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."
"Until there's strong leadership and leadership that gives direction to the country, you're going to continue to have this kind of lawlessness, unfortunately," he said.
Manafort also said the recent supportive comments made by the Obama administration about police are too little, too late.
"Over the course of the last couple of years, now everybody is saying all the right things, but the problem is the lawlessness has gotten to such a level now that unless there's a change, there's not going to be any effective difference," he said.
"There is an attitude embedded into the Democratic leadership. That is the problem," Manafort added. "The law enforcement agencies and first responders are not given the respect by the system."
He also said the Obama administration is showing by its own examples how it doesn't respect law enforcement, such as its failure to bring charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of personal email while she led the State Department.
"Plus, just a general lawlessness in the way that this administration has dealt with justice, from the Attorney General's office, the FBI ... going through and exonerating Mrs. Clinton ..." he said. "I mean, there's just this attitude that law enforcement is the bad guys, and justice is not equal for all."
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