Donald Trump responds to Baton Rouge attack: 'We demand law and order'

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump took to Facebook to share a response to the attack on police in Baton Rouge Sunday which left three officers dead and three more wounded.

"We grieve for the officers killed in Baton Rouge today," he said, adding, "How many law enforcement and people have to die because of a lack of leadership in our country? We demand law and order."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.