Former President Donald Trump lamented the rising crime rates both in the United States and abroad following the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday morning.
Trump said in a Sin City speech that he believes the rising crime rates in the country will help the Republican Party flip seats in Congress in the midterm elections, arguing the country is failing under Democratic leadership.
“To put it simply, we are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation,” Trump said Friday night. “Our country has been knocked to its knees, humiliated before the world, yet we presume to lecture other people in other countries on their democracies.”
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The former president blasted Democrats’ handling of rising crime rates in large metropolitan areas.
“The blood of these victims is almost exclusively in these Democrat strongholds. Babies are being killed. Elderly women are being shot in the face and being raped,” he said.
Trump called for unprecedented ways of cracking down on some crimes, such as implementing the death penalty for drug dealers.
“If you look at countries through all throughout the world … the only ones that don’t have a drug problem are those that institute the death penalty for drug dealers. They’re the only ones [who] don’t have any problem. We just want to have — it’s very simple — a great country again. And we have to have a safe country,” he said.
Democrats suffer from misplaced priorities, with “racist” prosecutors such as New York Attorney General Letitia James training her attention on the alleged financial misconduct of Trump’s business rather than other matters, such as election integrity, the former president argued, celebrating a recent ruling restricting the use of drop boxes in Wisconsin.
“I just want to thank all the people in Wisconsin who fought like hell for that decision,” he said.
The former president argued the chaos at the Jan. 6 riot stemmed from the same negligence Democrats show toward rising crime rates, saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was to blame for refusing the administration’s offer to send additional law enforcement days prior.
“[Cities are] run by Democrats, and we’re supposed to let them run it. And they’re supposed to be policing their city, just like Nancy Pelosi was supposed to be policing the Capitol building, and she didn’t do a very good job. … We offered them the troops, 10,000-plus, and they turned us down. That was on Jan. 3. … They didn’t do their job. They like to blame it on others, but they didn’t do it,” he said.
Trump mourned one recent high-profile, violent act, sending condolences to Japan following the assassination of Abe, who was killed by a gunman Friday while giving a speech in Nara, Japan.
“I’d like to express my profound condolences to the family of a great, great man, Shinzo Abe. He was an amazing leader. I knew him well, tough negotiator. … This was a man of tremendous moral courage and just a fantastic person,” he said, adding that Abe was a “friend.”
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Like Abe, Trump has embarked on a speaking circuit aimed at boosting his preferred political candidates ahead of contentious elections. Trump’s Friday evening rally was held to support Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, the Republican nominee for the Nevada gubernatorial race, and for Adam Laxalt, the former Nevada attorney general who’s running to unseat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D) in November. The races are expected to be among the most highly contested in the U.S.
