During a rally in Erie, the disgraced, twice impeached, criminally convicted, adjudicated sexual assaulter, and former president suggested that “that one really violent day” and “one rough hour” could end shoplifting crimes. He even pointed out Congressman Mike Kelly, R-Pa., who was in the crowd, saying that if he was in charge, there wouldn’t be the crime that exists today.
“You know, in New York, you can’t walk into a drugstore now,” Trump said. “It’s like you’re in a prison of glass. If you want to buy aspirin, you have to wait 45 minutes for a clerk to come up and open, because of what’s gone.”
He said he recently knew of a tenant on Wall Street who was forced to close due to rampant thefts that he complained are not prosecuted by the courts.
“And the police aren’t allowed to do their job,” Trump complained. They’re told if you do anything, you’re going to lose your pension. You’re going to lose your family, your house, your car.”
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The Felon Guy also falsely claimed that crime has gone “through the roof” and that the phenomenon was “largely because of migrant crime.” He then proposed a solution which sounded disturbingly similar to The Purge—the dystopian 2013 movie in which violence is legalized for a brief window as a means of addressing crime—in which law enforcement would be temporarily permitted to get “real rough.”
