VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2025-07-18
“When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm,”
Trump · said 2025-05-04 · reported 2025-07-18
Trump wrote on Truth Social about the nation's past practice of locking up dangerous criminals far away.
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