'Appalled': Cops attacked on J6 slam likely police union endorsement of 'convicted felon' Trump
Former President Donald Trump has promised to pardon the January 6, 2021 defendants if he defeats Vice President Kamala Harris in the November election, repeatedly describing those who attacked the U.S. Capitol Building that day as "hostages" — a description that many Democrats, along with some Never Trump conservatives, have vehemently disagreed with.
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), according to HuffPost's S.V. Date, appears to be getting ready to endorse Trump and is hosting him at its board meeting in North Carolina on Friday, September 6.
FOP President Patrick Yoes, in a recent statement, announced, "We are eager to see President Trump again after meeting with him at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year."
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This endorsement of the "coup-attempting former president," Date emphasizes, appears likely despite the fact that Trump "salutes, praises and has promised to pardon domestic terrorists convicted of assaulting police officers at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021."
Date notes that "Harris, a former prosecutor and state attorney general of California, was not invited to the gathering."
"Neither Yoes nor any of the members of its executive board responded to HuffPost queries about its expected endorsement of Trump, whose lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him led to 140 police officer injuries and five officer deaths from the Capitol assault that Trump incited in a last-gasp attempt to hang on to power," Date explains. "In his final days in office, Trump commuted the life sentence of drug dealer Jamie Davidson, who was convicted of murder for his involvement in the shooting death of a New York state police officer in 1990."
Date adds, "Following his release, Davidson was arrested in Orlando, Florida, and charged with battery by strangulation and domestic violence. A jury convicted him of a lesser battery charge in July, and he is now back behind bars."
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Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn, two of former police officers who were inside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, are also critical of the FOP's likely Trump endorsement.
Fanone told HuffPost, "The truth is that FOP leadership is more interested in kissing the a— of a convicted felon who incites violence against law enforcement, then hails the perpetrators as 'heroes' and 'patriots' and promises them pardons."
According to Dunn, his colleagues are "appalled" by the likely endorsement.
Dunn told HuffPost, "The fact that the FOP is entertaining, let alone offering, a potential endorsement is a slap in the face to men and women who bravely defended the Capitol on January 6.” Fanone told HuffPost.
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