Trump Declares Himself The ‘Law And Order Candidate’

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Donald Trump declared Monday in a wide-ranging speech on veterans reform that he was the “law and order candidate” in the 2016 race.

At the top of the speech in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Trump addressed the Dallas shooting that resulted in the deaths of five police officers last week. In an appeal to police officers, Trump said he was appreciative of their service.

He added that the United States needs to “maintain law and order at the highest level or we will cease to have a country. One hundred percent.”

“I am the law and order candidate,” Trump said.

He went on to say that inner cities had been “totally left behind” and that he would work to ensure “every citizen” lives in a safe neighborhood.

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  1. He wants to perform in Law and Order is what he means, then he goes out on a limb and says this…

    This morning I offer my thoughts and prayers for all of the victims’ families,

  2. Avatar for danny danny says:

    Later in the same speech he declared himself to be the walrus.

  3. I’m confused wasn’t that another white lazy guy who ran for President awhile back?

  4. Trump has no respect for the rule of law, more specifically the Constitution, in that his deportation policy is unconstitutional on its face, and his willingness to default on US debt as a bargaining tool, would result in extreme disorder and chaos.

    So Trumpism is really Up is down-ism.

    So basically reality means nothing to him.

  5. No Koo Koo Kachoo?

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