Daniel Dale thread:
The most controversial part was Trump’s praise for Confederate General Lee in Ohio, a Union state, but he was probably doing it to show why Lincoln supported Grant even though he drank. (There is speculation that Trump was doing this to support Kavanaugh, even though he drank heavily when he was young.)
The usual lies over and over.
Daniel Dale’s thread:
He lies about everything. He always wants to make the rally attendance sound big.
Trump wants to reinstate stop-and-frisk policies. The way they were done in New York was unconstitutional and bigoted. His base will like the bigotry part.
What Trump got wrong about stop and frisk during the 2016 campaign.
from the article linked to above:
“Applied almost exclusively to minorities, the stop-and-frisk tactics in New York became an elephantine government project that wasted time and money, degrading both to the personhood of the men and women who were stopped and to the professionalism of the people doing the stopping.”
The way stop and frisk was carried out in New York was unconstitutional.
from the article:
“In 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that city police violated the U.S. Constitution in the way that it carried out its stop-and-frisk program, calling it “a form of racial profiling” of young black and Hispanic men. ”
This Washington Post article notes ” …there’s no real correlation between the use of stop-and-frisk and New York’s reduction in crime.”
Trump has behaved inappropriately so many times, I didn’t even see anyone point this out. It’s not news.
He should not be giving a political speech to a global law enforcement conference. He should act like a president. Also, let’s not forget how much he has attacked the Justice Department and FBI.
https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1049357626444632064
See the thread above for more details.
Trump touted Kavanaugh during the speech – isn’t that political?
Thread by Daniel Dale:
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Thread by the great Daniel Dale:
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great thread:
No wonder they laughed – they know what he says is frequently nonsense and lies.
Sad! 