User Clip: Trump, on protest: I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself or if other people will

"Trump said this on 11 August 2015, when asked at a press conference in Birch Run, Michigan whether he would ever yield the stage to a protester at one of his events.

Two days earlier, Black Lives Matter demonstrators came on stage at a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle, taking over the podium and interrupting the candidate’s stump speech. Sanders reluctantly gave the microphone to the protesters.

At the press conference in Michigan, a reporter asked Trump “Would you give up your microphone to a protester?” The candidate responded:

I would never give up my microphone. I thought that was disgusting. That showed such weakness, the way Sanders was taken away by two young women — the microphone — they just took the whole place over…That will never happen with me. I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself or if other people will, but that was a disgrace…"

Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-tru close