President Trump Hosts First Responders at a Rose Garden Lunch
President Donald J. Trump hosted firefighters, police officers, paramedics, Border Patrol agents and other first responders for a lunch in the newly paved Rose Garden at the White House.
He thanked law enforcement leaders and Attorney General Todd Blanche, touted record drops in violent crime and drug overdose deaths, a 97 percent cut in drugs arriving by sea, and the most secure border in American history, and announced he has directed the Department of Justice to seek the death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer or firefighter. Border Patrol union president Paul Perez spoke…
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