Trump champions NYPD storming Columbia University: ‘Beautiful thing to watch’

Former President Donald Trump praised members of the New York Police Department who stormed Hamilton Hall at Columbia University to remove protesting college students during a Wisconsin campaign event.

“That’s one good thing that really happened. You saw it last night because New York was under siege last night. And these people, first, they were intense,” Trump said while speaking on Wednesday at the Waukesha County Expo Center in Waukesha, Wisconsin, ahead of a later rally in Michigan on Wednesday evening.

“They did an incredible job. They went into one of the big … beautiful landmark building. Boy, they got the hell beat out of it last night,” Trump said. “You know you’re supposed to take care of those buildings? It took a beating. But the police came in, and exactly two hours, everything was over. It was a beautiful thing to watch.”