Trump declares himself 'law and order candidate

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[h=1]Trump declares himself 'law and order candidate' after Dallas police murders as he calls for end to 'hostility' against cops and brands Hillary 'secretary of the status quo'[/h]

• Planned speech on veterans affairs turns into all-out bash-fest on Hillary Clinton and strident defense of America's police officers
• 'It's time for our hostility against our police and against all members of law enforcement to end, and end immediately. Right now!' he boomed
• Trump said he is the 'law and order candidate' and Hillary Clinton is 'either a liar or grossly incompetent ... probably both'
• He connected her ability to skate on email scandal with what Americans see as a two-tiered veterans health system
• 'Hillary Clinton's America is a country where the elite get one standard of treatment and everybody else gets second-class treatment,' he said
• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spoke before Trump, saying the next president should give police 'the benefit of the doubt, not always believe that what they've done is somehow wrong'
• He said Clinton is 'not a person who will stand for "the rule of law". That's a person who will stand for "the rule of her"'

By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
PUBLISHED: 16:19, 11 July 2016 | UPDATED: 22:26, 11 July 2016




Donald Trump staked his campaign Monday afternoon on siding with police officers in the latest national clash over officer-involved shootings and cop-killings.
He declared himself 'the law and order candidate' for the White House and said 'crooked Hillary Clinton' is 'secretary of the status quo' – declaring that his Democratic foil's narrow escape from criminal prosecution over her classified email scandal shows she can't be trusted to land on the correct side of the line between law and lawlessness.
'The attack on our Dallas police is an attack on our country,' Trump said in a Virginia Beach, Virginia hotel ballroom, referring to the mass murder of officers last week at the hands of a lone black gunman.



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#NEVERBORING: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump overwhelmed his veterans health plan speech with strident comments about the Dallas police murders and the officer-involved shootings that preceded them – tearing into Hillary Clinton at every opportunity

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'SECRETARY OF THE STATUS QUO': Trump painted Clinton as a morally and legally compromised politician who can't be trusted to land on the correct side of America's divide between law and lawlessness

'Our whole nation is in mourning and will be for a very long time. Yet we've also seen increasing threats against our police, and a substantial rise in the numbers of officers killed in the line of duty.'
Trump compared the daily experience of beat cops and detectives with that of Vietnam War veterans after they returned home, recalling the wholesale condemnation they absorbed from pop culture, college students and liberal politicians.
'We went through an ugly chapter in our history during Vietnam when our troops became the victims of harassment and political agendas. For too many police today, that is their daily reality,' he said.
At the same time he noted the public outrage over the two latest police shootings that galvanized protesters and sent the Dallas shooter over the edge.
'We were all disturbed by the images that we saw,' he said.
'The tragic deaths in Louisiana and Minnesota make clear that the work must be done to ensure – and a lot of work – that Americans feel that their safety is protected.'
'Have to do it,' Trump said, going off-script. 'We have to get better. Better, sharper, smarter.'
Trump has long been a booster of police, and makes a habit of walking the line of motorcade officers on airplane tarmacs for autographs and photos before his airplane takes off following campaign appearances.
Following a June 11 Tampa, Florida rally, Trump stood in the rain for nearly 15 umbrella-aided minutes next to his custom Boeing 757 as one officer after another embraced him.


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VICIOUS: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in his final vice-presidential audition, said the 'rule of law' in a second Clinton White House would be reduced to 'the rule of her'

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HIS OWN INDICTMENT: Clinton, said Trump, 'was willing to risk our foreign enemies reading her emails as long as the voting American public could not'

Trump also hinted at turning policing into a wedge issue in November by painting Clinton as a divisive force who puts communities of color in danger by denigrating the cops who protect their people.
'We must remember the police are needed the most where crime is the highest,' Trump said Monday. 'Politicians and actvists who seek to remove police or policing from a community are hurting the poorest and most vulnerable Americans.'
'It's time for our hostility against our police and against all members of law enforcement to end, and end immediately. Right now!'
As Trump proclaimed his 'the law and order candidate' bona fides, he blasted Clinton as a 'weak, ineffective, pandering' retread whose classified email fracas proves she is incapable of being a firm legal standard-bearer.
'As proven by her recent email scandal – which was an embarrassment not only to her, but to the entire nation as a whole – she's either a liar or grossly incompetent,' he said.
'One or the other. Very simple. Personally, it's probably both.'


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BIG GUNS: Trump has made embracing vets a major part of his appeal, appearing aboard the USS Iowa in California last September with a veterans policy group


.Monday speech was to be a reboot of Trump's veterans affairs policy proposals, a ten-point plan aimed at rescuing a failing health care system.[h=3]TRUMP'S TEN-POINT V.A. PLAN[/h]1. Appoint a secretary of veterans affairs who will make it his or her personal mission to clean up the VA.
2. Remove and discipline federal employees and managers who fail veterans or breach public trust.
3. Ask Congress for legislation giving VA secretary the authority to remove or discipline employees who risk the health, safety or well-being of any veteran.
4. Appoint a commission to investigate all the wrongdoing at the VA and present findings to Congress as basis for new legislation.
5. Protect jobs of honest VA officials and promote them.
6. Create private 24-hour White House Hotline – answered by a real person – to ensure that no valid complaint about VA wrongdoing falls through the cracks, and fix remaining problems personally.
7. Strip bonuses to poor VA performers and give the money to employees who improve service, save lives and cut waste.
8. Reform our visa programs to put veterans at the front of the line for work.
9. Increase mental health care professionals and outreach to veterans outside the system.
10. Guarantee veterans the opportunity to seek medical care at VA facilities or private medical care instead, still paid for by the government.


But the meat in the sandwich was a side show, shoved in between long bouts of Clinton-bashing.
After outlining his veterans strategy, Trump returned to hammering 'crooked Hillary Clinton' as 'the secretary of the status quo' – and received wild applause for the detour.
'Wherever Hillary Clinton goes, corruption and scandal follow,' he said. 'Just look at her life! Our country needs change, and she will never give us change! Never, ever, ever!'
Trump compared the inequalities in the existing Veterans Affairs health care system with those that he said helped Clinton skate through her email scandal without facing legal consequences.
'She helped create our rigged system. You saw that last week,' Trump said.
'Hillary Clinton's America is a country where the elite get one standard of treatment and everybody else gets second-class treatment. So true. And she couldn't care less. Despite what she says, she couldn't care less.'
Monday's version of Trump's anti-Clinton complaint was the most stinging to date, attributing motives to the then-secretary of state's actions which the FBI, while declining to prosecute her, called 'reckless' and 'extremely careless.'
'She was willing to risk our foreign enemies reading her emails as long as the voting American public could not,' Trump said.
'Her conduct was willful, intentional and unlawful, and her repeated false statements about her conduct prove that she was fully aware of her guilt. She knew it. She's probably the most surprised person that she was able to get away with it.'
'This was not just extreme carelessness with classified material, which is still totally disqualifying. This is calculated, deliberate, premeditaded misconduct followed by a cover-up that included false statements and lies to Congress, the media and the American people.'


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REBOOT: Trump first articulated a plan to remake medical care programs for America's military veterans during an October 31 speech aboard the USS Wisconsin in the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia

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Trump was preceded at the mic by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, one of a handful of remaining short-listed contenders for Trump's running-mate slot.
Christie's brief remarks, an audition of sorts, focused on what he said was the federal government's sacrifice of 'the safety and the security of my family' on the altar of political correctness.
'Our police officers – the men and women who stand each day to protect us – need to understand that the President of the United States and his administration will give them the benefit of the doubt, not always believe that what they've done is somehow wrong,' Christie said.
Christie too laid a haymaker on Clinton, saying that in the November election 'there can be little question about where law and order stands and where lawlessness stands.'
Recalling the 'spectacle' of an FBI director publicly reviewing Clinton's conduct, he said the Democratic candidate had made statement after statement that 'in every material way were false.'
'That's not a person who will stand for "the rule of law". That's a person who will stand for "the rule of her". And that's not what we need in the White House.'


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[Willie99]

why do democrats hate law and order?

 

[Coldweather]

Trump is the quintessential egalitarian and has it right. He scares the shit out the liberals and the annoying liberal media! Vote Trump their is no

other choice imo! cheersgif

 

[neverbend]

I doubt anyone can solve the inner city problems, there have been about 4 generations of urban soldiers
involved in gang related activity since the Johnson administration & no matter whose in charge in about
10 more years another generation will pick up the mantle!