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Trump left visibly shaken by Ohio rally scare as his bodyguards race to surround him on stage minutes after he brushed off last night's Chicago racist violence as 'planned attack' by 'professional wiseguys'
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Trump's speech was disturbed after one crowd member tried to rush the stage and threw an object -it is unclear what
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The disturbance caused four Secret Service personnel to quickly leap to the stage in his aid
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The Secret Service agents then form a protective shield around Trump after someone tried to jump the barrier
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He added: 'They wan't me to stand up today and tell my people to be nice, my people are nice!
'They
were taunted, they were harassed. A lot of those represented Bernie,
our Communist friend. Not too many Hillary - no fervor.'
But those who were expecting the Republican candidate to extend a peace offering, will have been disappointed.
Trump showed no signs of backing down on his most divisive policy: The building of a wall around the border of Mexico.
He said: 'We have people that are so amazing, loyal to the country and want to see things happen.
They want great security, strong military, care for our vets... they want a border and they want a wall!'
The jubilant crowd then erupted into cheers and began chanting: 'Build a wall! Build a wall!'
To which Trump replied: 'We will build a wall don't you worry folks.'
The GOP
front-runner is scheduled to campaign Saturday in Ohio — Dayton and
Cleveland — before an evening event in Kansas City, Missouri.
Trump
also responded to last night's Chicago rally meltdown earlier today,
condemning yesterday's 'thugs' for 'energizing America'.
His
tweet: 'The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down
our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized
America!'
Last
night saw unprecedented scenes inside the University of Illinois at
Chicago Pavilion between an anti-Trump mob and Chicagoans who came to
hear the Republican front-runner speak.
Chicago
police say two officers were injured when supporters during the clashed
with protesters Friday after he abruptly canceled a campaign rally.
Police say the two officers were taken to a hospital for treatment and released.
While outside, an impatient group of thousands more massed. Temperatures rose.
Around 10, 000 protesters were to said to have RSVP'd to the event.
Multiple
law enforcement sources told DailyMail.com that there was a credible
threat against Trump from groups of protesters who planned to storm the
stage.
News
of the shutdown in Chicago came hours after a black activist in
St.Louis, who gave his name as Anthony Cage, was filmed being escorted
into a police van by two St. Louis officers with blood across his face
and down the front of his sweater after clashing with Trump supporters.
After
the campaign event was officially canceled, raucous protesters spilled
out onto the street of Chicago and clashed with law enforcement
officers.
Police confirmed at least six arrests. One journalist was reportedly detained as well.
Donald Trump responded with this message the morning after his rally in Chicago got shut down on Twitter
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Heated: Unprecedented scenes inside
the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion between an anti-Trump mob
and Chicagoans who came to hear the Republican front-runner speak
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Multiple law enforcement sources told
DailyMail.com there was a credible threat against Trump from groups of
protesters who planned to storm the stage
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Blows: Police confirmed at least six arrests and one journalist was reportedly detained as well
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On the street: Trump supporters and
protesters clash outside the UIC Pavilion after the cancelled rally for
the Republican presidential candidate in Chicago
RESPONSE TO TRUMP'S RALLY BEING SHUT DOWN
Ted Cruz: Ted
Cruz is responding to Donald Trump's cancellation of his Chicago rally,
saying the billionaire has created 'an environment that encourages this
sort of nasty discourse.' The Texas senator is calling it a 'sad day.'
He
says, 'Political discourse should occur in this country without the
threat of violence, without anger and rage and hatred directed at each
other.'
Cruz
says blame for the events in downtown Chicago rests with the protesters
but 'in any campaign responsibility starts at the top.'
Cruz
says, '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. Today is unlikely to be the last such
incidence.'
Marco Rubio: Senator
Marco Rubio said Friday night that this is a 'very disturbing moment in
our political discourse' and pointed to 'real significant anger and
frustration at the direction of the country.'
'America is better than this,' Rubio said on a call to Fox News. 'We don't have to tear each other apart.'
Rubio
said Trump is not entirely to blame for tonight's events but the
Republican front-runner 'does bear responsibility for other things that
have happened at his events,' he said before pointing to an example in
which Trump said he wished he could punch a protester in the face.
Rubio
also blamed President Obama for the current divide in America. He said:
'President Obama has spent the last eight years dividing Americans
along haves and have-nots, along ethnic lines, racial lines in order to
win elections.'
'I think this has gone to the next level here and I think we're seeing the consequences in it,' Rubio added.
Rubio
called some of Trump's dissenters 'professional protesters' he claims
were paid to be there and said that leftists have a mentality that,' if
you don't like what someone's saying, you can just shut them down.'
John Kasich: 'Tonight
the seeds of division that Donald Trump has been sowing this whole
campaign 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,' reads a statement from the Ohio Governor.
'I
urge people to resist that temptation and rise to a higher level. Now
is the time for Americans to come together and stand firm for what we
know is true: We are reat because we are a peacefule people who live by
the rule of Law,' it continues.
We
are stronger together, we will reject those who try to divide us for
personal gain and we will do it the right way- at the ballot box,' it
concludes.
Hillary Clinton: 'The
divisive rhetoric we are seeing should be of grave concern to us all.
We all have our differences, and we know many people across the country
feel angry. We need to address that anger together. All of us, no matter
what party we belong to or what views we hold, should say loudly and
clearly that violence has no place in our politics, we should use our
words and deeds to bring Americans together. Last year in Charleston,
South Carolina an evil man walked into a church and murdered 9 people.
The families of those victims came together and melted hearts in the
statehouse and the confederate flag came down. That should be the model
we for to overcome painful divisions in our country.'
Police: A
spokesman for the Chicago Police Department says the agency never
recommended that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cancel
his campaign rally in the city.
CPD
spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told The Associated Press that the
department never told the Trump campaign there was a security threat at
the University of Illinois at Chicago venue. He said the department had
sufficient manpower on the scene to handle any situation.
Guglielmi
says the university's police department also did not recommend that
Trump call off the event. He says the decision was made 'independently'
by the campaign.
Trump
cancelled the rally in Chicago due to what organizers said were safety
concerns after protesters packed into the arena where it was to take
place.
Trump
afterward told MSNBC in a telephone interview that he canceled the
event because he didn't 'want to see people hurt or worse.' He said he
thinks he 'did the right thing.'
Guglielmi says Trump never arrived at the Chicago venue.Reports
swirled that rioters were smashing cars parked in the venue's main
garage. One outburst caught on a police scanner suggested a protester in
the resulting scrum brandished a firearm.
Chicago
police confirmed that two officers were injured, including one who
suffered a deep gash when he was struck by a flying bottle.
'It
is unfortunate that parties on both sides allowed their political views
to become confrontational,' Police Interim Superintendent John
Escalante said Friday night.
Trump appeared on MSNBC, lamenting how he was squelched, while live video of the chaos played.
'We
have a country that's so divided that even you don't understand it,' he
told anchor Chris Matthews. 'I've never seen anything like it, and this
has been going on for years.'
'There's a lot of anger in the country, and it's very sad to see actually,' he said.
'We
had literally over 25,000 people who wanted to come today. It's
incredible,' Trump explained, saying that he had made the decision to
cancel his appearance.
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Busy night: Police break up skirmishes
between demonstrators and supporters of Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump that broke out after it was announced a rally at
the University of Illinois at Chicago would be postponed
Trump protesters
and supporters clashed outside of the Chicago rally after it was
cancelled due to the teeming number of protesters at the event
'Nobody was hurt and hopefully we can keep that going. That's why I did this today: we don't want anyone to get hurt, or worse.'
Asked
what he would tell the protesters who seem to hate him so much, Trump
said America needed an influx of jobs – especially for African-Americans
whose unemployment rate is as high as 59 per cent.
'You have to bring back jobs! I'd be angry too,' he said. 'We have to bring jobs back. These kids are not getting jobs.'
Chris Matthews asked Trump why he mocked a protester earlier, telling him to go get a job. Trump said:
'He
was a very nasty guy, he was very very loud, very boisterous and he was
swinging his fists. He just looked to me like somebody that frankly…
Maybe he did have a job maybe he did not. But there's nothing wrong with
saying go get a job, but the fact is it's not easy to get jobs.'
'He was mad long before I said that. He was jumping up and down, he could have been dangerous.'
'Some of these protesters are very dangerous people.'
The real estate tycoon predicted that fallout from Friday's clashes wouldn't hurt his White House bid.
'You
can't even have a rally in this country anymore without violence,'
Trump lamented. 'I think a lot of people think that it was wrong that we
were stopped.'
'We can't have a rally in a major city in this country!' he complained. 'What happened to the right to free speech?'
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Cheering: A supporter of Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump tries to pump up the crowd before a
rally on the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago on Friday
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