallies) and don't infringe on other people's rights to free speech, and HC has very small 'town hall' meetings so she can control the questions coming at her, if any do at all. Sanders rarely takes questions from the crowd or news people at his rallies. They BOTH stir the pot by attacking the Republican party every chance they get, and even when they DON'T have a chance, they will MAKE it happen, especially HC because that takes the focus off HER lies.

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RE:Conservatives AREN'T violent
Mar 12, 2016 12:58PM PST

tell that to the guy that got sucker punched.

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That video only shows
Mar 12, 2016 1:30PM PST

a supporter punching him....it DOESN'T show what happened just BEFORE that punch. Is it even possible that the protestor actually threw the first punch? It's happened before at Trump rallies and has been reported that supporters were defending themselves........

AND....there is NO way to know if the puncher in the video actually IS a Conservative. However, even giving you the benefit of the doubt.....that would be ONE instance in how many compared to liberals' violent behavior which has actually been ENCOURAGED by this administration over and over and over again.

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RE:That video only shows
Mar 12, 2016 1:45PM PST
That video only shows a supporter punching him....it DOESN'T show what happened just BEFORE that punch. Is it even possible that the protestor actually threw the first punch?

You show me your video, and I'll show you mine.

And we see if we're talking about the same "sucker punch".

Here's a hint on what my "sucker punch video" shows...one of the individuals is wearing a cowboy hat.

No response is expected from you with a video, or link to a video, you will now change the subject and go off in another direction.
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someone attacked Trump on stage today
Mar 12, 2016 11:00AM PST

It was Vandalia, Ohio at a rally in an airplane hangar with his Trump plane as the backdrop. SS surrounded him and I don't know who did exactly what but the police there were on top of it. Guess we find out later. One news claimed something was thrown at him, another said someone grabbed him from behind, so have to wait for the truth.

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Watched the video
Mar 12, 2016 11:36AM PST

no one "grabbed him from behind"....unless they were referring to security.

The Donald is packing heat...so no one would dare come at him.

It took 4 security personnel to hold the Donald back from attacking the perp.

I wonder if security will start frisking people for guns, seems like the next logical step........I guess no NRA members will be attending his rallies.

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Trump Tells About The Attacker
Mar 12, 2016 9:40PM PST
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Here's the "ISIS" supporter of Bernie who attacked Trump
Mar 12, 2016 9:54PM PST

Seems his mother is some local bigwig associated with the mayor's office. I wonder if she's proud, or ashamed of him today? They claim he's 22, but I suspect he lied to the court because he's got quite the balding "wing" pattern at front of his hairline, indicating he's closer to 30.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/trump-ohio-attacker-featured-in-isis-propaganda-videos/

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/12/breaking-trump-ohio-attacker-tommy-dimassimo-connected-to-isis-suspect-featured-in-isis-propaganda-videos-2015/

http://www.wnd.com/files/2016/03/Tom_Dimassimo.jpg


"Tom DiMassimo, the 22-year-old protester who leaped out of the crowd at Saturday’s Donald Trump rally in Dayton, Ohio, was featured in a pro-ISIS video reportedly uploaded to YouTube in May 2015.
The video, captured by LiveLeak before it was reportedly removed from DiMassimo’s site today, features the activist in a U.S. flag-desecration protest on the Wright University campus in Dayton and is dubbed with Arabic chanting. DiMassimo and another man placed U.S. flags on the ground and stood on them. The pair were joined by approximately two dozen supporters and opposed by a group of veterans who turned out to honor the flag.
DiMassimo was charged with disorderly conduct and inducing panic — both misdemeanors — reported NBC News.
Dimassimo is a self-described Black Lives Matter activist and is affiliated with a number of leftist groups,"

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RE:Here's the "ISIS" supporter of Bernie who attacked Trump
Mar 13, 2016 6:54AM PDT

ISIS/anyone takes a video showing YOU doing something...distributes that video under THEIR name...and that makes YOU an ISIS supporter?

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No more than it made Trump an ISIS supporter
Mar 13, 2016 8:41AM PDT

when HC said that ISIS was using his statements as a recruitment tool, but you didn't dispute it.

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RE: No more than it made Trump an ISIS supporter
Mar 13, 2016 11:19AM PDT

Clinton didn't say he was an "ISIS supporter"...she said ISIS was using a video with Trump ranting about Muslims as a recruiting tool...NOT that he was an "ISIS supporter".

Was Hillary Clinton predicting the future when she said that ISIS was using Donald Trump in recruitment videos for the Islamic State?

ISIS may be lots of things...stupid isn't one of them...IF/WHEN Trump or others give them ammo...they'll use it. DUH!!!!

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YOU asked
Mar 13, 2016 11:31AM PDT

"ISIS/anyone takes a video showing YOU doing something...distributes that video under THEIR name...and that makes YOU an ISIS supporter?" as a way to dispute that he was a supporter just because ISIS used a video of him. It's exactly the same as using a Trump video that HC suggested that ISIS was using HIM as a recruitment tool so therefore he must be some type of supporter. Do you dispute HER statement?