Manafort: Obama’s ‘failed leadership’ putting cops at risk

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Donald Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort blamed the Obama administration for encouraging the kind of “lawlessness” that led to another police shooting in San Diego on Thursday.

“As Mr. Trump has said, what’s going on in America is the result of seven-and-a-half years of failed leadership that too often making the police and the law enforcement agencies into the bad guys,” he said on Fox News Friday morning when asked about the San Diego shooting. “They’re not the bad guys.”

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