Trump pushes harsh criminal justice agenda

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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday outlined a hardline and harsh criminal justice agenda for the Republican Party, praising China's justice system, pushing for the death penalty for drug dealers and arguing the federal government should circumvent governors to use the National Guard to fight crime. While the former President lauded the police, at one point calling police officers his heroes, what Trump did not mention in his first return to Washington since leaving office was the police that protected the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, or the deaths and injuries that stemmed from that attack. Trump instead told the audience "our great police know what to do," but the country has to "allow them to do it." Trump did call the House select committee investigating the attack -- which has been holding high-profile hearings for weeks -- the "unselect committee of political hacks and thugs." He attacked Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois -- the only two Republican on the committee -- by name and said that the committee "really wants to damage me so I can no longer go back to work for you." (Trump likes dictators.)