Joe Lombardo is still working overtime to dodge Nevada voters, joining Trump last week for a closed-door event and refusing to publicly acknowledge Trump’s presence at the event. Unfortunately for Lombardo, even a handpicked, friendly crowd (for the most part) didn’t stop Trump from dragging his record as a failed sheriff, calling Nevada a “cesspool of crime.”
Read more about Lombardo’s brutal night below.
Nevada Current: Commentary: Nothing shows respect for the rule of law like chumming with Trump
July 12, 2022
- Donald Trump brought his Cesspoolfest 2022 Tour to Las Vegas last week. Joe Lombardo and Adam Laxalt were the warm-up act.
- The event was carefully designed to protect Laxalt and especially Lombardo from public overexposure to Trump.
- Trump, predictably, foiled the best laid plans of what passes for the area GOP brain trust by calling Nevada a “cesspool of crime” while Lombardo, the leader of the largest law enforcement organization in the state…[sat] just a few feet away on the same stage as Trump.
- The top concern of voters in 2022 remains not crime but inflation and the economy, a subject area about which Lombardo knows next to nothing.
- Sisolak’s campaign has also called out the sheriff’s flip-flop on “defunding the police” (Lombardo was for it before he was against it), and blasted Lombardo for increasing Metro’s budget but not to hire more officers.
- Sisolak has also taken to calling Lombardo a “corrupt sheriff, and is pointing to an ethics probe of Lombardo for using his uniform and badge as campaign props, and the sheriff getting sued for using his Metro email account to gab with his campaign handlers.
- The far more damning evidence that Lombardo is a “corrupt sheriff” was on the stage last week, when he, Laxalt and all the other Nevada GOP candidates at Cesspool Fest were not only smiling, laughing, glad-handing and giving thumbs up to Trump, but doing it at an event designed to demonstrate how much they all revered the rule of law.
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