Trump calls California protesters 'thugs and criminals' after his Secret Service detail was forced to walk him over a highway and in the back of a hotel at the state Republican Party's annual convention
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com and Kalhan Rosenblatt For Dailymail.com
Published: 30 April 2016
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Updated: 1 May 2016
Donald Trump has blasted the protesters who swarmed the outside of the state Republican Party's annual convention in San Francisco where he was due to give a speech.
In a tweet
he posted on Saturday, the GOP front runner called the demonstrators
'thugs and criminals' after he was forced to sneak in the back door of
the Hyatt Regency hotel in the suburb of Burlingame.
'The
"protesters" in California were thugs and criminals. Many are
professionals. They should be dealt with strongly by law enforcement!'
Trump tweeted.
On
Friday Trump had to be led across a grass highway median and in a
back-door loading dock at the Hyatt Regency to avoid the furious
protesters.
Donald Trump lashed out at the
protesters who forced him to enter the Hyatt Regency in a San Francisco
suburb through a loading dock because of their ferocious demonstrations
'That was not the easiest entrance
I've ever made': Trump joked with the Republican crowd when he
eventually took the stage after being smuggled into the venue, saying
they got to walk through lobby while he was being pushed in the back.
'I felt like I
was crossing the border': Trump called back to his showpiece pledge
about building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border
Trump felt like he 'was crossing the border, actually,' he said.
Led
by his regular protective detail and Trump's private bodyguard Keith
Schiller, the Republican front-runner's arrival became a full-blown
media spectacle, with cable news channels interrupting their broadcasts
for helicopter live-shots.
Their
audiences were treated to the sight of the 69-year-old Trump hopping
nearly three feet down from a cement barrier to the grass below,
skirting between two chain-link fences, and then climbing uphill in his
expensive suit and shoes while local police and California Highway
Patrol kept liberal activists at bay on the other side of the hotel.
'That
was not the easiest entrance I've ever made,' Trump joked when he
eventually took the stage. 'My wife calls – she says, "There are
helicopters following you"'
'And
then we went under a fence, and through a fence. Oh boy, I felt like I
was crossing the border actually, you know? I was crossing the border
but I got here.'
'You all walk through the lobby. I'm going under fences!' he told the audience of party loyalists.
As he
finished his remarks, a mashup of his stump-speech themes, Trump looked
offstage to his security detail that was getting ready to take him out
the same way he came in.
'I know they're waiting,' Trump said.' They're gonna take me under a fence, through a field.'
'Oh, you have no idea the route they have planned for me to get out of here!'
At
least one person was detained outside as shouting matches between
anti-Trump protesters and pro-Trump supporters occasionally clashed. A
few protesters even stole an American flag and burned it, drawing angry
responses from both sides. A Trump effigy was also burned.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3567524/Trump-calls-California-protesters-thugs-criminals-Secret-Service-forced-walk-highway-hotel-state-Republican-Party-s-annual-convention.html#ixzz47PRWgyCZ
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- Outsmarted: Instead, Secret Service and private security guards led Trump (at center, flanked on all four sides) down a concrete ramp to a steep jump down to grass, and then uphill toward
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