Trump On Black Lives Matter Protester: Maybe He Should’ve Been Roughed Up

A protester is removed by security as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015 in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Eric Schultz)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that maybe the Black Lives Matter protestor who was violently removed from his campaign event a day before “should’ve been roughed up.”

A video posted online showed people kicking and pushing a man who was later identified as a Black Lives Matter protestor at Trump’s rally Saturday in Alabama.

Trump called the protestor’s actions “disgusting” during a phone interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

“The man that you say was, I don’t know, you said roughed up — he was so obnoxious and screaming,” Trump said. “I had 10,000 screaming people in the room yesterday. 10,000 people and this guy started screaming by himself, and I don’t know. Roughed up? Maybe he should have been roughed up. Because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”

Trump also mentioned when a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was interrupted by a Black Lives Matter protestor. The protestors stormed the stage and Sanders was forced out of the event.

“This was not handled the way Bernie Sanders handled his problem, I will tell you,” Trump said.

Listen to Trump’s comment:

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  1. Avatar for sooner sooner says:

    Spoken like a true hoodlum, a hoodlum who loves his own buffoonery

    Seems like every day we see TRump do his best to out do the crazy that is Dr. Ben. And his acolytes eat it up.

  2. Trump’s views mirror those of his state coordinators.

    Miss Charlotte Hollins of Louisiana

    And Miss Jane Hudson of Los Angeles

  3. tRump says that the protester was disgusting for screaming? If tRump had 10,000 screaming fans, how in the hell could one man make more noise? tRump always has a way of trying to paint people that aren’t adoring of him as unhinged. After his string of comments maybe he’s the one who is unhiged.

  4. Now that’s some outreach. Beat the shit out of them…insult them and their cause…and you can bet they are going to vote for you. Trump was in Alabama and did the red neck thing. But he isn’t going to do well in Alabama no matter what he does. If he only had 10,000 in Birmingham he’s toast. And toast he is in a state with folks that hate Yankees almost as much as they do Blacks.

    Someone should tell Donald that what happens in Alabama does not stay in Alabama.

  5. Avatar for pcbill pcbill says:

    Romney won 6% of the African-American vote. Trump and the Republicans seem to be doing everything they can to reach zero percent.

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