Donald Trump praised his supporters Friday for not engaging in violence at his massive rallies, saying that even though tens of thousands of people show up, "we don't have problems.
"We have 25,000 [people] routinely, and we don't have problems," the GOP presidential race front-runner told
Fox News' Sean Hannity Friday night, after he canceled a rally in Chicago after thousands of protesters showed up.
"We have some protesters," he continued about his other rallies. "Every once in awhile, somebody will stand up. Today we had a little more than normal in St. Louis in the morning. We had a number of people standing up and it was fine. Nobody got hurt. They had to get taken out. And they're disruptive and we do the best we can to do a little creative, have a little bit of fun with them."
In Chicago, where at least 25,000 people were expected at the rally, Trump said he got credit for canceling it so nobody would have gotten hurt.
"It would have been easier to go there, but if I went there, you would have had a lot of problems, because this was a very organized group," Trump said of the Chicago protesters. "And I think not a good group."
He said the Chicago protests were "a very staged thing with this Move On organization, which is not a good group of people, from what everybody tells me. We had a lot of protesters come in and they seemed to be very disruptive and going into the arena which was starting to fill up with the people that were coming."
Meanwhile, Trump said the protesters stopped First Amendment rights for himself and his supporters.
"I have the right to speak and they have the right to hear and listen," he said, "and we were unable to do that for security reasons….we want it to be a nonviolent situation and I will tell you the people that I had, supporters who were very angry. They're angry to start off with. What's happening to the country with the jobs going to other countries. With the horrible situation that we have at the border."
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