The GOP 'should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of c**p to happen,' Trump booms as he renews attacks over Republican delegate 'dirty tricks'

Donald Trump continued his one-man crusade against 'dirty tricksters' in the Republican Party on Tuesday, saying in a campaign rally that the GOP stood by as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's aides swiped Colorado's convention delegates in a behind-the-scenes putsch.

'These are dirty tricksters! This is a dirty trick,' he said in a Rome, New York airplane hangar, blasting the results of regional and statewide conventions where Colorado's 34 delegates were all won by Cruz.

'The RNC, the Republican National Committee, they should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of crap to happen!' Trump boomed as 5,000 fans cheered.

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SHAME, SHAME: The GOP 'should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of crap to happen,' he said of the Colorado delegate controversy

BLUE COLLAR CROWD: Trump drew cheers for calling attention to job losses and the erosion of upstate New York's manufacturing economy

WARM RECEPTION: Despite 40-degree weather and a stiff wind outside, Trump ditched his overcoat once he was inside the airplane hangar at a cargo air terminal in Rome, New York

The Trump campaign announced the Rome campaign stop Monday afternoon before he appeared in an Albany hockey arena. Less than 24 hours later, a capacity crowd had streamed past Secret Service magnetometers.

Trump arrived an hour late but spewing vinegar in the direction of Republican elites who he believes aim to poach the presidential nomination from underneath him three months from now in the Cleveland, Ohio convention.

In reality, Trump's team failed to fight for the Colorado delegates despite months of advance warning that they would be awarded through a parochial process, not through a secret-ballot popular vote.

Cruz's forces organized around a slate of delegates in each of the state's congressional districts, twisting the right arms until the result they wanted fell into place.

But spurred by isolated reports of chicanery – one Trump delegate was left off ballots, for instance, while a Cruz delegate was listed twice – Trump has turned his Rocky Mountain low into an emblem of everything that's wrong with party insiders' grip on the political process.

His loss, he said, 'has nothing to do with democracy. They took the votes away from the people in Colorado. People are burning up their Republican cards because they want a vote.'

CALLING SHENANIGANS: Trump said GOP officials should have demanded a popular vote to determine who got control of the state's Republican National Convention delegates

'DIRTY': Instead of Colorado Republican voters holding a primary, party-boss arm twisting was the determining factor, and Ted Cruz's superior ground game delivered a clean sweep

'I think the vote is the thing that should count, right? The vote!' he vented.

Trump's grumbling took some shape minutes later as he insisted the Cruz campaign and the GOP were ganging up on him.

'We've got to show our Republican Party,' he said. 'You've been disenfranchised. Everybody has. You've got to show the Republican Party that they can't get away with this stuff any longer.'

'The rules are no good when you don't get democracy,' the billionaire groused. 'The rules are no good when they don't count your vote ... The rules are no good when you have to play dirty tricks in order to pick up delegates, ok?'

Trump also took a new series of pot-shots at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, saying the former secretary of state is 'really the one I want to run against. We will beat her so badly!'

'Her whole life has been one big lie! It's been one big lie!' he blared, citing her classified email scandal and repeating a charge he made Monday night in Albany.

But then he reached back into the political memory-hole to name-check two 1990s scandals that don't get much air play in 2016.

'You go back and you look at Whitewater, and you look at her cattle deal,' Trump said.

'Remember the cattle deal? She made the highest percentage, practically, in the history of cattle making. I wonder why that happened, folks!'

SHADES OF THINGS TO COME: Trump said for the second day in a row that Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, is a life-long liar who profited from shady, influence-leveraged financial deals 

JUST SAY IT: Trump told his acid-tongued audience members that it they wanted to spout off in vulgar language, the most he could do in response was say 'I agree'

Clinton made a $100,000 profit on a series of cattle futures contracts in her very first commodity trades in 1978, when an unknown person allowed her to buy the contracts valued at $12,000 despite having only $1,000 in her trading account.

At the time, her husband Bill was running for governor of Arkansas. Republicans have for decades pointed to the episode as an example of influence-peddling, but have never determined what benefit the Clintons may have used to repay the sweetheart deal.

The Whitewater scandal involved a soured land development deal in which the Clintons invested in 1978, ultimately leading to criminal convictions for 15 other people linked to the scheme.

Trump's heady references to chapters of the Clintons' political history were likely lost on the rural New York audience, but his emphasis on manufacturing jobs drew loud cheers.

'New York state has lost 3 out of every 4 manufacturing jobs that existed in 1960,' he said, reading from hand-written notes.

'That's Bull**t!' a male voice cried out.

'That's right. I agree with you,' Trump said. 'But I'm not allowed to use that term.'

'If I use that term the dishonest press does a big number. So I can't do that.'

Thinking and grinning for a moment, the Republican White House hopeful hit upon a pathway to express his solidarity with the blue collar crowd.

'Shout out whatever you want,' he said. 'I'll just say "I agree," right?'