GOP front-runner Donald Trump says it’s not a threat to call on his supporters to crash Democratic rival Bernie Sanders’ campaign rallies.
“Its not a threat at all,” Trump said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “My people have said, ‘we ought to go to his rallies.'”
CNN host Jake Tapper had asked Trump if calling on supporters via Twitter to crash Sanders rallies is a threat.
“Everybody thinks I’m a bad guy,” Trump said. “If my people went into one of his rallies, they’d say ‘oh, this is a terrible thing.'”
“They’d be arrested and all sorts of things,” he added.
“If conservative Republicans ever went into his rally, you would see things that would … be unbelievable, and Bernie would be ‘oh poor Bernie, isn’t that a shame.'”
Trump and Sanders, in separate segments of the same show, accused each other of lying when it came to accusations over Sanders-backed protesters forcing Trump to shut down a rally in Chicago on Friday for fear of escalating violence.
“There’s a horrible thing going on in the media,” Trump said. “We are treated so unfairly, and I am treated very unfairly.”
No evidence has emerged to support Trump’s claims that Sanders had a role in the Chicago protests.
