Donald Trump maintained his attack on Bernie Sanders Sunday after accusing the Vermont senator’s campaign of organizing protests that shut down a Trump rally in Chicago on Friday.
Trump’s charge took an even more controversial turn on Sunday morning, when he said on Twitter, “Be careful Bernie, or my supporters will go to yours!”
Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors aren't told to go to my events. Be careful Bernie, or my supporters will go to yours!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2016
Sanders was asked Sunday on CNN about Trump’s tweet.
“We should take Mr. Trump’s words with a grain of salt, because I think as almost everybody knows, this man cannot stop lying about anything … to talk about our organization or our campaign disrupting his meeting is a lie,” Sanders said. “Some of them were supporters of mine, but certainly, absolutely, we had nothing to do, our campaign had nothing to do with disrupting his meeting.”
Sanders continued to say that Trump’s rhetoric has fostered environments that are conducive to violent clashes.
“Even his Republican colleagues make this point. His language, his intonations. When he talks about carrying people out in stretchers. When you see at his rallies, people sucker-punch folks. People kick people when they’re down. This is a man who keeps implying violence, and then you end up getting what you see,” Sanders said. “So I think that he in fact has got to tell his supporters that in the United States of America, you don’t go beating up people. That people have a right to peacefully protest, and I hope that becomes the tone of his campaign.”
Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to blame organized “thugs” who “shut down our First Amendment rights” for the violent clashes that led to his Chicago rally being closed down. Fights broke out between supporters and protesters before Trump even spoke at the event.
The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 12, 2016
Five people were arrested and two officers were injured, according to Chicago police. One of the injured officers was struck by a bottle and received a bloody gash that required stitches, police said.
Violence also ensued at a North Carolina rally earlier in the week. A Trump supporter was charged with assault for punching a protester. Videos show the protester being escorted out by law enforcement when the supporter hit him.









