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Violent clashes continued to shadow the campaign of Republican front-runner Donald Trump who characterized protesters as paid “agitators’’ bent on derailing his presidential bid.
A contingent of Black Lives Matter protesters try to shout down Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally Saturday, March 19, 2016, in Tucson, Ariz.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Ross D. Franklin, AP)
Though he acknowledged that the beating of a demonstrator at a weekend Tucson rally was “tough to watch,"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Trump suggested Sunday that he was more concerned that his rallies and speeches were being specifically targeted for disruption.
“I wouldn't use the word upset,"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Trump said on ABC’s This Week, referring to the Saturday Arizona clash in which a man draped in an American flag was repeatedly punched and kicked. “I think it's very unfair that these (protesters)...sick<span style="color: Red;">*</span>protesters can put cars in a road blocking thousands of great Americans from coming to a speech and nobody says anything about that."
Responding to earlier suggestions that his supporters could riot if he was denied the nomination at a possible brokered Republican convention later this summer, Trump said he didn’t want “problems"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>though he<span style="color: Red;">*</span>described his supporters as formidable.
“Look, these people are fervent,"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he said. “They are really — they want to see positive things happen for our country…I don't want to see riots. I don't want to see problems. But, you know…I've gotten more than two million votes more than anybody else."
Reince Priebus, GOP chairman, renounced the violence, saying on ABC that "it's not what we're about.''
"Violence is never the answer,'' Priebus said.
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