Republicans In Panic Mode As Trump Doubles Down On Trashing Milwaukee

In a private meeting with Republican lawmakers in Washington last week, Donald Trump trashed Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a "horrible city," which sent the party into complete panic mode. The Republican convention will be held in Milwaukee this year, and now Republicans have to spin Trump's attack on their host city. To make things worse, Trump went on Fox and doubled down on his comments, causing even more headaches for Republicans. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Last week during a meeting with Republicans on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump decided to trash the city of Milwaukee by referring to it as a horrible city. Now, in case you're not familiar with this, Milwaukee, Wisconsin is of course going to be the site of the 2024 Republican National Convention, and Donald Trump is now out there calling it a horrible city. Not exactly the kind of thing you wanna say before you go there to be nominated as a felon for the Republican Party's nomination. But it's not just that he said it on Thursday. No. If it were just that, right, this story would be over. It's the fact that he was given the opportunity the very next day on Friday on Fox News to walk back his comments, make apologies, say that he didn't say it, but no, he went on Fox News on Friday and doubled down and actually made it worse by lying about what's taking place in Milwaukee.

Now, of course, this came after Republicans went out and tried to downplay Trump's comments. You had some literally claiming he never said it at all. They said, Nope, he didn't say that even though he said it. Then you had other Republicans who said, oh wait, he did say it, but he's just referring to the fact that the city has not yet approved our request to expand the security perimeter so that we don't have to see any protestors. So Trump says it's a horrible city. Republicans come out and say, no, he didn't say it. Or yes, he did say it, but it's because of the security issue. And then Trump went on Fox News and said this. It was very clear what I meant. I said, we're very concerned with crime. I love Milwaukee. I have great friends in Milwaukee, but it's, as you know, the crime numbers are terrible.

We have to be very careful. You know what, before I even continue, who are your friends in Milwaukee, right? I have friends in Milwaukee who name them, right? You could have said, Hey, yeah, I got my good buddies over there. I go to Milwaukee all the time catching a brewers game this coming weekend, right? It's gonna be awesome. You, you don't have friends in Milwaukee, you don't have friends. Like let's be real about that. But he continued. I was referring to also the election, the ballots, the way it went down. It was very bad in Milwaukee. all very, very bad. And the people understand and and they agree with me, everybody agrees. No, that was a fake story that came out. Yeah, Milwaukee has a problem with crime, as do most Democrat run cities. Most Democrat run cities. Almost all of them have problems, but they also have a problem with votes and election integrity. And that's what we wanna make sure we get straight. So that's why it's a horrible city. Folks. Problem of course, is that both of those things are complete and total fabrications. The crime rate in the city of Milwaukee has been going down for the last two years. That includes things like murder going down, petty theft going down, uh uh, uh, grand theft going down, arsons going down, sexual assaults going down. Crime rate in the city is actually getting under control and getting better by the week.

As for the ballots, that's a complete and total fabrication. That just never happened. There was no problem with the ballots in Milwaukee.