Trumpās contempt for the law and judges has consequences.
The NYT cites various conservative legal experts who fear that Trump is bent on destroying our legal system.
Was it really the āAm flagā being burned or just the made in China hats?
San Jose? Sounds Mexican to me. I thought Trump was going to wall them out. /snark
Video of āthugs burning the Am flagā? Or just more lies?
Only the part that rules against him in court.
Trump blames ___________(fill in the blank). Its all heās ever done.
This man is not Presidential material. Its really that simple.
I will add something here. I was watching Lawrence OāDonnell and as his show was enbding this was happening and the reporter from MSNBC, Jacob Rascon said that the protesters were attacking the Trump folks as they lefft the rally. They were hitting a guy in the back of the head with bottles. I hate Trump and dislike his stupid supporters, but this is not helping and I wish these protesters would be less violent,
The police came much later and were very slow to respond.
Trump also wants to destroy our free press(Huff Post)
SAN JOSE, CALIF. ā A Donald Trump campaign staffer and a private
security guard removed a POLITICO reporter from a campaign rally here on
Thursday evening for reporting at the event without the campaignās
permission.
A campaign staffer spotted the reporter typing on a laptop outside of
the press pen at the San Jose Convention Center and asked the reporter,
who was attending on a general admission ticket, if he had press
credentials. The Trump campaign has refused to credential the reporter
for multiple events.The staffer said he would consult with his superiors and returned minutes later with a private security officer who instructed the
reporter to leave the premises, escorting him out a nearby exit.
Thereās a video over at RCP.
Trump is becoming more unhinged with each passing day. His outright lies make no difference on the mouthbreathers who are devoted to Hair Furor, but the independents are already becoming horrified by him and Clintonās win promises to be huge, or YOOOGEā, in Nov.
BTW: Iāve never seen anyone better trolled than Trump was yesterday by Sec. Clinton. She used his own words against him in a very reasoned and beautifully crafted speech and, basically, dared him to respond. And, Iām sure in opposition to all his sane advisors, he didā¦big time.
āShe must go to jail!!! argleā¦bargleā¦argleā¦bargleā¦derp, derp, derp!!!ā he screeched in a sweating, red-faced rantā¦and in doing so perfectly exemplified the derranged, out of control nutcase of which Clinton had just drawn the perfect picture.
Even the local Fox affiliate news is only reporting about fists being thrown and some shoving on both parts. One female Trump supporter was āmaking gesturesā at the protestors and got eggs thrown at her. A guy got his Make America Great Again hat snatched and then punched when he tried to grab it back.
They took pains to say the majority were peaceful.
No flag fires. Liar Trump. Sad!
Yes. ^^^^THIS^^^^
You can say whatever you want about Trump, lord knows Iāve used every invective I can think of to describe the arse hole. Is he using incendiary language that provokes people? Absolutely. But that is no reason for his supporters to get physically attacked. The attackers are making themselves look bad, & worse, making our side look bad. I saw on Lawrence show a picture of this sad looking woman with egg all over her face, & the above mentioned Rascon said that bottles were being thrown at her. During the show Rasconās camera man showed a number of times where Trump supporters were getting penned in and being physically attacked. This needs to stop. Both Hillary & Bernie need to vehemently denounce this, & implore their supporters to stop. Iām not naive enough to think that Bernie & Hillary alone can make this stop, but at the very least it can be said that they do not stand by these kinds of attacks on fellow citizens. This is disgusting behavior. Stephen Hawking said that Trump āappeals to the lowest common denominator.ā Well it looks to me like the lowest common denominators are outside Trumps rallies & not inside. What is going on is ghastly & repulsive.
To chammy and lamitatron upthread:
This is a secondary purpose of the Trump rallies: violence AGAINST Trump supporters, creating a narrative of his supporters as victims.
Trump cares as little for his supporters as his protesters. They are expendable for his overall aims.
This is why the MLK non-violence strategy was so effective. There is a caveat with all of this, however. MLK may not have been as successful to-day. Too much FOX, too much Talk Radio and too much MSM GOP-friendly stenographyā¦but even with that, it would be advisable to stage dramatic protestsā¦but AWAY from the Trump rallies themselves.
Will Drumpfā's sycoā¦erā¦advisers remind him that flag burning is legal? Not bloody likely when he thinks itās likely to stir up his troglodytic base. But Iām sure it was an honest mistake: āWhat??! They burned one a my hats?! It sez āAmericaā on it! Those dirty Commie rat bastards! Itās worse than burning the flag!ā
I agree. Trump thugs posing as protesters. An age-old tacticā¦is egg throwing a violent act? ā¦itās who wins the narrative. So if you bring rotten eggs and tomatoes to a protest, back it up with lots of tweetsā¦
Could be, but it really doesnāt matter. Non-violent protests require a PLAN for what to do with agent provocateurs, violent āsupportersā, etc.
After November, Trumpās going to make that a meaningless distinction.
Whatās an āAm flagā?
Is he talking about Amway? A multi-level marketing scam almost as bad as Trump University?
I agree with others up-thread that Trump protests must be non-violent and not allow the narrative to be spun. Likewise provocateurs must be guarded against and exposed when they occur. And our side must clearly denounce the use of, or threats of violence.