Donald J. Trump needs to get out more.
A man is arrested for setting off bombs in New York City and in New Jersey. The police inflict non-life threatening injuries on the guy in a shootout.
The suspect is taken to a local hospital.
The response from the Republican Party’s candidate for president of the United States?
The suspect is going to get “room service” at the hospital.
Room service. At a hospital.
In Trump’s world, hospital “room service” is a perk.
Good … grief.
Donald J. Trump sought to put the expected political spin on the arrest of a man suspected of detonating a bomb in New York City.
Yes, the Republican presidential nominee said that Ahmad Khan Rhamani will get “room service” in a New York hospital, he’ll be treated by the finest doctors in the world and will be represented by a top-flight lawyer.
I’ll now say something good about the law enforcement officials who performed an amazing bit of investigation in making the arrest.
Someone set off a bomb that injured 29 people in New York. Police were able to find remnants of another device they found and using forensic evidence gathered at the blast site, they managed to locate someone they called a “person of interest.”
Then they arrested Rhamani and charged him with attempted murder.
What do we know for certain about the suspect? Not enough yet to make any broad assumptions.
The local police, along with state law enforcement officials and federal agents worked in a coordinated fashion to make an arrest.
I guess I should add that Trump went on “Fox and Friends” this morning to criticize the NYPD … before the department was able to announce the arrest of a suspect in the bombing.
We are a jumpy nation at the moment. Someone committed an act of terrorism. Was it Rhamani, a naturalized U.S. citizen who had made trips recently to Afghanistan and Pakistan? We’ll know in due course.
Was he acting as an agent of a known radical Islamic terrorist organization? We’ll get to that fact as well.
I believe it is wise at this moment to thank the local, state and federal authorities for the tremendous bit of police work that has resulted in the arrest of a suspect in this latest spasm of violence.
Let us now allow the justice system to do its job.