Trump: If I Lose At The Convention, ‘I Think You’d Have Riots’ (AUDIO)

FILE - In this Monday, March 14, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump holds a plane-side rally in a hanger at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, Ohio. Fear of a changing America... FILE - In this Monday, March 14, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump holds a plane-side rally in a hanger at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, Ohio. Fear of a changing America is fueling some of the anger playing out publicly around Trump's bid for the GOP presidential nomination, historians Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Monday. Trump is "speaking to a need and a deep set of fears within a large segment of the American community," added Gates, a Harvard University scholar and host of a genealogy show on PBS. "Those fears need to be assuaged, and policies formulated to meet the needs of those worried about their future," he said. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) MORE LESS
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Donald Trump on Wednesday morning predicted that there will be riots at the Republican national convention if he falls just short of the delegate count needed and another candidate then wins the nomination.

“I think we’ll win before getting to the convention,” Trump said on CNN’s “New Day.” “But I can tell you, if we didn’t, and if we’re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short, and we’re at 1100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400 — because we’re way ahead of everybody — I don’t think you can say that we don’t get it automatically. I think you’d have riots. I think you’d have riots. I’m representing a tremendous — many, many millions of people.”

Trump made the comments after co-host Chris Cuomo asked the candidate over the phone how he could unify Republicans at the convention in July.

“I think there’s a natural healing process. Once the battle is over, once the war is over, I think there really is a natural healing process,” Trump said. “I’ve gotten along with people all my life. This is actually a little bit unusual. I’ve gotten along very well with people, and I think it’ll happen again.”

Listen to a clip of the interview via CNN:

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  1. “I think you’d have riots. I think you’d have riots.”

    And Drumpf will make damn sure they happen.

  2. Trump: “My people will take to the streets and burn this city to the ground! It will be yuuge! The best ever riots America has ever seen!”

  3. Historians would refer to these as the “angry old white men riots of 2016”.

  4. will the Reichstag be burned?

  5. Riots are part of Trump’s “natural healing process.”

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