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Sunday, July 17, 2016
Trump blames police shooting on ‘lack of leadership’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe always classy presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, gearing up for his big Cleveland nomination party, blames the Baton Rouge shooting, in which three police officers were killed, on a “lack of leadership.”
“How many law enforcement and people have to die because of a lack of leadership in our country? We demand law and order,” he writes on social media.
We grieve for the officers killed in Baton Rouge today. How many law enforcement and people have to die because of a lack of leadership in our country? We demand law and order.
Posted by Donald J. Trump on Sunday, July 17, 2016
Trump has in recent days tried to paint himself as the “law and order” candidate.
Hillary Clinton has yet to release a statement or make any comment on the shooting on social media.
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