Donald Trump returns to North Carolina to speak at Fraternal Order of Police meeting - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : During another Charlotte rally, Trump in July won the endorsement of the National Organization of Police Organizations, whose leadership lauded his "steadfast and very public support for our men and women on the front lines."
62% : Trump has long expressed support for the Jan. 6 defendants.
49% : "The FOP hasn't issued its official endorsement for the 2024 election, but other police groups have already lined up behind Trump.
39% : The imagery of the former president and GOP nominee in a room of law enforcement officers offers Trump the platform to contrast their support with his characterization of Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general whom Trump has called the "ringleader" of a "Marxist attack on law enforcement" across the country.
39% : He also falsely claimed that police welcomed rioters into the Capitol, saying they told the crowd, "Go in, go in, go in, go in.""What a setup that was," Trump said.
33% : "Trump's courting of the support of law officers also butts up against the sympathies that Trump has shown for those who have defied the orders of police, including a pledge to pardon those charged with beating officers during the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol.
29% : Aquilino Gonell -- who retired from the force in 2022 due to his injuries sustained that day -- said Trump had "summoned our attackers. ...
27% : ""Those J6 warriors, they were warriors, but they were really, more than anything else, they're victims of what happened," Trump said at a rally in Nevada this summer.
20% : "Kamala Harris will deliver crime, chaos, destruction and death," Trump said last month in Michigan, one of many generalizations about an America under Harris.

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