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ABC chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz apparently felt like being extremely morbid Sunday morning. Between insinuating something terrible by saying President Trump wanted “combat troops” in D.C. and then downplaying recent attacks and murders against police officers, she was doing a bang-up job. Luckily, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf was on ABC’s This Week and rebuked the fill-in host.
In answering a question where Raddatz feared how officers were listening to what Trump and others were saying, Wolf expertly explained:
We want to let peaceful protesters provide that environment for them to exercise their First Amendment. But at the end of the day, this is about law and order. This is a country built on law and order, and we're going to address those protesters that are destroying businesses, that are targeting law enforcement officers.
But despite the fact that a Santa Cruz County sheriff’s deputy was killed and two others were injured in an ambush the previous night, Raddatz indignantly declared: “There have not been too many examples in the last few days.”
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