Donald Trump Black Lives Matter Comments: GOP Candidate Looking For Fight With BLM Demonstrators?
Donald Trump hinted he may be looking forward for a physical confrontation with Black Live Matters protesters after the activist group recently hijacked an event where Democratic 2016 hopeful Bernie Sanders was scheduled as one of the featured speakers.
The bombastic Trump ridiculed the liberal-minded Sanders as "weak" after protesters stormed a Seattle stage and commandeered the microphone, effectively ending the event before it really had a chance to commence.
"I don't know if I'll do the fighting myself, or if other people will, but that was a disgrace," Trump said during a press conference in Michigan. "I felt badly for him, but it showed that he's weak. You know what? He's getting the biggest crowds, and I'm getting the biggest crowds. We're the two getting the crowds. But believe me, that's not gonna happen to Trump."
Trump vowed he would never relinquish his microphone under any circumstances and insisted he was disgusted by the sight of Sanders doing so.
"That showed such weakness, the way he was taken away by two young women," he said. "The microphone! They just took the whole place over."
While the ever-volatile Trump appears intent on picking a fight with the activist group that has sprang up in recent times based on the alarming number of police related killings involving young black men and women, leading 2016 Democratic contender Hillary Clinton recently saw cause to meet with the group in a closed door meeting.
Activist Daunasia Yancey said the organization quizzed Clinton about "her and her family's history with the war on drugs both at home and abroad, and how she felt about her involvement in that violence that has been perpetuated, especially against communities of color and against black folks."
Yancey added the group was keen on hearing Clinton's sentiments resulting from her unique involvement as first lady, as senator and as secretary of state."
In recent months, Clinton has often openly reflected "black lives matter," though she came under some criticism in June when she opined "all lives matter" while giving a speech at an event just outside of Ferguson, Missouri.
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