Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) has an absurd concept about how displaying the Ten Commandments in school rooms may have prevented final weekend’s taking pictures of former President Donald Trump.
Throughout a Thursday interview with Nexstar Media on the Republican Nationwide Conference, Landry justified utilizing taxpayer {dollars} to defend his state from lawsuits after it handed new laws requiring copies of the biblical commandments to seem in each public classroom in Louisiana.
Landry stated that backing the mandate is an “extraordinarily simple” determination, asking Nexstar: “If the Supreme Courtroom has one thing flawed, why would you not need that to be corrected? What’s the worth you’d pay to right that?”
The GOP governor additionally defended the non secular guidelines, which seem within the Torah and the Outdated Testomony, saying, “I didn’t realize it was a nasty solution to dwell your life.”
Then, his argument veered into an outlandish hypothetical.
“Possibly if the Ten Commandments have been hanging” contained in the Trump shooter’s faculty, “perhaps he wouldn’t have taken a shot on the president,” Landry stated.
Circling again to the authorized prices of Louisiana’s Ten Commandment coverage, Landry added, “It’s a worth that I’m glad to pay to hopefully hold youngsters out of crime, to cut back violence and to convey some civility again to the nation.”
Twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired upon a Trump rally Saturday in Pennsylvania earlier than he was killed by the Secret Service. The previous president was wounded; one rally attendee was killed and two others have been injured.
Whereas regulation enforcement is working to determine what might have motivated Crooks’ try on Trump’s life, little info has emerged publicly in regards to the would-be murderer’s private pursuits or political ideology.
Nevertheless, authorities reportedly found that he had carried out on-line searches for details about each Trump and President Joe Biden, in addition to details about main depressive dysfunction.