Posted on 04/22/2016 7:11:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
After failing to secure a single delegate in Colorado nearly two weeks ago, angry Donald Trump supporters, reacting to the candidate’s claims of a ‘rigged’ nomination process, began taking matters into their own hands. This included issuing death threats to Colorado GOP chairman Steve House, who said he’s received emails warning him to hide his family and “pray” he makes it to the convention in Cleveland, as well as phone calls from people telling him to put a gun down his throat, and if he doesn’t they will come help him out.
But it seems House hasn’t been the sole target. At the RNC’s quarterly meeting in Florida this week, many other party leaders shared similar stories.
Politico reports:
One party chair says a Trump supporter recently got in his face and promised “bloodshed” if he didn’t win the GOP nomination. An Indiana delegate who criticized Trump received a note warning against “traditional burial” that ended with, “We are watching you.”
The threats come months ahead of a possible contested convention, where Trump is all-but certain to enter with a plurality of delegates bound to him on the first ballot, but he could lose support on subsequent ballots as rules will allow delegates to vote however they choose. And although the harassers are typically anonymous, many party leaders on the receiving end of these threats hold Trump himself at least partly responsible, viewing the intimidation efforts as a natural and obvious outgrowth of the candidate’s incendiary rhetoric.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
“A Trump supporter recently got in my face and threatened ‘bloodshed’ at the national convention and said he would ‘meet me at the barricades’ if Trump isn't the nominee,” said one party chairman, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“The Trump campaign needs to publicly reject bullying and threats of violence. They haven't, yet. It's not okay to give supporters threatening violence a wink and a nod.”
Trump’s campaign has never explicitly encouraged violence. But it has promoted tactics that have contributed to delegates’ fear. Earlier in April, a top Trump adviser posted the Tennessee state party chairman Ryan Haynes’ cell phone number online along with a message accusing the state party of trying to “STEAL your vote TODAY.” […]
“I’ve had these thoughts quite a bit and had these discussions with people who think I’m an idiot for wanting to go to Cleveland,” said Craig Dunn, a delegate from Indiana who supports John Kasich. Dunn said he’s most nervous about exiting the convention arena in the moments after a potential Trump loss.
“That’s where there’s the greatest prospect for danger,” he said. “I don’t see myself walking outside the convention with a Kasich badge.”
Dunn was one of at least four Indiana delegates who received disturbing messages — several of which were investigated by local police — after telling POLITICO about their anti-Trump feelings.
Some are hopeful that new campaign manager Paul Manafort will help encourage Trump to temper his rhetoric and brasher tendencies, but others fear it’s too late, that the intimidation tactics some of his supporters have taken to are already deeply ingrained and part of the “Corey [Lewandowski] culture.”
One political operative close to Trump’s campaign blames the ‘old regime’ for not doing enough to rein in the threats many continue to make and the violence that has taken place at some of the rallies, but says all that will change now.
“That only happens when somebody is not driving the bus,” the unnamed operative told Politico. “That’s all going to settle down now that Paul is in charge.”
Wow. Someone really got your goat. But regardless. We Trump supporters are deranged. We are beyond reason. And - we are legion. You and your corrupt little club of Cruzers and GOPe banana republicans are just going to have to deal with it.
As the man said - Hearsay from interested parties with no proof produced by them is not evidence.
Screw trump and his little dogs too!
Ps- Trump supporters aren’t angry at all.. We’re simply winning in the face of the most extreme opposition any candidate has ever faced. This is the best election EVER and the ending is going to shock the hell out of Cruzlims.
I’m sure prophet Lying Ted’s supporters are gluing bb’s to vest’s after NY... Talk about an angry bunch.
Lots of unnamed sources in the article.
Leah sounds like a snowflake.
Obviously you are because you replied like your high. The claim was that it was done to smear Trump... Not bc Lying Ted cheated his way to victory. Cruzlims practicing Tedquiya to trick the prophet’s opponents of something your kind know we’ll. Keep ululating away though and maybe have a coffee so you can reply coherently next time.
you have consumed the kool aid, the doctrine, the W was bad dogma
He was a good president.
History will remember him as a conqueror of Baghdad
I don’t believe this.
That just be medical grade stuff Bert.
Nice try, Cruz/GOPe operatives. Nobody believes you any more.
Lowered taxes, kept us out Kyoto and international courts, hated by liberals and the press (which is good). Yet a lot of Trump supporters hate him. Shows where a lot of Trump supporters come from.
Now that Trump is beginning to take off his mask, I wonder when global warming and international courts will enter his agenda. He recently revealed himself as a 9-11 truther, which means he probably wants the Hague court to rule our military actions. And he has already embraced pervs in girls bathrooms, even more progressive taxation, and changing the platform on abortion.
mostly, I think, lots of folks like to ride band wagons
Yep, the big mo. The evils of pure Democracy the founders hated.
Eight years on the job and that's all the positive you can remember? Fail.
Those are biggies to me along with killing the terrorists who did 9-11, even with Clinton's CIA opposing him at every turn, including protecting bin Laden. I wasn't going to list everything. I liked everything or almost everything Bush did and stood for.
Like I said, Trump admitted to being a 9-11 truther, probably wants to allow the international courts to rule in trials over the US military as most 9-11 truthers do. And Trump admitted this week he wants more people not paying taxes and a more progressive tax rate. Trump is a Democrat whose job it is to remove any conservative from running. Walker and Cruz were the only two conservatives running, mission accomplished for Trump. Now we have Democrat vs Democrat. Same as 2008, same as 2012. I'll be voting 3rd party once again.
I’d give GW Bush high marks for his speech on bioethics and consequent restrictions on fetal tissue research. Likewise, his rallying the nation after 9/11 was a phenomenal effort.
But his foreign policy was a disaster, as were his administration’s contributions to and failure to prevent the financial crisis. He left this country in a horrible mess and a democrat majority in both houses.
Good man, but a terrible flawed leader.
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