Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that police officers on the campuses of Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) did a great job arresting a number of “radical leftist” and anti-Israel “lunatics.”
Police have arrested hundreds of protesters in recent days.Columbia University students early Tuesday morning. confiscated They destroyed university buildings, smashed windows and took down the “Intifada” flag. Police repossessed the building later that day.
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On the West Coast, authorities on Thursday morning finally allowed police to clear a protester’s encampment on UCLA’s campus.
Trump, who is running as a law-and-order candidate against President Joe Biden, told reporters before entering a Manhattan courthouse that radical “idiots” should not be allowed to “take over this country.” he said.
The size and violence of protests appears to be increasing. In recent weeks, universities in Utah, Virginia, Arizona, North Carolina and Florida have been hit by unrest.
“I’m very proud of New York’s finest. They’re also great, great people. I know a lot of them. They’re incredible. They work in Columbia. And similarly, in Los Angeles, they did a really good job at UCLA.” Said.
“This is a movement from the left, not the right. Rights don’t matter, no matter what law enforcement wants to say,” President Trump said of the anti-Israel protests. “The FBI director said he’s concerned about rights. Don’t worry about rights. The right is fine. This is a movement from the left, so worry about the left.”
“They’re far-left lunatics and they have to stop now, because it’s going to continue and it’s going to get worse,” Trump predicted. “And, you know, they take over countries, okay, and we’re not going to let them take over the United States. We’re not going to let these far-left idiots take over this country. .”
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Some Democrats are worried about a political backlash in November due to the rise in anti-Israel protests on college campuses.
The protests are [the public’s] The most conservative side,” a House Democrat told Axios. “A lot of people are very frustrated and worried.”
The lawmaker added, “The longer this situation drags on, and the worse the situation gets, the more negative it will be for the election.”
With the Nov. 5 election just 187 days away, protests have dominated the news for weeks, but it’s unclear how long they will last. It is also unclear whether the protests will remain in voters’ memories during elections.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former Republican war room analyst.he is the author of politics of slave morality.Follow Wendell “X” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
