Trump coming to Raleigh for evening presidential rally

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump briefly ceded his stage to two YouTube personalities during a Friday-night campaign rally.

Some held signs reading “Stop the Hate, We Make America Great” and “Dump Trump” while others chanted “Black Lives Matter”. Unlike previous incidents with Trump that mostly involved lone protesters, this was a planned and coordinated interruption, with protesters sprinkled in throughout the crowd, disrupting the speech every few minutes.

Trump initially ignored the interruptions, but eventually told his supporters that the events of the evening highlighted divisions in America.

“You know, our country is so divided, look at what happens, our country is so divided – there is hatred between people – we want to bring it together”, Trump said.

“I want to build a military so big and so strong and so powerful that nobody, nobody, nobody, is going to mess with us”, Trump said.

But the full event lasted less than an hour, which is unusual for Trump, who generally speaks for at least an hour. “They’re going to be scared”.

“We would handle it so tough, you would have no idea”, he said. Most went back to Saudi. “So we need to let him know that we don’t stand for that”. “He has this long track record of attacking pretty much everyone”, said protestor Zainadine Alsous.

Trump promised to preserve the Second Amendment and suggested that the results of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks would have been different if victims had been armed. The FBI announced earlier Friday it’s investigating the shootings as an act of terrorism. He also appeared to grow frustrated – at one point imploring security to take the individuals to the nearest exit instead of “walking them through the whole place”.

Donald Trump won’t say what he would do to terrorists in this country because it would get him in “trouble”. His evidence, such as it is, amounted to repeatedly saying “I saw it on television” and “so did many other people and many people saw it in person”.

There’s another apartment building, one that an investigator told me that was swarming with suspects, suspects who I am told were cheering on the roof when they saw the planes slam into the [World] Trade Center. I’d be able to find out. Even if he were to lose one, he said, “I won’t lose badly”.