Trump Promises Both ‘Immunity’ For All Law Enforcement And to Punish ‘Bad Apple’ Cops: ‘You’re Gonna Have a Bad Police Officer’

Former President Donald Trump joined Fox News’s Harris Faulkner for a town hall to discuss women’s issues on Wednesday. At one point during the event, Trump spoke about crime and vowed to ensure law enforcement can do its job with “gusto” because he will give them all immunity .

“We have to reinvigorate our police. We have great police that are not allowed to do their job if they do their job with gusto, which is what we want. We want them to be fair. And, you know, the sad thing is you’ll always have a bad apple and, you know, hundreds, hundreds and hundreds of arrests, one bad arrest, and it’s on the front page of every newspaper,” Trump began during Fox’s The Faulkner Focus , adding:

And these people are incredible. They want to do their job just like the Border Patrol. They want to do their job. We’re going to let them do their job and I’m going to give them immunity. We’re going to protect them because they do things and they end up getting sued. They lose their family, they lose their house, they lose, they lose their pension.

Faulkner picked up on the apparent contradiction of how you can both protect against “bad apples” and give all law enforcement immunity and tried to interject, “Can I ask you…”

Trump continued, “They lose everything. The police officers in this country, our law enforcement and sheriffs, everything else, they have to be given back their dignity. They want to do their job. But we become so politically correct. I mean, you look at New York and Chicago and L.A. and every city, all run by Democrats. Okay. Liberal, stupid Democrats.”

After a long applause, he added, “Our country has lost its way.”

Faulkner again tried to follow up as Trump concluded, “In other words, we’re going to have law and order.”

Faulkner finally asked, “I want to ask you about immunity. You mentioned the bad apples. Does that not incentivize anyone if you give everyone immunity to go after those people on forces that you know you need to deal with. So how do you how do you balance it?”

“People know the bad apples, they do. 99% is– they’re just hard. They want to stop crime, you will have bad, you’re going to have a bad police officer. And I’ve seen it where you have one. I mean, couple of very famous–” Trump continued as Faulkner again tried to parse out the apparent contradiction.

“So immunity doesn’t keep you from dealing with them? Is my question,” she pressed.

“No, because, they’re going to be some people, you say, they’re going to say, we’re not giving you immunity. What, are you crazy? Look what happened. Look what you’ve done. You’ve been terrible,” Trump said, seeming to suggest his immunity plan will be selective somehow, adding:

But most of them are, you know, they just want to do their job. They’re prohibited from doing their job. And that’s what we have to allow them to have to do their job they’re prohibited from– When you see these hundreds of kids walk into a department store and walk out with refrigerators and air conditioners, and the police are standing there watching it and they’re shaking. You know, why they’re shaking because they want to do their job. They want to stop them, but they’re told you can’t stop them. You go to drugstores now, you must know this. You go to drugstores. They have glass all over the place. If you want to buy a bottle of aspirin, they tell me I haven’t been in there.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.