Rolling Thunder Endorses Donald Trump
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Date: May 30, 2016 11:18PM
So if you were in Washington, D.C., yesterday, there's a good chance you heard something like this.
That's Rolling Thunder, the annual Memorial Day Weekend event to commemorate U.S. prisoners of war and those missing in action.
It draws tens of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts to the nation's capital each year. This year, organizers invited a prominent speaker.
DONALD TRUMP: Rolling Thunder - look at all these bikers. Do we love the bikers? Yes. We love the bikers.
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Donald Trump came out for the ride and got an endorsement from the Rolling Thunder organization. Chris Cox was there with the group he leads, Bikers for Trump.
He told our colleague David Greene that Trump has inspired many of the bikers he knows.
CHRIS COX: The three things that got bikers' attention in this order were radical Islam - who's going to get behind and fight ISIS? Who's going to take it to them instead of waiting for them to bring it to us? Donald Trump's the man for that job. Second is illegal immigration. And because bikers want to see a wall built and because they want to see Syrian refugees vetted, it doesn't make us racists. It makes us patriots.
And our third and one of the most important is to get behind the American veteran. We believe it is incumbent for everyone who understands the sacrifice and the commitment, the value of the servicemen and women - both active-duty and retired - that we must get behind them. And we've got to change these policies in Washington, start treating these guys a lot better.