Former President Donald Trump returned to Washington D.C. on Tuesday for the first time since leaving the White House; Trump spoke at the America First Agenda Summit. While Forty-Five touched on many important topics —including the failings of the current admin —one theme was consistent throughout: law and order.
Trump shredded soft-on-crime Democrats for dismantling and disheartening police forces nationwide.
“We’re living in such a different country for one primary reason: There is no longer respect for the law and there certainly is no order,” Trump said as he delivered the keynote speech at the America First Policy Institute’s America First Agenda Summit.
“Our country is now a cesspool of crime. We have blood, death and suffering on a scale once unthinkable because of the Democrat Party’s effort to destroy and dismantle law enforcement … It has to stop and it has to stop now.”
Trump added: “Under the Democrat rule, in Democrat run cities, Democrat run states and a Democrat run federal government, the criminals have been given free rein more than ever before.”
“There’s never been a time like this. Our streets are riddled with needles and soaked with the blood of innocent victims.”
The U.S. needs an “all-out effort to defeat violent crime,” Trump said. “Be tough, and be nasty and be mean if we have to,” he added. “America first must mean safety first.”
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Former President Trump: "We're living in such a different country. […] Our country is now a cesspool of crime. We have blood, death and suffering on a scale once unthinkable because of the Democrat Party's effort to destroy and dismantle law enforcement all throughout America." pic.twitter.com/yfHSUPpbOb
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