Trump declares slain NYPD cop’s death must not be in vain after attending wake: ‘Something has to come out of it’
NY Post
Former President Trump honored fallen hero NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller as “top of his class” at his Long Island wake Thursday — as three other living presidents rubbed elbows with celebrities at a $25 million fundraiser that shut down Midtown, Manhattan.
“In life some things just capture a moment and this captured a moment,” Trump told The Post after leaving the emotional wake at Massapequa Funeral Home.
“This particular great officer, top of his class — he captured a moment. The perfect family has been so tragically altered, forever altered.”
The Republican presidential nominee flew into Long Island to meet with grieving relatives and hundreds of uniformed officers. He said he spoke with Diller’s widow Stephanie and met his 1-year-old son, Ryan.
“I was telling Stephanie, the wife, who’s incredible, a 1-year-old baby who doesn’t know that his life has been greatly affected by this,” Trump said from his private plane on the tarmac at MacArthur Airport.
“I said something has to come out of it, and the only thing that you could really think that could come out of it is we get stronger and tougher so this doesn’t keep happening,”
