Former President Donald Trump praised “New York’s finest” Wednesday for rounding up hundreds of anti-Israel and pro-terror demonstrators at Columbia University and City College of New York the previous night.
“New York was under siege last night,” the presumptive Republican nominee for president said at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, referring to the protesters as “raging lunatics and Hamas sympathizers.”
“But the police came in and in exactly two hours everything was over,” Trump said of the NYPD’s response to protesters that erected an encampment on the CUNY campus and illegally took over an academic building at Columbia.
“It was a beautiful thing to watch. New York’s finest,” he added.
“You saw them go up and ladders, breaking the windows and getting in – and that’s dangerous because you don’t know what’s on the other side of that window,” Trump continued, describing the chaotic scene.
“And they went in – they knocked it out – and they were incredible. They did a great job.”
NYPD arrested around 300 protesters during the raids on the two campuses.
The Wisconsin rally was Trump’s first major campaign event since the April 15 start of his Manhattan criminal trial related to alleged hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The former president also held a rally in Michigan on his day off from court, where he ripped the “bulls—” cases against him.
“Every one of these fake cases is bulls—. Every single one of them. Terrible,” Trump told his supporters in the Wolverine State.
“As you know, I’ve come here today from New York City, where I’m being forced to sit for days on end in a kangaroo courtroom with a corrupt and conflicted judge, enduring a Biden sideshow trial at the hands of a Marxist district attorney … who’s taking orders from the Biden administration,” he continued.
“These indictments are not just an attack on me, they’re an assault on the constitutional rights of all Americans,” Trump argued. “The ultimate verdict on this travesty will not come in a courtroom, it will come at the ballot box. And the American people are going to find crooked Joe Biden guilty of trying to destroy our country.”
Twenty-five electoral votes are up for grabs in Michigan and Wisconsin, where Trump and President Biden are neck and neck, according to a recent Fox News poll.
The former president and the incumbent are tied in Wisconsin in a head-to-head with 48% support each, according to the survey released on April 19. However, Biden leads Trump when voters are given third-party options, 43% to 41%.
In Michigan, Trump received 49% support compared to the president’s 46% backing, with the former president’s lead trimmed down to a 42%-40% advantage in a five-way race.
