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Wed Jul 15, 2020, 05:11 PM Jul 2020

Trump in Briefing on Keeping American Communities Safe: The Takedown of Key MS-13 Criminal Leaders

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Remarks by President Trump in Briefing on Keeping American Communities Safe: The Takedown of Key MS-13 Criminal Leaders
NATIONAL SECURITY & DEFENSE

Issued on: July 15, 2020

Oval Office

11:32 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. We have a very important announcement, and we’re going to state some facts and things that have happened recently that are very positive in terms of crime and crime prevention. This is about MS-13.

And we’ll have another announcement next week with the Attorney General, the FBI, and others concerning our cities, because the left-wing group of people that are running our cities are not doing the job that they’re supposed to be doing. And it’s not a very tough job to do if they knew what they were doing. So we’ll be talking about that next week and probably have an announcement as to what we’re planning to do to help them. They’re supposed to be asking for help, and they don’t want to ask. So maybe they’re proud or maybe they think it’s bad politically, but we can’t have happen what’s happening.

But we’re here today to provide an update on my administration’s all-out campaign to destroy MS-13, a vile and evil gang of people.

We’ve just concluded a historic operation, leading to the arrest and indictment of dozens of savage MS-13 members and leaders all across the country. So this is something that’s taken place over the last few days.

I want to thank Attorney General Barr for doing a great job, in many ways — many ways — not just here; Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Wolf; and FBI Director Wray for joining us today. And we’ll be discussing a little bit about what we did and where we’re going. But MS-13 has been a problem for our country for a long time. We’ve taken them out by the thousands.

While radical left-wing politicians have fought to open borders and welfare for illegal aliens, my administration has fought for safe streets. We want security for our people. We want the rule of law. We want law and order.

In the last three years, ICE has deported over 16,000 gang members and arrested over 2,000 members of MS-13. Think of those numbers: 16,000 and arrested over 2,000 members of MS-13. We’ve also deported a lot of the MS-13s out of our country.

This week’s action by the Joint Task Force Vulcan is the most recent offense to — we really — this has been a big offensive in my administration’s war on foreign gangs, of which we came into this administration and we said, “What’s going on?” We had gangs from countries that you wouldn’t believe. More than 20 of the criminals we indicted and arrested in the past seven days were illegal aliens.

Yesterday, for the first time ever, the Eastern District of Virginia — thank you very much — indicted MS-13 leaders on charges of terrorism. So we have the MS-13 leader on charges of terrorism. And that’s a first. Is that correct?

MR. TERWILLIGER: Yes, sir. Yes, Mr. President.

THE PRESIDENT: We’re using “terrorism,” which gives us extra strength.

{snip}

Q Mr. President, you talked about taking over cities earlier this week. Is that what next week’s announcement is about?

THE PRESIDENT: You’ll be seeing next week. We’ll have a conference next week and we’ll tell you in great detail, but it’s something that I think, at this point, the American people want to see. They’ve been run very poorly, these cities, whether it’s Seattle, where we were getting ready to go in and they decided to go in, and that’s good. Minneapolis, where we had the National Guard go in, and as soon as they did that, we straightened that mess out. They should’ve been able to do it locally with their police. Their police are good; they were told not to do anything. Or many other cases. We’re doing a great job.

In Portland — Portland was very rough and they called us in, and we did a good job, to put it mildly. Many people in jail right now.

But we have other cities that are out of control; they’re like warzones. And if the cities are going to straighten it out, if local politicians, or in this case — I don’t say this for political reasons — they’re all Democrats. They’re liberal, left-wing Democrats. And it’s almost like they think this is going to be this way forever, where in Chicago, 68 people were shot and 18 died last week. We’re not going to put up with that. We’re not going to put up with that.

So that’s for our next discussion. Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Q Mr. President. Mr. President —

Q (Inaudible) on Dr. Fauci?

THE PRESIDENT: I get along very well with Dr. Fauci. I get along very well with Dr. Fauci. I have a very good relationship.

Q Are you okay with the op-ed Peter Navarro wrote?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, that’s Peter Navarro, but I have a very good relationship with Dr. Fauci.

Thank you very much.

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11:45 A.M. EDT
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Trump in Briefing on Keeping American Communities Safe: The Takedown of Key MS-13 Criminal Leaders (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 OP
JFC. And no doubt here come the caravans. And pretty soon there will be caravans of antifa. Squinch Jul 2020 #1
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