‘THEY SPIT, WE HIT’ — Trump Sends A Message To ICE Agitators in LA
Hours after sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles, President Donald Trump promised repercussions for protestors who spit on police officers.
Speaking to reporters alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New Jersey before boarding Air Force One, the president criticized the protestors’ methods.
Reporter: “Mr. President, do you foresee those protests spreading to other cities, Chicago, New York, for example, in the next few days?”
Trump: “Well, if there are protests, we’re going to be watching it very closely. And when they spit at people — you know, they spit, that’s their new thing, they spit and worse. You know what they throw at them, right? And when that happens, I have a little statement. They say, ‘They spit, we hit.’ I told them nobody’s going to spit on our police officers. Nobody’s going to spit on our military, which they do as a common thing. They get up to them this far away, and then they start spitting in their face. That happens, they get hit very hard.”