Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that the FBI should be focused on the "radical left," not the right, in light of the anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian campus protests happening around the country.
Speaking in front of the New York courthouse where he is on trial for allegedly falsifying business records, the Republican presidential candidate commended the police departments in New York and Los Angeles for breaking up campus occupations at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA 🚨: CHP has taken control of about 90% of the encampment area, mass arrests made of those who remained behind. A last stand is looking to unfold with makeshift barriers and remaining protestors. pic.twitter.com/pkoLExV7I1
— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 2, 2024
"Just so you understand, this is the radical left. This is a movement from the left, not from the right. The right is not your problem, despite what law enforcement likes to say," Trump told reporters.
He brought up FBI Director Christopher Wray's pronouncements about the dangers of right-wing extremism.
"The FBI director said that he worries about the right," the former president said. "Don’t worry about the right, the right’s fine. Worry about the left, because this is a movement from the left.
"These are radical left lunatics, and they’ve got to be stopped now, because it’s going to go on and on, and it’s going to get worse and worse."
Trump warned these are the types of movements that take over countries.
"And we’re not letting them take over the U.S.A. We’re not letting the radical left morons take over this country. You can’t let that happen," he said.
"The law enforcement and the people at DOJ, instead of going after Donald Trump, they ought to look at what’s happening at their own offices, because you’re loaded up with radical left people that want this country to fail, and we’re not going to let this country fail," the former president reiterated.
The comments start around the 3:15 mark in the video below:
