In-Town Note 6; Bashing Walz/Frey, Johnson amendment / indictment talk

POTUS was making his way through some off-prompter musings about alleged crime reductions and claimed crime is down 25 percent in Minnesota while bashing Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frey "this horrible governor and this horrible fake mayor" and accusing them of not cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.

The comments appear to contradict what Border Czar Tom Homan said at his press conference yesterday when he cited cooperation from state/local authorities as a reason for drawing down several hundred federal personnel from Minneapolis.

POTUS also claimed to have "gotten rid of" the Johnson Amendment prohibiting tax exempt nonprofits from endorsing candidates (it remains on the books and has been since 1954) and boasted of having won the 2024 election after being indicted several times while suggesting that his wife did not know what an indictment was.

He also suggested that he would "have a right" to use the Justice Department for "revenge" while denying doing so.

He is now rattling off a list of religion-related and religious-adjacent accomplishments. Remarks are ongoing and being broadcast/live-streamed.

Andrew Feinberg

White House Correspondent

The Independent