Former President Donald Trump accepted a nationwide police union’s endorsement in North Carolina Friday by warning that legislation enforcement officers are in “extra hazard” than ever as a results of insurance policies backed by Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) introduced earlier within the day that it was selecting Trump as its favored candidate within the 2024 contest, help the 78-year-old mentioned he was “deeply honored” to just accept as he stood alongside union president Patrick Yoes at a gathering in Charlotte.
“We all know all about you and the good job that you simply do and the individuals of this nation respect you vastly for it,” Trump mentioned. “So I simply wish to thanks on behalf of everyone as a result of I see it.”
“Sadly, we have been speaking a short while in the past,” he added, “it’s in all probability additionally a occupation that’s beneath extra hazard and risk than ever earlier than, which we hate to see.”
As of July 31, the FOP reported, 223 officers have been shot within the line of responsibility, a slight dip of two% from the identical level in 2023, and 31 officers have been killed by gunfire.
A record-high 378 women and men in blue have been shot in 2023, and 46 have been killed.
“I go to loads of households of law enforcement officials who’re not with us, and we’ve to get again the facility and respect that they deserve greater than anyone,” Trump recounted. “And we’re gonna try this.”
The previous president additionally claimed to have been endorsed by “New York’s most interesting,” regardless of no public announcement to that impact by any NYPD union.
“They’re not speculated to. They mentioned we don’t care — we’re endorsing you anyway,” he bragged.
Trump contrasted his plans to “launch a conflict on crime in America” — together with guarantees to guard certified immunity to guard officers from lawsuits, a pledge to again the dying penalty for cop killers and a wide-scale crackdown on drug gangs and their leaders — with what he known as “Kamala’s crime wave.”
“As we collect at this time, American cities, suburbs and cities are completely beneath siege,” Trump advised FOP members. “Kamala Harris and the communist left have unleashed a brutal plague of bloodshed, crime, chaos, distress and dying upon our land.”
“Aside from that,” he joked, “they’re doing really fairly nicely.”
Trump went on to recount instances of cops being shot on the job simply the evening earlier than in Milwaukee, earlier than describing the “filth,” “graffiti” and rampant retail theft that the “law-abiding citizen is compelled to stay” with.
“The brand new factor in New York, you go to a pharmacy to purchase aspirin, to purchase a toothbrush and it takes you 45 minutes to get a clerk to open up the glass as a result of individuals are strolling in and simply taking it as a lot as they need,” he recounted, earlier than pivoting to assault Harris for her report as a San Francisco district legal professional who lightened penalties for thieves.
“She destroyed San Francisco,” he mentioned, referring to Harris in entrance of the officers as “our opponent.”
“However she got here up with an important thought. You possibly can steal as a lot as you need as much as $950 and nothing occurs to you after that,” he went on.
“So guys are strolling in with calculators,” Trump joked once more.
In a swipe at Home Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), he additionally identified the “large wall wrapped round her home … didn’t assist with the issues that she had,” apparently referencing her husband Paul Pelosi being bludgeoned by a madman at their San Francisco residence in fall 2022.
On a press name earlier Friday, Michigan Police Officers Affiliation President James Tignanelli famous that his state’s legal professional normal, a Democrat who has endorsed Harris, had indicted “between 10 and 15 law enforcement officials” whereas in workplace.
“That doesn’t assist entice your candidates,” Tignanelli advised reporters.
Dr. John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Analysis Middle, additionally shared startling statistics in regards to the rise in unreported violent crimes throughout President Biden and Harris’ tenure.
“For those who take a look at whole violent crime through the Trump administration, it fell by 17% and it’s elevated by 43% beneath the Biden administration,” Lott mentioned, citing information from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
“There’s no time in our historical past the place we’ve had recorded information for whole violent crime that we’ve seen such a big enhance,” he added, pointing to the final report on prison victimization launched by the DOJ bureau in 2022.
Earlier than 2020, Lott defined, each the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the FBI “typically moved alongside collectively” within the numbers that have been reported, however have since “moved in reverse instructions annually, usually by very massive quantities.”
“Whereas the FBI confirmed a 2% drop in reported violent crime, the nationwide crime victimization information confirmed a 42% enhance in violent crime,” he mentioned citing 2022 figures.
Trump was however in a celebratory temper Friday after Manhattan Supreme Courtroom Choose Juan Merchan pushed the sentencing date for his “hush cash” conviction till Nov. 26, which means he gained’t face potential imprisonment earlier than Election Day.
The case “has been postponed as a result of everybody realizes that there was no case as a result of I did nothing unsuitable,” he crowed. “It’s an assault by my political opponents in Washington, DC and Comrade Kamala Harris and radical left opponents for functions of election interference.”
“We’ll restore public security to our streets. We’ll convey again legislation and order to our nation,” he vowed to the FOP attendees. “You’re gonna have the backup such as you by no means had it earlier than if you had it 4 years in the past.”
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