Someone is hiring demonstrators to cause trouble at Donald Trump’s campaign rallies, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio declared on Twitter this week.
The former Republican presidential contender claimed “professional protesters, not grassroots” activists have been responsible for the violence at recent Trump speeches. He tweeted that a “whole industry of professional disrupters … go to events to disrupt them, knowing cameras will gravitate to them.” Rubio added: “These protests not organic.”
According to Breitbart News, the senator previously suggested that Trump’s rhetoric was sparking the violence. “I’m telling you that this boiling point that we have now reached has been fed largely by the fact that we have a front-runner in my party who has fed into language that basically justifies physically assaulting people who disagree with you,” Rubio remarked during a press conference in March, following rioting at at Trump rally in Chicago.