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During a visit to southern California, Donald Trump gave an address to Republicans that honed in on fears that California cities are becoming a crime-addled wasteland. He went as far as to suggest that under a second Trump presidency people caught shoplifting “should fully expect to be shot” as they leave the stores they stole from, the Associated Press reports.
We will reverse the decline of America and we will end the desecration of your once great state, California. This is not a great state anymore. This is a dumping ground. You’re a dumping ground. The world is being dumped into California. Prisoners. Terrorists. Mental patients.”
Trump’s statements comes days after his Republican competitors took the stage for the second debate of the 2024 primary. Trump was absent from the debate.
It’s not the first time Trump has suggested shooting people. In 2019 the then president suggested shooting migrants who crossed the border illegally.
Read more of the AP’s reporting from Trump’s southern California event here.
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