According to Trump, one of his unnamed “top” Chicago cops told him, “Mr. Trump, I’d be able to stop it in one week”, with Trump saying the cops want to use undefined “tough police tactics”.
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“So, specifically, specifically. How do you do it?”
“By giving them back your spirit and by allowing them to go and counterattack”, Trump answered.
With no evidence of increases in attacks on the police or crime in major cities, it’s hard to know which bad guys O’Reilly and Trump think officers should counterattack to boost morale.
On this episode, O’Reilly chose to ask Trump about his plan for policing America and healing tensions between officers and protesters.
Trump has referenced Chicago’s crime and killing problem several times in stump speeches, most recently in Wisconsin last week when he urged inner-city blacks who live in crime-plagued neighborhoods to vote for him and decried the “war on our police”. “Look at what’s going on in Chicago, it’s terrible”.
“Alright. So your tone is pro-police”, O’Reilly said. The host then goes from cantankerous to counselor-like behavior, such as when he scolded Trump for attacking the Khan family.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says no one in the department’s senior command structure has ever met with Trump or his campaign staff. “The best way to address crime is through.community policing and.stronger laws to keep illegal guns and repeat violent offenders off the street”. “Every time something happens, it’s the police’s fault”.
When pressed, Trump said the officer didn’t say exactly how.
As that played out, apparently by coincidence, Trump’s former campaign manager was relitigating events at the University of Illinois Chicago last March, when Trump cancelled a rally after it was supposed to have begun. But these facts do not fit in with Donald Trump’s narrative of a country out of control that needs a savior who will restore law and order.
Appearing on Fox’s O’Reilly Factor, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump didn’t get the deferential treatment he has come to expect when he makes his nearly nightly visit to Sean Hannity’s show, as host Bill O’Reilly tried to rein him Monday night when he started talking about policing policies. A video of the police shooting prompted weeks of protests.
It is also not clear to whom Trump is referring when he said that he sent the officer’s name to an unspecified someone and suggested they hire this officer.
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The man who is in charge, Police Supt.
