President Trump headline at the top convention in Anaheim, California and his main message on stage was to establish law and order back in California.
Trump told a crowd of enthusiastic supporters that he vowed to bring back law to California and take on woke tech tyrants in the state.
Trump told the large crowd “You are the last line of defense standing between this state and total anarchy.”
Earlier in the day Trump was escorted by California Highway Patrol:
THANK YOU, California Highway Patrol!
(Donald Trump Truth Social Post 02.38 PM EST 9/30/23)
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) September 30, 2023
Following the event Trump took the time to take photos with several law enforcement officers.
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Here’s what The Orange County Register reported:
Speaking to a friendly crowd in Anaheim, former President Donald Trump vowed “to bring back law” to California if elected back to the White House.
In a speech riddled with Republican talking points but few specifics, Trump vacillated between praising California’s Republicans — from former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon to Huntington Beach Mayor Tony Strickland — to castigating the state for its immigration policies, homelessness, “woke tech tyrants” and more.
“You are the last line of defense standing between this state and total anarchy,” Trump said to some 1,500 people gathered at the Anaheim Marriott to hear him speak on the opening day of the California GOP convention Friday. “Help is on the way.”
“We will end the desecration of your once great state, California,” he said. “The world is being dumped into California, prisoners, terrorists, mental patients.”
Trump vowed to “solve the border problem in 24 hours” and bolster California’s water supply as he addressed those at the state Republican Party’s fall convention. Aside from the former president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott were set to speak Friday, and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was scheduled for Saturday.
Trump at one pint during his speech called for police to shoot shop lifters:
President Trump offers his solution to solving the dramatic increase in looting and organized retail theft:
"We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft. Very simply if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store."
The Anaheim… pic.twitter.com/HQR7s7pzDx
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 29, 2023
Here’s what Fox News reported:
Former President Trump said he would use “federal law enforcement assets” to prevent shoplifting and theft during a California GOP speech on Friday.
Trump addressed the California GOP during a Friday luncheon where he discussed ideas to restore law and order in Golden State cities like Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Trump said that if elected, he would do everything in his power — “including sending as many federal assets as required to restore safety and peace” — for cities that have seen what he called a breakdown of law and order.
“We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft,” Trump said. “Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot!”
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