You Will Anyway: The Trump Show

Saturday, March 12, 2016

The Trump Show

On Friday, the scuffles, brawls and toxic spirit at a Trump rally in Chicago convinced the billionaire to cancel the event, though he claimed, contrary to explicit police statements that they “had no role” in the decision, that law enforcement had advised him to do so. On Saturday, fears ran high enough that several secret service agents rushed the stage at an event in Dayton, Ohio, when the panicked frontrunner thought he heard a security breach.

Guardian

Bullshit. He thought no such thing. He's just playing the Trump card. Keeping it coming, he's got a bigger audience than ever, and people everywhere jumping to his antics.

[A]t his event in Cleveland, dozens of protesters were thrown out in at least eight different incidents while Trump spoke to the crowded exhibition hall.

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Trump sneered that the protesters were planted and organized by the Democratic underdog for president, Bernie Sanders, whom he called “our communist friend.”

The Trump Show.

UPDATE:

I think that's a call to his supporters, don't you? I doubt Bernie lied about anything here.

FURTHER UPDATE:

Here's the guy they arrested...

Yeah, looks like a Trump instigator, not a Bernie fan, to me.

On Saturday morning, Trump was mid-speech when a man, later identified by authorities as Thomas Dimassimo of Fairborn, Ohio, jumped a barricade and rushed at Trump. He was able to touch the stage before he was tackled by security officials.

Trump initially laughed it off but later in the day he said Dimassimo had ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).

Experts who watched a video that Trump tweeted as evidence called the allegation "utterly farcical".

"Trump's accusations about it being linked to ISIS serve only to underline the totality of his ignorance on this issue," said Charles Lister, a fellow at the Middle East Institute.

alJazeera

Or, more likely, his knowledge of the ignorance and extreme racism of the people listening to him.

UPATE: 3/14/16

A man arrested Saturday after he tried to get on the stage at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Ohio reportedly told police he planned to grab the microphone and yell that Trump is a racist but didn't intend to hurt anyone.

[...]

DiMassimo was released on bail Saturday after being charged with inducing panic and disorderly conduct.

Talking Points Memo

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GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

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