President Trump
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Trump was attended by dozens of members of the City Police Benevolent Association (PBA) at his private club in Bedminster, NJ. The union, which represents about 24,000 members, gave Trump his distinction, and the president delivered something out of something like a campaign speech.
“My agenda is anti-crime and pro-cop all the way, and that’s what it should be,” Trump said.
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Trump said the presence of police officers that they “should fight back,” reflecting similar rhetoric he has in some places encouraged law enforcement to use more aggressive and controversial tactics.
Union President Patrick Lynch lamented a “false narrative” that city lawmakers are “evil” and praised Trump for what he called a reluctance to “speak the truth” and give his support to police.
“I can not remember when we ever supported the office of President of the United States, until now. That is how important this is,” Lynch said.
Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani
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The president’s speech was similar to Trump’s traditional campaign rallies. The president asked the public about whether they would have preferred the nickname “Sleepy Joe” or “Slow Joe” for the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Trump told the crowd that he hopes to create a play to win New York on the strength of its “law and order” platform. Trump lost the state by nearly 2 million votes in 2016, and no Republican has won the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
The president has made a statement of the law and ordered a central part of his bid for re-election amid nationwide unrest over the police assassination of George Floyd in Minneapolis. After initially appearing open to police reform, Trump pivoted sharply to defend legislation and portray protesters as unjust, and in some cases, anarchists.
The president held a mini-campaign rally in Florida last month alongside local sheriffs, while Vice President Pence attended several “Cops for Trump” campaign events in Pennsylvania and Arizona in recent weeks.
Trump and Pence have painted a dystopian image of a country under a wild Biden administration. But those efforts are complicated by the public statements and records of both Biden and Harris.
The Trump campaign has tied Biden to ‘defending the police movement’, but has at times highlighted his role in passing the 1994 criminal law that led to a spike in prison sentences for low-level crimes. Biden has said he would be open to diverting some funding away from police departments and to other public services, but has opposed the idea of completely defusing law enforcement.
Harris, meanwhile, has offered her support for police reform amid George Floyd’s protests, but some progressives have been critical of her hardline as a lawyer and attorney general in California.
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