VANDALIA — President Trump spent a few minutes with News Center 7′s Jim Otte in a one-on-one interview after Monday’s event at Wright Bros. Aero in Vandalia:
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On Replacing Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The president repeated what he told the gathering at the hangar, that the choice to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18, would be a woman.
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“We’d like to do it before the election,” he said. “I think we’re going to have somebody who’s great, really great.”
Trump said he would be submitting the nomination Friday or Saturday.
On Naming the Dayton Region as U.S. Space Command Headquarters
“There’s a very good chance” Ohio would be named as U.S. Space Command Headquarters, he said. “We’re looking at it very strongly. And I happen to love this state. You know that.”
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He said Space Force is developing very rapidly. “I think we’d be informing on that decision, probably pretty soon. I’ll be involved in that.”
He said Space Fore is “going to go down as one of the more important things we’ve done. The sixth branch of the military.”
On Law & Order
He called the Dayton Police officers, to whom he awarded the medal of valor for fatally wounding the man responsible for the Oregon District mass shooting “great police officers. Say hello if you see 'em.”
"We’re about law and order. The red areas are all one-hundred percent the Republican areas. The blue areas are a crime mess, what’s going on.” He called out Portland, Chicago, New York City, Oakland and Baltimore as examples of cities run by Democrats that are out of control as far as law and order is concerned.
“We’ve offered to help. We’ll send in the National Guard if we have to do it.”
“All of the Democrat-run areas are a disaster. The Republican cities are doing very well, law and order wise, and also economically,” the president said.