Trump’s credibility craters following disastrous week of vicious ineptitude
CNN’s Chris Cillizza describes Trump’s manic, fantastical and utterly disastrous week this way: “This is the nature of time in the Donald Trump presidency.”
“There are so many storylines every single day that it’s impossible to keep up with them even for a 24-hour news cycle. Some of this is, of course, strategy on the part of the President — if you throw 1,000 balls in the air, any one person can only hope to focus on a few in hopes of catching them.”
“But, ascribing strategy to every ball Trump throws may be giving him and his White House too much credit. The truth is that this is a President who creates chaos in and around him. He acts, and then watches the wildness that ensues. The plan, seemingly, is that there is no plan.”
“He’s the man knocking down the first domino in a massive chain that spiders in a thousand different directions. Or, maybe even more apt: He’s smashing the ice on a thinly frozen pond and watching as the cracks spread out around him — endangering both himself and anyone else unlucky enough to be sharing the ice with him.”
Washington
July 31, 2017
Trump encouraged police violence during criminal arrests
Trump’s speech to Long Island, New York police encouraged violence and roughing up: “Don’t be nice when you make arrests” Trump said.
“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over?” Trump said, miming the physical motion of an officer shielding a suspect’s head when being placed in a squad car following an arrest.
“Like, don’t hit their head, and they just killed somebody — don’t hit their head,” Trump continued. “I said, you can take the hand away, okay?”
Trump said that unlike in the past, he has their back – dusting off his stump speech attacks during Election 2016 campaign on President Barack Obama – no friend of law enforcement he would say to roaring crowds at his rallies.
On Friday, Suffolk County, Long Island police cheered and applauded Trump when he said they should rough up suspects during an arrest. Especially when placing them in transport.
It was in November 2016 that the Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for beating a thief who stole pornography and sex toys from the chief’s SUV.
The police chief punched the shackled prisoner and shook his head violently at the police precinct. The Suffolk County police chief threatened the prisoner saying he would receive a “hot shot” – slang for a fatal dose of heroin.
Just the day before Trump’s speech one of Suffolk County own police officers was arrested by the FBI. Officer Christopher McCoy was charged of “depriving an arrestee of the right to bodily integrity,” for allegedly forcing a woman detained at the police precinct to perform lewd acts.
After Trump’s speech Suffolk County police said they knew Trump had their back again – “not like that last one,” referring to Barack Obama.
“That was great,” they told Newsday reporter Mark Chiusano. “That was awesome. Trump “inspired confidence,”
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