The 2024 election is officially game-on.
Donald Trump’s leading Joe Biden in the polls, but Trump’s been campaigning like he’s behind.
But not anymore – Donald Trump just took the gloves off and hit Joe Biden with this brutal reality check.
The family of slain New York Police Officer Jonathan Diller invited Donald Trump to attend Officer Diller’s wake.
A career criminal – whom authorities had already arrested 21 times prior – allegedly murdered Officer Diller and Trump had a simple message for all the members of law enforcement and their families.
Donald Trump gave an address at the funeral of slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller. He gets it. This is what people want out of a leader. pic.twitter.com/V2zkca6nah
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 29, 2024
The Democrat Party’s soft-on-crime policies got Officer Diller killed and they also prevented Biden from showing the decency to honor Officer Diller.
Donald Trump spoke to Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade and told Kilmeade that the left’s cop-hating, pro-defund police base made it impossible for Joe Biden to show up at Officer Diller’s wake.
“I think that politically he can’t support the police. I think he’s also making a mistake, but I think politically, his base won’t let him support the police,” Trump explained.
“And I support the police, I would say at the highest level of any president by far, maybe double or triple. And they knew that. That’s why when I walked into that funeral parlor, it was — it was like love. It was just — they wanted to shy away it. They didn’t even call the family. They could have called. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know even a call would be, perhaps — I’m not sure they would take his call.”
Trump was more than happy to draw attention to a split-screen moment playing out in real time that drove home his campaign message.
On the same day Trump was in New York for Officer Diller’s wake, Biden traveled to Manhattan to attend a star-studded fundraiser with Hollywood royalty, raking in a record $25 million for his campaign in a one-day haul.
“For Democrats, it was a high-profile, celebrity-studded fund-raiser for President Biden in Manhattan. On Long Island, former President Donald J. Trump attended a wake for a New York City officer who was killed during a traffic stop on Monday. Together, the day’s events struck an unusual contrast in a general election campaign that has so far been largely defined by appearances in courtrooms and at small, invitation-only events,” the New York Times exclusively reported.
“Mr. Biden, along with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, appeared before 5,000 donors at a Radio City Music Hall event that campaign aides said raised $25 million. The eye-popping number set a record for a single political event, according to the aides, and offered a star-studded show of Democratic unity as the president heads into a difficult re-election campaign,” the Times report continued.
The Trump campaign was thrilled with the imagery of Donald Trump standing with police officers and promising law-and-order while Biden hobnobbed with liberal elites and refused to acknowledge the real problems facing the American people.
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