Trump’s ‘very bad day’ call compared to purge

Donald Trump claimed allowing police to act “extraordinarily harshly” for an hour would end crime.

The Republican presidential candidate claimed that a “real, bad day” would put an end to crime “immediately” and included the following statements in his comparisons: horror movie The Purge.

The Trump campaign insisted: He wasn’t making any serious policy recommendations. and was speaking “jokingly”.

“We have to let the police do their job. And if they have to be that way, extraordinarily tough,” Trump said at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.

“And you know, the funny thing about all this stuff is, look at the big box stores… you see these guys coming out with air conditioners, refrigerators on their backs. The craziest thing.

“And the police are not allowed to do their job. They are told that if you do anything you will lose your retirement, your family, your house, your car.

Trump continued: “You know, if you had a really rough, bad day… If you had a tough hour, I mean, a really tough day, the word will get out and it’ll be over immediately. End it immediately. You know, it’ll be over immediately.”

Many commentators claimed that Trump was promoting The Purge, a dystopian movie in which murder and violence are legalized for 12 hours each year, unleashing social aggression and combating crime rates and unemployment.

A campaign official later said the former president “clearly meant it as a joke.”

However, crime has become a key battleground in the election, with Trump frequently invoking his “law and order credentials” and citing rival Kamala Harris’ time as a prosecutor.

According to a Pew Research Center survey, 51 percent of voters favor Trump on law enforcement and criminal justice issues, compared to 47 percent for Ms. Harris.

This is the situation where Republicans Found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the “shush the money” case in New York earlier this year.

“President Trump has always been the president of law and order and continues to reiterate the importance of enforcing existing laws,” Steven Cheung, the campaign’s communications director, told Politico.

“Otherwise, this is complete anarchy that Kamala Harris has created in some of these communities in America, especially when she was the (California) attorney general and emboldened criminals.”

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