The head of Philadelphia’s top police union took center stage when he said why his union had endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump over Democrat rival Hillary Clinton in a recent interview,
John McNesby, the President of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police, went on WPHT-AM to discuss why he went with Trump over Clinton, even though the latter had held her convention in their city.
He said that, despite the convention’s location, the Clinton campaign had no interest in their support.
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“They didn’t care. Their attitude, then, back in July, during the DNC, was they were going to win this thing anyway, so who cares?” McNesby said. “Now, I think the tides have turned a little bit and she’s on her heels. As many times as we’ve tried to … have it a fair process and an open process, the emails back were that they’re not interested and no thanks. Just snide things like that.”
He also said he met personally with Trump in New York, and that he planned to stick with the national FOP’s endorsement of the Republican nominee.
“We’re falling in line with the national FOP and, basically, she just disregarded and blew the police off,” McNesby said.
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“You can’t go in and expect to get respect when you didn’t give it to us,” he explained. “We gave a very fair process, we thought. We put out a questionnaire and she absolutely refused … outright refused, with a nasty campaign rebuttal to why she wouldn’t. Simple as that, we went in and we participated with the candidate that cooperated.
“He filled it out,” McNesby said. “We met with him.”
This isn’t unusual for a Democrat Party that’s suddenly decided that cops don’t count. Now that things are looking worse for Hillary Clinton and she’s being identified more and more with anti-police forces, she’s looking to represent herself differently to America.
Unfortunately for her, Americans like John McNesby simply aren’t buying it. Please like and share if you don’t either.
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