Despite Screening, Protesters Disrupt Trump’s Vermont Rally
Supporters and opponents of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump faced off Thursday outside a Vermont theater where the billionaire developer invited thousands more people than could fit inside.
“I said, ‘I’m not leaving, ‘ and they guided me and sort of pushed me out”, Cummings said.
Trump’s campaign released almost 20,000 free tickets, but the Flynn Center for Performing Arts only holds about 1,400. Doney said he still planned to vote for Trump.
Later, two women stood, pointed at Trump and repeatedly shouted, “Get Trump out!”
Throughout the speech, Trump took shots at pretty much every other politician of note – including other Republican presidential candidates, Obama and Hillary Clinton.
“Oh, I would love to run against Bernie”.
As more of these outbursts occurred, paranoia seemed to set in among the crowd, and some Trump supporters tried to spot potential intruders before they acted up.
While Trump often vows to eliminate gun-free zones if he’s elected, he expanded his pledge Thursday to include schools.
The Trump campaign issued more than 20,000 free tickets to the event, ignoring the theater’s capacity of 1,400.
The campaign though did its own crowd control, going so far as to essentially require a loyalty test to enter.
Trump is the third Republican presidential candidate to visit Vermont during the 2016 cycle: John Kasich and Rand Paul have preceded him.
Vermonters – the folks who welcome non-Vermonters like ebola, and who think Tom’s of ME has gotten “too corporate” – are about to play host to the most corporate non-Vermonter ever: Donald Trump.
“I may try to buy Burlington”, Wilde said, imitating Trump. Opponents across the street chanted “We are the 99 percent”, while Trump supporters waved their signs in response.
Trump did not elaborate at the rally on what types of public schools, such as elementary, college, or all, the measure would apply.
Donald Trump wants to keep his friends close and his enemies away from his events.
“The first time it happened was a couple months ago, and I was really nasty”, he said of protesters interrupting his events.
“Yeah, don’t give him his coat”.
“Oh, would I love to run against Bernie”, Trump said at one point, as the crowd cheered.
Trump held his Green Mountain State gathering as President Barack Obama held a town hall to field questions on his newly introducedproposals to heighten gun-control restrictions.
In interviews, Sanders has said that he believes Trump is appealing to the “fears and anxieties” of the American people and he has gone out of his way at times to validate Trump supporters by saying that people have a right to be scared based on the state of the economy and wages. “Get him out of here”, he said, before launching into a digression about the way he has learned to handle critics. According to WPTZ, several prominent local Republicans – a few worked for former Republican governor Jim Douglas – paid for a full-page ad in the Burlington Free Press that said, “America is great”.