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In Speech to Republican Convention, PBA's Lynch Backs Blue and Trump

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 8/28/20

Minutes before Donald J. Trump stepped onto a flag-draped stage on the White House’s South Lawn to accept his party’s nomination for President, New York City’s boldest backer of the men and women in blue took his unmistakable message to Red America.

In a recorded address broadcast nationwide on the culminating night of a Republican convention steeped in themes of law and order, Patrick J. Lynch, the longtime president of the Police Benevolent Association, offered not so much an endorsement of the commander in chief as a full-throated repudiation of Democrats' stances on law-enforcement.

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