Former President Donald Trump casts himself as a champion of law enforcement, having paid a visit to the funeral of fallen NYPD officer Jonathan Diller — but it's completely insincere, said former GOP strategist Tim Miller on MSNBC.
That's because the former president continues to demand the release of people accused and convicted of beating police officers during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, an event where numerous police were injured and a handful died in the days following, and he's even suggested he'll pardon them if given another term.
"It should not fall to the family of Brian Sicknick to speak out on Trump's hypocrisy," said Miller. "It should not fall to families — it shouldn't fall to the Judge Esther Salas to speak out to safety and lack of security for federal judges. It shouldn't fall to people who have already lost so much to try to wake us up from stumbling into stupid things in our politics, but that is precisely where we are and what I read," said Miller.
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"The gall of people, Nicolle, and the gall of Donald Trump ... shameless, do things for any political advantage," said Miller. "He'll use the police officer's wake to try to attack his opponents. You know, he did not — not only did he not attend Brian Sicknick's funeral, but he blocked ... the White House from putting the flag at half-mast, if you'll recall after his death, did not contact the family after his death, you know, even though the only reason Brian Sicknick was there that day, suffered two strokes that day was tased and bear-sprayed that day is because Donald Trump brought that mob to the Capitol to try to validate his lies about the election, the fact that he lost. So all of that we're used to from Donald Trump."
"The thing that is concerning and really galling to me is, look ahead to 2024 and what's going to be happening this year is the echo chamber — Fox, Megyn Kelly, people all over my social media feed are doing Trump's bidding on this," Miller continued. "Trying to say Joe Biden didn't go to this one officer's wake and Joe Biden has been with so many dead police officers tragically and sadly. And Donald Trump is the one that actually cares about police and Joe Biden doesn't. This was everywhere yesterday from Donald Trump's surrogates despite the fact it's patently false and absurd, despite the fact Donald Trump doesn't care about anybody else but himself."
"He used to have this big megaphone surrounding him every time he tries one of these, you know, shamefully obvious PR ploys as Brian Sicknick's father described it," he added. "So that is the thing, I think, the political element that is worrying to me, and it's worth monitoring."
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