June 8, 2020: President Trump is 99.9 Percent a Fan of Police Officers

 

6/8/20: Protests continue to roil the land and the toll from the coronavirus rises daily. According to Johns Hopkins University’s latest tally, 111,751 Americans have died.

 

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COVID-19 toll still rising. Trump still loves police.

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Switching to CDC, which posts daily case numbers, we have: 

June 1:            14,790           

June 2:            24,955           

June 3:            14,676

June 4:            20,555

June 5:            29,034

June 6:            29,214

June 7:            17,919

June 8:            17,598

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Total:             168,741 new cases

 

As it stands, the United States is likely to pass the two million mark tomorrow or Thursday.

 

By comparison, countries whose leaders actually faced up to a difficult challenge have come closer to taming the spread. Germany had only 311 new cases and 48 deaths yesterday. Italy had 283 and 79, France 403 and 87. Across the border, in Canada, another 372 persons were confirmed to have the disease. Sixty died. South Korea, which had its first confirmed case on the same day as the U.S., moved swiftly. Donald Trump kept tweeting. Total cases in South Korea, during the entire pandemic: 11,852. Total dead: 274. New cases yesterday: 38. 

New deaths: 1.

 

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THE PRESIDENT did make time to talk with law enforcement officials Monday. As one might have expected – because this is Trump – in the wake of nationwide protests, he was 99.9 percent in favor of the police. 

Okay, sure, he admitted. Once in a while, a cop isn’t so nice. 

“We want to make sure we don’t have any bad actors in there and sometimes you’ll see some horrible things, like we witnessed recently,” he told the gathering. “But 99, I say 99.9, but let’s go with 99 percent of them are great, great people and they’ve done jobs that are record setting – record setting – so our crime statistics are at a level that they haven’t been at.”

 

Total crimes in this country have been falling steadily since 1990, a trend unrelated to anything Donald Trump has ever done. Murders, rapes, and aggravated assaults are up in recent years. 

And need we point out? You can cut crime without kneeling on people’s necks until they’re dead.