Trump Says Radical Politicians Want to ‘Defund’ the Police
President Donald Trump used a White House law enforcement roundtable to pitch himself as a law and order candidate while warning of a “radical left” push toward lawlessness.
Trump appeared with law enforcement officers and people who have had positive interactions with them.
“Our officers have been under vicious assault and hundreds of police have been injured, and several murdered,” he said.
“Far left mayors are escalating the anti-cop crusade and violent crime is spiraling in their cities,” he said.
Trump criticized New York City’s political leaders, saying that last month there were 300 shootings in New York City, and retirements of NYPD officers has quadrupled.
“Yet they spend all their time, they want to do Black Lives Matter signs outside of Trump Tower.”
He continued his broadsides against the movement as his campaign tried to tie them to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
“Reckless politicians have defamed our law enforcement heroes as the enemy,” Trump said. “They call them the enemy. They actually go and say they’re the enemy and even call them an invading army.”
Biden, in fact, opposes the “defund” idea and wants to change police practices within existing departments while boosting taxpayer support for other social services.
Other establishment Democrats have followed suit. Even progressives differ on exactly what local jurisdictions should do.
“We’ve been very strong on law enforcement,” Trump said.
“Numbers are going to be coming down even if we have to go in and take over cities, because we can’t let that happen.”
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