Trump Says He’d Like To ‘Punch’ Protester ‘In The Face’ (VIDEO)

Donald J. Trump Donald Trump campaign rally, Las Vegas, America - 22 Feb 2016 (Rex Features via AP Images)
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As a protester was removed from Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Las Vegas on Monday night, the Republican presidential candidate lamented that his staff had to be “gentle” with the protester.

“You know what I hate? There’s a guy totally disruptive, throwing punches, we’re not allowed to punch back anymore. I love the ol’ days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher, folks,” Trump told the crowd at his rally as a protester was being escorted out of the event, according to video from NBC News.

Trump said that his “guards are very gentle” with the protester.

“I’d like to punch him in the face, I’ll tell ya,” he real estate mogul then said.

At another point during his speech on Monday night, Trump told security to get another protester “the hell out,” according to the New York Times. The protester was carrying a sign that read “Veterans to Trump: End Hate Speech Against Muslims,” according to the Times.

Trump has a history of making a spectacle of booting protesters from his campaign rallies, and some protesters have been violently removed. In November, a male protester was kicked and shoved as he was removed from a rally as Trump yelled, “Get him the hell out of here.” In October, a protester was dragged out of a Trump event and was kicked by another rally attendee.

Watch part of Trump’s Las Vegas rally via NBC News:

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  1. Trump needs to get his Sturmabteilung organized. From Wikipedia.

    The precursor to the SA had acted informally and on an ad hoc
    basis for some time before this. Hitler, with an eye always to helping
    the party to grow through propaganda, convinced the leadership committee
    to invest in an advertisement in the Münchener Beobachter (later renamed the Völkischer Beobachter) for a mass meeting in the Hofbräuhaus,
    to be held on 16 October 1919. Some 70 people attended, and a second
    such meeting was advertised for 13 November in the Eberlbrau beer hall.
    Some 130 people attended; there were hecklers, but Hitler’s military
    friends promptly ejected them by force, and the agitators “flew down the
    stairs with gashed heads.” The next year, on 24 February, he announced
    the party’s Twenty-Five Point program
    at a mass meeting of some 2000 persons at the Hofbräuhaus. Protesters
    tried to shout Hitler down, but his army friends, armed with rubber
    truncheons, ejected the dissenters. The basis for the SA had been formed

  2. Loser.

  3. Avatar for pine pine says:

    Remember what they say Donald “What goes around comes around”.

  4. Ultimately, Hillary is going to kick his overcompensating ass.

  5. Hey Donny , put your money where your mouth is .

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