By
Azi Paybarah
Donald Trump’s administration may have picked a fight with
leaders of the New York Police Department when Attorney General Jeff
Sessions called the city “soft on crime” last month. But Trump cast
himself as a friend to police officers on the campaign trail — and as he
returns to his overwhelmingly Democratic hometown of New York City for
the first time as president Thursday, some GOP officials say he’s got
plenty of friends on the force.
“They love him,” says Republican state Sen. Marty Golden, a
former cop who now represents Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, when asked what he
hears from police officers about Trump. “I was at a police function,
they went crazy.”
“There seems to be, regardless of what we see in the press ... an
overwhelming support among our law enforcement, and our military units,
for Donald Trump,” Golden says.
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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)
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