Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised “the best in New York” for rounding up hundreds of anti-Israel and pro-terrorism protesters at Columbia University and the City University of New York the night before.
At a campaign rally in Wisconsin, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate called the protesters “raging lunatics and Hamas sympathizers” and said, “Last night, New York was under siege.”
President Trump said of the NYPD’s response to protesters who set up an encampment on the campus of the City University of New York and illegally occupied an academic building at Columbia University: “But the police came and in just two hours, it was all over. ” he said.
“It was such a beautiful thing to see. New York at its finest,” he added.
“I saw them climb up a ladder and break a window to get in. It’s dangerous because you don’t know what’s on the other side of the window,” Trump continued, describing the chaotic scene.
“And they came out and got knocked out. And they were unbelievable. They did a great job.”
The NYPD arrested approximately 300 protesters during raids on two campuses.
The Wisconsin rally was Trump’s first major campaign event since the start of his Manhattan criminal trial on April 15 in connection with an alleged hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The former president also held a rally in Michigan on the court’s day off, where he denounced the “bull” case against him.
“All of these fake incidents are bullshit — every single one of them. It’s terrible,” President Trump told supporters in the Wolverine State.
“As you know, I’m here today from New York City, where I sat in kangaroo court for days on end with corrupt and opposing judges, enduring Biden’s sideshow trial at the hands of Marxists. “District attorneys…are being forced to do so by the Biden administration,” he continued.
“These charges are not just an attack on me, they are an attack on the constitutional rights of every American,” Trump said. “The final verdict on this travesty will not be handed down in the courts, but at the voting booth. And the American people will know the guilt of the perverse Joe Biden who tried to destroy this country.” It will happen.”
According to a recent Fox News poll, 25 electoral votes are contested in Michigan and Wisconsin, two states with close races between President Trump and President Biden.
According to a poll released on April 19th, the former president and incumbent are tied in a tight race in Wisconsin with 48% support each.
But when voters are given a third-party option, Biden leads Trump 43% to 41%.
In Michigan, the former president’s lead in the five-way race has narrowed to 42% to 40%, with Trump’s approval rating at 49% and the president’s approval rating at 46%.
