POLICE: “In recent weeks, our country’s police officers have been really under siege… But our officers have been under vicious assault, and hundreds of police have been injured and several murdered…
Reckless politicians have defamed our law enforcement heroes as ‘the enemy.’ They call them ‘the enemy.’ They actually go and say they’re the enemy, and even call them ‘an invading army.’
These radical politicians want to defund and abolish the police from our nation. At first — when I first heard it, I said, ‘Well, that’s just something that they’re saying. That doesn’t…’ But they actually are trying to do it. You look at what’s going on in Minneapolis, you look at what’s going in many, many Democrat-run areas. But they want to defund and they want to abolish.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Roundtable with Stakeholders Positively Impacted by Law Enforcement,” whitehouse.gov, July 13, 2020