Violence follows Trump on the campaign trail

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Alexis Ponce, Reporter

Tucson, Arizona, and  a another Donald Trump event erupts in violence. This has become a rather disconcerting part of this year’s primary season.

A rally attendee was arrested after punching and kicking repeatedly a protester, who was being escorted out of the rally by security. Protesters who were blocking the main highway where thrown in jail by  Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s officers. Assuring the crowd, Arpaio believes that Trump will build a large wall on the border with Mexico as promised. Arpaio, the tough-talking Arizona lawman notorious for keeping his prisoners in stifling hot tents and making them wear pink underwear,  has introduced Trump at multiple campaign events.

Most political experts can’t remember seeing so much political violence in their lifetime. It appears that the GOP front-runner has been inciting his followers to mess with protesters. Trump himself has dismissed the aggressiveness and claim it’s the work of “thugs” who don’t support him. Similar incidents have been going around; in Chicago a protester was sucker punched after being escorted from a rally. The attacker has been charged with assault.

To his credit, Trump removed a protester wearing the Ku Klux Klan hat after being spotted in the crowd. Trump told the crowd “There’s a disgusting guy, puts a Ku Klux Klan hat on, he think he’s cute, he’s a disgusting guy” and also saying “That is a disgusting guy, really disgusting. A big wheel, a big wheel.”

Time will tell whether America wants Trump’s brand of politics or not.