Posted on 11/25/2016 12:58:46 PM PST by randita
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. is scheduled to meet Monday in New York with President-elect Donald Trump, according to news reports quoting a Trump aide.
Clarke, who runs as a Democrat, was a high-profile surrogate for Trump during the campaign. Clarke has been mentioned as a potential Trump appointee to head the Department of Homeland Security.
When asked earlier this month if he expected a role in the Trump White House, Clarke told national syndicated radio host Joe Pags: "I don't expect anything, I don't have an entitlement mentality. I told Donald Trump I wanted to help him, because I thought that this country needed his leadership. That being said, if the president asks you to serve, you step up to fulfill that duty. So if he feels that I can help him and he calls on me, sure I'll accept it, but I'm not expecting anything."
In his upcoming memoir, Clarke has called for an overhaul of the nation's homeland security program, writing that American citizens suspected of being terrorists should be treated as "enemy combatants" who can be questioned without an attorney, arrested by authorities and held indefinitely.
Their cases would then be handled by military tribunals, not the traditional court system.
"We are at war. Homegrown radicalization has the enemy inside our borders," Clarke writes. "Islamist radicalized Americans are not criminals; they are enemy combatants."
Clarke has also spoken out forcefully in favor of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Trump's pick for attorney general.
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Since the vast majority of criminals are democrats,it makes good sense to have a law abiding democrat sheriff in charge of security.
To the best of my recollection, this MAN has never said anything I disagreed with. Routinely, he exhibits fearlessness towards the left...........he should be hired to hold daily, mandatory classes of all reps and senators in the Republican Caucus in an effort to inject some spine into them as well.
I can’t think of a better selection, except maybe Steve Bannon for SCOTUS Associate Justice.
Clarke is and has been a class act, personally and professionally.
If this happens then I win a nice chunk of PredictIt money. I bought David Clarke DHS shares at bargain rates.
He’s a Republican that runs as a democrat, I can’t remember why, something to do with the political environment.
He runs as a dem, because that is all his district elects, he is a strong Law and Order man. More a Conservative Republican.
Doesn’t sound like a Democrat.
I want him leading the work on the border and deporting illegals.
probably like half of on here are former Democrats who changed over to Republicans when the party was usurped by the leftists / globalists / progressives and we knew it no longer represented what the party was once about.
Don’t you mean “LGBTQWERTY”? (H/T to Mark Steyn)
Oops! Right you are. Mea culpa.
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