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The president soon will be signing his executive order on safe policing for safe communities.

They are setting up a Rose garden ceremony even as we speak.

I don't know. I haven't decided if we're going to join that in progress, also called jipping it,

JIP, a little broadcast inside lingo. Or if we'll just wait and summarize it as it goes.

It depends on when it starts and what's happening at the time.

Folks, it was five years ago.

Five years ago, well, actually five years ago and a day.

Five years ago yesterday, Donald and Melania Trump rode the escalator down Trump Tower and announced his candidacy for the presidency.

I'm sure you remember the cacophonous reaction of the drive-by media, mainstream Republicans, who could not believe what they

had heard, who said, this has to be a joke. This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. He can't

possibly expect to actually get elected after what he just said about Mexicans. There's no way.

But it was I, L. Rushbow, the next day, after having studied the entire Trump announcement, told all of you in this audience.

This is going to resonate with a lot of people. I guarantee you. And the drive-byers are going to poo-poo it. They're going to relegate it to the carnival characteristics of a campaign.

Do not misunderstand this.

It is going to resonate.

And people have asked me, well, when did you start taking Trump's serious?

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