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Donald Trump: “I found an old statute, very old, early 1900s, that said if…”

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BREAKING NEWS: Trump And Top Cabinet Members Detail Major Crime Crackdown For Washington, D.C.

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I don't get it. They don't get it because they can't get votes. I don't know how they can win an election with this, but they don't want safety. And I found an old statute, very old, early 1900s, that said if you so much as touch or even think about destroying a statue or a monument in Washington, D.C. you go to jail for 10 years with no probation. No anything slightly different than we have today. Today we have cashless bail. Today you get jailed 10 years. No curtailed sentence, 10 years. And we took it out. (39:03–39:22)

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Asserts the existence of an old statute mandating jail time for damaging statues.

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