Trump 2024 Plan Crackdowns on Homeless, Drug-Addicted, Mentally Ill – Rolling Stone

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“We’re going to take back our streets, too,” Trump said in his “Plan to End Crime and Restore Law and Order”

Donald Trump on Monday unveiled his “Plan to End Crime and Restore Law and Order,” as he continues his quest to reclaim the White House in 2024. The so-called “new plan” is largely a rehash of past policy goals — from his 2016 campaign, from his administration — including expanding the use of the federal death penalty, sending in the military when local law enforcement “refuses to act,” and attacking bail reform , for starters. In a video airing the proposals this week, the former president also teased tougher crackdowns — should he return to the Oval Office — on homeless people and drug addicts.

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“We will also take back our streets from the homeless, drug addicts, and the mentally ill,” he said, almost empty-handed, at the end of Monday’s announcement, according to his campaign transcript on presidency. Trump added only: “I will discuss those plans in more detail soon. That is how I will restore public safety to America.”

It’s unclear what potential plans the former president and his lieutenants have on this topic, or whether any of it will be particularly novel. During his presidency, Trump flirted with sending the feds to “intervene” with homelessness in major US cities. In 2019, he sent senior administration officials to California in an attempt to create a new, large-scale federal clampdown.

Former Trump aides told Rolling Stone that his mid-presidency fix on using the federal government to crack down on the homeless — especially those with drug and mental health problems — in cities that controlled by the “liberal establishment” is significantly fueled by his own addiction to TV and cable news. “The [former] the president will see pictures of homeless people on Fox News or somewhere else, and there are times when he’ll call someone in the White House right after, and tell us how we have to do something about it right now,” said a source who is in the room for such a moment in 2019. Trending

However, Trump’s 2019 push has come up short in this regard. Clearly, it’s not something he’s let go of after all these years, and it’s something he’s tied closely to his broader, more brutal revelations in 2024 about how he’ll “end crime” in ways which he did not do during his first term in office.

Trump’s spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday afternoon.

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