Kamala Harris may paint herself as a former “top cop” who is tough on crime. However, she and her fellow Dems are blind to the massive crime wave that is gripping most of the nation and threatening the lives of law enforcement.
Donald Trump knows otherwise, and at a recent rally, he let cops know he has their backs!
The former president has pledged to shield police officers from legal accountability if he is re-elected as president after stating that the US is in the grip of a wave of violent crime that is largely due to people crossing the Mexican border and the “defund the police” activist groups like Black Lives Matter.
Speaking to a group of police officers in Michigan, Trump squarely laid the blame for his view of rampant crime squarely at the feet of his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, whom he characterized as being a “Marxist district attorney” with a record of being anti-police and pro-criminal during her term as the San Francisco DA in the 2000s.
At the same time, Trump lamented his own legal difficulties, including his criminal convictions for fraud in New York and other looming prosecutions.
“They go after guys like me, but they don’t go after guys that kill people,” he said.
Flanked by local sheriffs in Howell, a small city in greater Detroit, Trump painted a picture of Americans living in fear of leaving their homes because of “Kamala-crime.”
“It’s just insane, but you can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped, you get … whatever it may be,” he said.
The former president said this horrific crime wave began when Joe Biden and Harris took office – and has only skyrocketed since.
“Since Comrade Kamala Harris took office, her administration’s crime statistics show she’s presided over a 43% increase in violent crime. These are all government numbers,” he claimed.
He pledged to the crowd of cheering police officers to “crack down on local Marxist DAs who refuse to enforce the law” while, he said, ruining the lives of police officers for doing their jobs.
“Over the past four years, the Marxist left has waged a vicious war on law enforcement in our country. They’ve taken away the dignity and the spirit and the life of some of these police officers, and that’s why you see it – the crime is so out of control in our country,” he claimed.
Trump said that the police “have a lot of difficulty with the laws of our land.”
“We’re going to get rid of that difficulty because they shouldn’t have difficulty, our police,” he said. “We’re going to be guaranteeing immunities.”
The former president then touted Harris’s “pro-crime, anti-police record.”
“She repeatedly endorsed defunding the police,” he said. “If she ever had a chance, she would do whatever she could to defund the police because that’s where her spirit is, that’s where her heart is, and we can’t have a president like that.”