During his visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin yesterday, President Donald Trump met with community leaders, business owners, elected officials and law enforcement officers to offer support for victims of last week’s violence, while vowing that perpetrators of mob violence and wanton destruction will be fully prosecuted. During a meeting of the Kenosha Community Safety Roundtable, he announced the government will provide $4 million to businesses destroyed by violence, $1 million to local law enforcement agencies and $42 million for public safety across the state of Wisconsin.
Part of the $42 million to support law enforcement will go to hiring additional prosecutors, Trump explained, “to punish criminals and [offer] resources to provide services to victims of crime.” Kenosha, he said, has been ravaged by “anti-police and anti-American riots. They have been hit so hard, and we were able to get involved.” What Kenosha has had to endure, he said, is “domestic terror.” He praised the National Guard deployment that the governor finally ordered, and predicted that were the Guard deployed to Portland, Oregon, the problem there could be dealt with swiftly and efficiently.
