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« Reply #25 on: March 13, 2016, 01:06:37 pm »


from the Los Angeles Times....

Tiny hands and wet pants: Trump and Rubio debate the small stuff

By DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM PST - Wednesday, March 09, 2016



WHAT will the Republican presidential candidates do in their next faceoff on Thursday, drop their pants? In the most recent GOP debate, the race to the White House hit an impressive new low when billionaire wheeler dealer Donald Trump defended his manhood by insisting there is nothing small about his private parts. “I guarantee you, there's no problem,” Trump said. “I guarantee you.”

So, rest easy, America, one national crisis has been averted.

The subject of The Donald's junk came up in response to Florida Senator Marco Rubio's taunt equating Trump's allegedly small fingers with another undersized digit. Rubio has also made fun of Trump's strangely orange-hued complexion and joked that Trump may have wet his pants at a previous debate.

Rubio's campaign pretty much admitted the candidate's quick descent into juvenile insults came about because the media was giving him scant attention while Trump was grabbing tons of free TV with his relentless caustic remarks. (Among other jabs, Trump has insisted he has never seen anyone sweat as much onstage as “Little Marco”.)

After Rubio's dismal showing in Tuesday night's primaries and caucuses, it is clear he did not help himself by getting into trash talk with the front-runner, but the Florida senator is not alone in taking desperate measures to slow Trump's rapid accumulation of convention delegates. Republican leaders are flipping out — maybe even wetting their pants — at the likelihood that Trump will be their nominee. Last week, the last two men to win that honor, Mitt Romney and Arizona Senator John McCain, both took hard shots at Trump, with McCain characterizing the billionaire as a “dangerous” ignoramus when it comes to foreign affairs. Romney called Trump “a fraud” and “a phony”.

“He's playing the American public for suckers,” the GOP's 2012 nominee said. “He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president.”

Romney, who made millions in business himself, derided the billionaire's boasts about being a financial genius, listing the many Trump ventures that have failed. Romney also criticized Trump's reluctance to quickly disavow the support he has received from white supremacists. Reportedly, Romney felt compelled to speak out largely because no one else was doing it. The devout, straight-laced family man was appalled by Trump's appeals to bigots, his philandering, his pretentious lifestyle and his profane self-promotion.

In another era, this kind of unprecedented assault on a party front-runner would have been devastating — especially because Romney's comments have the added weight of being true. But, this year, a barrage from the Republican establishment will only make Trump an even bigger hero to the people who admire his swaggering defiance of party poobahs.

One such Trump fan told The New York Times he found Romney's remarks “distasteful”. “To go out and publicly chastise Trump because Trump is winning: Is that the American way?” he asked.

Well, Romney's chastisement is not nearly the most “distasteful” string of phrases uttered this election season and is clearly a bit more than a complaint that Trump is winning. Romney delivered a serious warning about why a Trump presidency would imperil the republic. Trump's enthusiasts, though, have no inclination to contemplate unflattering facts about their hero. They brush it all off as media noise and establishment lies.

Trump responded to Romney's attack by alluding to the endorsement he gave Romney in the 2012 campaign. “He was begging for my endorsement," Trump said. "I could have said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees’ — he would have dropped to his knees.” Trump stuck with his counterattack on Tuesday night when he devoted a significant part of his rambling victory talk to refuting Romney's belittling remarks.

It was noble for Romney to speak out for the sake of his party and his country, but his words only gave Trump another opportunity to play the strutting alpha male. Mitt might as well have talked about The Donald's tiny hands.


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« Reply #26 on: March 13, 2016, 01:07:23 pm »


from the Los Angeles Times....

Donald Trump makes an art of commandeering free media

By DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM PST - Thursday, March 10, 2016



DONALD TRUMP plays the media like a bagpipe — droning, loud, full of hot air and impossible to ignore.

On Tuesday night, after winning primaries in Michigan and Mississippi, Trump managed to steal nearly an hour of television time on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN with a performance rich in hubris, insult and prevarication. The venue was a swanky golf resort somewhere in Florida. The performance was like an ad on the Home Shopping Network topped off with a press conference run by a generalissimo in a banana republic.

Trump started by rebutting Mitt Romney's critique of his business failures. Beside the 10 American flags adorning the stage were scores of bottles of Trump Water and a stack of Trump Steaks. Romney alleged that those two entrepreneurial endeavors have gone kaput, but Trump insisted the fact he could show them on TV proves his beef and bottled water businesses still thrive (if selling them only at his own properties qualifies as thriving). Then the candidate held up a copy of Trump magazine to show that, despite what Romney said, it still exists (although it is doubtful the publication can be found on any magazine rack at any airport, drugstore or mini mart in the USA).

Romney, like Marco Rubio, also charged that Trump University — The Donald's expensive series of real estate seminars — was a complete scam. Trump took time to refute that, though it was less a refutation than a con man's evasion. The disturbing facts about the bogus “university” are driving a federal fraud case in which Trump is likely to be an unwilling witness.

Following the display of products, Trump took questions from a contingent of reporters who were intermingled with an elite crowd of expensively dressed Trump supporters. Most of the questions were softballs, but there was one query Trump didn't like. He belittled the reporter and refused to give an answer. The well-heeled crowd cheered.

Watching on television, it was impossible to hear the questions or identify the questioners. Trump did not give reporters access to a microphone, which allowed him total command of the situation. Having loyalists surround the members of the press corps provided extra intimidation.

Trump chatted at length about his good poll numbers, his excellent prospects in upcoming primaries and the “lies” and inadequacies of his competitors for the GOP nomination. What he did not speak about, beyond his monotonous riff on building a gigantic border wall, was issues, ideals or the concerns of the beleaguered working-class voters who are his wildest fans. When, at long last, Trump finally concluded, Fox News host Megyn Kelley looked gobsmacked as she asked, “What was that all about?”

What that was about was Trump highjacking the media once again. He was able to spread his message — “I'm a tough, truth-talking rich guy who has had huge success in business, so I can run this country better than any weak, bought-off politician” — without interruption or challenge. He hogged prime time and blocked out Hillary Clinton's own post-primary speech. Even Democrat-loving MSNBC stayed with Trump instead of switching over to Hillary because Trump is so unpredictable that no TV producer wants to risk missing the man's next news-making outburst.

In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, political correspondent Matt Taibbi provides a good insight into Trump's command of free media. He writes that Trump is the first candidate “to realize the weakness in the system, which is that the watchdogs in the political media can't resist a car wreck. The more he insults the press, the more they cover him: He's pulling 33 times as much coverage on the major networks as his next-closest GOP competitor, and twice as much as Hillary.”

One may wonder whether Trump is a Machiavellian who ingeniously designed his tactics for dealing with the press or if he is just an idiot savant with natural media skills, but, either way, there is no question that it is working. Working so well, in fact, that no one can figure out how to stop him.


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« Reply #27 on: March 13, 2016, 01:07:49 pm »


from the Los Angeles Times....

For Democrats, one thing is worse than
President Trump: President Cruz


By DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM PST - Friday, March 11, 2016



AND then there were two — the two whom most Republican Party elected officials, donors and political consultants have identified for months as the least appealing options to be their presidential nominee: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Yes, there are still two other men left in the race, but if Senator Marco Rubio loses in his home state of Florida in next Tuesday's primary, as looks likely, and if Governor John Kasich fails to win his home state of Ohio the same night, as is quite possible, both will almost certainly drop out of contention. Only Cruz will be left to challenge the Trump juggernaut.

The American political and media world has been fixated on Trump with a growing realization that he could not only win the GOP nomination, but the presidency. Democrats, at first gleeful about facing Trump in the general election because they saw him as a sure loser, are now sobering up. Trump has brought millions of new voters into the political process, and many of them are working-class folks who once were a key constituency for Democrats. If he is the Republican choice, the Democratic candidate will have to run hard to avoid being swamped by the wave of anger among disaffected voters that Trump is riding.

Still, for Democrats, there might be something worse than having Trump in the White House. That would be President Cruz. In February, former President Carter told members of Britain's House of Lords that he would choose Trump over Cruz.

“The reason is, Trump has proven already he’s completely malleable,” Carter said. “I don't think he has any fixed [positions] he'd go to the White House and fight for. On the other hand, Ted Cruz is not malleable. He has far right-wing policies he'd pursue if he became president.”

Trump supporters, of course, think their hero is a tough guy who will do everything he says he will do, but Trump has made clear on various occasions that his hard-edged rhetoric — even his incessant blather about building a big, beautiful wall along the Mexican border — is a bargaining technique. He is ready to make deals because that is what he has spent his life doing. The conservatism to which he is a recent convert is not in his bones, it is just one more batch of notions he has adopted that are open to negotiation. For Democrats like Carter, that is the slim silver lining on the dark-clouded horizon of a possible Trump presidency.

That silver looks black to Cruz. The Texas senator's strongest and most accurate attack against Trump is that he is not a deeply convicted conservative. It must be especially galling to Cruz that Trump is stealing away the evangelical voters whom he had counted on to buoy his own campaign. He thought he could be their favored champion with his militant stands in favor of banning all types of abortions, same-sex marriage and Obamacare. Instead, many evangelicals are going for the guy who pays lip service to those issues but who, if given the chance, might opt for Ronald Reagan's approach and give ground on them all.

Cruz is not a guy who would give ground. If Democrats look at Cruz and Trump as scary monsters, then Trump is Dr. Frankenstein's creature made of many parts; a brutish beast with a hidden soft side. Cruz is Dracula. He wants one thing — to bleed and kill progressive government.

For Democrats, dealing with President Trump would be like appeasing an erratic, impulsive, self-centered teenager; deeply infuriating, but with the possibility of occasional moments of agreement. With President Cruz, it would be unending battle; a culture war without end.


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from the Chicago Tribune....

Dozens arrested at Trump campaign rally in St. Louis

By Tribune news services in St. Louis | 6:18PM CST - Friday, March 11, 2016

A protester is removed by police during Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's speech at a campaign rally in St. Louis. — Photograph: Seth Perlman/Associated Press
A protester is removed by police during Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's speech at a campaign rally in St. Louis.
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FACING intensifying criticism for the violent clashes between supporters and protesters that have come to define his rallies, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Friday continued to taunt those who interrupt his events while promising that police and security would be “gentle” as they removed them.

“They're allowed to get up and interrupt us horribly and we have to be very, very gentle,” Trump said in response to one of nearly a dozen interruptions as he spoke in St. Louis at the regal Peabody Opera House. “They can swing and hit people, but if we hit them back, it's a terrible, terrible thing, right?”

Throughout his speech, Trump was deeply critical of the protesters, all of whom appeared to leave the venue largely without incident. Police later said that 31 people were arrested and charged with general peace disturbance, and one person was charged outside the venue with third-degree assault.

He panned the protesters as weak “troublemakers”, ordered them to “go home to mommy” or “go home and get a job” because “they contribute nothing”.

“These are not good people, just so you understand,” Trump said. “These are not the people who made our country great. These are the people that are destroying our country.”

As Trump attempts to unify a fractured Republican Party, racially charged images of his supporters attacking protesters and allegations that he's inciting violence have cast new attention on the divisive nature of his candidacy.

It intensified this week, when a North Carolina man was arrested after video footage showed him punching an African-American protester being led out of a rally in that state on Wednesday. At the event, the billionaire real estate mogul recalled a past protester as “a real bad dude”.

“He was a rough guy, and he was punching. And we had some people — some rough guys like we have right in here — and they started punching back,” Trump said. “It was a beautiful thing.”

Friday's gathering in St. Louis was his first public campaign event since, and Trump defended his conduct and lashed out at the press for making too much of the clashes.

“You know, they talk about a protest or something. They don't talk about what's really happing in these forums and these rooms and these stadiums,” Trump said. “They don't talk about the love.”

He added that he and his supporters aren't angry people, but they “do get angry when we see the stupidity with which our country is run and how it's being destroyed.”

“I'd rather be too strong than too weak, by a long shot,” he said.


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Related news story:

 • Trump's rough handling of rally dissenters stirs questions


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from the Chicago Tribune....

Sanders, Cruz hold quieter events in Chicago suburbs

By JOHN BYRNE and KIM GEIGER | 9:53PM CST - Friday, March 11, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses supporters during a rally at Argo Community High School in Summit, Illinois. — Photograph: John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses supporters during a rally at Argo Community High School in Summit, Illinois.
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WHILE Donald Trump's rally drew national attention with its abrupt cancellation near downtown Chicago on Friday night, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and Republican Ted Cruz talked familiar themes to supportive crowds at separate speeches in the suburbs.

Speaking in the Argo Community High School gym in southwest suburban Summit, Vermont Senator Sanders delivered an hourlong address to a boisterous, chanting crowd of several thousand, focusing on his campaign's dominant idea of bridging the economic divide he says keeps too many Americans down. Though he's facing Hillary Clinton in the Illinois Democratic primary Tuesday, Sanders opened with a jab at Trump.

“We're not going to let Donald Trump or anyone else divide us,” he said to loud boos.

Sanders did not talk about the protesters who prompted Trump to call off his rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago but said he would defeat Trump in the general election “because the American people are not going to accept a president who insults Mexicans, who insults Muslims.”

Cruz, meanwhile, addressed hundreds of suburban Republicans gathered for a Lincoln Day Dinner at a banquet hall in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows.

Declaring Illinois a “battleground” in the Republican nominating contest, Cruz noted that the traditionally blue state “is used to being neglected by Republicans”. This year, he said, “Illinois is a state that matters” because he and Trump are “effectively tied” going into Tuesday's election.


Republican candidate for president Ted Cruz speaks with media before his speech at the Northwest Suburban Republican Lincoln day Dinner at the Meadows Club in Rolling Meadows. — Photograph: Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune.
Republican candidate for president Ted Cruz speaks with media before his speech at the Northwest Suburban Republican Lincoln day Dinner
at the Meadows Club in Rolling Meadows. — Photograph: Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune.


“If you're one of the 65 to 70 percent of Republicans who recognize Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go up against Hillary Clinton, then I would welcome you to join us,” Cruz said.

He dismissed recent talk of a “Hail Mary” by the Republican establishment to overcome Trump at the party's nominating convention.

“The nomination is not going to be decided by the Washington establishment parachuting in some favored candidate at the convention,” Cruz said. “If you want to beat Donald Trump, beat Donald Trump at the ballot box.”

In Sanders' speech, he said he raises money from regular Americans while Clinton relies on large corporate backers to whom she is beholden. “We don't represent the billionaire class. We're not going to beg them for money. We don't want their money,” he said.

“All across this country, what people are saying is we demand a government that represents all of us and not just a handful of billionaire campaign contributors,” Sanders said.

The loudest booing of the night, however, came when Sanders mentioned to the crowd that Clinton had received “the strong endorsement of (Chicago) Mayor Rahm Emanuel”.

“I want to thank Rahm Emanuel for not endorsing me,” he said. “I don't want his endorsement.”


A woman hold a sign in support of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders during a rally at Argo Community High School in Summit, Illinois. — Photograph: John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune.
A woman hold a sign in support of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders during a rally at Argo Community High School
in Summit, Illinois. — Photograph: John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune.


And he nodded at the budget impasse in Springfield that has threatened state university funding. “I can't believe that I'm hearing in Chicago about schools being closed, universities being shut down,” he said.

Sanders hit Clinton for supporting “disastrous trade agreements” like NAFTA that he said have been “particularly damaging to Midwestern economies like Illinois”. He reiterated his promise to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

And he dwelt on one of the central logistical concerns of his insurgent campaign: getting his young, enthusiastic supporters to the polls.

“What has happened in previous caucuses and primaries, we win when turnout is high, we lose when turnout is low,” Sanders said. “Next Tuesday, let us make certain we have a record-breaking turnout here in Illinois.”

Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia introduced Sanders to the crowd, saying the movement that pushed him to victory last week in Michigan is poised to give him a win here too.

“The winds that blew across the state of Michigan have crossed that great lake and are burning in Illinois,” said Garcia, who was backed by Sanders in his failed mayoral campaign last year against Emanuel.


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The good folks of Chicago ROCK!!   

They shoved one right up The Donald machine when anti-Trump protesters invaded a Trump rally in considerable numbers.

True to form, The Donald showed his true colours and turned into a snivelling, gutless wanker who refused to front up to REAL opposition to his nasty bullshit.

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from the Chicago Tribune....

Trump cancels Chicago rally amid organized protests

By GEOFF ZIEZULEWICZ, BILL RUTHHARD and RICK PEARSON | 10:17PM CST - Friday, March 11, 2016

Protesters march outside a Donald Trump rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion on Friday, March 11th, 2016 in Chicago. — Photograph: Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune.
Protesters march outside a Donald Trump rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion on Friday, March 11th, 2016 in Chicago.
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REPUBLICAN presidential front-runner Donald Trump abruptly canceled his Friday night rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion, citing security concerns as thousands of protesters gathered outside and hundreds more demonstrated in unison inside.

While Trump has faced interruptions during his speeches for months, he had not been confronted with the type of large, organized protest that unfolded in Chicago. As the crowd waited for the event to start, security escorted about a dozen protesters, a few at a time, out of the arena. After an organizer took to the stage to announce the plug had been pulled, a few skirmishes broke out between Trump backers and the protesters inside the arena.

In an interview on MSNBC shortly after the rally was called off, Trump said he “felt that it was just safer” to cancel.

“Rather than having everybody get in and mix it up,” Trump said, “I thought it would be a wise thing, after speaking with law enforcement, a wise thing to postpone the rally.”

Interim Chicago police Superintendent John Escalante said, “We were not consulted and we had no role in whether or not the event should be canceled.”

Trump's Chicago cancellation came after concerns about violence at or outside his speeches built for months, in part a reflection of his own heated comments toward protesters who interrupt his events. Trump has said he would like to “punch” them or see them “roughed up”.

The cancellation also was a culmination of Trump's rhetoric colliding with opposition from within a diverse and Democratic-oriented big-city environment where protests are not unfamiliar, at times with disparate groups banding together.


Protesters rally during a Donald Trump campaign stop inside the UIC Pavilion. — Photograph: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune.
Protesters rally during a Donald Trump campaign stop inside the UIC Pavilion. — Photograph: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune.

At a northwest suburban Republican fundraising event, a rival for the GOP nomination, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, criticized Trump, saying “any candidate is responsible for the culture of the campaign.”

“And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that is facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discourse,” Cruz said.

Just as Trump's supporters are passionate, passionate opposition exists — spawned in part by controversial statements and pledges, such as walling off the U.S. border with Mexico and a temporary halt to Muslim immigration.

Prior to his arrival on Friday in Chicago, Trump appeared at a rally in St. Louis where he mocked concerns over violent acts against protesters.

“They're allowed to get up and interrupt us horribly and we have to be very, very gentle,” Trump said in response to one of nearly a dozen interruptions as he spoke at the regal Peabody Opera House. “They can swing and hit people, but if we hit them back, it's a terrible, terrible thing, right?”

Earlier this week, a Trump supporter was charged with assault after multiple videos showed him sucker-punching a protester being escorted out of a campaign rally Wednesday night in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

In addition, Michelle Fields, a reporter for the conservative news Internet site Breitbart, filed a police report in Jupiter, Florida, alleging she was assaulted by a person identified by a Washington Post reporter as Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.

Fields said someone “grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down” after a Tuesday news conference. The Trump campaign denied such an act ever took place.


An official with the Donald Trump campaign walks away from the lectern after announcing that the even was canceled on Friday, March 11th, 2016 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. — Photograph: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune.
An official with the Donald Trump campaign walks away from the lectern after announcing that the even was canceled on Friday,
March 11th, 2016 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. — Photograph: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune.


In Chicago, the Trump campaign nixed the rally about a half-hour after it was supposed to start. Protesters inside the arena danced and cheered. Some chanted “Bernie”, for Sanders, the Democratic candidate who is holding strong appeal among younger voters, and there also were chants of “we stopped Trump”.

Trump supporters chanted “we want Trump” before the two groups began filing out, one in celebration, the other in disappointment. There were some clashes and pushing, images broadcast to the nation by cable news networks.

Some Trump backers were forced to move through a gantlet of protesters, many of whom were shouting, calling them “bigots” and singing “Sha-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey, hey, goodbye”.

Almost since Trump announced the Chicago rally a week ago, groups were mobilizing, including securing free tickets to get into the UIC Pavilion either to attend and protest, or to prevent Trump supporters from gaining access to the arena, which seats nearly 10,000.

On Monday, a group of Latino elected officials led by Democratic U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez, of Chicago, called on people to show up and express opposition to Trump's candidacy.

In addition, UIC faculty and staff signed off on a letter asking administrators to cancel the rally because it could turn violent. And more than 40,000 signatures were collected on a petition started by a student leader asking how security would be handled and who would pay for it.

Gutierrez had hoped that representatives from Chicago's Muslim communities, the LGBTQ communities, those who support women's rights and other minorities also would attend the outdoor protest.


Protesters cheer after it was announced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's speech was canceled on Friday, March 11th, 2016 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. — Photograph: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune.
Protesters cheer after it was announced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's speech was canceled on Friday,
March 11th, 2016 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. — Photograph: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune.


In November, Chicago erupted in protest marches for weeks after the public release of a video that showed a white Chicago police officer shooting an African-American teenager who was walking away. Hours before the footage was released, Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with murder in the October 2014 death of Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times.

During the protests that followed, demonstrators shut down stores on North Michigan Avenue the day after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest holiday shopping days of the year.

On Friday, hours before the scheduled start of the Trump event, hundreds of young people, many of whom appeared to be students, filled sections toward the back of the arena.

About 5:30 p.m., when two protesters were removed by security personnel, the size of the protest contingent became clear when they loudly chanted “let them stay!” Trump's supporters responded by chanting “USA! USA!”

The contingent of protesters continued to get louder, some tearing Trump banners in half as a group of five police officers began to remove some of the demonstrators one by one. Police appeared to handcuff one man before taking him out of the arena.

Shortly after, protesters emerged in a loud “f--k Trump” chant, including one woman who shouted while holding a sign that read “No Hate”. Trump supporters in the balcony threw debris at her.


A protester shows off ripped Donald Trump campaign signs after it was announced the rally for the Republican presidential candidate was cancelled at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. — Photograph: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune.
A protester shows off ripped Donald Trump campaign signs after it was announced the rally for the Republican presidential candidate
was cancelled at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. — Photograph: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune.


Outside the arena, thousands of protesters gathered after a march from the university's quad. A phalanx of Chicago police officers sought to separate protesters from Trump supporters on opposite sides of Harrison Street.

Protesters chanted “Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Donald Trump has got to go”.

A few Trump backers lashed back at demonstrators, shouting, “Build the wall!” a reference to Trump's pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border — and have Mexico pay for it.

Aimee Bass, a 49-year-old music teacher from the Edgewater neighborhood, said she came out to voice her opposition to Trump.

He had every right to be a businessman, she said, but “he's so unqualified to run for president.”

Nineteen-year-old Radia Mchabcheb said she came from Villa Park to stand against Trump. “There's no support for hateful kinds of speech, especially from presidential candidates,” she said.


Donald Trump supporters react after the rally was canceled at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion on Friday, March 11th, 2016. — Photograph: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune.
Donald Trump supporters react after the rally was canceled at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion on Friday, March 11th, 2016.
 — Photograph: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune.


Diane Szafranski, a 48-year-old homemaker from Cary, brought her daughter, Caitlin, 10, to see Trump. She said she had no problem with Trump's past controversial statements.

“He's not politically correct,” Szafranski said. “He's not taking any crap from anybody, which I love.”

“He's self-funding,” Szafranski said. “He's not relying on the lobbyists. He's not going to owe anybody.”

“I love him, he's awesome,” Szafranski's daughter said. “He wants to get rid of ISIS (the Islamic State), he wants to build a wall to help our country.”

One Trump backer, Jeff Black, handed out anti-Hillary Clinton buttons reading “Hillary for prison”. Black, who lives in Summit, where Democratic presidential hopeful Sanders spoke late Friday, said he brought 200 buttons to distribute.

Most people who turned out for Trump were white. Farice Campbell, a 21-year-old African-American man from Chicago, said he came out of curiosity, and to see Trump supporters up close.

“We came to see in real life how this all plays out, and the reasons to support Trump,” Campbell said.

With him was 18-year-old Portia Torrens, of Oswego, who also is black.

“This is a huge part of history,” she said. “It's good to be a part of it.”


Chicago Tribune reporters Katherine Skiba, Kim Geiger, Annie Sweeney, Jeremy Gorner, Jason Meisner and Matt McCall and The Associated Press contributed.

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from the Chicago Tribune....

Campaign violence and Donald Trump: Hardly surprising,
entirely predictable


By CATHLEEN DECKER and MICHAEL FINNEGAN | 11:28PM CST - Friday, March 11, 2016

Donald Trump supporter Birgitt Peterson, centre, of Yorkville, argues with protesters outside the UIC Pavilion after the canceled rally for the Republican presidential candidate. — Photograph: E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune.
Donald Trump supporter Birgitt Peterson, centre, of Yorkville, argues with protesters outside the UIC Pavilion after the canceled rally
for the Republican presidential candidate. — Photograph: E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune.


VIOLENCE splashed across the television screen Friday night like a horrific flashback from the 1960s, as fistfights and shoving broke out among thousands of supporters and opponents at a Donald Trump event in Chicago, drawing memories of police and protesters fighting in the streets of the same city during another political gathering in 1968.

Nothing about it was surprising.

What many had feared as Trump's campaign has proceeded had finally happened on a large scale: A flammable brew of populist anger, campaign mismanagement, a candidate's own provocative encouragement and protesters fighting back — quite literally — finally found its fuse. The explosion was predictable, given tensions in the country around its changing demographic face and economic displacement that has left many fearful and upset, receptive audiences for Trump's surprisingly strong candidacy.

Trump himself was not present; he canceled his event a half-hour after it was due to begin, citing security concerns. The candidate's statement said that the campaign had determined that “for the safety of all of the tens of thousands of people that have gathered in and around the arena,” the event would not be held. It was after the cancellation that clashes broke out among audience members and between audience members and police.

“Please go in peace,” the Trump statement said.

Peace will be a hard sell, because much of this plays to the desires of the participants.

Trump has yet to back down from any of the incendiary, race-based comments he has made during this campaign; only the night before he had insisted in a Republican debate that he was correct in asserting Muslims “hate” Americans. Moreover, his tough stance on matters such as building a wall on the Mexican border, and his history of drawing huge crowds, are central to his political argument that he alone is strong enough and popular enough to win the White House.

Although Republican establishment figures and his fellow candidates demanded on Friday that he call a halt to the turmoil, it is very possible that within the Republican base, Friday's events will cement support of him. Richard Nixon benefited from political and racial violence in 1968 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and elsewhere.

Trump's crowds, while mostly peaceful, have included those instigating violence, and their actions have been applauded by other Trump supporters. Earlier this week, a 78-year-old Trump supporter sucker-punched a black protester being led out of the candidate’s event — and then threatened death to the man he had punched.

The anti-Trump cadres themselves played a role in the violence. Protesters who had been able to infiltrate his events in small bunches somehow on Friday were able to get into his Chicago event in vast numbers and force its cancellation — their largest anti-Trump victory to date and one that at least some of them will probably want to replicate.

Trump's campaign staff and security teams are responsible for safety at the events, but they are — as Friday night showed — clearly not a match for the thousands who pour into his rallies.

All that considered, nothing seemed likely to change simply from the shock of seeing it all play out on television.

In a hastily arranged interview on Friday night on CNN, Trump denied that he bore any blame for his caustic treatment in the past of protesters and his campaign focus on Mexicans, Muslims and people in China and Japan who he says are taking American jobs.

“I don't take responsibility,” he said. “Nobody’s been hurt in our rallies.” At the same time, he brought up his denunciation of immigrants and reiterated the harm he said had been done to America by those here illegally.

He placed blame for Friday's and other events on protesters who he said had been “unbelievably abusive”. “I think we’ve been very mild with protesters,” he said. “Until today we never really had much of a problem.”

In many ways, Trump is the continuation of a long line of political figures who have played on the emotions of the crowd, often by using racial cues or outright statements to enrage their followers and outrage their opponents. This form of demagoguery has been particularly dangerous in the days of the civil rights movement and beyond, and in times of economic difficulty.

In 1968, running a third-party candidacy for the presidency, the former Democratic governor of Alabama, George Wallace, campaigned with the veneer of race and violence ever present. He blamed “anarchists” for demonstrating at his events and encouraged cameras to focus on them, thus feeding his campaign's argument that the nation was beset by anarchy. He insisted that right-thinking Americans should “do away” with the demonstrators.

Wallace did not overtly talk about race, but he didn't have to: He had been a public segregationist as governor. He also repeatedly brought up issues such as fair housing laws — initiated to protect minorities — as topics of concern. By the time he finished riling up the crowds, Washington Post political writer David Broder once wrote, they resembled “a lynch mob”.


A Donald Trump supporter argues with protesters outside the canceled Trump rally at the UIC Pavilion. — Photograph: Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune.
A Donald Trump supporter argues with protesters outside the canceled Trump rally at the UIC Pavilion.
 — Photograph: Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune.


The Republican strategy for taking back the South after Democratic President Lyndon Johnson signed civil rights and voting rights legislation led to other veiled activities. Ronald Reagan, elected governor of California in 1966 after campaigning against the state's fair housing act, kicked off his 1980 post-convention presidential campaign swing with an appearance near Philadelphia, Mississipi, where three young civil rights workers had been found dead 16 years earlier. Those slayings were attributed to members of the Ku Klux Klan and local law enforcement officers.

Reagan's speech that day segued directly from a denunciation of welfare to wording used by segregationists: “I believe in states' rights,” he said. His aides denied that his intent was racial.

Race also flavored the 1992 presidential campaign of a Reagan aide, Pat Buchanan, who mocked others in racial terms and said immigrants who refused to “assimilate” threatened the country.

But given the immediacy that today's media environment allows, no one has been able to spread a race-inflected message further than Donald Trump. He entered the race best known politically for challenging — without proof — President Obama's citizenship. He immediately began campaigning for a wall to separate the U.S. and Mexico, and asserted that immigrants coming here illegally were “rapists” and “murderers”. He called for a halt to allowing Muslims to enter the country.

And he inflamed audiences with biting references to those who opposed him.

Hours before he was to appear in Chicago, the New York real estate mogul taunted demonstrators whose shouting interrupted him in St. Louis.

“Go home and get a job,” Trump snapped at the Missouri protesters. “Go home to Mommy.”

He has often seemed to use the disruptions as a device to demonstrate his own power: “Out, out, out!” he demanded a week ago in Warren, Michigan, each time protesters interrupted. After he did, his supporters chanted “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”

Trump has openly pined for “the old days”, when, he says, noisy demonstrators would be carried out of a political rally on stretchers.

“I'd like to punch him in the face,” he told a Las Vegas casino rally crowd last  month when one protester was ejected.

His suggestion came true Wednesday when a white Trump supporter named John McGraw punched a black protester in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and declared to “Inside Edition” that “next time we see him, we might have to kill him.” (McGraw was charged with assault and disorderly conduct.)

Protesters, sometimes affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, have become more and more numerous at Trump events in recent weeks. In St. Louis, they prevented Trump from speaking for long stretches of time.

“Missouri, I can't believe this,” Trump said. “I can't believe it.”

He also became impatient with the police.

“Where are the police?” he asked. “Come on, police, get 'em out. Let’s go. Let's go. Come on.”

Trump also criticized the protesters, saying they were “destroying our country”.  But he conceded, as he often does, that there was an up side to getting heckled.

“Can I be honest with you? It adds to the flavor,” he told his cheering supporters. “It really does. It makes it more exciting. I mean, isn't this better than listening to a long boring speech?”

The night before, at the presidential debate in Miami, Trump had been confronted with all of his inciting comments about protesters, and was asked again if he bore any responsibility.

“We have some protesters who are bad dudes, they have done bad things,” he said. “And if they've got to be taken out, to be honest, I mean, we have to run something.”


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Look at that nasty, ugly, Trump-supporter giving the HEIL TRUMP fascist salute.

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After-effects of Trump Chicago cancellation felt in presidential race

By RICK PEARSON, BILL RUTHHART and KATHERINE SKIBA | 5:52PM CST - Saturday, March 12, 2016

Donald Trump supporters jeer at anti-Trump protesters at a to-be canceled Trump campaign rally at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago on March 11th, 2016. — Photograph: Brian Nguyen/Chicago Tribune.
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THE after-effects from the protest-fueled cancellation of Donald Trump's Chicago rally reverberated nationally throughout presidential campaigns in both parties Saturday, just days before Illinois holds its primary.

Skirmishes between Trump supporters and demonstrators laid bare the country's deep and angry political divide, and Trump, during a speech in Ohio, contended supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders were behind a “planned attack” by “professional” protest organizers Friday night.

“They were taunted, they were harassed by these other people. These other people, by the way, some represented Bernie, our communist friend,” Trump said at an airport rally outside Dayton that was interrupted by Secret Service agents surrounding the candidate when a protester tried to take the stage and was arrested.

“(Sanders) should really get up and say to his people, ‘Stop. Stop. Not me. Stop.’ They said Mr. Trump should get up this morning and tell his people to be nice. My people are nice folks. They are. They're great,” he said.

Earlier, Sanders, while campaigning in Chicago in advance of Tuesday's primary election, called on Trump to be “loud and clear and tell his supporters that violence at rallies is not what America is about and end it.”

“Our supporters aren't inciting. Our supporters are responding to a candidate who in many ways has encouraged violence when he talks about, ‘I wish we were in the old days when you could punch somebody in the head’, Well, what do you think that says to his supporters?” said Sanders, who noted a protester recently was sucker-punched at a Trump rally.

Sanders' campaign later issued a statement calling Trump a “pathological liar” for suggesting the Democratic candidate organized the protests that kept the Republican from taking the stage in Chicago, though the Vermont senator said he did “appreciate” that some of his supporters attended.

Trump has little formal campaign organization in Illinois, and anyone could get tickets online to the Friday rally. Hundreds of protesters, many students at the diverse, urban environment of the University of Illinois at Chicago, applied for and got tickets to the event at the UIC Pavilion.

“You step back now and take a look, you say, that was an odd choice of venue for Trump unless he was ready to risk that possibility,” Democratic U.S. Senator Dick Durbin said Saturday. “It was pretty obvious to anyone looking at that campus, you think, why would Donald Trump not be at some conservative, suburban venue rather than coming right into the heart of Chicago's diversity?”

After the rally was canceled on Friday night, Chicago interim police Superintendent John Escalante said his department was not consulted in the decision to call it off. Trump appeared to challenge that on Saturday when his campaign issued a vague statement saying that “Commander George Devereux of the Chicago Police Department was informed of everything before it happened. Likewise, Secret Service and private security firms were consulted and totally involved.”

In response, Chicago PD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that UIC police, private security and the Secret Service were in charge of handling security inside the venue. Devereaux, he said, assisted the Secret Service with site security at the Trump hotel and learned the event had been called off from a security director.

“Chicago PD was not consulted or involved in the decision to cancel the event,” Guglielmi said. “Devereaux had no communication with anyone from the Trump team and had no involvement in the planning of the UIC event.”




The volatile convergence of thousands of Trump supporters and protesters, which resulted in sporadic skirmishes inside and outside the arena, was a reflection of the two extremes of the political landscape — a disaffected right wing and a dissatisfied left wing.

Each represents an unknown voting quotient heading into Illinois' primary election as Republicans choose from among Trump and a fractured field, while Democrats pick between Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Trump's Chicago cancellation came after concerns of violence at his speeches had escalated for months, reflecting his own heated comments toward protesters who interrupt his events. Trump has said he would like to “punch” protesters or see them “roughed up”.

On Sunday, Trump is scheduled to return for a morning rally in Bloomington in central Illinois. It is unclear how the Chicago event will play with Illinois' Republican electorate as it considers whether to vote for Trump, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Ohio Governor John Kasich or Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

The viral images of a largely young, ethnically and racially diverse group of protesters erasing his Chicago event could help the chances of the brash-speaking Trump, who has eschewed political correctness along the campaign trail. But the continued divisiveness surrounding Trump's campaign also could lead some Republican voters to reconsider whether he could win in the fall.

On Saturday, a theme of Trump acting as a divider rather than unifier was echoed by candidates in both parties seeking their respective presidential nominations, as well as President Barack Obama, who attended a Democratic fundraiser in Dallas.

“Those who aspire to be our leaders should be trying to bring us together, and not turning us against one another and speak out against violence and reject efforts to spread fear or turn us against one another,” Obama said, not referencing Trump by name.

“This is not about ‘political correctness’. It's about not having to explain to our kids why our politics sounds like a schoolyard fight. We shouldn't be afraid to take them to rallies, or let them watch debates. They watch the way we conduct ourselves. They learn from us. And we should be teaching them something about this democracy is a vibrant and precious thing,” he said.

Among the Republican contenders, Rubio, campaigning in Florida and seeking a must-win in his home state Tuesday, told reporters he was reconsidering an earlier vow to support Trump if he became the nominee.

“I don't know,” he said. “I mean, I already talked about the fact that I think Hillary Clinton would be terrible for this country, but the fact that you're even asking me that question, I still at this moment continue and intend to support the Republican nominee, but, getting harder every day.”

Rubio criticized Trump for using rhetoric that encourages violence, but said the real estate mogul and former reality TV star won't discourage his backers for political reasons.

“He doesn't want to say anything to his supporters because he doesn't want to turn them off, because he understands that the reason why they are voting for him is because he has tapped into this anger,” Rubio said at a news conference in Largo, Florida.

“The problem is leadership has never been about taking people's anger and using it to get them to vote for you. If it is, it's a dangerous style of leadership.”




Kasich, campaigning in his home state of Ohio, which also votes Tuesday, has rarely taken the front-runner on but did so Saturday.

“Donald Trump has created a toxic environment and a toxic environment has allowed his supporters and those who sometimes seek confrontation to come together in violence,” Kasich told reporters outside Cincinnati.

“There is no place for this. There is no place for a national leader to prey on the fears of people who live in our great country,” he said.

But Cruz, campaigning in neighboring Missouri, which votes Tuesday, reaffirmed he would support Trump if he becomes the party's nominee. Cruz, however, criticized Trump for not appealing to civility.

“All of us can carry a message of unity that brings people together rather than seeking to divide, rather than seeking to inflame hatred, we should be bringing people together,” Cruz said in Ballwin. “Far more unifies us than tears us apart.”

Clinton, also campaigning in Missouri, called Trump's tough talk “political arson”.

“The ugly, divisive rhetoric we are hearing from Donald Trump and the encouragement of violence and aggression is wrong, and it's dangerous,” she said in O'Fallon. “If you play with matches, you're going to start a fire you can't control. That's not leadership.”

Trump, his rhetoric and his rally cancellation took up most of the political oxygen for lower-ballot Illinois political candidates battling for the Democratic nomination in races for the U.S. Senate and Cook County state's attorney.

Senate contender Andrea Zopp, the former CEO of the Chicago Urban League, spent an hour on WVON-AM 1690 with several of her supporters in the African-American community. Zopp and another candidate, state Senator Napoleon Harris, of Harvey, also attended Sanders' get-out-the-vote rally hosted by the Reverend Jesse Jackson at Rainbow PUSH.

Another Senate candidate, U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, of Hoffman Estates, campaigned at the offices of the Service Employees International Union-Healthcare in the Pilsen neighborhood.

Duckworth, celebrating her 48th birthday on Saturday, said Illinois' Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and his big-money allies could not take over the state and that Democrats would chip away at the hold that Tea Party “crazies” have in the U.S. House.

Duckworth, Zopp and Harris are vying for the seat now held by Republican U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, who is seeking re-election.

In the Democratic contest for the county's top prosecutor, challenger Kim Foxx attended a rally held by Reclaim Chicago, a left-leaning activist group backed by unions. Foxx whipped up the volunteer troops, telling them it was their chance to bring “reform and progressive ideas (into) our criminal justice system. … Quite frankly, if we don't do it here in Cook County, right now, it's not happening.”

State's Attorney Anita Alvarez marched in the downtown St. Patrick's Day Parade, alongside 14th Ward Alderman Ed Burke, who continues to back her candidacy despite the defection of many Democrats. Another challenger, Donna More, worked the sidelines of the parade, shaking hands and handing out literature.


Chicago Tribune reporters Hal Dardick and Kim Geiger and Tribune news services contributed to this article.

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Related stories:

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 • Security tackles man running toward Trump at Ohio rally

 • Trump supporter explains what led to ‘Heil, Hitler’ salute at canceled Chicago rally


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from The Washington Post....

Campaign 2016 is on a dangerous descent

By DAN BALZ | 2:50PM EST - Saturday, March 12, 2016

In this image from the television network pool, a Secret Service agent rushes onto the stage to protect Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after a man attempted to get beyond the barricades to the dais where Trump was standing during a speech at Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio. — Photograph: TV network pool via Associated Press.
In this image from the television network pool, a Secret Service agent rushes onto the stage to protect Republican presidential candidate
Donald Trump after a man attempted to get beyond the barricades to the dais where Trump was standing during a speech
at Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio. — Photograph: TV network pool via Associated Press.


VANDALIA, OHIO — Friday was an ugly day on the campaign trail, perhaps the worst of the year. What erupted in St. Louis and fully boiled over later in Chicago, however, was no aberration. Donald Trump has built his candidacy on long-festering resentment and grievance. It is a poisonous combination, for the Republican Party and for the country.

Trump's slogan is Make America Great Again, but his campaign for president continues to call out dark forces that divide a polarized America. Fueled by acrimonious rhetoric, he has sparked an angry movement that has now created an angry backlash. Campaign 2016 is on a downward and dangerous descent.

The videos of the conflicts ahead of Trump's rally in Chicago on Friday evening triggered memories of the far-worse bloody clashes at the 1968 Democratic convention in the same city, when the United States was engulfed by violence and protests over the war in Vietnam. The flash points in today's politics are more diffuse, but the political divisions are no less real.

Trump seems unwilling to try to put the genie back in the bottle. Even if he were, it's questionable that he could. Anger is the fuel that feeds his candidacy. Passions on both sides intensify by the week. Scattered protests at his rallies have escalated into terrifying confrontations. Violence is more commonplace.

Standing in the airplane hangar at Trump's rally here in Ohio on Saturday morning was Tom McMurtry, 60, a community college police officer and Iraq War veteran. He described himself as a former Republican who is now an undecided independent who wanted to hear what Trump had to say. He watched Friday's melee in Chicago as he was eating dinner.

Did he blame Trump for any of this? “He could certainly have done things to calm things down, but a lot of his appeal is that he gets people riled up. He stirs people up,” McMurtry said. “It's hard to stir people up and then at the last possible instant tell them to stop. It's a momentum heading toward violence, and last night it hit people moving in the other direction.”

In the aftermath of his canceled rally in Chicago, Trump was unrepentant, even defiant, about his role. He was asked during phone interviews on cable TV late on Friday, as clips of the violence played on the screen, whether he regretted the kind of pugnacious rhetoric he has used that might have encouraged violence against protesters. He declined to offer any remorse.

On Saturday morning, en route to his rally here in Ohio, he tweeted, “The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!”


“I was ready for him, but it’s much easier if the cops do it, don’t we agree?” Trump quipped after the man was taken away. “And to think I had such an easy life! What do I need this for, right?”. — Photograph: Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters.
“I was ready for him, but it’s much easier if the cops do it, don’t we agree?” Trump quipped after the man was taken away.
“And to think I had such an easy life! What do I need this for, right?”. — Photograph: Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters.


An hour later, as he opened his rally, where the crowd was so large that it filled the hangar and spilled onto the tarmac, Trump again defended himself and his followers. In Chicago, he said, his people came under an organized attack. “We cannot let our First Amendment rights be taken away from us,” he said. “We want to get along with everybody.”

At one point during Saturday's rally, someone jumped a barrier behind Trump and tried to get on the stage. Secret Service agents rushed to surround Trump and the threat was quickly subdued. “I was ready for him,” Trump said to the cheering crowd, “but it's much easier if the cops do it.”

There were other scattered protests, with the demonstrators led out of the hangar by law enforcement officers. “Get him out of here,” the candidate thundered into his microphone as one protester was escorted out. “Go home to mommy.”

With each disruption, the atmosphere grew more intense, the audience cheering louder and louder, nearly drowning out the candidate's voice. It was mild by Friday's standards but indicative of what now envelops the Trump for president movement. The rallies are supercharged with energy and all that comes with it.

There is no condoning the actions of those on either side of the violence that erupted Friday or at other Trump events. No one is. But the Republican front-runner is in a minority position on the question of what has brought the presidential campaign to this moment. After all, it is Trump who, as protesters were led out of earlier rallies, stoked the anger of the crowd with crude comments about wishing he could punch out those who have disrupted his events.

Friday's events produced a change in tone among Trump's Republican rivals, who are desperate to stop his march to the GOP nomination. Earlier this month, they stood on a stage and said they would support him if he becomes the party's nominee. After what took place Friday, they were quick to cast Trump as the enabler and facilitator of a climate of hate that now seems to surround his candidacy.

Ohio Governor John Kasich has long resisted direct engagement with Trump. Late on Friday he issued a blunt statement, saying, “Tonight the seeds of division that Donald Trump has been sowing this whole campaign finally bore fruit, and it was ugly.” On Saturday morning, he talked of the “toxic environment” that has been created by Trump's candidacy.

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas did not excuse the protesters who disrupted Trump's rallies but held little back in blaming Trump for what is happening. Trump, he said, “disrespects voters”, “affirmatively encourages violence” and has a campaign “facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press.” In sum, he said, Trump has created an environment “that only encourages this sort of nasty violence.”


The man is led away from the rally by Secret Service agents. — Photograph: William Philpott/Reuters.
The man is led away from the rally by Secret Service agents. — Photograph: William Philpott/Reuters.

As of yet, neither Cruz nor Kasich nor Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is willing to renounce his pledge to support the eventual nominee even if it is Trump, although Rubio said it gets harder by the day not to back away. That is their and their party's dilemma.

Trump is in a strong position to win that nomination and could be in an even stronger position after Tuesday’s primaries. Only a Kasich win in Ohio and a Rubio victory in Florida on Tuesday would make his path significantly more difficult. Under most plausible scenarios, he will have more delegates than any of the other three remaining candidates by the time the primaries end in June.

Republican Party leaders face the prospect of a convention in Cleveland riven by intra-party division over Trump's candidacy and convulsed by what could be rounds of protests outside the arena. Things may seem toxic today. Imagine what they could be by then if he is on track to claim the nomination.

Some Republicans believe there can be eventual accommodation to a Trump nomination and that he would mellow once he has won the battle. Those who believe that no doubt were heartened by Thursday's debate in Miami, when he showed a more restrained demeanor and avoided insulting his opponents. But his candidacy already has so fractured the party and the country that the climate isn't likely to change.

Trump's candidacy now is far more than a Republican Party issue. He defines and dominates the politics of 2016. He did not create the root causes of the anger and division in the country. All of that has been building for years, for all to see.

The problems are real and difficult to address. There has been little effort to contain or restrain the disaffection, particularly in the Republican Party. More than anyone, however, Trump has exploited that anger.

No one should underestimate the significance of the estrangement or disregard the implications of it. It was on full display Friday. Even worse could occur in the days and months ahead unless there is a collective and concerted effort to step back from this precipice.


• Dan Balz is Chief Correspondent at The Washington Post. He has served as the paper's National Editor, Political Editor, White House correspondent and Southwest correspondent.

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 • Racial tensions explode at Trump rallies

 • Trump rally in Chicago canceled


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Trump has lit a fire. Can it be contained?

By KAREN TUMULTY, JENNA JOHNSON and JOSE A. DELREAL | 6:15PM EST - Saturday, March 12, 2016

Secret Service surround Trump at his rally in Dayton, Ohio. — Photograph: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News.
Secret Service surround Trump at his rally in Dayton, Ohio. — Photograph: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News.

AN already ugly presidential campaign has descended to a new level — one where the question is no longer whether Donald Trump can be stopped on his march to the Republican presidential nomination, but whether it is possible to contain what he has unleashed across the country.

Violence at Trump's rallies has escalated sharply, and the reality-show quality of his campaign has taken a more ominous turn in the past few days. On Saturday, a man charged the stage in Dayton, Ohio, and a swarm of Secret Service agents surrounded the GOP front-runner.

The racially tinged anger that has both fueled Trump's political rise and stoked the opposition to it has turned into a force unto itself. It has also brought a reckoning from his three remaining rivals for the Republican nomination, who are shedding their fear of provoking Trump and of alienating the raging slice of their party's base that has claimed him as its leader.

But Trump should not be viewed in isolation or as the product of a single election, President Obama said on Saturday at a fundraiser in Dallas.

Obama said those who “feed suspicion about immigrants and Muslims and poor people, and people who aren't like ‘us’, and say that the reason that America is in decline is because of ‘those’ people. That didn't just happen last week. That narrative has been promoted now for years.”

This year's presidential campaign, however, seems to have fallen into a bottomless spiral.

A low point came on Friday night. Where Trump has delighted in mocking hecklers — and condoning attacks on them by his supporters — he was forced to cancel a rally at the last minute after protesters turned up by the thousands. That set off a chaotic scene in the arena at the University of Illinois at Chicago that left a handful injured and thousands agitated.

Trump's continued domination of the GOP race suggests that there are no guard-rails left in politics. Party elders and his opponents assumed that at some point, he would self-destruct. But he has defied just about every norm, and it has redounded to his benefit.

His candidacy and the sentiment it provokes have also stirred disturbing historical comparisons.

GOP political consultant Stuart Stevens, who was a top strategist for 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, said Trump's rhetoric is “almost verbatim” what segregationist George Wallace was saying in his third-party 1968 presidential campaign.

“I don't know what's in Trump's heart, but I don't care. What he's saying is really hateful,” Stevens said. “What did the Democratic Party do with Wallace? They rejected him.”

Some on the right accused the anti-Trump forces who shut down the rally in Chicago of being the true culprits, who denied the GOP front-runner an opportunity to exercise his constitutional right to free speech.

“It's sad, number one, that you have protesters that resort to violence, that resort to threats of violence that resort to yelling and screaming and disruption to silence speech that they don't like,” said Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who is running a distant second to Trump in the GOP primaries.

But Trump's Republican opponents — all of whom have pledged to support Trump if he gets the nomination — said that the New York billionaire cannot be held blameless.


ecret Service agents detain a man after a disturbance during the Trump rally at Dayton International Airport in Ohio. — Photograph: William Philpott/Reuters.
ecret Service agents detain a man after a disturbance during the Trump rally at Dayton International Airport in Ohio.
 — Photograph: William Philpott/Reuters.


“I think it is also true that any campaign, responsibility begins and ends at the top,” Cruz said.

“Look at the rhetoric of the front-runner in the presidential campaign,” Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said Saturday. “This is a man who at rallies has told his supporters to basically beat up the people who are in the crowd and he'll pay their legal fees. Someone who's basically encouraged the people in the audience to rough up anyone who stands up and says something he doesn't like.

“I still at this moment continue to intend to support the Republican nominee, but it's getting harder every day.”

Ohio Governor John Kasich condemned Trump for creating a “toxic environment” that has led supporters and protesters to “come together in violence,” but he, too, stopped short of saying he would not support his Republican rival if Trump secures the party's presidential nomination.

Their increasingly pointed criticism of Trump comes at a crucial moment in the GOP race, with primaries being held on Tuesday in five states that could either propel Trump to the nomination or give life to the effort to stop him.

Most closely watched will be Florida and Ohio, which are considered must-wins for home-state candidates Rubio and Kasich. And for the first time in this electoral season, delegates will be awarded on a winner-take-all basis, which means that victories by Trump would accelerate his efforts to secure the nomination.

Trump has won GOP contests in 15 states, accumulating an estimated 458 Republican delegates of the 1,237 he needs.

On Thursday, the candidates held their final debate before the next round of primaries, and they managed to remain civil to one another and focused on their substantive differences.

During the debate, Trump was asked about an incident in which a supporter at a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, punched a protester.

“There is some anger. There's also great love for the country. It's a beautiful thing in many respects. But I certainly do not condone that at all,” Trump said.

Now, the outbreak of violence in Chicago had again drawn focus to Trump's temperament and character, as well as whether he has played a role in inciting his supporters.

For months, Trump has been able to control — and even employ as foils — the hundreds of protesters who show up to his rallies to oppose what they consider divisive and racist.

Trump often says that he loves having protesters at his rallies, that they make his rallies fun. Plus, the interruptions are an opportunity to show him bossing around and mocking liberals, often bellowing, “Get 'em out!”

In the past two weeks, however, these interruptions have increasingly eaten into Trump's speaking time and become more violent. Police in North Carolina charged the Trump supporter who punched the protester with assault.


The man, whose motives remain unclear, was charged with disorderly conduct and inciting panic by the Dayton Police Department, according to an official familiar with the matter. — Photograph: William Philpott/Reuters.
The man, whose motives remain unclear, was charged with disorderly conduct and inciting panic by the Dayton Police Department,
according to an official familiar with the matter. — Photograph: William Philpott/Reuters.


Asked about the criticism from other Republican candidates following the Chicago cancellation, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski mocked them: “Do they have protesters at their events? Do they have any people at their events?”

Lewandowski — who has been accused of and denies manhandling a female reporter at a Trump event — also said his candidate does not plan to do anything to calm his supporters.

“The American people are angry,” Lewandowski said. “They're upset at the way this country has been run. They're upset that this country is being taken advantage of by every other country in the world. And they're tired of not being proud to be Americans.”

As for Trump, he insisted that his supporters had been blameless in Chicago. He accused backers of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a Vermont senator and democratic socialist, of inciting the violence.

“My people are nice,” Trump said at his rally in Dayton. “Thousands and thousands of people, they caused no problem. They were taunted, they were harassed by these other people. These other people, by the way, some represent Bernie, our communist. … He should really get up and say to his people: ‘Stop. Stop’.”

Sanders retorted in a statement issued by his campaign: “As is the case virtually every day, Donald Trump is showing the American people that he is a pathological liar. Obviously, while I appreciate that we had supporters at Trump's rally in Chicago, our campaign did not organize the protests.”

“What caused the protests at Trump's rally is a candidate that has promoted hatred and division against Latinos, Muslims, women, and people with disabilities, and his birther attacks against the legitimacy of President Obama,” Sanders added, referring to Trump's false assertions that Obama was born in Africa and was therefore disqualified to be president.

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton also jumped into the fray.

“The ugly, divisive rhetoric we are hearing from Donald Trump and the encouragement of violence and aggression is wrong, and it's dangerous,” she said at an appearance in St. Louis. “If you play with matches, you're going to start a fire you can't control.”

The decision to cancel the rally on Friday was made by the Trump campaign, not the agencies charged with keeping him safe.

Trump requested Secret Service protection in October and was granted a detail of agents in early November.

Government officials have said their role is only to protect Trump and that any decisions to throw out the hecklers and protesters at Trump rallies are made by the campaign or groups hosting the events. Secret Service agents intervene only, officials have said, if someone verbally or physically threatens the candidate.

After the man tried to breach the barricades around Trump on Saturday, he was charged with disorderly conduct and inciting panic by the Dayton police, according to an official familiar with the matter. Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer identified the man as Thomas Dimassimo of Fairborn, Ohio, the Associated Press reported.

“I was ready for him, but it's much easier if the cops do it, don't we agree?” Trump said after the man was hauled away. “And to think I had such an easy life! What do I need this for, right?”


Karen Tumulty reported from Washington. Jenna Johnson reported from Chicago and Jose A. DelReal from Dayton. Also contributing to this story were Ed O'Keefe in Largo, Florida; Abby Phillip in St. Louis; Philip Rucker in Cleveland; Jim Tankersley in Sharonville, Ohio; Juliet Eilperin and David Weigel in Washington; and Katie Zezima in Ballwin, Missouri.

• Karen Tumulty is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post, where she received the 2013 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.

• Jenna Johnson is a political reporter who is covering the 2016 presidential campaign.

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Trump ‘looking into’ paying legal fees
for man charged with assault at rally


By MICHELLE YE HEE LEE | 11:37AM EDT - Sunday, March 13, 2016

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REPUBLICAN front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has told his staff to “look into” paying legal fees for a man who allegedly sucker-punched a protester at a recent rally, standing behind his controversial promise to help defend supporters who stand up to protesters.

Videos surfaced last week showing a white, 78-year-old Trump supporter apparently striking a black 26-year-old protester at a March 9th rally. The elderly man has been charged with assault and disorderly conduct and is due in court next month.

Trump had promised his supporters that he would pay the legal fees of those who fight back against protesters, saying at a February rally: “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell out of them. I promise you, I will pay for their legal fees.” Those attributing increased violence at Trump's rallies to his rhetoric point to this comment as an example of the Republican front-runner encouraging — even condoning — violence.

When asked on Sunday during NBC's “Meet the Press” whether he might pay for the elderly man's legal fees if needed, Trump said: “I've actually instructed my people to look into it, yes.”

Trump said he wants more details about the incident and wants to view the full tape, noting that footage showed the younger man extending a middle finger to the audience before being punched in the face. “That was a "terrible thing to do in front of somebody that, frankly, wants to see America made great again,” he said. The elderly man “got carried away, he was 78 years old, he obviously loves his country, and maybe he doesn't like seeing what's happening to the country,” Trump said.

“I'm going to see, you know, what was behind this because it was a strange event,” the Republican front-runner said. “But from what I heard, there was a lot of taunting and a certain finger was placed in the air. Not nice. Again, I don't condone the violence. I don't condone what he did. But you know what, not nice for the other side, either.”


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Donald Trump can't keep blaming other
people for the anger of his campaign


By CHRIS CILLIZZA | 11:49AM EDT - Sunday, March 13, 2016



KNOW that old cliche “Where there's smoke, there's fire?”

That has been running through my head for the past couple of days, watching violence flare on the campaign trail in and around Donald Trump's rallies. Trump, for his part, insists that he is blameless. “I don't accept responsibility,” he told NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday morning when asked about the tenor of his rallies and the skirmishes between protesters and supporters that have become increasingly commonplace.

In Trump's version of events, the recent upswing in confrontation is to be blamed on professional “disrupters” who come to his rallies looking for fights. As for the vitriol coming from his supporters? “The reason there's tension at my rallies is that these people are sick and tired of this country being run by incompetent people that don't know what they're doing on trade deals, with U.S. jobs being shipped out to other countries,” Trump told Todd on Sunday.

Don't blame Trump, Trump says.

This is a very familiar pattern of logic for anyone who has watched this Trump campaign closely.

It's not him saying that Mexico is sending rapists and criminals into the United States. It's the Border Patrol officers he has talked to.

It's not him saying that Muslims were on rooftops in New Jersey celebrating on September 11th, 2001. It's the “many” news reports of the incidents he saw.

It's not him refusing to denounce the KKK. It's the media misconstruing his comments about a group he's never even heard of.

It's not him saying that Carly Fiorina isn't attractive enough to be president. It's people misunderstanding that when he commented on Fiorina's “face” he was talking about her “persona”.

It's not him saying that most white people are killed by blacks. He was just retweeting someone who said that.

It's not him professing admiration for a sentiment expressed by Benito Mussolini. It's someone else's tweet — and Trump just likes interesting quotes.

And, it's not him talking about genital size in a debate. He was merely responding to attacks on his manhood from Marco Rubio.

Sense a pattern? According to Trump, he is close to the controversy each time but is not the instigator of it.

Now, imagine your kid keeps getting into fights at school. He keeps saying that it's because other kids started it and that it's all just one big misunderstanding. You can't figure out any pattern. It's not the same group of kids he's fighting with. There's no obvious single issue that is causing the fights. At some point — if you are paying attention — you realize that the common thread is your kid. If he's involved in five fights with five different kids, it's unlikely that (a) he has no culpability in the whole thing and (b) it's all just a misunderstanding.

Trump seems to want credit for starting a movement — and, make no mistake, that is what he's done — but simultaneously wants to avoid any blame for the uglier elements that have been nurtured by that movement.

Yes, people are angry at the state of the country. They're angry that politicians have told them one thing and done another for way too long. They're angry at stagnant wages. They're angry at the political-correctness police who, they believe, are waiting around every corner to shame you for saying what you believe.

And, yes, Trump understood this at an intuitive level very early on in the 2016 campaign and has channeled much of that anger to his great political benefit.

But the idea that he bears zero blame for the environment he creates at his rallies is ludicrous. It's like saying, “Sure, I yelled fire in a crowded movie theater but I wasn't the one who got up and trampled everyone trying to get to the exits.”

Anger is one of the most powerful emotions in politics — and in life. Trump has ridden that anger — his own and that of his supporters — to the front of the Republican pack. On Tuesday night, if he wins primaries in Ohio and Florida, he will effectively be the Republican nominee.

With that coveted perch comes responsibility. If you are running for the highest and most powerful office in the country, you don't get to pass the blame buck onto whoever looks to be the most appealing scapegoat. (Trump's scapegoat of choice is the media.)

What Trump has accomplished as a political candidate is absolutely unparalleled. To go from zero to the likely Republican nominee in the space of nine months is unprecedented in modern times. But, he had done so by, at times, stoking the anger and fear of his supporters rather than allaying them. That is a fact obvious to everyone other than Trump.

Trump has promised that his demeanor will change if he is the Republican nominee, that he will be less angry, less confrontational, more presidential. That needs to start happening. Now.


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If the left dont like free speech they should STFU and move to CUBA

Bernie's 'thugs' were behind violence that forced rally to be called off, claims Trump hours after cancelled speech

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The Washington Post controled by by the elite american insider mafia controlers and all the stuff they are saying about trump is bullshit only fools would believe anything they say.

Donald Trump can't keep blaming other
people for the anger of his campaign

yes true it's because trumps people are robots and trump forgot to get new batteries for his remote control system to stop his supporters from defending themselves against those lefty bernie sanders agitators

we need to believe the mainstream media because we need them to tell us all what reality we should believe

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and all those bernie sanders supporters that attacked trumps meeting were the good guys lol

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What a load of shit....Trump has been pouring petrol, then lighting matches ever since he began campaigning.

He is now reaping what he has sowed.

Trump is a liar. He has always been a liar. And he will always BE a liar.

The sooner somebody sights a sniper's rifle on his head and pulls the trigger, the better it will be for America and the world.

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Trump blames Sanders's supporters for trouble at his rallies

By SEAN SULLIVAN, JOHN WAGNER and MARK GUARINO | 9:37PM EDT - Sunday, March 13, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at the Savannah Center in West Chester, Ohio on Sunday. — Photograph: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at the Savannah Center in West Chester, Ohio on Sunday.
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THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA — A defiant Donald Trump touched off a political maelstrom Sunday that didn't spare his Republican and Democratic presidential rivals, as he threatened to encourage supporters to stage protests against Senator Bernie Sanders and drew escalating criticism from GOP opponents desperate to slow him ahead of Tuesday's crucial nominating contests.

The mogul's impact on both political parties illustrated the unusual position he occupies in the race. His unpredictable and combative approach will face its biggest test yet this week in five primaries that offer him an opportunity to effectively put away his Republican competition.

A new round of public polling showed Trump leading comfortably in Florida, Tuesday’s biggest prize.

In Ohio, another delegate-rich state that is seen by many Trump critics as perhaps the last best chance to force the front-runner into a lengthy battle for the nomination, surveys showed he was in a close fight with the state's governor, John Kasich. Trump scrapped plans for a Monday-evening rally in Florida and replaced it with one in Ohio.

The other primaries on Tuesday are in Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina.

There will also be Republican caucuses in the Northern Marianas.

Here in Florida, Senator Marco Rubio made a last-minute push to avoid a humiliating loss in his home state that supporters fear would end his campaign. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas campaigned in North Carolina and Ohio, attempting to position himself to add to his delegate total, which is second only to Trump's. Kasich, who has yet to win a state, made an urgent push on his home turf.

On the Democratic side, front-runner Hillary Clinton tried to put more distance between herself and Sanders, who won an upset victory in Michigan last week.

Throughout it all, the presence of Trump — who has come under heavy criticism from opponents who have bluntly accused him of fueling divisive discourse and violent clashes at his events — could be felt.

The billionaire businessman did not bow to calls to soften his aggressive tone. Instead, he lashed out at his Republican competition and blamed Sanders's supporters for forcing him to cancel a rally set for Friday in Chicago, where violence spilled onto the streets.

“Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disrupters aren't told to go to my events,” Trump said on Twitter.

“Be careful Bernie, or my supporters will go to yours!”

In a campaign stop in Bloomington, Illinois, Trump said there would be a double standard if his backers disrupted rallies for the senator from Vermont.

“They'll lock you up for the rest of your life and give you the electric chair and say, ‘Oh, poor Bernie, poor Bernie, he had to endure this!’” Trump said. “With us, they don't say that.”

At his hour-long event, Trump also called Cruz a “liar” and said Kasich was weak on trade.

Further inflaming tensions, Trump said on NBC's “Meet the Press that he has instructed his staff to look into paying legal fees for a 78-year-old white man who has been charged with sucker-punching a 26-year-old black protester at one of the real estate magnate's recent rallies.

Trump said in an interview on CNN's “State of the Union” that he didn't consider his “Be careful Bernie” social-media post to be a threat.

He repeated his charge that Sanders had lied when he said his campaign wasn't behind an influx of protesters that led to the cancellation of the planned Chicago rally.

Appearing on the same program, Sanders said Trump was not being truthful.

“This man cannot stop lying,” Sanders said. He said that he has many supporters and that while some may attend Trump events as a form of peaceful protest, they are not doing so at his direction.

“I would hope my supporters will not disrupt meetings,” Sanders said. “We have millions of supporters, and people do things. But it was not our campaign.”

He blamed Trump for creating the environment that has led to violence at his rallies.

“This is a man who keeps implying violence, and then you end up getting what you see,” Sanders said.

Trump's three GOP competitors issued sharp denunciations of their own.

“Do we really want to live in a country where Americans hate each other? Where people are incapable of talking through an issue?” Rubio asked a crowd gathered at a sprawling retiree community here in The Villages. Without naming Trump, Rubio said the country is seeing “images we have not seen since the 1960s”.

Campaigning in Strongsville, Ohio, Kasich said of Trump: “Well, look, I can't control him. I've already said that what he's done is create a toxic atmosphere. I just do what I can do.”

Speaking at an event put on by his super PAC in Concord, North Carolina, Cruz continued to argue that he is the only candidate who can beat Trump, urging people who support other candidates to throw their votes behind him to ensure Trump doesn’t get the nomination.

“Come join us, come on in, the water’s fine,” he said.

Surveys from NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and Marist College, as well as polling from CBS News and YouGov, showed Trump leading Rubio by double digits in Florida and Cruz threatening Rubio for second place. Rubio has campaigned before small crowds in recent days.

In Ohio, new polling showed Trump and Kasich in tight competition at the head of the pack. Ohio will award 66 delegates to the victor there. Florida will give all 99 delegates to its winner.

For the Democrats, the five contests that will be held Tuesday could be key to shaping the rest of the race.

Clinton leads in the delegate chase and is looking to pull away. Sanders is aiming to build on his come-from-behind victory in Michigan with strong showings in the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois and Ohio.

Clinton has held wide leads in polling in Florida, and Sanders is angling to keep it close in North Carolina.

A day after the former secretary of state lambasted Trump's rhetoric as “political arson”, she focused her message for much of Sunday on jobs and trade as she campaigned in Ohio. But Sunday evening at a Democratic dinner in Columbus, she unleashed her most critical assessment of the real estate mogul yet, accusing him of doing anything to get votes.

“Donald Trump is running a cynical campaign of hate and fear, for one reason: to get votes,” she said. “He's encouraging violence and chaos to get votes. He is pitting Americans against each other to get votes.”

In addition to his back-and-forth with Trump, Sanders took aim at Clinton during his rally in the St. Louis area, outlining what he said are “strong” differences on trade, accepting donations from Wall Street, and the Iraq War.

Sanders's advisers argue that after Tuesday, the map becomes more favorable to him, with several Western states they argue they can win, including Arizona, which votes March 22nd.

But to remain viable in a race where Clinton already boasts a commanding lead in the delegate count, Sanders needs to post some strong showings Tuesday.

In Bloomington, Trump's speech was interrupted several times by protesters, some of whom tore up campaign signs. Each time, Trump ordered them to leave.

“You see where they put themselves? Right in front of the cameras,” he said as one protester was escorted out.

“That's all they care about,” Trump said. “Disgusting.”

Mary Jane Nelson, a Rubio backer who came to see the senator from Florida at The Villages, summed up her view of Trump succinctly: “I find him very scary.”


John Wagner reported from St. Louis, Mark Guarino from Bloomington, Illinois.

Jose A. DelReal in West Chester, Ohio; David Weigel in Strongsville, Ohio; Abby Phillip in Chicago; Katie Zezima in Concord, North Carolina; and Michelle Ye Hee Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

• Sean Sullivan has covered national politics for The Washington Post since 2012.

• John Wagner is a political reporter covering the race for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

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What a load of shit....Trump has been pouring petrol, then lighting matches ever since he began campaigning.

He is now reaping what he has sowed.

Trump is a liar. He has always been a liar. And he will always BE a liar.

The sooner somebody sights a sniper's rifle on his head and pulls the trigger, the better it will be for America and the world.

Trump is white-trash of the worst kind!


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Donald Trump is a LYING HYPOCRITE.

He talks big about keeping jobs in America, but what he is REALLY saying is, “I make an exception for my OWN businesses!”

No matter....white-trash rightie Americans are TOO DUMB to comprehend that Trump is bullshitting them.

The country is full of STUPID people and The Donald is laughing at the retarded suckers.




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Trump has profited from foreign labor he says is killing U.S. jobs

By ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN and TOM HAMBURGER | 10:19PM EDT - Sunday, March 13, 2016

Donald Trump’s line of clothing and accessories is made in Bangladesh, China, Honduras and other low-wage countries. — Photograph: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post.
Donald Trump’s line of clothing and accessories is made in Bangladesh, China, Honduras and other low-wage countries.
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DONALD TRUMP wanted to market a line of men's clothing that would bear his name.

He told people working with him to help find a company known for producing quality merchandise on a mass scale. In the end, Trump signed on with Phillips-Van Heusen, a manufacturer of affordable shirts produced in factories in 85 countries.

The 2004 deal — one of the first of many merchandise-licensing arrangements in which Trump attached his name to products made by foreign workers and sold in the United States — is relevant today as the billionaire businessman wages a populist presidential campaign in which he accuses companies of killing U.S. jobs by moving manufacturing overseas to take advantage of cheap labor and lax workplace regulations.

Documents and interviews reveal the personal role Trump played in negotiating the deal. Participants said they could not recall him expressing a preference that products be made in the United States.

“Finding the biggest company with the best practices is what was important to him,” said Jeff Danzer, who was vice president of the company hired by Trump to broker the deal. “Finding a company that made in America was never something that was specified.”

Today, Donald J. Trump Collection shirts — as well as eye­glasses, perfume, cuff links and suits — are made in Bangladesh, China, Honduras and other low-wage countries.

Trump's daughter Ivanka, a vice president at his company and frequent campaign surrogate, markets hundreds of additional products under her own line of jewelry and clothing. Many are made in China.

The contradiction between Trump's business decisions and his political agenda illustrates the sometimes-awkward transformation of an aggressive, profit-oriented marketer and real estate mogul into a firebrand champion of the struggling working class.

When Trump began cutting licensing deals more than a decade ago, many business executives and politicians in both parties argued that free trade and overseas production were beneficial to everyone — a needed boost for poor, developing economies abroad and a path to cheap goods for middle-class consumers in the United States.

Trump, though, has emerged as the Republican presidential front-runner largely by tapping into growing anger among voters who think free-trade policies — such as the ones that have added to Trump's fortune — have devastated U.S. communities that have lost manufacturing jobs to Mexico, China and elsewhere.

Trump's rivals and critics say he is a hypocrite, enriching himself with overseas labor while blasting the practice for political gain.

Representatives for the Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment, and a spokesman for Ivanka Trump's product line declined to comment.

On the campaign trail, Trump has blasted Ford Motor Company for opening factories in Mexico, criticized a U.S. drug company that moved its headquarters offshore and said he will eat no more Oreo cookies because its maker, Nabisco, moved part of its production to Mexico.

When news broke three weeks ago that the air-conditioner maker Carrier was moving 1,400 jobs from a plant in Indianapolis to Monterrey, Mexico, Trump wrote on Facebook: “We cannot allow this to keep happening. It will NOT happen under my watch.”

Moreover, Trump has mentioned labor conditions overseas in support of his position that goods should be made in the United States, telling CNN last year that Chinese laborers are “paid a lot less and the standards are worse when it comes to the environment and health care and worker safety.”

During Thursday night's Republican candidates’ debate, Trump said he knows how to fix the policies that encourage outsourcing because he spent so many years taking advantage of them.

“Nobody knows it better than me,” he said. “I'm a businessman. These are laws. These are regulations. These are rules. We're allowed to do it…. But I'm the one that knows how to change it.”

Trump's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination have tried — so far to no avail — to undercut his popularity among working-class voters by portraying him as someone who rampantly outsources jobs. A similar line of attack proved effective four years ago against then-GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

Senator Marco Rubio (Republican-Florida) called on Trump during a March 3rd debate to announce that “all the Donald Trump clothing will no longer be made in China and in Mexico but will be made here in the United States.” Trump dismissed the notion, arguing that China's currency policies “make it impossible for clothing makers in this country to do clothing in this country.”


This shirt in Donald Trump's clothing line was made in Bangladesh. — Photograph: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post.
This shirt in Donald Trump's clothing line was made in Bangladesh.
 — Photograph: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post.


Critics say Trump is being disingenuous.

Robert Lawrence, a professor of trade and investment at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, has reviewed Trump-brand products for sale online and found that a large percentage are imported.

For example, the website selling Ivanka Trump's merchandise line links to 838 products — 628 of them imported. Of those, 354 are from China, a country that Donald Trump often says takes advantage of the large U.S. trade deficit.

Ivanka Trump's products also were marketed alongside her father's on the Trump Organization website. But amid criticism last week of the family's outsourcing practices, his daughter's page was removed.

“I don't decry what he and his daughter do,” said Lawrence, who served on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton. “But at the same time, for him to claim that this is somehow immoral and go after companies that have relocated manufacturing when he has done the same puts him in conflict with his own rhetoric.”

Lawrence said that some of Trump's proposals could hurt his own businesses. His proposed 15 percent tax on companies that outsource jobs, or a proposed 20 percent tax for importing goods, could result in higher prices for consumers buying Trump-brand products. Recently, he has discussed placing a 45 percent tariff on Chinese imports.

Lawrence estimated that Trump's $250 suits made in China would suddenly be priced in the United States at $350 or more. “The impact would be staggering and widespread,” he said.

Michael Strain, deputy director of economic policy studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said that Trump's trade rhetoric is “deeply irresponsible” because isolating the U.S. economy could devastate businesses and hurt consumers.

Trump struck the 2004 deal with Phillips-Van Heusen, which owns Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, at a critical moment for his brand — the same year his hit show “The Apprentice” premiered.

Several people engaged in the negotiations said that Trump was personally involved. None could remember him specifically mentioning the U.S.-worker issue.

“If he's concerned about jobs in the United States, it should have been a question he asked,” said one person involved in the deal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid offending Trump. “And I can tell you that in none of the meetings did it come up.”

The shirtmaker used factories in some countries, including Bangladesh, China and Honduras, where labor violations such as forced overtime are common, according to Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a group that monitors factory conditions.

The agreement signed by Trump and Phillips-Van Heusen placed no restrictions on where Trump dress shirts, tuxedo shirts and neckwear could be manufactured.

Phillips-Van Heusen agreed that any products “manufactured by it or for it anywhere in the world” would not be made using child labor “as defined in the relevant jurisdiction of production,” according to the contract, which was filed in a later lawsuit in New York between the broker company and Trump.

Mark Weber, who was chief executive of Phillips-Van Heusen at the time, said the company employed a “global sourcing network” to produce clothes for Trump's line and other brands.

Weber described Trump as a master negotiator who correctly predicted the brand would be a smashing success and persuaded a wary Phillips-Van Heusen to sign on.

In a deposition filed in the New York lawsuit, Trump recalled that the massive clothier had been eager for the deal. “They were very hot to make a deal with us,” Trump said, according to a deposition transcript provided to The Washington Post by Jay Itkowitz, an attorney for the broker company that unsuccessfully sued Trump.

Weber, who is supporting Trump for president, said he concluded at the time that Trump was a patriot.

“He had a clear preference to support American values and what was good for America,” Weber said.

Asked whether Trump ever specifically expressed a preference for items bearing his name to be made in America, Weber said, “You're asking me for specifics that are very hard to recollect.”

Weber said that at the time, the industry's widely shared goals — promoted through overseas production — were to improve standards of living for workers in the Third World and to offer U.S. consumers lower prices.

“That was a time when America was very much in favor of building a better life for the people of our hemisphere,” he said, referring to factories in Central America.

“While we care about Americans, we care about people all over the world, too,” Weber said.

He also said that Trump never attempted to require that products be made in the United States as part of the contract between the two companies.

“No one can tell us where to make our products,” said Weber, who left the company in 2006. “I have never signed a contract in my 40 years of experience where someone could tell me where to make my goods.”

After Trump drew scrutiny over the summer for disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants, Macy's, which sold his clothing line, announced it was ending its relationship with him. Phillips-Van Heusen, now called PVH Corporation, quickly followed suit, saying that its licensing deal with Trump would be unwound.

Dana Perlman, a spokeswoman for the company, said last week that it no longer manufactures Trump clothing. She declined to comment further.


Alice Crites contributed to this report.

• Rosalind Helderman is a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post.

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your a pink trash pussy racist and such an stupid idiot you cant seem to see the dirty tricks from the establishment they are playing stupid people like you
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« Reply #46 on: March 14, 2016, 09:00:32 pm »


And all the stupid white-trash rednecks fell for Donald Trump's “manufactured chaos” in Chicago....



from The Washington Post....

Donald Trump's Chicago scam

By JOE SCARBOROUGH | 11:31PM EDT - Sunday, March 13, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. — Photograph: Andrew Harnik/Associated Press.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. — Photograph: Andrew Harnik/Associated Press.

WE keep talking to ourselves. Constantly. Trying to make order out of chaos and sense out of the surreal. And this year, most doing the talking have gotten it wrong. Wrong about Trump. Wrong about Rubio. Wrong about Bernie. And now wrong about the road ahead.

What are we talking to ourselves about now on the Sunday shows, on cable news, in newspaper columns, in the blogosphere, on Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook? We are grimly warning the world that following Friday night's fracas in Chicago, America faces a deepening divide that is tearing away at the fabric of this great land.

What mind-numbing nonsense.

Friday's freak show was as prepackaged as an re-run of “Celebrity Apprentice”. The only difference was that Donald Trump delivered his lines on the phone from a hotel room in the Windy City instead of on the set of his made-for-TV boardroom.

It was all a scam.

Has anyone noticed that Trump's campaign now regularly stages media events designed to eclipse any negative coverage that predictably follows Republican debates?

The February 25th debate in Houston where Marco Rubio delivered the campaign's most withering critique of Trump was followed the next morning with Chris Christie's headline-grabbing endorsement. That Friday press conference consumed all political coverage throughout the weekend and limited any fallout from the Fox debate to a hardy band of Trump deniers on Twitter.

Then last Thursday, Rubio delivered the debate performance of his life in Miami. But with Florida and Ohio five days away, the Trump campaign took no chances. They leaked the news of Ben Carson's coming endorsement before the debate even began and held another Friday morning press conference to showcase it. But Carson was just the warm-up act.

When news broke early on Friday night that the Chicago rally had been cancelled because of safety fears, you didn't need to be a programming genius to predict what would be jamming America's airwaves for the rest of the night. And for the next four hours, the candidate who is promising to weaken libel laws spoke on cable news channels about how his First Amendment rights were being violated. He was doing all of this while reaching a far larger audience than he could have ever done while actually speaking at a rally.

As has been the case throughout the entire 2016 cycle, Trump thrives on the political chaos that he helps creates. If it is true that opportunity and chaos are the same word in Mandarin, Trump should stamp that word on a poster and sell it at his next scheduled event. For the Manhattan billionaire, manufactured chaos is just as profitable for his brand as Paris Hilton’s sex tape was for hers.

But now important voices warn us that America is on the brink of chaos despite the fact that Friday's spectacle in Chicago was more reality show than political revolt.

The rally was cancelled, we were told, because law enforcement officials consulted with the campaign and concluded that scrubbing the event was in the best interest of public safety. One problem: The Chicago Police Department said that never actually happened.

And if you find that curious, perhaps you will find it even more interesting that a political campaign whose security has been so stifling as to draw angry comparisons to fascist regimes would plan a key rally for Trump in the middle of a racially diverse urban campus. The fact that that campus sits in the middle of a city that is so Democratic that it has not elected a Republican mayor since before Franklin Roosevelt was sworn in as president makes the venue's selection even more bizarre.

Following the rally's cancellation, Trump supporters expressed surprise at the number of protesters that were filling the lines and streaming into the event on a campus that is 25 percent Hispanic, 25 percent Asian and 8 percent black. William Daley, the son of former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, did not share that surprise. “Whoever picked that location knew what they were doing as far as poking that sleeping dog there,” Daley suggested to The New York Times and that the venue was staged for the purpose of provoking protests that would energize Trump's own supporters.

It would also land Trump on cable news channels throughout the night, talking nonstop over endless loops of skirmishes that paled in comparison to rowdy celebrations that often explode in American cities after sports championships. Yet everyone got sucked into the political sideshow. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio's brief appearances on TV during the rolling cable news coverage only made their own candidacies seem smaller under the glare of Donald's Big Tent Show.

It was all a far cry from the kind of political riots that Americans saw during the 1968 Democratic Convention. Those riots flickered across Americans' television screens while the nation was still absorbing the shock waves of violent convulsions that had ripped across the country during the first half of that horrifying year. The Tet Offensive, launched in January, led to February's record number of Americans killed in Vietnam, over 500 hundred in one week alone. In March, Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek re-election after being shocked in New Hampshire's primary by anti-war crusader Eugene McCarthy. The next month, dozens of cities went up in flames following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Eight weeks later, Bobby Kennedy was gunned down in California after winning that state's Democratic primary.

As Mayor Daley's city went under siege on the night of August 28th, Americans were more divided politically, racially and culturally than any time since the end of the Civil War a century earlier. Serving as backdrops to the Chicago riots were a bloody war, campus chaos, urban riots, murdered heroes and a 200-year-established order suddenly under siege.

America was at war with itself and for good reason. But Friday night's farce was a made-for-television event with a handful of Trump supporters squaring off against protesters offended by Trump's presence on their campus.

Unfortunately for his opponents, most of the protesters who appeared on camera during the night shouted profanities at cameras, intimidated others being interviewed by networks and played directly into the Republican frontrunner's hands. Fox News's John Roberts kept asking a stream of protesters why they were out in force against Trump and none could answer the question.

Perhaps they should have just used the New York developer's own words against him to explain why Friday's event took an ugly turn, like the time Trump said of a protester at a Las Vegas rally, “I'd like to punch him in the face.”

Or when he declared that “in the good old days,” protesters wouldn't show up “because they used to treat them very, very rough.”

Or when he told his audience to “Knock the crap out of them, would you?”

There was so much that could have been said but instead those protesting against Trump being interviewed on camera seemed to be about as shallow as the reality show routine of the man they love to hate. The difference, of course, is that Donald Trump wants to be the next president of the United States. But that will never happen unless the man who is about to lock down the GOP nomination drops his reality show routine, starts working on uniting his party and gets serious about the daunting task before him.

Mark me down as skeptical.


• Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, hosts the MSNBC show “Morning Joe”.

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The coordinated media attacks on trump means the elite are scared 
even trumps own party don't want him to win and they are willing to let hillary clinton win so they can keep their corrupt broken system  going which means more money and power to them.

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ORGANIZATIONS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS AND HIS OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE

The upper portion of this page is devoted to organizations that are funded directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute (OSI). The lower portion of the page focuses on organizations which do not receive direct funding from Soros and OSI, but which receive money from one or more groups that do get direct OSI funding.

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Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute

By Discover The Networks


Organizations that, in recent years, have received direct funding and assistance from George Soros and his Open Society Institute (OSI) include the following. (Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the "Groups" section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org):

Advancement Project: This organization works to organize "communities of color" into politically cohesive units while disseminating its leftist worldviews and values as broadly as possible by way of a sophisticated communications department.
Air America Radio: Now defunct, this was a self-identified "liberal" radio network.
All of Us or None: This organization seeks to change voting laws -- which vary from state to state -- so as to allow ex-inmates, parolees, and even current inmates to cast their ballots in political elections.
Alliance for Justice: Best known for its activism vis a vis the appointment of federal judges, this group consistently depicts Republican judicial nominees as "extremists."
America Coming Together: Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to coordinate and organize pro-Democrat voter-mobilization programs.
America Votes: Soros also played a major role in creating this group, whose get-out-the-vote campaigns targeted likely Democratic voters.
America's Voice: This open-borders group seeks to promote “comprehensive” immigration reform that includes a robust agenda in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens.
American Bar Association Commission on Immigration Policy: This organization "opposes laws that require employers and persons providing education, health care, or other social services to verify citizenship or immigration status."
American Bridge 21st Century: This Super PAC conducts opposition research designed to help Democratic political candidates defeat their Republican foes.
American Civil Liberties Union: This group opposes virtually all post-9/11 national security measures enacted by the U.S. government. It supports open borders, has rushed to the defense of suspected terrorists and their abettors, and appointed former New Left terrorist Bernardine Dohrn to its Advisory Board.
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: This Washington, DC-based think tank seeks to move American jurisprudence to the left by recruiting, indoctrinating, and mobilizing young law students, helping them acquire positions of power. It also provides leftist Democrats with a bully pulpit from which to denounce their political adversaries.
American Family Voices: This group creates and coordinates media campaigns charging Republicans with wrongdoing.
American Federation of Teachers: After longtime AFT President Albert Shanker died in in 1997, he was succeeded by Sandra Feldman, who slowly “re-branded” the union, allying it with some of the most powerful left-wing elements of the New Labor Movement. When Feldman died in 2004, Edward McElroy took her place, followed by Randi Weingarten in 2008. All of them kept the union on the leftward course it had adopted in its post-Shanker period.
American Friends Service Committee: This group views the United States as the principal cause of human suffering around the world. As such, it favors America's unilateral disarmament, the dissolution of American borders, amnesty for illegal aliens, the abolition of the death penalty, and the repeal of the Patriot Act.
American Immigration Council: This non-profit organization is a prominent member of the open-borders lobby. It advocates expanded rights and amnesty for illegal aliens residing in the U.S.
American Immigration Law Foundation: This group supports amnesty for illegal aliens, on whose behalf it litigates against the U.S. government.
American Independent News Network: This organization promotes "impact journalism" that advocates progressive change.
American Institute for Social Justice: AISJ's goal is to produce skilled community organizers who can “transform poor communities” by agitating for increased government spending on city services, drug interdiction, crime prevention, housing, public-sector jobs, access to healthcare, and public schools.
American Library Association: This group has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration's War on Terror -- most particularly, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which it calls "a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users."
The American Prospect, Inc.: This corporation trains and mentors young leftwing journalists, and organizes strategy meetings for leftist leaders.
Amnesty International: This organization directs a grossly disproportionate share of its criticism for human rights violations at the United States and Israel.
Applied Research Center: Viewing the United States as a nation where “structural racism” is deeply “embedded in the fabric of society,” ARC seeks to "build a fair and equal society" by demanding “concrete change from our most powerful institutions."
Arab American Institute Foundation: The Arab American Institute denounces the purportedly widespread civil liberties violations directed against Arab Americans in the post-9/11 period, and characterizes Israel as a brutal oppressor of the Palestinian people.
Aspen Institute: This organization promotes radical environmentalism and views America as a nation plagued by deep-seated “structural racism.”
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now: This group conducts voter mobilization drives on behalf of leftist Democrats. These initiatives have been notoriously marred by fraud and corruption.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center: This organization seeks to advance “a national progressive strategy” by means of ballot measures—state-level legislative proposals that pass successfully through a petition (“initiative”) process and are then voted upon by the public.
Bill of Rights Defense Committee: This group provides a detailed blueprint for activists interested in getting their local towns, cities, and even college campuses to publicly declare their opposition to the Patriot Act, and to designate themselves "Civil Liberties Safe Zones." The organization also came to the defense of self-described radical attorney Lynne Stewart, who was convicted in 2005 of providing material support for terrorism.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration: This organization seeks to create a unified movement for “social and economic justice” centered on black racial identity.
Blueprint North Carolina: This group seeks to “influence state policy in North Carolina so that residents of the state benefit from more progressive policies such as better access to health care, higher wages, more affordable housing, a safer, cleaner environment, and access to reproductive health services.”
Brennan Center for Justice: This think tank/legal activist group generates scholarly studies, mounts media campaigns, files amicus briefs, gives pro bono support to activists, and litigates test cases in pursuit of radical "change."
Brookings Institution: This organization has been involved with a variety of internationalist and state-sponsored programs, including one that aspires to facilitate the establishment of a U.N.-dominated world government. Brookings Fellows have also called for additional global collaboration on trade and banking; the expansion of the Kyoto Protocol; and nationalized health insurance for children. Nine Brookings economists signed a petitionopposing President Bush's tax cuts in 2003.
Campaign for America's Future: This group supports tax hikes, socialized medicine, and a dramatic expansion of social welfare programs.
Campaign for Better Health Care: This organization favors a single-payer, government-run, universal health care system.
Campaign for Youth Justice: This organization contends that “transferring juveniles to the adult criminal-justice system leads to higher rates of recidivism, puts incarcerated and detained youth at unnecessary risk, has little deterrence value, and does not increase public safety.”
Campus Progress: A project of the Soros-bankrolled Center for American Progress, this group seeks to "strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses, counter the growing influence of right-wing groups on campus, and empower new generations of progressive leaders."
Casa de Maryland: This organization aggressively lobbies legislators to vote in favor of policies that promote expanded rights, including amnesty, for illegal aliens currently residing in the United States.
Catalist: This is a for-profit political consultancy that seeks "to help progressive organizations realize measurable increases in civic participation and electoral success by building and operating a robust national voter database of every voting-age American."
Catholics for Choice: This nominally Catholic organization supports women's right to abortion-on-demand.
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good: This political nonprofit group is dedicated to generating support from the Catholic community for leftwing candidates, causes, and legislation.
Center for American Progress: This leftist think tank is headed by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, works closely with Hillary Clinton, and employs numerous former Clinton administration staffers. It is committed to "developing a long-term vision of a progressive America" and "providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals."
Center for Community Change: This group recruits and trains activists to spearhead leftist "political issue campaigns." Promoting increased funding for social welfare programs by bringing "attention to major national issues related to poverty," the Center bases its training programs on the techniques taught by the famed radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
Center for Constitutional Rights: This pro-Castro organization is a core member of the open borders lobby, has opposed virtually all post-9/11 anti-terrorism measures by the U.S. government, and alleges that American injustice provokes acts of international terrorism.
Center for Economic and Policy Research: This group opposed welfare reform, supports "living wage" laws, rejects tax cuts, and consistently lauds the professed achievements of socialist regimes, most notably Venezuela.
Center for Reproductive Rights: CRR's mission is to guarantee safe, affordable contraception and abortion-on-demand for all women, including adolescents. The organization has filed state and federal lawsuits demanding access to taxpayer-funded abortions (through Medicaid) for low-income women.
Center for Responsible Lending: This organization was a major player in the subprime mortgage crisis. According to Phil Kerpen (vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity), CRL “sh[ook] down and harass[ed] banks into making bad loans to unqualified borrowers.” Moreover, CRL negotiated a contract enabling it to operate as a conduit of high-risk loans to Fannie Mae.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Reasoning from the premise that tax cuts generally help only the wealthy, this organization advocates greater tax expenditures on social welfare programs for low earners.
Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS): Aiming to redistribute wealth by way of higher taxes imposed on those whose incomes are above average, COWS contends that "it is important that state government be able to harness fair contribution from all parts of society – including corporations and the wealthy."
Change America Now: Formed in December 2006, Change America Now describes itself as "an independent political organization created to educate citizens on the failed policies of the Republican Congress and to contrast that record of failure with the promise offered by a Democratic agenda."
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: This group litigates and brings ethics charges against "government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests" and "betray the public trust." Almost all of its targets are Republicans.
Coalition for an International Criminal Court: This group seeks to subordinate American criminal-justice procedures to those of an international court.
Common Cause: This organization aims to bring about campaign-finance reform, pursue media reform resembling the Fairness Doctrine, and cut military budgets in favor of increased social-welfare and environmental spending.
Constitution Project: This organization seeks to challenge the legality of military commissions; end the detainment of "enemy combatants”; condemn government surveillance of terrorists; and limit the President's executive privileges.
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund: Defenders of Wildlife opposes oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It condemns logging, ranching, mining, and even the use of recreational motorized vehicles as activities that are destructive to the environment.
Democracy Alliance: This self-described "liberal organization" aims to raise $200 million to develop a funding clearinghouse for leftist groups. Soros is a major donor to this group.
Democracy 21: This group is a staunch supporter of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act.
Democracy Now!: Democracy Now! was created in 1996 by WBAI radio news director Amy Goodman and four partners to provide "perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media," i.e., the views of radical and foreign journalists, left and labor activists, and ideological foes of capitalism.
Democratic Justice Fund: DJF opposes the Patriot Act and most efforts to restrict or regulate immigration into the United States -- particularly from countries designated by the State Department as "terrorist nations."
Democratic Party: Soros' funding activities are devoted largely to helping the Democratic Party solidify its power base. In a November 2003 interview, Soros stated that defeating President Bush in 2004 "is the central focus of my life" ... "a matter of life and death." He pledged to raise $75 million to defeat Bush, and personally donated nearly a third of that amount to anti-Bush organizations. "America under Bush," he said, "is a danger to the world, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is."
Demos: This organization lobbies federal and state policymakers to “addres the economic insecurity and inequality that characterize American society today”; promotes “ideas for reducing gaps in wealth, income and political influence”; and favors tax hikes for the wealthy.
Drum Major Institute: This group describes itself as “a non-partisan, non-profit think tank generating the ideas that fuel the progressive movement,” with the ultimate aim of persuading “policymakers and opinion-leaders” to take steps that advance its vision of “social and economic justice.”
Earthjustice: This group seeks to place severe restrictions on how U.S. land and waterways may be used. It opposes most mining and logging initiatives, commercial fishing businesses, and the use of motorized vehicles in undeveloped areas.
Economic Policy Institute: This organization believes that “government must play an active role in protecting the economically vulnerable, ensuring equal opportunity, and improving the well-being of all Americans.”
Electronic Privacy Information Center: This organization has been a harsh critic of the USA PATRIOT Act and has joined the American Civil Liberties Union in litigating two cases calling for the FBI "to publicly release or account for thousands of pages of information about the government's use of PATRIOT Act powers."
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights: Co-founded by the revolutionary communist Van Jones, this anti-poverty organization claims that “decades of disinvestment in our cities” -- compounded by “excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration” -- have “led to despair and homelessness.”
EMILY's List: This political network raises money for Democratic female political candidates who support unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
Energy Action Coalition: Founded in 2004, this group describes itself as “a coalition of 50 youth-led environmental and social justice groups working together to build the youth clean energy and climate movement.” For EAC, this means “dismantling oppression” according to its principles of environmental justice.
Equal Justice USA: This group claims that America's criminal-justice system is plagued by “significant race and class biases,” and thus seeks to promote major reforms.
Fair Immigration Reform Movement: This is the open-borders arm of the Center for Community Change.
Faithful America: This organization promotes the redistribution of wealth, an end to enhanced interrogation procedures vis a vis prisoners-of-war, the enactment of policies to combat global warming, and the creation of a government-run heath care system.
Feminist Majority: Characterizing the United States as an inherently sexist nation, this group focuses on "advancing the legal, social and political equality of women with men, countering the backlash to women's advancement, and recruiting and training young feminists to encourage future leadership for the feminist movement in the United States."
Four Freedoms Fund: This organization was designed to serve as a conduit through which large foundations could fund state-based open-borders organizations more flexibly and quickly.
Free Exchange on Campus: This organization was created solely to oppose the efforts of one individual, David Horowitz, and his campaign to have universities adopt an "Academic Bill of Rights," as well as todenounce Horowitz's 2006 book The Professors. Member organizations of FEC include Campus Progress (a project of the Center for American Progress); the American Association of University Professors; theAmerican Civil Liberties Union; People For the American Way; the United States Student Association; theCenter for Campus Free Speech; the American Library Association; Free Press; and the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups.
Free Press: This "media reform" organization has worked closely with many notable leftists and such organizations as Media Matters for America, Air America Radio, Global Exchange, Code Pink, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Mother Jones magazine, and Pacifica Radio.
Funding Exchange: Dedicated to the concept of philanthropy as a vehicle for social change, this organization pairs leftist donors and foundations with likeminded groups and activists who are dedicated to bringing about their own version of "progressive" change and social justice. Many of these grantees assume that American society is rife with racism, discrimination, exploitation, and inequity and needs to be overhauled via sustained education, activism, and social agitation.
Gamaliel Foundation: Modeling its tactics on those of the radical Sixties activist Saul Alinsky, this group takes a strong stand against current homeland security measures and immigration restrictions.
Gisha: Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement: This anti-Israel organization seeks to help Palestinians "exercise their right to freedom of movement."
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect: This group contends that when a state proves either unable or unwilling to protect civilians from mass atrocities occurring within its borders, it is the responsibility of the international community to intervene -- peacefully if possible, but with military force if necessary.
Global Exchange: Established in 1988 by pro-Castro radical Medea Benjamin, this group consistently condemns America's foreign policy, business practices, and domestic life. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Global Exchange advised Americans to examine "the root causes of resentment against the United States in the Arab world -- from our dependence on Middle Eastern oil to our biased policy towards Israel."
Grantmakers Without Borders: GWB tends to be very supportive of leftist environmental, anti-war, and civil rights groups. It is also generally hostile to capitalism, which it deems one of the chief "political, economic, and social systems" that give rise to a host of "social ills."
Green For All: This group was created by Van Jones to lobby for federal climate, energy, and economic policy initiatives.
Health Care for America Now: This group supports a “single payer” model where the federal government would be in charge of financing and administering the entire U.S. healthcare system.
Human Rights Campaign: The largest "lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender" lobbying group in the United States, HRC supports political candidates and legislation that will advance the LGBT agenda. Historically, HRC has most vigorously championed HIV/AIDS-related legislation, “hate crime” laws, the abrogation of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and the legalization of gay marriage.
Human Rights First: This group supports open borders and the rights of illegal aliens; charges that the Patriot Act severely erodes Americans' civil liberties; has filed amicus curiae briefs on behalf of terror suspect Jose Padilla; and deplores the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities.
Human Rights Watch: This group directs a disproportionate share of its criticism at the United States and Israel. It opposes the death penalty in all cases, and supports open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.
I'lam: This anti-Israel NGO seeks "to develop and empower the Arab media and to give voice to Palestinian issues."
Immigrant Defense Project: To advance the cause of illegal immigrants, the IDP provides immigration law backup support and counseling to New York defense attorneys and others who represent or assist immigrants in criminal justice and immigration systems, as well as to immigrants themselves.
Immigrant Legal Resource Center: This group claims to have helped gain amnesty for some three million illegal aliens in the U.S., and in the 1980s was part of the sanctuary movement which sought to grant asylum to refugees from the failed Communist states of Central America.
Immigrant Workers Citizenship Project: This open-borders organization advocates mass immigration to the U.S.
Immigration Advocates Network: This alliance of immigrant-rights groups seeks  to “increase access to justice for low-income immigrants and strengthen the capacity of organizations serving them.”
Immigration Policy Center: IPC is an advocate of open borders and contends that the massive influx of illegal immigrants into America is due to U.S. government policy, since “the broken immigration system […] spurs unauthorized immigration in the first place.”
Independent Media Center: This Internet-based, news and events bulletin board represents an invariably leftist, anti-capitalist perspective and serves as a mouthpiece for anti-globalization/anti-America themes.
Independent Media Institute: IMI administers the SPIN Project (Strategic Press Information Network), which provides leftist organizations with "accessible and affordable strategic communications consulting, training, coaching, networking opportunities and concrete tools" to help them "achieve their social justice goals."
Institute for America's Future: IAF supports socialized medicine, increased government funding for education, and the creation of an infrastructure "to ensure that the voice of the progressive majority is heard."
Institute for New Economic Thinking: Seeking to create a new worldwide "economic paradigm," this organization is staffed by numerous individuals who favor government intervention in national economies, and who view capitalism as a flawed system.
Institute for Policy Studies: This think tank has long supported Communist and anti-American causes around the world. Viewing capitalism as a breeding ground for "unrestrained greed," IPS seeks to provide a corrective to "unrestrained markets and individualism." Professing an unquestioning faith in the righteousness of the United Nations, it aims to bring American foreign policy under UN control.
Institute for Public Accuracy: This anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Israel organization sponsored actor Sean Penn’s celebrated visit to Baghdad in 2002. It also sponsored visits to Iraq by Democratic Congressmen Nick Rahall and former Democrat Senator James Abourezk
Institute for Women's Policy Research: This group views the U.S. as a nation rife with discrimination against women, and publishes research to draw attention to this alleged state of affairs. It also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, stating that "access to abortion is essential to the economic well-being of women and girls."
International Crisis Group: One of this organization's leading figures is its Mideast Director, Robert Malley, who was President Bill Clinton's Special Assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs. His analysis of the Mideast conflict is markedly pro-Palestinian.
J Street: This anti-Israel group warns that Israel’s choice to take military action to stop Hamas' terrorist attacks “will prove counter-productive and only deepen the cycle of violence in the region”
Jewish Funds for Justice: This organization views government intervention and taxpayer funding as crucial components of enlightened social policy. It seeks to redistribute wealth from Jewish donors to low-income communities “to combat the root causes of domestic economic and social injustice.” By JFJ's reckoning, chief among those root causes are the inherently negative by-products of capitalism – most notably racism and “gross economic inequality.”
Joint Victory Campaign 2004: Founded by George Soros and Harold Ickes, this group was a major fundraising entity for Democrats during the 2004 election cycle. It collected contributions (including large amounts from Soros personally) and disbursed them to two other groups, America Coming Together and the Media Fund, which also worked on behalf of Democrats.
Justice at Stake: This coalition calls for judges to be appointed by nonpartisan, independent commissions in a process known as “merit selection,” rather than elected by the voting public.
LatinoJustice PRLDF: This organization supports bilingual education, the racial gerrymandering of voting districts, and expanded rights for illegal aliens.
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: This group views America as an unremittingly racist nation; uses the courts to mandate race-based affirmative action preferences in business and academia; has filed briefs against the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to limit the wholesale granting of green cards and to identify potential terrorists; condemns the Patriot Act; and calls on Americans to "recognize the contribution" of illegal aliens.
League of United Latin American Citizens: This group views America as a nation plagued by "an alarming increase in xenophobia and anti-Hispanic sentiment"; favors racial preferences; supports the legalization of illegal Hispanic aliens; opposes military surveillance of U.S. borders; opposes making English America's official language; favors open borders; and rejects anti-terrorism legislation like the Patriot Act.
League of Women Voters Education Fund: The League supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; supports "motor-voter" registration, which allows anyone with a driver's license to become a voter, regardless of citizenship status; and supports tax hikes and socialized medicine.
League of Young Voters: This organization seeks to “empowe[r] young people nationwide” to “participate in the democratic process and create progressive political change on the local, state and national level.”
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee: IRS records indicate that Soros's Open Society Institute made a September 2002 grant of $20,000 to this organization. Stewart was the criminal-defense attorney who was later convicted for abetting her client, the "blind sheik" Omar Abdel Rahman, in terrorist activities connected with his Islamic Group.
Machsom Watch: This organization describes itself as "a movement of Israeli women, peace activists from all sectors of Israeli society, who oppose the Israeli occupation and the denial of Palestinians' rights to move freely in their land."
MADRE: This international women's organization deems America the world's foremost violator of human rights. As such, it seeks to "communicat[e] the real-life impact of U.S. policies on women and families confronting violence, poverty and repression around the world," and to "demand alternatives to destructive U.S. policies." It also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: This group views the U.S. as a nation replete with racism and discrimination against blacks; seeks to establish an independent black nation in the southeastern United States; and demands reparations for slavery.
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition: This group calls for the expansion of civil rights and liberties for illegal aliens; laments that illegal aliens in America are commonly subjected to "worker exploitation"; supports tuition-assistance programs for illegal aliens attending college; and characterizes the Patriot Act as a "very troubling" assault on civil liberties.
Media Fund: Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to conceptualize, produce, and place political ads on television, radio, print, and the Internet.
Media Matters for America: This organization is a "web-based, not-for-profit … progressive research and information center" seeking to "systematically monitor a cross-section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation." The group works closely with the Soros-backed Center for American Progress, and is heavily funded by Democracy Alliance, of which Soros is a major financier.
Mercy Corps: Vis a vis the Arab-Israeli conflict, Mercy Corps places all blame for Palestinian poverty and suffering directly on Israel.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund: This group advocates open borders, free college tuition for illegal aliens, lowered educational standards to accommodate Hispanics, and voting rights for criminals. In MALDEF's view, supporters of making English the official language of the United States are "motivated by racism and anti-immigrant sentiments," while advocates of sanctions against employers reliant on illegal labor seek to discriminate against "brown-skinned people."
Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein, PC: This influential defender of Big Labor is headed by Democrat operativeHarold Ickes.
Midwest Academy: This entity trains radical activists in the tactics of direct action, targeting, confrontation, and intimidation.
Migration Policy Institute: This group seeks to create "a North America with gradually disappearing border controls ... with permanent migration remaining at moderate levels."
Military Families Speak Out: This group ascribes the U.S. invasion of Iraq to American imperialism and lust for oil.
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment: This group is the rebranded Missouri branch of the now-defunct, pro-socialist, community organization ACORN.
MoveOn.org: This Web-based organization supports Democratic political candidates through fundraising, advertising, and get-out-the-vote drives.
Ms. Foundation for Women: This group laments what it views as the widespread and enduring flaws of American society: racism, sexism, homophobia, and the violation of civil rights and liberties. It focuses its philanthropy on groups that promote affirmative action for women, unfettered access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, amnesty for illegal aliens, and big government generally.
NARAL Pro-Choice America: This group supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, and works to elect pro-abortion Democrats.
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund: The NAACP supports racial preferences in employment and education, as well as the racial gerrymandering of voting districts. Underpinning its support for race preferences is the fervent belief that white racism in the United States remains an intractable, largely undiminished, phenomenon.
The Nation Institute: This nonprofit entity sponsors leftist conferences, fellowships, awards for radical activists, and journalism internships.
National Abortion Federation: This group opposes any restrictions on abortion at either the state or federal levels, and champions the introduction of unrestricted abortion into developing regions of the world.
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: This group was established in 1976 as the first "fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment."
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: This group depicts the United States as a nation in need of dramatic structural change financed by philanthropic organizations. It overwhelmingly promotes grant-makers and grantees with leftist agendas, while criticizing their conservative counterparts.
National Committee for Voting Integrity: This group opposes "the implementation of proof of citizenship and photo identification requirements for eligible electors in American elections as the means of assuring election integrity."
National Council for Research on Women: This group supports big government, high taxes, military spending cuts, increased social welfare spending, and the unrestricted right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
National Council of La Raza: This group lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education, stricter hate-crime laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens.
National Council of Women's Organizations: This group views the United States as a nation rife with injustice against girls and women. It advocates high levels of spending for social welfare programs, and supports race and gender preferences for minorities and women in business and academia.
National Immigration Forum: Opposing the enforcement of present immigration laws, this organization urges the American government to "legalize" en masse all illegal aliens currently in the United States who have no criminal records, and to dramatically increase the number of visas available for those wishing to migrate to the U.S. The Forum is particularly committed to opening the borders to unskilled, low-income workers, and immediately making them eligible for welfare and social service programs.
National Immigration Law Center: This group seeks to win unrestricted access to government-funded social welfare programs for illegal aliens.
National Lawyers Guild: This group promotes open borders; seeks to weaken America's intelligence-gathering agencies; condemns the Patriot Act as an assault on civil liberties; rejects capitalism as an unviable economic system; has rushed to the defense of convicted terrorists and their abettors; and generally opposes all U.S. foreign policy positions, just as it did during the Cold War when it sided with the Soviets.
National Organization for Women: This group advocates the unfettered right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; seeks to "eradicate racism, sexism and homophobia" from American society; attacks Christianity and traditional religious values; and supports gender-based preferences for women.
National Partnership for Women and Families: This organization supports race- and sex-based preferences in employment and education. It also advocates for the universal "right" of women to undergo taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand at any stage of pregnancy and for any reason.
National Priorities Project: This group supports government-mandated redistribution of wealth -- through higher taxes and greater expenditures on social welfare programs. NPP exhorts the government to redirect a significant portion of its military funding toward public education, universal health insurance, environmentalist projects, and welfare programs.
National Public Radio: Founded in 1970 with 90 public radio stations as charter members, NPR is today a loose network of more than 750 U.S. radio stations across the country, many of which are based on college and university campuses. (source)
National Security Archive Fund: This group collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to a degree that compromises American national security and the safety of intelligence agents.
National Women's Law Center: This group supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; lobbies against conservative judicial appointees; advocates increased welfare spending to help low-income mothers; and favors higher taxes for the purpose of generating more funds for such government programs as Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, foster care, health care, child-support enforcement, and student loans.
Natural Resources Defense Council: One of the most influential environmentalist lobbying groups in the United States, the Council claims a membership of one million people.
New America Foundation: This organization uses policy papers, media articles, books, and educational events to influence public opinion on such topics as healthcare, environmentalism, energy policy, the Mideast conflict, global governance, and much more.
New Israel Fund: This organization gives support to NGOs that regularly produce reports accusing Israel of human-rights violations and religious persecution.
NewsCorpWatch: A project of Media Matters For America, NewsCorpWatch was established with the help of a $1 million George Soros grant to Media Matters.
Pacifica Foundation: This entity owns and operates Pacifica Radio, awash from its birth with the socialist-Marxist rhetoric of class warfare and hatred for capitalism.
Peace and Security Funders Group: This is an association of more than 60 foundations that give money to leftist anti-war and environmentalist causes. Its members tend to depict America as the world's chief source of international conflict, environmental destruction, and economic inequalities.
Peace Development Fund: In PDF's calculus, the United States needs a massive overhaul of its social and economic institutions. "Recently," explains PDF, "we have witnessed the negative effects of neo-liberalism and the globalization of capitalism, the de-industrialization of the U.S. and the growing gap between the rich and poor ..."
People for the American Way: This group opposes the Patriot Act, anti-terrorism measures generally, and the allegedly growing influence of the "religious right."
People Improving Communities Through Organizing: This group uses Alinsky-style organizing tactics to advance the doctrines of the religious left.
Physicians for Human Rights: This group is selectively and disproportionately critical of the United States and Israel in its condemnations of human rights violations.
Physicians for Social Responsibility: This is an anti-U.S.-military organization that also embraces the tenets of radical environmentalism.
Planned Parenthood: This group is the largest abortion provider in the United States and advocates taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
Ploughshares Fund: This public grantmaking foundation opposes America's development of a missile defense system, and contributes to many organizations that are highly critical of U.S. foreign policies and military ventures.
Prepare New York: This group supported the proposed construction of a Muslim Community Center near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan – a project known as the Cordoba Initiative, headed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
Presidential Climate Action Project: PCAP's mission is to create a new 21st-century economy, completely carbon-free and based largely on renewable energy. A key advisor to the organization is the revolutionary communist Van Jones.
Prison Moratorium Project: This initiative was created in 1995 for the express purpose of working for the elimination of all prisons in the United States and the release of all inmates. Reasoning from the premise that incarceration is never an appropriate means of dealing with crime, it deems American society's inherent inequities the root of all criminal behavior.
Progressive Change Campaign Committee: This organization works “to elect bold progressive candidates to federal office and to help [them] and their campaigns save money, work smarter, and win more often.”
Progressive States Network: PSN's mission is to "pass progressive legislation in all fifty states by providing coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to forward-thinking state legislators."
Project Vote: This is the voter-mobilization arm of the Soros-funded ACORN. A persistent pattern of lawlessness and corruption has followed ACORN/Project Vote activities over the years.
Pro Publica: Claiming that “investigative journalism is at risk,” this group aims to remedy this lacuna in news publishing by “expos[ing] abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.”
Proteus Fund: This foundation directs its philanthropy toward a number of radical leftwing organizations.
Public Citizen Foundation: Public Citizen seeks increased government intervention and litigation against corporations -- a practice founded on the notion that American corporations, like the capitalist system of which they are a part, are inherently inclined toward corruption.
Public Justice Center: Viewing America as a nation rife with injustice and discrimination, this organization engages in legislative and policy advocacy to promote "systemic change for the disenfranchised."
Rebuild and Renew America Now (a.k.a. Unity '09): Spearheaded by MoveOn.org and overseen by longtime activist Heather Booth, this coalition was formed to facilitate the passage of President Obama’s "historic" $3.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010.
Res Publica: Seeking to advance far-left agendas in places all around the world, RP specializes in “E-advocacy,” or web-based movement-building.
Secretary of State Project: This project was launched in July 2006 as an independent "527" organization devoted to helping Democrats get elected to the office of Secretary of State in selected swing, or battleground, states.
Sentencing Project: Asserting that prison-sentencing patterns are racially discriminatory, this initiative advocates voting rights for felons.
Social Justice Leadership: This organization seeks to transform an allegedly inequitable America into a "just society" by means of "a renewed social-justice movement."
Shadow Democratic Party: This is an elaborate network of non-profit activist groups organized by George Soros and others to mobilize resources -- money, get-out-the-vote drives, campaign advertising, and policy iniatives -- to elect Democratic candidates and guide the Democratic Party towards the left.
Sojourners: This evangelical Christian ministry preaches radical leftwing politics. During the 1980s it championed Communist revolution in Central America and chastised U.S. policy-makers for their tendency "to assume the very worst about their Soviet counterparts." More recently, Sojourners has taken up the cause of environmental activism, opposed welfare reform as a "mean-spirited Republican agenda," and mounted a defense of affirmative action.
Southern Poverty Law Center: This organization monitors the activities of what it calls “hate groups” in the United States. It exaggerates the prevalence of white racism directed against American minorities.
State Voices: This coalition helps independent local activist groups in 22 states work collaboratively on a year-round basis, so as to maximize the impact of their efforts.
Talking Transition: This was a two-week project launched in early November 2013 to “help shape the transition” to City Hall for the newly elected Democratic mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio.
Think Progress: This Internet blog "pushes back, daily," by its own account, against its conservative targets, and seeks to transform "progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world."
Thunder Road Group: This political consultancy, in whose creation Soros had a hand, coordinates strategy for the Media Fund, America Coming Together, and America Votes.
Tides Foundation and Tides Center: Tides is a major funder of the radical Left.
U.S. Public Interest Research Group: This is an umbrella organization of student groups that support leftist agendas.
Universal Healthcare Action Network: This organization supports a single-payer health care system controlled by the federal government.
Urban Institute: This research organization favors socialized medicine, expansion of the federal welfare bureaucracy, and tax hikes for higher income-earners.
USAction Education Fund: USAction lists its priorities as: "fighting the right wing agenda"; "building grassroots political power"; winning "social, racial and economic justice for all"; supporting a system of taxpayer-funded socialized medicine; reversing "reckless tax cuts for millionaires and corporations" which shield the "wealthy" from paying their "fair share"; advocating for "pro-consumer and environmental regulation of corporate abuse"; "strengthening progressive voices on local, state and national issues"; and working to "register, educate and get out the vote ... [to] help progressives get elected at all levels of government."
Voto Latino: This group seeks to mobilize Latin-Americans to become registered voters and political activists.
We Are America Alliance: This coalition promotes “increased civic participation by immigrants” in the American political process.
Working Families Party: An outgrowth of the socialist New Party, WFP seeks to help push the Democratic Party toward the left.
World Organization Against Torture: This coalition works closely with groups that condemn Israeli security measures against Palestinian terrorism.
YWCA World Office, Switzerland: The YWCA opposes abstinence education; supports universal access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; and opposes school vouchers.

"Secondary" or "Indirect" Affiliates of the George Soros Network

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In addition to those organizations that are funded directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute (OSI), there are also numerous "secondary" or "indirect" affiliates of the Soros network. These include organizations which do not receive direct funding from Soros and OSI, but which are funded by one or more organizations that do.

Center for Progressive Leadership: Funded by the Soros-bankrolled Democracy Alliance, this anti-capitalist organization is dedicated to training future leftist political leaders.
John Adams Project:This project of the American Civil Liberties Union was accused of: (a) having hired investigators to photograph CIA officers thought to have been involved in enhanced interrogations of terror suspects detained in Guantanamo, and then (b) showing the photos to the attorneys of those suspects, some of whom were senior al-Qaeda operatives.
Moving Ideas Network (MIN): This coalition of more than 250 leftwing activist groups is a partner organization of the Soros-backed Center for American Progress. MIN was originally a project of the Soros-backed American Prospect and, as such, received indirect funding from the Open Society Institute. In early 2006, The American Prospect relinquished control of the Moving Ideas Network.
New Organizing Institute: Created by the Soros-funded MoveOn.org, this group "trains young, technology-enabled political organizers to work for progressive campaigns and organizations."
Think Progress: This "project" of the American Progress Action Fund, which is a "sister advocacy organization"of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress and Campus Progress, seeks to transform "progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world."
Vote for Change: Coordinated by the political action committee of the Soros-funded MoveOn.org, Vote for Change was a group of 41 musicians and bands that performed concerts in several key election "battleground"states during October 2004, to raise money in support of Democrat John Kerry's presidential bid.
Working Families Party: Created in 1998 to help push the Democratic Party toward the left, this front group for the Soros-funded ACORN functions as a political party that promotes ACORN-friendly candidates.

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The REAL George Soros: “An Evil, Despicable Excuse for a Human Being”






 

While about 500,000 of his fellow countrymen, women and children, almost all of them Hungarian Jews, were being exterminated by Nazi Germany, this POS Soros, a Jew himself, called it “the happiest time of my life”.

Soros collaborated with the Nazis rounding up the Jews to send to the extermination camps, and confiscating their property and belongings, and said he had “no sense of guilt” about what he did, and found it “exhilarating”, and liked the feeling of “absolute power”.

While some might try to excuse what Soros did by saying “well, he (Soros) was only fourteen at the time”, keep in mind that there were thousands of teenagers who were actively fighting the Nazis through resistance movements in all of the Nazi-occupied countries in Europe.

Who Is George Soros? George Soros is an evil man. He’s anti-God, anti-family, anti-American, and anti-good. Soros is a multi-billionaire atheist, with skewed moral values, and a sociopath’s lack of conscience. He considers himself to be an elitist World class philosopher, despises the American way, and just loves to do social engineering and change cultures.

By his (Soro’s) own admission, he helped engineer coups in Slovakia, Croatia, Georgia, and Yugoslavia. When Soros targets a country for “regime change,” he begins by creating a shadow government, a fully formed government-in-exile, ready to assume power when the opportunity arises. The Shadow Party he has built in America greatly resembles those he has created in other countries prior to instigating a coup.

György Schwartz, better known to the world as George Soros, was born August 12, 1930 in Hungary. Soros’s father, Tivadar, was a fervent practitioner of the Esperanto language invented in 1887, and designed to be the first global language, free of any national identity. The Schwartz’s, who were non-practicing Jews, changed the family name to Soros, in order to facilitate assimilation into the Gentile population, as the Nazis spread into Hungary during the 1930′s.

When Hitler’s henchman Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary, to oversee the murder of that country’s Jews, George Soros ended up with a man whose job was confiscating property from the Jewish population.

70% of Soros’s fellow Jews in Hungary, nearly a half-million human beings, were annihilated in that year, yet he gives no sign that this put “any damper on his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect”.

During an interview with “60 Minutes” reporter Steve Kroft, Soros was asked about his “happiest year”:

KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

SOROS: Yes. Yes.

KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from your fellow Jews, friends and neighbors.

SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.

KROFT: I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many, years. Was it difficult?

SOROS: No, not at all. Not at all, I rather enjoyed it.

KROFT: No feelings of guilt?

SOROS: No, only feelings of absolute power.

Those last eight chilling lines tell us all we need to know about Soros, and more importantly, anyone who would want to associate with this despicable scumbag, who should have been charged with committing war crimes, IMO.

This is very interesting material. Glenn Beck has been developing material to show all the ties that Soros has through the nation and world along with his goals. It begins to piece together the rise of Obama and his behavior in leading the nation along with many members of Congress (in particular the Democrats, such as the election of Pelosi as the minority leader in Congress).

The following was written by Glenn Beck

If you have wondered where Obama came from and just how he quickly moved from obscurity to President, or why the media is “selective” in what we are told, here is the man who most probably put him there and is responsible. He controls President Obama’s every move. Think this is absurd? Invest a few minutes and read this.. You won’t regret it.

Who is Obama? Obama is a puppet and here is the explanation of the man or demon that pulls his strings. It’s not by chance that Obama can manipulate the world. I don’t think he knows how to tie his shoe laces. After reading this and Obama’s reluctance to accept help on the oil spill you wonder if the spill is part of the plan to destroy the US?

“In history, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it.”- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Who Is George Soros? He brought the market down in 2 days. Here is what CBS’ Mr. Steve Kroft’s research has turned up. It’s a bit of a read, and it took 4 months to put it together. “The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States . “George Soros”

Soros has admitted to having carried some rather “potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble.” Be that as it may.

After WWII, Soros attended the London School of Economics, where he fell under the thrall of fellow atheist and Hungarian, Karl Popper, one of his professors. Popper was a mentor to Soros until Popper’s death in 1994. Two of Popper’s most influential teachings concerned “the open society,” and Fallibilism.

Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken. (Then again, I could be wrong about that.)

The “open society” basically refers to a “test and evaluate” approach to social engineering. Regarding “open society” Roy Childs writes, “Since the Second World War, most of the Western democracies have followed Popper’s advice about piecemeal social engineering and democratic social reform, and it has gotten them into a grand mess.”

In 1956 Soros moved to New York City, where he worked on Wall Street, and started amassing his fortune. He specialized in hedge funds and currency speculation. Soros is absolutely ruthless, amoral, and clever in his business dealings, and quickly made his fortune. By the 1980s, he was well on his way to becoming the global powerhouse that he is today.

In an article Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote for “The American Thinker” she says, “Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England . He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically, almost overnight.”

In 1994 Soros crowed in “The New Republic”, that “the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire.” The Russia-gate scandal in 1999, which almost collapsed the Russian economy, was labeled by Rep. Jim Leach, then head of the House Banking Committee, to be “one of the greatest social robberies in human history.

“The “Soros Empire” indeed. In 1997 Soros almost destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia . At the time, Malaysia ‘s Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad, called Soros “a villain, and a moron.” Thai activist Weng Tojirakarn said, “We regard George Soros as a kind of Dracula. He sucks the blood from the people.”

The website Greek National Pride reports, “Soros was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia and caused trouble in Georgia , Ukraine and Myanmar [Burma]. Calling himself a pilanthropist, Soros’ role is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting his own financial gain. He is without conscience; a capitalist who functions with absolute amorality.”

France has upheld an earlier conviction against Soros, for felony insider trading. Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars. Recently, his native Hungary fined Soros 2.2 million dollars for “illegal market manipulation.”

Elizabeth Crum writes that the Hungarian economy has been in a state of transition as the country seeks to become more financially stable and westernized. Soros deliberately driving down the share price of its largest bank put Hungary’s economy into a wicked tailspin, one from which it is still trying to recover.

Soros is a planetary parasite. His grasp, greed, and gluttony have a global reach. But what about America? Soros told Australia ‘s national newspaper “The Australian.” ” America, as the centre of the globalised financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world. This is now over. The game is out,” he said, adding that the time has come for “a very serious adjustment” in American’s consumption habits. He implied that he was the one with the power to bring this about.”

Soros: “World financial crisis was “stimulating” and “in a way, the culmination of my life’s work.”

Obama has recently promised 10 billion of our tax dollars to Brazil , in order to give them a leg-up in expanding their offshore oil fields. Obama’s largesse towards Brazil came shortly after his political financial backer, George Soros, invested heavily in Brazilian oil (Pet rob ras).

Tait Trussel writes, “The Pet rob ras loan may be a windfall for Soros and Brazil , but it is a bad deal for the U. S. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that oil exploration in the U S could create 160,000 new, well-paying jobs, as well as $1.7 trillion in revenues to federal, state, and local governments, all while fostering greater energy security and independence.”

A blog you might want to keep an eye on is SorosWatch.com. Their mission: “This blog is dedicated to all who have suffered due to the ruthless financial pursuits of George Soros. Your stories are many and varied, but the theme is the same: the destructive power of greed without conscience. We pledge to tirelessly watch Soros wherever he goes and to print the truth in the hope that he will one day be made to stop preying upon the world’s poor, that justice will be served.”

Back to America. Soros has been actively working to destroy America from the inside out for some years now. People have been warning us. Two years ago, news sources reported that “Soros [is] an extremist who wants open borders, a one-world foreign policy, legalized drugs, euthanasia, and on and on. This is off-the-chart dangerous.”In 1997, Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote, “Soros uses his philanthropy to change or more accurately deconstruct the moral values and attitudes of the Western world, and particularly of the American people. His “open society” is not about freedom; it is about license. His vision rejects the notion of ordered liberty, in favor of a PROGRESSIVE ideology of rights and entitlements.”

Perhaps the most important of these “whistle blowers” are David Horowitz and Richard Poe. Their book “The Shadow Party” outlines in detail how Soros hijacked the Democratic Party, and now owns it lock, stock, and barrel. Soros has been packing the Democratic Party with radicals, and ousting moderate Democrats for years. The Shadow Party became the Shadow Government, which recently became the Obama Administration.

DiscoverTheNetworks.org (another good source) writes, “By his [Soros’] own admission, he helped engineer coups in Slovakia, Croatia, Georgia, and Yugoslavia. When Soros targets a country for “regime change,” he begins by creating a shadow government, a fully formed government-in-exile, ready to assume power when the opportunity arises. The Shadow Party he has built in America greatly resembles those he has created in other countries prior to instigating a coup.”

November 2008 edition of the German magazine “Der Spiegel,” in which Soros gives his opinion on what the next POTUS (President of the U. S.) should do after taking office. “I think we need a large stimulus package.” Soros thought that around 600 billion would be about right. Soros also said that “I think Obama presents us a great opportunity to finally deal with global warming and energy dependence. The U. S.. needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights.”

Although Soros doesn’t (yet) own the Republican Party, like he does the Democrats, make no mistake, his tentacles are spread throughout the Republican Party as well.

Soros is a partner in the Carlyle Group where he has invested more than 100 million dollars. According to an article by “The Baltimore Chronicle’s” Alice Cherbonnier, the Carlye Group is run by “a veritable who’s who of former Republican leaders,” from CIA man Frank Carlucci, to CIA head and ex-President George Bush, Sr.

In late 2006, Soros bought about 2 million shares of Halliburton, Dick Cheney’s old stomping grounds. When the Democrats and Republicans held their conventions in 2000, Soros held Shadow Party conventions in the same cities, at the same time.

In 2008, Soros donated $5,000,000,000 ( that’s Five Billion ) to the Democratic National Committee, NC, to insure Obama’s win and wins for many other Alinsky trained Radical Rules Anti-American Socialist. George has been contributing a $ billion plus to the DNC since Clinton came on the scene.

Soros has dirtied both sides of the aisle, trust me. And if that weren’t bad enough, he has long held connections with the CIA. And I mustn’t forget to mention Soros’ involvement with the MSM (Main Stream Media), the entertainment industry (e. g. he owns 2.6 million shares of Time Warner), and the various political advertising organizations he funnels millions to.

In short, George Soros controls or influences most of the MSM. Little wonder they ignore the TEA PARTY, Soro’s NEMESIS.

As Matthew Vadum writes, “The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthropist has been buying up media properties for years in order to drive home his message to the American public that they are too materialistic, too wasteful, too selfish, and too stupid to decide for themselves how to run their own lives.”

Richard Poe writes, “Soros’ private philanthropy, totaling nearly $5 billion, continues undermining America ‘s traditional Western values. His giving has provided funding of abortion rights, atheism, drug legalization, sex education, euthanasia, feminism, gun control, globalization, mass immigration, gay marriage and other radical experiments in social engineering.”

Some of the many NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) that Soros funds with his billions are: MoveOn.org, the Apollo Alliance, Media Matters for America, the Tides Foundation, the ACLU, ACORN, PDIA (Project on Death In America), La Raza, and many more. For a more complete list, with brief descriptions of the NGOs, go to DiscoverTheNetworks.org.

Poe continues, “Through his global web of Open Society Institutes and Open Society Foundations, Soros has spent 25 years recruiting, training, indoctrinating and installing a network of loyal operatives in 50 countries, placing them in positions of influence and power in media, government, finance and academia.”

Without Soros’ money, would the Saul Alinsky’s Chicago machine still be rolling? Would SEIU, ACORN, and La Raza still be pursuing their nefarious activities? Would Big Money and lobbyists still be corrupting government? Would our college campuses still be retirement homes for 1960s radicals?

America stands at the brink of an abyss, and that fact is directly attributable to Soros. Soros has vigorously, cleverly, and insidiously planned the ruination of America and his puppet, Barack Obama is leading the way.

The words of Patrick Henry are apropos: “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

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The Trump Army: Haters invited, incited and convinced to hate

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist | 1:10PM PDT - Monday, March 14, 2016

Political rallies before Trump: fun, fiery, unifying. Political rallies after Trump: vicious, violent, “pretty soon someone's going to get killed”.
Political rallies before Trump: fun, fiery, unifying. Political rallies after Trump: vicious, violent, “pretty soon someone's going to get killed”.

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A nation's deep and angry political divide collided on a Chicago college campus on Friday night, keeping Republican
presidential front-runner Donald Trump from taking the stage at a major rally just days before the Illinois primary.

 — Chicago Tribune
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EVERYONE'S got their theories. Every pundit from here to MSNBC's poor old Joe Scarborough is pondering the cruel meanings, the root causes, the potentially devastating ramifications of Trump's nasty rise to political power, offering all manner of explanation, half-baked rationalization and pre-emptive autopsy on the shattered American experiment.

It was the racist backlash against Obama that gave us Trump, sayeth the terrific Jamelle Bouie over at Slate (which is ironic, given how it was the backlash against a devastatingly dumb n' destructive GW Bush that gave us Obama). It was the GOP's endless years of fearmongering and anti-everything odium that dumbed down their base to a Trump-ready degree, (sayeth, well, me, along with many others).

Or perhaps it was our nation's vicious social inequity, the Great Socioeconomic Divide that allowed a monster like Trump to stagger in and take charge of a ragtag army of angry, righteous white minions — largely by telling them, over and over and over, that they're an army of angry, righteous minions, and he is their rich, creepy king.

Or maybe this was the plan all along. Maybe it was Trump himself who's been strategizing and plotting for years how best to stab the American political system in the eye, right after having his massive, trembling ego smashed to bits at a 2011 Correspondents' Association dinner with Obama and Seth Myers. You think? The poor orange thug.

All true, yes? And yet still all sort of… incomplete.


Trump gives a protester the finger, as his furious minions scream taunts and bile.
Trump gives a protester the finger, as his furious minions scream taunts and bile.

Here's one of the more popular wide angles: We — that is, Numbly Privileged America — had it coming. The lesser educated, the older, scared, insulated whites, the neglected working classes have been increasingly disenfranchised for decades now, left out of the larger conversation by both parties. And man, are they pissed.

Or rather, they've been told they are. Commanded to be so. By Trump. Over and over again.

And now, poisonous fates collide. In Trump, America's great xenophobic militia has found its true general. Trump is just the right insipid, lowbrow, conspiracy-mad beauty pageant maniac to convince the white, racist masses that their pot of raging subjugation hath finally boiled over, and it's all the (Muslims liberals immigrants women gays Mexicans Chinese Obamas politicians') fault. Sound about right?

Well, sort of. There is absolutely a sense of karmic consequence afoot, a feeling of long-overdue backlash — though to my mind, “backlash” implies a level of intellectual or political cohesion, a kind of unification, whereas the Trump Army is merely a spastic cauldron of barely controlled chaos and itchy-trigger-finger violence, just looking for a reason.

Put another way: There is surely an entire portion of the American underclass for whom the American dream is more of a cruel, taunting hallucination. But then again, that's always been the case. It's essentially written in to capitalism’s mission statement.


Political rallies before Trump: fun, fiery, unifying. After Trump: vicious, violent, “pretty soon someone's going to get killed!”
Political rallies before Trump: fun, fiery, unifying. After Trump: vicious, violent, “pretty soon someone's going to get killed!”

You know the line between “inspired political rally” and “angry racist mob?” Trump eliminated it.
You know the line between “inspired political rally” and “angry racist mob?” Trump eliminated it.

This is where Trump comes in. As mentioned here and elsewhere, he's a one-man troll machine. He's mastered the art not of the deal, but of simplistic rhetorical savagery. In speech after raging, incoherent, blowhard speech, he says almost nothing, makes not a single articulate policy statement, merely hisses out all manner of empty phrase after empty, yelling, red-faced phrase, mostly about walls, Islam, and China. And the crowd loves it.

And therein lies the magic. See, this is how you incite mobs. This is how you inspire everyone in the village to grab a pitchfork and a flaming torch and burn down That Which You Do Not Understand. This is how you justify burning women at the stake at a “witch trial”, lynching slaves in a public square, punching a non-violent protester in the face and calling it “just what this country needs”. It's all calculated, mindless repetition and looping rhetorical blather designed for a single purpose: to whip his angry, racist crowds into an even more angry, racist frenzy.

This is, after all, all Trump knows how to do. He cannot win any kind of intellectual argument. He cannot win a detailed policy debate, because he knows nothing about policy. He certainly cannot join in any sort of nuanced, thoughtful discussion about civil rights, or the function of religion in American society, or race, technology, income inequality, gender dynamics, or larger concepts of peace or progress in human society. To imagine him doing so is downright laughable. When he's actually tried to do so, it's downright disturbing.

All of which is to say: The above quote from the Chicago Tribune is only partially right. Trump is as much a reflection of the “angry political divide” in America as one of its root causes. He is inducing it, defining it, perpetuating it, enflaming and inciting it, drinking it like demon's blood and spitting it right back in the delighted faces of his followers. He's creating the divide, exploiting it and making it far worse, all at once.

Maybe it's just that simple. He's the darkest, least humane, most ignoble corner of the human psyche, made fleshy and orange. Who invited him here, exactly? Republicans. The Bush era. Capitalism. Racism. Fear. America. Everyone, and no one. One thing's for certain: He means the world ill.


The guy in the gray hoodie? The raging, yelling, scared, white Trump fanatic? He does not want peace in America.
The guy in the gray hoodie? The raging, yelling, scared, white Trump fanatic? He does not want peace in America.

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