Former President Donald Trump lamented the rising crime rates both in the United States and abroad following the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday morning.
Trump said in a Sin City speech that he believes the rising crime rates in the country will help the Republican Party flip seats in Congress in the midterm elections, arguing the country is failing under Democratic leadership.
"The blood of these victims is almost exclusively in these Democrat strongholds. Babies are being killed. Elderly women are being shot in the face and being raped," he said. "If you look at countries through all throughout the world ... the only ones that don't have a drug problem are those that institute the death penalty for drug dealers. They're the only ones [who] don't have any problem. We just want to have — it's very simple — a great country again. And we have to have a safe country," he said.
"[Cities are] run by Democrats, and we're supposed to let them run it. And they're supposed to be policing their city, just like Nancy Pelosi was supposed to be policing the Capitol building, and she didn't do a very good job. ... We offered them the troops, 10,000-plus, and they turned us down. That was on Jan. 3. ... They didn't do their job. They like to blame it on others, but they didn't do it," he said.
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