Trump Gets FOP Support, Promises to Restore Order

CHARLOTTE, NC — In a statement released by Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, FOP members voted to endorse Donald J. Trump for president of the United States.

“Public safety and border security will be key issues in the final months of this campaign,” Yoes said. “Our members carefully considered the candidates’ positions on the issues and there was no doubt — zero doubt — about who they want as our president for the next four years: Donald J. Trump.”

When Trump took the stage at the Hilton Charlotte University Place hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina, to accept his endorsement, he was embraced by the local FOP members who shared the stage with him, and there were loud cheers from the crowd as they chanted his name.

“As your president, I will always support the blue,” Trump began. The cheers and ovations continued as Trump promised that, unlike “comrade Kamala,” a reference to Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, he would never advocate defunding the police.

“We need to get back the power and the respect that they deserve,” Trump said, referring to the law enforcement community, adding that he would give them all the authority they need to “eradicate crime.”

“American cities, towns and suburbs are under siege,” Trump continued, prompting the former president to attack Harris’ criminal past.

“Kamala Harris and the communist left are responsible for crime, misery and death. She is a threat to democracy.”

During his speech, Trump touched on a variety of topics, including local crime, homelessness, illegal immigration, police funding, gang infiltration and drug trafficking. He blamed Harris, along with the entire Biden administration, for all of the above. With his signature line from the television show “The Apprentice,” Trump received the loudest ovation of the day by saying, “Kamala, you’re fired.”

“Mothers can’t take their children to the park,” Trump continued. “There are hordes of criminals who have absolutely no fear of punishment. You can’t even go to a drugstore without everything being locked up.” He then gave an example of how criminals now walk into stores with calculators to determine how much they can steal — presumably to determine the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony.

To address the problem of illegal immigration, Trump attacked Harris’ record as California’s attorney general and her effectiveness, or lack thereof, as America’s “border czar.”

“With her at the helm, we have become a nation of fear and profiteers,” Trump said. “We are being conquered. When I am president, we will take back every inch of land that was taken by migrants.”

Trump also pledged to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to crack down on illegal immigration, carry out mass deportations and impose mandatory minimum sentences for crimes committed by gangs.

“I will stop the invasion,” Trump continued, returning to his law and order theme. “I will close the border. I will impose the death penalty for crimes committed by drug cartels and impose a naval blockade.”

At the end of his speech, he promised a room full of FOP members that while he would overfund the police, he would never underfund the police.

“When I am president, I will make America safe again.”