Trump: “Well, we had a terrible thing happen. We had a — an administration that allowed people to come in freely into our country from not only South America, but from all over the world, many from the Congo and Africa, Asia, all over the world, Europe — rough parts of Europe. And they came from prisons, and they came from mental institutions, and they came from gangs, and the gangs of Venezuela and other places. And hundreds of thousands and even millions of them came, 21 million people all together, but many of the people that came, just a tremendous percentage of them, were criminals, in some cases violent criminals. We had 11,088 known murderers, half of them murdered more than one person. This was allowed by a man who — what he did to our country is just unbelievable. So we’re straightening it out, we’re getting them out. But what they did and what that party did to our country — open borders, anybody could come in. As soon as I heard that, I said, every prison is going to be emptied out into our country. That’s what happened. And we’re straightening it out. And we just had numbers. We had the highest recruiting numbers in the history of our country going into police departments. And a year ago, we had the lowest numbers. You couldn’t hire a policeman.”

BUKELE: “The biggest change.”

Trump: “Nobody’s ever seen it.”

BUKELE: “From the lowest to the highest.”

Trump: “And the military now, Marines, the Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, every slot is — I mean, we have the best numbers we’ve ever had. We call it recruit — recruitment numbers. And we’ve never had anything like it. We had records on every single — at every single level. But very important, the policemen, the policemen are joining forces now that — we really were having a hard time with policemen because we weren’t protecting our police.”

BUKELE: “Yeah.”

Trump: “And we — we cherish our police. Police are great, and the firemen, and everybody else. But we have the highest numbers that we’ve ever had. The most enthusiasm — great enthusiasm. And on trade and other things we’re doing great. We’re taking in billions and billions of dollars. We made — two weeks ago, I — I gave them a little bit of a pause because, you know, you have to show a little flexibility, but we go back to what we have to do. The markets have been very strong once they got used to it. But we were losing $2 billion a day. There’s no company big like this. This is the biggest deal ever made. Now we’re making $3 billion a day. We’re a great country, but we had stupid people running this country. And I can say it, what they’ve done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten. It’s a sin, what they did. And you are helping us out. And we appreciate it.”

BUKELE: “Thanks.”