Trump meets with Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke as he considers Homeland Security appointment
- President-elect Donald Trump met with Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke today in Trump Tower
- The Wisconsin law enforcement official came out strongly for Trump and against the 'Black Lives Matter' movement
- Clarke ran as a Democrat, but regularly goes on Fox News and spoke at the Republican National Convention
President-elect Donald Trump met with Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke on Monday as he continued to consider appointments to his cabinet.
The Wisconsin law enforcement official and outspoken opponent of the Black Lives Matter movement is under consideration to run the Department of Homeland Security.
Trump also saw George W. Bush homeland security official Fran Townsend, today and plans to sit down with House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul on Tuesday.
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President-elect Donald Trump met with Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke on Monday as he continued to consider appointments to his cabinet
Senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway jams with 'Naked Cowboy' performers in Trump Tower today
The cowboys, entertaining Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway in the lobby of Trump Tower, wore hats similar to Wisconsin native Clarke's
Clarke did not speak to reporters gathered in the lobby of Trump Tower when he entered. He passed by nearly two hours later without offering a comment when he exited.
A frequent guest on Fox News, the Democrat has aligned himself with Trump and spoke on his behalf at the Republican National Convention.
The elected official, who voters affirmed for the position four times after his initial appointment, is known for taking on the Black Lives Matter, which he has described as a 'domestic hate group' and 'black slime.'
'Before long, Black Lies Matter will join forces with ISIS to bring down our legal constituted republic. You heard it first here,' he said in an October 2015 tweet.
That same month Clarke claimed on Fox 'there is no police brutality in America.'
'We ended that back in the ’60s,' he said. 'You look at the data and the research, and there’s a new Harvard study out that shows that there is no racism in the hearts of police officers. They go about their daily duty, if you will, to keep communities safe.'
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In July he declared a long-running 'war' on police after five Dallas officers were gunned down as they kept watch during a Black Lives Matter protest.
Several months later, in October, with the national election just weeks away, Clarke echoed Trump's claims that the system and the fourth estate are rigged.
He said on Twitter: 'It's incredible that our institutions of gov, WH, Congress, DOJ, and big media are corrupt & all we do is b****. Pitchforks and torches time.'
Clarke has more recently taken on anti-Trump protesters, calling them 'goon anarchists.'
He said in a Nov. 11 tweet that officials could put an end to rioting by declaring a state of emergency and and imposing a curfew.
They should also 'authorize ALL non lethal force' he said, including 'tear gas.'
As DHS secretary, Clarke would be in charge of overseeing the nation's immigration system and implementing the president-elect's deportation policy. He'd also be in charge of the Transportation Security Administration.
His forthcoming memoir lays out how he would overhaul the country's homeland security program.
Americans suspected of being terrorists should be treated as 'enemy combatants' Clarke writes in a draft of 'Cop Under Fire,' in which the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel received an early copy.
These 'enemy combatants,' he wrote, could be arrested, questioned without the presence of an attorney and detained indefinitely, with their cases handled by military tribunals instead of the traditional courts.
'We are at war,' Clarke wrote. 'Homegrown radicalization has the enemy inside our borders.'
'Islamist radicalized Americans are not criminals; they are enemy combatants,' he pronounced.
A year earlier, Clarke called for a rounding up of Americans who sympathize with terrorists and putting them in an offshore prison, like Guantanamo Bay.
On a December 2015 episode of 'The People's Sheriff,' which aired on Glenn Beck's The Blaze network, Clarke suggested this proposal could put one million people behind bars.
'I suggest that our commander in chief ought to utilize Article I, Section 9 and take all of these individuals that are suspected, these ones on the internet spewing jihadi rhetoric…to scoop them up, charge them with treason and, under habeas corpus, detain them indefinitely at Gitmo,' Clarke said, according to reporting from Mother Jones.
Normal jails wouldn't work, Clarke said, because they would turn into 'terrorist recruitment camps.'
In his book, which comes out in March, while not calling for a new federal agency to track down terrorists inside U.S. borders, he did argue that he favored a 'wholly independent structure entity, which reports directly to the White House.'
'This organization does not exist here as of yet, but it needs to and quick,' Clarke wrote, according to the Journal Sentinel's excerpts from the book. 'A new entity focused on protection, not prosecution, is the only way to protect Americans.'
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