Until the sacred horn is blown, wingnut watering hole Free Republic is not yet entirely an official organ of Trump, and remains nominally non-partisan for the duration of the primaries, at least so long as grand poobah and site owner Jim Robinson can still squeeze a few more donations out of the non-Trump-aligned before the coming quadrennial purge. Until then, “Cruzites” like lonestar67 are still allowed to post:
“Cruz, Rubio and Kasich criticize Trump for creating ‘environment’ for Chicago protest”:
[WAPO]"The responsibility for that lies with protesters, who took violence into their own hands. But in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top. Any candidate is responsible for the culture of a 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 discord," Cruz said”
DesertRhino delivers the hard truth:
“I think it proves Cruz is a suck up that will never speak hard truths. A damned low life if you ask me. The ONLY answer to that by any American politician should have been to scold the violent mob.
Cruz sided with the mob and tacitly told them he thought they were justified. Low down and no good of him.”
xzins wastes no pixels:
”Cruz is a whore”
tsowellfan, ever so reluctantly moves Cruz from “us” to “them”:
“… tonight I stopped supporting him. Ted Cruz just lost my support for siding with moveon/blacklivesmatter”
DannyTN surprises no one:
“I blame Obama. Obama speaks out about violence at Trump rallies and suddenly there is massive violence at Trump rallies.
It looks coordinated to me. The community organizer has been busy again.”
uncitizen overflows with sympathy for the afflicted:
“Trump is the victim of this. So are his supporters. If anybody other than the protestors themselves are responsible for creating the environment for this, it’s obama. Chicago home boy.”
tallyhoe brandishes facts, a rare skill among freepers:
“You have to admit when the Candidate stands there and says I’d like to punch that protester in the face.. Is in effect promoting violence.. When the 78 year old Pro Trump guy sucker punched a protester then Trump goes did you see that guy throw that punch.. That was amazing.. However the 78 year old is facing charges now!!! Trump has a big mouth and he can’t say whatever he wants anytime he wants.. No matter how cool you might think it is..”
Normally virulently delusional birther butterdezillion, in what alcoholics call a “moment of clarity”:
“Nobody will even read what Cruz said. It doesn’t fit the narrative.
America doesn’t want to read, doesn’t want to think. Too much fun just making stuff up.
These rent-a-mobs are losers, and they are backed by both the communist terrorists and the Islamist terrorists, because they are afraid of Trump. Their fear of Trump makes me want to support him.
By the same token, though, when Obama told his supporters to get in our faces we all said he was responsible for the SIEU thugs’ violence. It’s not exactly the same thing because the SEIU violence was unprovoked. But for somebody asking us to trust him to unite people by making good deals, what’s happened here is not a good sign that he is able to calm and unite anybody. We may be past the point where ANYBODY can calm and unite - because everybody is quick to speak (or swing a fist) and slow to listen. And that’s sad, all the way around.”
Arm_Bears smells the napalm, which everybody knows smells like … victory!
”Trump clinched the GOP nomination tonight.
Deal with it.”
CrimsonTidegirl makes Trump’s critics’ point, with typical lack of self-awareness:
“I am so disgusted at the meek little wimps on this forum.
Leftists and their mobs, with assistance from the media, have been viciously attacking conservatives for years. And what have conservatives been doing? NOTHING! Just lying there and taking it. Being “nice”. The time for being nice is over!
The anti-trumpers want to be “nice’ to the terrorists. They are actually stupid enough to think that you can reason with the Black Lies Matter, La Raza and other terrrorists. You can’t reason with them, because they are feral, subhuman savages. That may sound rough but it’s the truth.
It’s time that conservatives stopped being cowards and fight back, viciously and without mercy. We are at war with these savages. That includes the media.
You’re 100% correct that they hate Trump because he’s not politically correct and doesn’t pander to the savages.
It’s time to treat the ferals just as they treat us.”
So while it was never ever Trump’s violence before, that clearly was a mistake whose time has come for Real Americans™ to finally rectify.
And that’s a promise!