Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that he hopes a contested GOP convention in July “doesn’t involve violence,” The Washington Post reported.
“I hope it doesn’t involve violence. I hope it doesn’t. I’m not suggesting that,” Trump reportedly told reporters. “I hope it doesn’t involve violence, and I don’t think it will. But I will say this, it’s a rigged system, it’s a crooked system. It’s 100 percent corrupt.”
Trump said in March that there would be riots at the convention in Cleveland if he didn’t win the nomination.
“I think you’d have riots. I think you’d have riots. I’m representing a tremendous — many, many millions of people,” Trump said at the time.
