Posted on 09/29/2023 7:55:43 PM PDT by Libloather
Former President Trump said he would use "federal law enforcement assets" to prevent shoplifting and theft during a California GOP speech on Friday.
Trump addressed the California GOP during a Friday luncheon where he discussed ideas to restore law and order in Golden State cities like Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Trump said that if elected, he would do everything in his power - "including sending as many federal assets as required to restore safety and peace" - for cities that have seen what he called a breakdown of law and order.
"We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft," Trump said. "Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot!"
The former president also said "we have the greatest law enforcement in the world" and that they "know what to do, but they aren't allowed to do anything because of incompetent politicians."
"The word that ‘they shoot you’ will get out within minutes, and our nation within one day will be an entirely different place," Trump said.
"There must be retribution for theft, and destruction, and the ruination of our country," he added.
Trump's comments come as the former president runs to take the Republican presidential nomination in a robust field of candidates. Trump holds a commanding lead in early GOP primary polls.
The former president's speech in California came after the second GOP presidential primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
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I’ve made it well past the mid-point of my life without ever shoplifting. It really wasn’t all that hard.
Mayor Richard J. Daley gave police the authority “to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand ... and ... to shoot, to maim, or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city.”
W00t.
Make looters a “season” with no bag limit.
You loot, we shoot!
He's not wrong.
I'm ready.
Once again, Trump is not wrong....
Heaven forbid any of America’s finest get hurt.
I took some extra ketchup packets one time.
And rapists in Baltimore. Don’t forget them.
Good idea.
Prosecuting Hillary Clinton is also a good idea.
When I was 19 I shoplifted an Abba album and a Burton Cummings album from Woolworths. That is the extent of my life of crime.
Today’s liberals, especially the minority dems, say it’s just stuff....OKAY....Soooo,if it is just stuff and all the stores close because they kept losing all their stuff through stealing,is it still just stuff, when there aren’t any stores for you to shop?????
Exactly.
My thoughts exactly.
Along with deporting Gyorgy Schwartz.
Same for illegal aliens. Call it de-lousing, and add ammonia to the water.
“a robust field of candidates” LOL!
Fox has joined the rest of the fake news empire.
I’d rather Ma Deuce. Now the vermin down.
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