Article snippet: Posted at 8:17 pm on July 28, 2017 by streiff President Trump traveled to Long Island today to give a speech to a gathering of law enforcement officers. As apparently the entire journalism world has forgotten how to write a basic lede (who, what, where, when, why) I can’t tell you what the occasion was. Only that Trump was there, the smoldering hulk of his chief of staff was there, and controversy was there. This is the speech in full. The speech mirrored a lot of what was said at yesterday’s White House briefing yesterday about the administration targeting the Central American (mostly Salvadoran) street gang Mara Salvatrucha, aka MS-13. This is an inspired strategy from several perspectives. First, most MS-13 members are deportable and they are criminal. If you want to build the narrative of the criminal illegal, MS-13 is the face you slap on it. MS-13 is dangerous and involved in trafficking arms, women, drugs, and will probably be labeled a terrorist organization by Justice in the very near future. And the immigrant community knows how bad MS-13 is and are its primary victims, so ICE can wear the white hat every once in a while. Behind the policy veneer was a disavowal of every action Obama took in the last eight years. And it generated cries of Armageddon on the left,Trump just delivered the most chilling speech of his presidencyDonald Trump’s speech was made more disturbing as Suffolk County cops cheered the idea of police brutalityDonald Trump Endorses Po... Link to the full article to read more