Sheriff David Clarke, the Milwaukee cop who has become a conservative pundit, closed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday with a full-throated defense of President Trump’s immigration plans and condemned his critics.

Clarke, the final speaker of CPAC, gave a speech far different than his firebrand personality that’s made him popular on Twitter and Fox News, perhaps with an eye toward his own political future. Delivered in a calm but forceful tone, Clarke reminded the crowd at the conservative gathering of his Trump-supporter bona fides and told them all it’s time to have Trump’s back in the battles to come.

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