Trump Rips Democratic Socialist Congressional Nominee Over Past Anti-Police Posts
President Donald Trump tore into New York Democratic congressional nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier on Friday over past social media posts in which she referred to law enforcement officers as “pigs” and supported abolishing policing, asking a crowd of officers, “Who the hell is she?”Chevalier, who received backing from the Democratic Socialists of America, won New York’s Democratic primary in June, defeating incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y. She has also received the endorsement of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Before the June primary, CNN’s KFile reported that Chevalier had deleted several controversial social media posts. Among them was a 2021 repost declaring, “ALL PIGS EVERYWHERE ARE HARAM.” The report noted that “haram” is an Arabic term referring to something that is forbidden.
In another post from 2020, Chevalier responded to another social media user by describing “abolishing” the police as “ending policing full stop.”
Trump seized on those comments Friday while appearing alongside Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel before a crowd of law enforcement officials on Long Island. The president was also there to boost New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman.
During his remarks, Trump attacked Democratic socialists, describing them as “communist[s]” who support policies including “abolishing the police, abolishing prisons, abolishing qualified immunity, abolishing all immigration enforcement, and giving amnesty to 50 million illegal aliens.”
Then he addressed Chevalier directly
Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures. When the economy collapses or a war goes badly, they find a tiny group of people, make them the enemy within, and rally the country against them. This is how it’s gone in Iran. Hungary. Russia.
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