White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and DHS secretary Chad Wolf on Sunday shot down President Trump’s claim that law enforcement will be at polling places on Election Day.
This is Lucy/football kidstuff. Just once I’d like to see Margaret Brennan start off Face The Nation with a lusty Bullshit! We’ll be back with Jared Kushner after these messages.
“We’re going to have everything,” Trump told Hannity. “We’re going to have sheriffs, and we’re going to have law enforcement, and we’re going to have, hopefully, U.S. attorneys, and we’re going to have everybody and attorneys general.
We’re going to have Mad Max, we’re going to have Alex Foley, we’re going to have Serpico, we’re going to have Alonzo Harris, we’re going to have the Bad Lieutenant, we’re going to have Crockett and Tubbs, we’re going to have Turner and Hooch.
Hell we’re going to have ROBOCOP.
They don’t need to actually follow up – the work is done by the suggestion itself, especially in a national atmosphere where large segments of the population fear armed authorities.
Come to think of it, walking back the suggestion does the same amount of work, in that it reminds everyone of the original suggestion.