In another example of Republicans talking a good and Fascist game about being so gung ho about supporting law enforcement but doing the exact opposite, the Big Billionaire Bill that robs from the poor and middle class to give to the ultra wealthy is also a scam that deprives law enforcement of needed tools to do their job while rewarding corporate donors with winning bids to construct concentration camps.
And while Felon in Chief, Twice Impeached, Sexual Assaulter, Domestic Terrorist Enabler, and Pardoner of January 6 domestic terrorists Donald Trump lies through his teeth about a fictitious crime wave in blue states and cities, he takes vital resources from law enforcement in other parts of the country and brings them to Washington D.C. to arrest people that grand juries will not indict and patrol the streets to pick up garbage costing working and middle class taxpayers millions a day.
Responding to Trump’s threats to send National Guard troops to Illinois, Governor JB Pritzker remarked:
“Trump is Defunding the Police.”
“If Donald Trump was actually serious about fighting crime in cities like Chicago, he, along with his congressional Republicans, would not be cutting over $800 million in public safety and crime prevention grants nationally, including cutting $158 million in funding to Illinois for violence prevention programs that deploy trained outreach workers to de-escalate conflict on our streets; cutting $71 million in law enforcement grants to Illinois, direct money for police departments through programs like Project Safe Neighborhoods, the State and Local Antiterrorism Training Program, and the Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative; cutting $137 million in child protection measures in Illinois that protect our kids against abuse and neglect.”
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, on learning that Trump relocated 60 DEA agents who were assigned to Grand Canyon State operations to combat the flow of fentanyl, commented on the Felon in Chiefs “nonsensical” and “unsafe” decision to AZ Central:
“I am disgusted, frankly, to learn that Donald Trump took 60 of our DEA agents out of Arizona — plucked them out of Arizona — and sent them to Washington, D.C., where they apparently are patrolling places like Foggy Bottom and Georgetown and doing routine traffic stops instead of helping me combat the Mexican drug cartels. Arizona is the fentanyl funnel for the rest of the country, and I find it absolutely outrageous that any president would endanger our entire country in this way.”
“They need to come back. They need to do their regular jobs. They need to not be chasing gardeners and landscapers around Home Depots and Georgetown in Washington, D.C.”
On Trump’s boasts and misplaced priorities followed by defunding the police, the Brennan Center noted:
“These policies literally defund the police — along with proven public safety programs — while they fund Alligator Alcatraz. Demagogic words, self-defeating policies. It’s a bad combination.”
In an op-ed, Robert Reich gave a recommendation for how Democrats should counter Trump’s false messaging:
“Don’t simply give statistics showing that the rate of dangerous has fallen. Say safety is critically important, but local police rather than federal troops are best at dealing with it.
Don’t stop there. Hammer Trump for pardoning the 1,500 criminals who violently attacked the United States capitol and caused the deaths of four police officers — and for then firing the federal prosecutors who held them accountable.
Attack him for opening the floodgates to white-collar crime — hobbling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, freezing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, disbanding the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, and retreating from almost all federal lawsuits involving money laundering, crypto markets, and foreign corruption.
Since retaking the White House, Trump has granted clemency to Lawrence Duran, a health care executive who was convicted of leading a Medicare fraud and money laundering scheme. Trump has commuted the 14-year sentence of Jason Galanis, who defrauded investors, including a Native American tribe and a teachers’ pension fund, of tens of millions of dollars. He has pardoned Julie and Todd Chrisley, the reality TV stars convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion.
In April, the Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi was “swapping out and sidelining career supervisors who were responsible for charging crimes such as corruption, price fixing and securities fraud.”
Trump is soft on crime as long as the crime serves his own purposes. People who try to get on Trump’s good side — such as New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted on bribery charges during the Biden administration — have seen Trump’s Justice Department drop its charges against them.
Before they poured money into Trump’s initiatives and PACs, many Big Tech corporations were facing federal investigations and enforcement actions. Those investigations and lawsuits are now being dropped.
Earlier this year, the Department of Justice dropped its criminal case against Boeing, which involved the company’s role in two plane crashes that killed 346 people — despite Boeing previously agreeing to plead guilty in the case.
Trump is himself a criminal, found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree related to payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.
Don’t just accuse him of manufacturing a pretext to go into American cities. Hit him hard on his own horrific record of coddling criminals.”
Mayes, Reich, Pritzker, and the Brennan Center are right.
Pound the message to everyone.
Trump is the criminal.
He lies about crime waves when covering up the criminal acts of his supporters.
He is the one defunding the police.
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