Trump: Sanders Showed ‘Weakness’ During Black Lives Matter Protest

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a GOP fundraising event, Tuesday, Aug 11, 2015, in Birch Run, Mich. Trump attended the Lincoln Day Dinner of the Genesee and Saginaw county Republican parties.... Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a GOP fundraising event, Tuesday, Aug 11, 2015, in Birch Run, Mich. Trump attended the Lincoln Day Dinner of the Genesee and Saginaw county Republican parties. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) MORE LESS
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After focusing his insults on his GOP rivals and Fox News host Megyn Kelly over the weekend, Donald Trump on Tuesday turned his attention toward Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

After a speech at a rally in Michigan, Trump criticized the way Sanders handled a Black Lives Matter protest during a Saturday rally in Seattle. The Democratic candidate left the campaign event when protesters took over the podium before his speech.

“Believe me, that’s not going to happen to Trump,” the real estate mogul told reporters after his speech in Michigan, according to CNN. “I would never give up my microphone. I thought that was disgusting. That showed such weakness, the way he was taken away by two young women — the microphone; they just took the whole place over.”

Trump said that he would handle protesters better than Sanders did on Saturday.

“That will never happen with me,” he said, according to CNN. “I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself or if other people will, but that was a disgrace. I felt badly for him. But it showed that he’s weak.”

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  1. Oh, god (if you exist), please send the BLM people to Asshole’s next appearance. I would love to see DT whimpering after being sucker punched by a hefty protester.

  2. Avatar for dswx dswx says:

    Of course the real issue to racist Trump is that the protestors were black. Considering his racist actions regarding President Obama it is no wonder that he would seek any opportunity to sound like he would put black protesters in their place.

  3. One case where I agree with Trump. You can’t let your event get hijacked. The whole thing was so cringe-worthy. How they tried to “negotiate” with the protesters (“It’s not your event so you can’t talk,” then “OK, you can talk, but only after Sanders”) before just giving up the stage (“Ok, you can talk now, but how long do you think you’re going to be?”). Seeing Sanders moping around in the back while they called his supporters racists and white supremacists was hard to watch. It played into the stereotype of the spineless liberal in the worst way.

    Someone there needed to say “Get off the stage,” and backed that up with some kind of security. I certainly can’t see something like this happening to Clinton.

  4. Avatar for lio lio says:

    It would be other people doing the fighting.

  5. It wasn’t “his” event. He was invited to speak at the Social security rally. The event organizers should have had better control.

    You note this wouldn’t happen to Clinton, I agree. Low risk, pre-screened audiences are unlikely to be able to interupt. Of course low risk is low reward.

    I will say Trump knows weakness though. He doesn’t have the stones to do real interviews, he literally is phoning it in…

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