Donald Trump on Saturday denounced the protests that led him to cancel a scheduled rally the previous night in Chicago, calling them "a planned attack" that was "professionally done."
Trump addressed a crowd of supporters at an airport in Vandalia, Ohio the morning after scuffles broke out between his supporters and demonstrators at a planned rally in Chicago, prompting the campaign to cancel the event at the last minute. The protests and fights between Trump supporters and protesters in Chicago were just the latest in a string of increasingly heated and at-times violent confrontations breaking out at rallies for the frontrunner in the Republican presidential race. And they come as Trump has repeatedly suggested protesters should face more violent repercussions for disrupting his rallies.