Trump: “strong borders”
(photo: Tania Barricklo, Daily
Freeman)
POUGHKEEPSIE – The Poughkeepsie rally for Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump included the same rhetoric he has been spouting
for months, bad-mouthing his opponents, both GOP and Democrat.
People who wanted to attend the rally at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center had
to apply online as did the media that wanted to report on it. Some media
were arbitrarily denied in what one source suggested was indicative of
the disarray and lack of communication in his campaign.
But, Trump fired up the crowd, as he does at all of his events. “Our
leaders don’t have a clue; they don’t know what they are doing,
whether it China, Mexico, Japan, Vietnam; no matter where you go, our
leaders have no clue,” he said. “Our military is being decimated.
We can’t beat ISIS.” He said Generals MacArthur and Patton
“are spinning in their graves because we can’t beat ISIS.
It’s going to be a much different story.” He said he will
create a military that will be “so strong, so powerful that nobody
is ever going to mess with us again.”
The candidate pointed to the economy of the Poughkeepsie area saying jobs
are down, particularly in manufacturing.
And he brought up the wall he wants to build dividing the US and Mexico
to keep illegals from cross over the border, which he maintains he can
force the Mexican government to build. In time, he said it could even
be named the Donald Trump Wall.
