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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:09 AM Mar 2017

Small-scale rallies held across US in support of Trump

http://www.france24.com/en/20170305-usa-pro-donald-trump-rallies-small-groups-violence-berkeley

Small-scale rallies held across US in support of Trump

Latest update : 2017-03-05


Supporters of Donald Trump clashed with counter-protesters at a rally in the famously left-leaning city of Berkeley, California, on a day of mostly peaceful gatherings in support of the U.S. president across the country. At a park in Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, protesters from both sides struck one another over the head with wooden sticks and Trump supporters fired pepper spray as police in riot gear stood at a distance.
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Organizers of the so-called Spirit of America rallies in at least 28 the country’s 50 states had said they expected smaller turn-outs than the huge crowds of anti-Trump protesters that clogged the streets of Washington and other cities the day after the Republican’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
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In many towns and cities, the rallies did not draw more than a few hundred people. At some, supporters of the president were at risk of being outnumbered by small groups of anti-Trump protesters who gathered to shout against the rallies.

In Berkeley, the total crowd of both supporters and detractors numbered 200 to 300 people, police spokesman Byron White said. Three people were injured in the clash, including one who had teeth knocked out, and police made five arrests.
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On Saturday, smaller skirmishes broke out in other parts of the country. In Minnesota, 400 Trump supporters packed the state capitol rotunda in St. Paul and were met by a smaller group of counter-demonstrators, according to the Star Tribune. Scuffles erupted and six counter-protesters were arrested, the newspaper reported. In Nashville, Tennessee, Trump supporters and counter-protesters cursed at each other and occasionally made physical contact, but state troopers broke up the fighting, according to the city’s public radio station.

Most rallies appeared to take place without any disruption or violence, like one outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing. “How can anyone be disappointed with bringing back jobs? And he promised he would secure our borders, and that’s exactly what he’s doing,” said Meshawn Maddock, one of the organizers of the rally which drew about 200 people.
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More than 200 supporters of the president rallied in downtown San Diego.
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In Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump is staying this weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort, the president’s motorcade stopped and Trump stepped outside his car to wave at a crowd of dozens of supporters. A smaller group of protesters stood across the street.

In New York, about 200 people demonstrated their support for the president in front of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan. In Washington, about 150 people marched from the Washington Monument to Lafayette Square in front of the White House to show their support for the president.
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Small-scale rallies held across US in support of Trump (Original Post) nitpicker Mar 2017 OP
These are the die-hard supporters of Trump Submariner Mar 2017 #1
they love their Criminal-In-Chief spanone Mar 2017 #2

Submariner

(12,497 posts)
1. These are the die-hard supporters of Trump
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 08:21 AM
Mar 2017

You know, the ones that rape their wives, want to "date" (wink wink) their daughters.

The unpatriotic rat fuckers that put party over country, and are racist bigoted anti-semites that like to knock over gravestones in Jewish cemeteries. That kind of Trump lemming.

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