While speaking to reporters on Friday, President Trump stated that if people throw rocks at US personnel along the border, “they’re going to be arrested for a long time.” The president also stated, “I didn’t say shoot.”
Trump said, “[T]hey won’t have to fire. What I don’t want is, I don’t want these people throwing rocks. … They do that with us, they’re going to be arrested. There’s going to be problems. I didn’t say shoot. I didn’t say shoot. But they do that with us, they’re going to be arrested for a long time. We’ll arrest them.”
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