Politics

Trump: I Would Have Run Into the School Unarmed

YEAH, OK, SURE

“I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.”

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President Trump believes he would have run into the deadly Florida high-school shooting unarmed. Speaking Monday with 39 U.S. state governors, the president criticized local law-enforcement officers who failed to stop a gunman from killing 17 people earlier this month at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. They “weren’t exactly Medal of Honor winners,” he said of the deputies, before declaring: “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.”

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