Lansing, MI – Trump Fans Stage Series Of Small Rallies Across U.S.

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    Approximately 350 Trump / Pence supporters attend the March 4 Trump rally at Freedom Hill County Park in Sterling Heights, Saturday, March 4, 2017. Before their rally and 3-mile walk, from the park to Garfield and back, the supporters were met by approximately 75 protestors as they stood across the driveway, yelling at each other. (Todd McInturf, The Detroit News)2017.Lansing, MI – Supporters of President Donald Trump held a second day of small rallies on Saturday in communities around the country, a counterpoint to a wave of protests that have taken place since his election in November.

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    Organizers of the so-called Spirit of America rallies in at least 28 of the country’s 50 states had said they expected smaller turn-outs than the huge crowds of anti-protesters that clogged the streets of Washington, D.C., and other cities the day after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

    Their predictions appeared to be correct, as they were on Monday when similar rallies were held. In many towns and cities, the rallies did not draw more than a few hundred people, and some were at risk of being outnumbered by small groups of anti-Trump protesters that gathered to shout against the rallies.

    “People feel like they can’t let their foot off the gas and we need to support our president,” said Meshawn Maddock, one of the organizers of a pro-Trump rally of about 200 people in Lansing outside the Michigan State Capitol building.
    Pro and Anti-Trump demonstrators make noise and some threats on the steps of the Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Saturday, March 4, 2017. What started out as a publicized Pro-Trump rally, became a potentially volatile confrontation, before settling-down into two groups with their own speakers. Tempers flared when Trump supporters blocked signs with anti-Trump messages by holding aloft signs of their own. (Dale G Young /Detroit News via AP)
    “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.”

    Brandon Blanchard, 24, among a small group of anti-Trump protesters, said he had come in support of immigrants, Muslims and transgender people, groups that have been negatively targeted by Trump’s rhetoric and policies.

    “I feel that every American that voted for Trump has been deceived. Any campaign promises have already been broken,” Blanchard said.

    In Denver, several dozen people held pro-Trump signs at the top of the steps of the Colorado State Capitol building, according to video footage streamed online.

    Two lines of police below them looked out on a small crowd of people protesting the rally at the bottom of the steps.

    “No hate! No fear! Immigrants are welcome here!” the anti-Trump protesters shouted up the steps, along with obscene anti-Trump slogans.
    Anti-Trump demonstrators make noise and attempt to disrupt a Pro-Trump rally on the lawn of the Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Saturday, March 4, 2017. What started out as a publicized Pro-Trump rally, became a potentially volatile confrontation, before settling-down into two groups with their own speakers. (Dale G Young /Detroit News via AP)
    The pro-Trump demonstrators were quieter, holding up Trump signs as they milled about the steps, the video showed.

    In the nation’s capital, more than a hundred people gathered near the Washington Monument, a short walk from the White House, although the president himself was again in Florida for the weekend.

    “He does not hate Latinos, he does not hate Hispanics, he does not hate Mexicans,” a woman who described herself as a Mexican-American supporter of Trump said, addressing the crowd from a small stage. “He’s put his life at risk for us.”


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    7 years ago

    The FAKE NEWS said that a few hundred people supported TRump at the rallies.

    The FAKE NEWS IS WRONG.

    Only a few dozen people would be real.

    7 years ago

    The fact that these rallies were planned was enough for the synagogues in our area to request special police details to patrol the Jewish neighborhood on Shabbat.

    The synagogues already have full time armed security guards, but the fear was for the yidden out walking on the streets on Shabbat without cell phones.