Trump har inlett sitt ivrigt emotsedda tal i Washington - det är första gången han besöker huvudstaden på 1½ år, och hans första tal inför levande publik där sedan 6 januari - och tydligen inleder han med ett långt och malande block om...brottslighet.
Från Guardians referat:
Citat:
Crime, and support for law enforcement, has become the central theme in Donald Trump’s comments so far, although he hasn’t mentioned the officers beaten in the violent January 6 attack by his supporters during the deadly Capitol riot.
Trump is sticking strictly to the script, and reading diligently from his teleprompter:
" In the Make America Great Again, movement, we believe that every citizen of every background should be able to walk anywhere in this nation at any hour of the day, without even a thought of being victimized by violent crime. If we don’t have safety we don’t have freedom.
First, we have to give our police back their authority, resources, power and prestige. We have to leave our police alone every time they do something. They’re afraid they’re going to be destroyed, their pensions going to be taken away, they’ll be fired, they’ll be put in jail."
Without irony, or any acknowledgement of the police officers who were injured by the Trump-inspired mob defending politicians at the Capitol building, he continued: "Let them do their job. Give them back the respect that they deserve."
He’s lamenting what’s happened in “our beautiful cities”, San Francisco, Chicago... where he says people don’t have time to stop and admire the beauty, “they just want to make it to their offices”.
" Let the liberals invite the homeless to camp in their backyards, soil their properties, attack their families and use drugs where their children are trying to play.
For the good of everyone involved, the homeless need to go to shelters, the long-term mentally ill need to go to institutions, and the unhoused drug addicts need to go to rehab, or if necessary and appropriate, jail."
On his first return to Washington DC since leaving the presidency, Trump says, he doesn’t recognize the place. He seems to be calling for a war on litter:
"The main roads had more bottles and cigarettes and everything you can imagine. Then you see the tents and the homeless and you ask ‘what’s happened to this great bastion’?"
There’s very little applause, just the occasional trickle.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-politics-news
Det låter avslaget. Uppenbarligen känner han att det inte är hans hemmaplan.
