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My great fellow Americans, earlier today on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, two members of the National Guard serving in Washington, D.C. were shot at point-blank range in a monstrous ambush-style attack just steps away from the White House. They had been deputized as part of the most successful public safety and national security mission in the history of our nation's capital, the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, which has achieved an unprecedented reduction in violent crime and crimes of all type. This heinous assault was an act of evil and act of hatred and an act of terror. It was a crime against our entire nation. It was a crime against humanity. The hearts of all Americans tonight are with those two members of the West Virginia National Guard and their families. The love of our entire country is pouring out for them, and we are lifting them up in our prayers. As we are filled with anguish and grief for those who were shot, we're also filled with righteous anger and ferocious resolve. As President of the United States, I am determined to ensure that the animal who perpetrated this atrocity pays the steepest possible price. I can report tonight that based on the best available information, the Department of Homeland Security is confident that the suspect in custody is a foreigner who entered our country from Afghanistan, a hellhole on Earth. He was flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021 on those infamous flights that everybody was talking about. Nobody knew who was coming in. Nobody knew anything about it. His status was extended under legislation signed by President Biden, a disastrous president, the worst in the history of our country. This attack underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation. The last administration led in 20 million unknown and unvetted foreigners from all over the world from places that you don't want to even know about. No country can tolerate such a risk to our very survival. An example is Minnesota, where hundreds of thousands of Somalians are ripping off our country and ripping apart that once great state. Billions of dollars are lost and gangs of Somalians come from a country that doesn't even have a government, no laws, no water, no military, no nothing, as their representatives in our country preach to us about our Constitution and how our country is no good. We're not going to put up with these kind of assaults on law and order by people who shouldn't even be in our country. We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country. If they can't love our country, we don't want them. America will never bend and never yield in the face of terror and at the same time we will not be deterred from the mission these service members were so nobly fulfilling. That is why tonight I can announce that I have directed the Department of War to mobilize an additional 500 troops to help protect our capital city. We will make America totally safe again and we will bring the perpetrator of this barbaric attack to swift and certain justice if the bullets going in the opposite direction haven't already done that. During this time of the year when we gather at home with loved ones, these two patriots were wearing the uniform of our country patrolling the streets of our capital. They had taken a selfless oath to defend our nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic and that is exactly what they were doing when they were gunned down in a savage attack. I want to express my extraordinary gratitude to every member of the United States military who is deployed tonight at home and abroad. I also want to thank the Secret Service and the DC Metropolitan Police Department for their work today. This Thanksgiving I ask every family to say a prayer for the two great heroes who were so horribly shot and for their loved ones please say a prayer. May God bless them and comfort them and may God bless and protect the United States of America. Thank you and good night.

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All right. What's your name? Mary. Mary, can you give me an idea of what will be the things that matter most to you when you decide on a candidate that you want to support? The economy and go Trump. So you're a Trump guy? Woman. Yes. Excuse me. Yeah. So what did you vote for last time? Yes. How do you explain with 80 indictments and four indictments and all these charges, his numbers go up? Because we know that those indictments are phony and he's an authentic president. He is for the people and he's not a politician. All right.

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Just think of what we already accomplished in four incredible years. We delivered the largest tax cuts and regulatory cuts in history, and likewise we built the greatest economy ever in the history of the world. China was going to catch us for 20 years. 2018, China was going to overtake us. We were doubling up. We were so far ahead of them, they never had a chance. And if we had a smart president, they would never be able to take us. We achieved energy independence, and energy dominance was going to be there right around the corner for the first time in about 78 years. I think probably more than that. I don't think we were ever dominant. We created the most secure border in U.S. history, built nearly 500 miles of border wall. I hear this sloppy Chris Christie guy. He said, "Trump only built 47 miles of what I did before." Then they checked with the Border Patrol and the people that do that. Almost 500 miles of wall. And remember this. Remember this. I said, "Mexico is going to pay for it some way." They gave us 28,000 soldiers free of charge. That's more than any wall. And they did that for years because while I was building the wall, and Congress fought me tooth and nail, including some Republicans. They fought me like Mitch McConnell. They fought me tooth and nail. And I ended up taking the money out of the military. I took the money out of the military because I considered it an invasion of our country. And we built almost 500 miles of wall. And then I said, "We completed that job." And I said, "You know, we're going to need some more because people are coming around other areas." So we ordered 200 miles of additional wall. It was ready to be installed, could have been done in three weeks. It was all there. It was all built. The hard part is getting it there and building it, building it and getting it there. And they didn't want it to go up. And that's when I first, I guess, believe that they actually want to have an open border. It's so crazy. With people coming in, the likes of which you don't ever want in your country. But we got Mexico to give us 28,000 soldiers free of charge. And that was hard. I like the president of Mexico. He's great. He's a socialist, but you can't have everything, right? But he's a great guy. And they laughed at me when I said, "I want you to supply 28,000. That's what we need, soldiers, along the border while we're building the wall." And they said, "Why would we do that?" I said, "You just have to do it. Please do it. I would appreciate it. We will not do that." I said, "Well, are you sure?" Then they sent the representative to see me at the State Department with a woman that was very good. She worked on Mexico for 25 years. She said, "Sir, they'll never do that. She'll never do that. They'll never do remain in Mexico. They'll never do catch and release into Mexico. They'll never do any of these things." I said, "Yes, they will." "No, they won't, sir. They won't." I said, "Yes, they will. You watch." The guy comes in, the top representative comes into the office. I said, "We need you to give us 28,000 soldiers for our border, please." He laughed at me. He thought I was a fool. And I said, "No, no, no, don't. If you're going to give me those soldiers, no, no, no. We cannot do that, sir. We cannot. How foolish a request." I said, "No, no. You're going to do it. You're going to do it. And if you don't do it, on Monday morning, we're going to put a 25 percent tariff on every single product coming out of Mexico, including cars, 32 percent of which you stole from the United States. You know, they took 32 percent of our car manufacturing business by stupid presidents that allowed it to happen. We didn't allow it to happen. Now it's happening again, I hate to tell you, Michigan, and all the states that are so good, it's happening again. They're taking the car business. The electric cars, they're not going to be built here. They're going to be built in China mostly. But I said to them, I said, "I'm signing this, 28,000 soldiers, and what's the story?" "Sir, I'd like to be able to make a call. Do you mind if I come back?" So I told them about the 25 percent tax tariff, and it comes back about three minutes later. "Sir, we'd be delighted to supply you with 28,000. We would be delighted to give you all the soldiers you want. Please don't do that to us, sir. Please. Thank you." No, he said, "We'd be delighted. It would be my great honor to give you 28,000 on behalf of the Mexican government." And these were very good soldiers. They were not politically correct either. They were, said, "You cannot come in." And we had the greatest numbers anywhere. We deported also illegal alien criminals like MS-13 gang members that killed people for fun at a number nobody's ever seen before, thousands and thousands. I never got enough credit for that whole deal, but we had the safest border in the history of our country. Now we have the most unsafe border, I think, in the history of the world. No country would allow millions of people to just walk across the country. We have no idea who they are. I fully rebuilt the United States military, created Space Force, defeated ISIS, something which they all said you couldn't do. I did it in four weeks, because we have great generals. We have great generals. We have not the ones that you see on television, the real generals that we have. And we have great, great generals, and we brought our troops back home. We got them back home, but we defeated ISIS. And I was the first president in decades who didn't start a war. I didn't start a war. We had peace through strength. As I was building that military, we got more and more bravado going, but they respected us. We did a great job. But we do. We have great soldiers. You know, it's very important for you.

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