BLUE MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: President Donald J. Trump: America’s Foremost Broad-Shouldered Leader

BLUE MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: President Donald J. Trump: America’s Foremost Broad-Shouldered Leader

Donald J. Trump was a peacetime president, a skilled negotiator on the world stage with allies and foes alike, who had the American economy running on all cylinders. We unequivocally believe he was the best president in modern memory, partly because he wasn't a politician, and mostly because he always had America's best interests at heart. America's first policies were long overdue in a country that for many decades was taken advantage of on multiple levels and by many actors. Trump championed law enforcement, our military and veterans, and the common folk who often felt cast aside. When hostile foreign adversaries threatened America, he took them to task — avoiding war and the loss of lives.

Why would a law enforcement publication surface this seems counterintuitive and vacuous. However, if you need to ask this, you have not been paying attention to Blue Magazine and why we exist. For well over a decade, Blue Magazine was the loudest (and at times lone) voice speaking out against the abuses of power — the injustices levied against good officers by loathsome, self-serving politicians and their coconspirators in the corporate media who scapegoated law enforcement for political expediency and profit. Consider how many officers over the last decade were wrongfully investigated, indicted, arrested, jailed, or had their livelihood destroyed for doing their job. We are not naive. These same corrupt politicians and corporate media ilk attacking law enforcement did not disappear; they simply turned their artillery on President Trump in an all-out war to destroy him. Sounds familiar to us.

In this exclusive interview, you will see a family man — husband and father of five children - whose incredible toughness, determination, and resolve are unmatched. You will also see how the weaponization of our two-tiered justice system is neither novel nor a fallacious concept, rather continuous, unabated, and seemingly prospering. We as a nation deserve better.

Yet, while Trump endures personal and professional attacks of massive proportions, he continues to push forward and succeed. Let this serve as an example for everyone, including all officers in our great nation, that overcoming great adversity is possible with true grit, determination, commitment and clarity of focus.

Blue Magazine thanks President Donald Trump for having this needed conversation.

Blue Magazine: We feel honored and grateful to have you here with us today. We really appreciate all the important things you have done for this great country, and we thank you very much for all your hard work. We are here to support you, just like you have supported us.

President Trump: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. These are bad times in our country, really bad times. We're allowing so many criminals to come in.

Blue Magazine: Many in our country know of your true admiration and support for law enforcement, no other politician in modern memory comes close to you in this regard. Can you tell us when and how your admiration and support for law enforcement began?

President Trump: I watched how New York was doing when New York was run by America's Mayor, Rudy Giuliani and of course the great Bernie Kerik and all of the different people that did such a great job. The city was plagued by numerous issues and was considered a dangerous place. Under Rudy's administration, New York became the safest big city. Now that's leaving, but it's not because of law enforcement, it's the leadership. They refuse to allow law enforcement to do their job. The police are great in New York, the greatest. They refuse to allow them to do their job. And you see the crime statistics … (Similarly) I'm dealing with it right now. They are going after Trump. Murderers and drug dealers and everything else they have no problem with, they go after me on something that everybody says is not even a crime. They're spending millions and millions of dollars going after me, and in the meantime, murderers are walking all over the streets. It's just incredible. So, I've always admired law enforcement. I've always understood just from a common-sense standpoint what can be done. The best example that I can think of is what Rudy and his leadership did in taking over New York because New York was really bad. It was really dangerous, and he made it a different place.

Blue Magazine: President Trump, I would appreciate your insights on the factors contributing to the prevailing negative sentiment towards law enforcement and your perspective on potential solutions to address this issue.

President Trump: Well, I can only think it’s people that hate our country. I mean, why would somebody want open borders where prisoners by the thousands, tens of thousands, are being released from other prisons all over the world, into our country? They're being released from mental institutions and insane asylums all over the world. They're being poured in. These are not stupid people, look at the way they cheat in elections. They want to defund the police and they still want to defund! You know, they try and play that down a little bit because it doesn't exactly play well in polls. I watched what happened when they tried to defund the police in Minnesota, they're still trying it. It's incredible. Remember when they took over the police department in Minnesota, they literally took it over the Minneapolis police department. The whole thing is crazy. And we have to be very strong. And, you know, the press plays into it because the press tries to turn everything into a major bad effort. And we can't allow that to happen. We have to bring back our police. We have to bring back law enforcement. You're not going to have any cities. The country itself is going bad because this is now moving into the suburbs. This is spreading. This is like cancer, what is happening. I stopped it and I will stop it again.

Blue Magazine: Mr. President, how do you think President Biden has handled this increasing resentment against law enforcement?

President Trump: - I don't know that he knows what's going on. I really don't. I mean, I hope he does, but I don't know that he knows what's going on. He keeps the border open and then he says to everybody, the border is secure.

I think we'll have 15 million people come in this year. It's bigger than New York State. I had the safest border in history and now we have the most unsafe border in history and that's in the world. That's not just New York, that's in the world because there's never been a country, third world or not, that allowed people to come in like they're coming in here. We had the safest border in the history of the United States, and now we have, I believe, the most unsafe, the worst border anywhere in the world ever. There's never been anything like this.

Blue Magazine: Regrettably, the politicization of certain law enforcement agencies, particularly at the federal level, is exceedingly remarkable in numerous aspects. As law enforcement officers, what measures can we take to prevent this? Furthermore, if you are re-elected as President, what actions would you undertake to curb this issue?

President Trump: Well, you have to complain. Look, we're losing our country and people are afraid to complain and speak up. You're allowed to, under the Constitution, to object. People are afraid to object. You know, what they've done is they've silenced everybody. They silenced them in fighting for the election. The judges don't want anything to do with it. They're afraid. The judges are afraid. The Supreme Court was afraid they were afraid to do what was right. It's incredible. I see it all the time. The people must object and that includes law enforcement. They're allowed to make their points. When you watch a policeman stan-

ding outside a store where you have hundreds of people, largely young people, and they're running out of these big stores with all the merchandise literally stealing it and the cops are standing there doing nothing and they're there because they don't want to lose their job. They don't want to lose their pension. They know if they did anything at all, their job is gone, their pensions gone, and maybe they end up in jail. We can't have that. We have to protect our law enforcement. The police could do the job very easily. They know how to do the job. They even know the bad ones from the good ones. I mean, I know the people in Chicago. They're wonderful. They're just not allowed to do their job. New York, I know the best, New York's finest and they're not allowed to do their job. If you look at the crime statistics in New York this year everything's up 40%, 50, 60, 70%. And then you have Alvin Bragg trying to get Trump for non-disclosure agreements and spending tens of millions of dollars.

Bernard Kerik: Mr. President, considering the events that transpired on January 6th, specifically, the targeting of individuals engaged in peaceful protests, as well as the controversies surrounding the 2020 election. No one is more aware of these matters than yourself, yet I personally witnessed the affidavits, the compelling evidence, and the instances of voter and election fraud, along with various improprieties. The question then arises: How can we prevent a recurrence of such incidents in the upcoming 2024 election?

President Trump: You gotta go to paper ballots and we have to have voter id! We have to stop mail-in voting. Mail-in voting is a disaster. Some of these elections never end and mail-in voting goes on for weeks and weeks. Our elections are full of corruption. Bernie, you know that because you were a part of it. We have affidavits from the people, high-quality people swearing with their lives on the line, and nobody wants to even look at it.

Bernard Kerik: People have asked me if Attorney General Barr was going to investigate or if he did investigate or if the GBI in Georgia investigated. It seems nobody investigated. The concern is that it doesn't happen again in 2024.

President Trump: Barr was a disgrace. Barr was a coward. The Democrats wanted to impeach him, which they could have done easily. Many of these people are very dangerous, and they stick together, and they wanted to impeach Barr. As soon as that happened, he became an amoeba. He became totally unable to do his job, in my opinion, and I should have fired him, but it was very much toward the end. Ultimately, I did say get out, but he really became a very ineffective guy. He didn't want to be impeached, but he was a coward. He looked at the situation in Georgia he looked at all of that evidence with the voting that night, remember the water main leak, Bernie? All of the things that went on with the water main and everybody ran out and then these people came back in. He looked at that and he said there was nothing wrong. I said, really? What about the water main break? He said, oh, I didn't hear anything about that. Well, that's how they got everybody out of the room. How could you not have heard about it? He didn't want anything to do with any of it. He had his U.S. attorneys not do any work on it. Barr was a disgrace. He was well; (…) he was a pathetic, weak guy. Now I see him on television sitting back and explaining to people what to do, he had a chance to do it. You know, we had a great administration, the greatest economy ever, the greatest everything.

The same thing happened in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, the U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania wrote a letter that Bill Barr would not let him do his work. He wouldn't let him do his work and ruined his reputation over that. Take a look at the letter that was written by the U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia. It was mind-boggling. He didn't want to be impeached. And he was a coward. It's a shame. When I see him on television, I mute him. He was a coward. He had a chance to do something. He should have looked at the Hunter Biden stuff. But they go after me for a non-disclosure agreement? My worst enemies are saying this case is ridiculous!

This is election interference. This is another form of cheating. They cheat in many different ways. They stuffed the ballot boxes. Look at the FBI the FBI cheated when they called Twitter and Facebook and essentially told them not to do anything with the Hunter Biden stuff. If you want, do some bad stuff to Trump, you know, that made a 17-point difference, according to McLaughlin and pollsters.

So, you know, there's so much there; there was so much cheating and in so many different ways. Our elections are third world. And frankly, our country right now is third world, including its airports that don't work. We had the greatest country ever and then COVID came in and we fixed it, we did a great job on that. We didn't get credit for it whatsoever. The stock market was actually higher than it was pre-covid.

Blue Magazine: The issue of active shooters persistently poses a threat to educational institutions and other designated gun-free areas. What measures should be taken to mitigate these devastating incidents, and how can we effectively address and prevent such tragedies?

President Trump: Well you have to put proper people that know how to handle weapons in the schools. In my opinion, you could take 5% of the teachers, some of whom are veterans and know guns very well and you wouldn't have a problem. I mean, they would do an incredible job. They love the students. They want to protect the students. But you have to, you could do that, and you could put armed guards in. But good ones, you know, we have great vets. We have great people. And there's always a downside to everything, no matter what you do. But I've always liked the idea of a small percentage of teachers having guns. Those that are capable of handling guns.

Blue Magazine: One of the topics we were discussing pertains to the fact that we are unaware of anyone who encounters a greater influx of hostility and criticism than yourself. This occurrence appears to transpire on a substantial scale. Given that you are persistently subjected to attacks, including those presently emerging, how do you personally manage to overcome these challenges?

President Trump: It's very interesting. It's the question I get asked more than any other, they say, sir, how do you do it? First of all, I'm not guilty and I fight. I fight so hard and so much, I don't have enough time to think about it, probably because if you did think about it, you'd go put yourself in a corner, put your thumb in your mouth and say, Mommy, take me home. But I get that question so much "How do you do it?" I have a bunch of thugs coming after me all the time. Dishonest thugs. Look at this Bragg. He campaigned on the fact. He campaigned on the fact I'm going to get Trump. He knew nothing about me. He never saw me. (…) They looked at over a million documents and they say remember the tax returns and they came up with a charge of a non-disclosure agreement that was totally legal, they do them everywhere, non-disclosure agreements, they're the standard. And they will probably spend 100 (million?), by the time this is over. I hear New York is like an armed camp right now. By the time they spend all the money, they'll spend hundreds of millions of dollars on this, and they could have spent it going after the murderers and killers and rapists all over New York who are walking the streets where people don't want to leave their apartments anymore.

Blue Magazine: Mr. President. Blue suicide, Is a major issue in law enforcement. Every 72 hours an officer takes his or her own life. Could you speak directly to that suicidal officer, what message or advice would you give them?

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President Trump: Look, I say this. You're in one of the most noble professions. It's an incredible profession. I saw it in New York, and I've seen it in other places. And I've seen it when they're really down and out where they're not allowed to do their job and they're almost embarrassed at what they're doing in their profession and by their profession. The problem is it's getting so bad now, the crime is so bad. I don't know if you remember this, but a few years ago when these kids, these wild kids were throwing water on the heads of cops, they were standing there dumping water on their heads. And I thought that might have been the lowest I've ever seen, you know, and it's gotten worse! That was in New York. They were throwing water on New York's finest, and I watched these police, and they weren't allowed to do anything. They just stood there, and these wise guys were coming up with, you know, big bottles of water, dumping it on their heads and screaming at them and laughing at them. And I said, boy, we've gone down a long way. And so, we have to give the respect and we have to give the backing to law enforcement, and we'll solve the crime problem. But we're not there yet because you have people in the White House who have no idea about it, or they want to destroy the country. I mean, it's just not believable that anybody could be so stupid. So, they must really want to destroy the country.

Bernard Kerik: That's what it looks like. Mr. President, we're going to wrap up and I want to tell the listeners two stories, two quick stories. And you may not remember this. I was a young cop. It was a 1987 or 1988, and I was sent up to FAO Schwarz. Michael Jackson was going shopping on a Sunday. It was an early Sunday morning, I think, and we were standing out by Trump Tower and you came out and there were a bunch of us guys standing around in plain clothes. And you walked up to me and you put your hand on my chest. You said "you got your vest on?" I said, yes, sir. (Trump) says, "all right, you guys stay safe." And every one of us, as you walked away thought, this is a hell of a guy like to come over and be concerned about our safety, you know, checking to see if I had a vest on. I thought that was pretty slick, but I don't think there was anything better for me than in the aftermath of 9/11.

A lot of people have no idea that in the aftermath of 9/11, on day one, in the aftermath, you were down at Ground Zero and you were walking around talking to every cop, every fireman, every construction worker, anybody that was down there on the pile. You were down there to support everybody, every first responder there, and you stayed. And then on top of that, I don't know the numbers. You know the numbers. You must have sent 250 or 300 people down to ground zero to help us. On behalf of every cop and every fireman that was working that day, we owe you a debt of gratitude that it's just its unexplainable. Like nobody gets it, nobody understands it. And when I've tried to tell people these stories, you know, the mainstream media, the fake news, they don't want to hear it. But the bottom line is, you've been a supporter of law enforcement for 30, 40 years that I know of that I've been in the city and on behalf of every cop out there and on behalf of the magazine, I just want to say thanks.

President Trump: Well, thank you, Bernie.

Daniel Del Valle: Mr. President, thank you so much for your time on behalf of the Blue Magazine and the law enforcement community and May God bless you through these times and you will overcome.

President Trump: Well, thank you all very much. It's an honor. And say hello to everybody. You have a lot of great people you can say hello to and say hello to everybody and thank you very much.

"This issue has been made possible in part by Caesar DePaço. To read Caesar DePaço's message to the President, click here"