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West Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2016.Jim Young/Reuters Photo from “Postcards From America” by Mark Power/Magnum Photos “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically, you’ll find this pearl adorning a classroom or splashed across a motivational poster….
Today we appear to be going further and further into uncharted territory. After the cancellation of Trump’s event yesterday in Chicago, we had the incident at the rally in Dayton, Ohio in which a protestor, Thomas Dimassimo, jumped the security perimeter surrounding Trump and tried to rush the speaking platform. Dimassimo was charged with disorderly…
The president of CBS News is standing by one of the network’s journalists who was arrested outside a Donald Trump rally that was canceled amid violence between Trump supporters and protesters. David Rhodes tweeted that journalist Sopan Deb, who was covering the rally at the University of Illinois’ Chicago campus on Friday, was handcuffed and…
It’s 10am on 11 March, two hours before Donald Trump’s rally in St Louis is set to begin, and the line goes on for blocks. The Peabody Opera House in downtown St Louis can seat 3,100, but it cannot contain the enthusiasm for Trump. Some fans drove through the night from nearby states, including Indiana…
A Trump rally in Chicago was cancelled tonight amid chaotic protests and clashes between the protestors and Trump supporters in the venue. The first thing to say about this is that it is wrong to disrupt and shut down a political rally, period, full stop. This was a mob action, and it was disgusting. Of…
When Ja’Mal Green, a prominent black activist and Bernie Sanders supporter in Chicago, saw that Donald Trump was coming to the University of Illinois-Chicago, he knew what he had to do. “Everyone, get your tickets to this. We’re all going in!!!! #SHUTITDOWN,” he posted on Facebook last week. Little did he know, they actually would…
Rose Hamid is a middle-aged Muslim who in January went to a Donald Trump rally in Rock Hill, S.C. Wearing a hijab and a T-shirt with the message, “Salam I come in peace,” she stood during his speech, silently registering her disagreement with his anti-Muslim sentiments. The angry crowd began screaming abuse, and she was…
Kurt Bardella, who quit as Breitbart’s spokesman on Friday over the news site’s handling of an assault on its own reporter at a Donald Trump press conference, said that he could no longer go on. “It became untenable for me personally to continue in this situation. If you can’t give 100 percent, you can’t represent your…
A Breitbart reporter says she has filed charges against Donald Trump’s campaign manager, alleging that he grabbed her and bruised her while she was attempting to ask a question. The reporter, Michelle Fields, confirmed to CNNMoney that she filed charges against Corey Lewandowski Friday with the police department in Jupiter, Florida. Police in Jupiter said…
Donald Trump is juggling two brewing controversies not directly involving him, but his campaign today. The campaign was forced to release a terse four word statement on the arrest of a North Carolina supporter caught assaulting a protestor at a Fayetteville rally last night: “We are not involved.” The Trump campaign’s official response to allegations…