--- title: Trump Threatens to Send Supporters to Bernie Sanders Rallies description: Donald Trump threatened to send his supporters to disrupt the campaign rallies of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. canonical: https://time.com/4256820/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-threat/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-13T15:18:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:52.142Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Threatens to Send Supporters to Bernie Sanders Rallies og:description: “Be careful Bernie" og:url: https://time.com/4256820/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-threat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21007d96076f7ee2/69888acc524fc0b844df729c/donald-trump-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Campaign Rally in Vandalia, Ohio og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Threatens to Send Supporters to Bernie Sanders Rallies twitter:description: “Be careful Bernie" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21007d96076f7ee2/69888acc524fc0b844df729c/donald-trump-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Threatens to Send Supporters to Bernie Sanders Rallies > Sponsored content. 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Ty Wright—Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Mar 13, 2016 3:18 PM UTC Donald Trump on Sunday [threatened to send his supporters](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/708983126601682944) to disrupt the campaign rallies of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, whom he has blamed for the chaos at his own events. The Republican front-runner blasted Sanders for saying he had no part in the unrest after accusing the Vermont senator of telling supporters to attend his campaign rallies. “Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors aren’t told to go to my events,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Be careful Bernie, or my supporters will go to yours!” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/708983126601682944) Trump had said protesters, “many of them thugs,” caused him to [cancel a rally in Chicago](http://time.com/4256550/donald-trump-blames-thugs-cancelled-chicago-rally/) on Saturday after fights broke out between Trump supporters and protesters, some of whom were Black Lives Matter activists. Sanders insisted Trump’s own rhetoric is the cause of the violence during a Sunday appearance on [CNN’s _State of the Union_](http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/03/13/sotu-donald-trump-interview-full.cnn). “I would hope my supporters will not disrupt meetings,” Sanders said. “We have millions of supporters, and people do things. 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