Trump says voters should look at France to see whats at stake in midterm elections
President Trump framed the upcoming midterm elections as a battle for “Western civilization” on Monday, pointing to a wave of violent riots in France. “If you want to see what’s at stake in this election, just look at France,” Trump said at a rally in Wichita, Kansas.The president described France as “a once great nation that is being conquered, looted and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists and communists who hate Christianity.”“And they hate, frankly, the Western civilization itself,” Trump added. At least 2,400 arrests were made over the weekend as violence and looting broke out across the country, including in the capital city of Paris. The student-led protests began last month over school conditions and have broadened to focus on the cost of living and inflation.Authorities estimate that at least 3,000 businesses have been damaged or ransacked in several cities. In the town of Limonge, demonstrators set the municipality’s historic town hall ablaze Saturday.The raging fire caused the collapse of the 143-year-old building’s roof and clock tower.“When you see burning steeples and raging fires in France, just remember, that is what the radical Democrats want to do to America,” Trump charged.
“They expect to do it.They’re not going to come close.”The president declared that “the Democrat agenda is a plan to extinguish Western civilization.”“They want to open the borders … They want to shut down our power plants.
They want to set loose the criminals, turn your children transgender, confiscate your money and raise up the Palestinian flag right in the middle of your wonderful state and, at the same time, they’re willing to defile our great and very beautiful American flag,” Trump continued, reiterating, “We’re not going to let that happen.”Trump blamed “third-world migrants” and “globalist left-wing politicians” for the turmoil in France. “They’ve surrendered their country to vandals,” the p...