Trump on Sunday accuses Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of instructing his supporters to disrupt Trump rallies, and appeared to threaten to respond in kind.
Refusing to tone down the inflammatory rhetoric critics say is fueling the potential for dangerous violence, the Republican presidential frontrunner tweets, “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!”
Speaking on CNN later, Trump calls protesters at his rallies “bad people that are looking to do harm to our country.”
“When these people come into (my rallies), you know, everybody thinks I’m a bad guy,” he says.
“If my people went into one of (Sanders’s) rallies, they’d say, ‘oh, this is a terrible thing.’ They would be arrested and all sorts of things would happen to them.”
Sanders on Sunday denies his campaign had directed supporters to protest Trump rallies.
— AFP
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, acknowledges his supporters on arrival at a campaign rally, Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Miami, Florida. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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