'America’s Sheriff' Grady Judd on Trump presidency: 'There's a new day and a new sheriff in town'

EXCLUSIVE — During President Donald Trump’s archetypal word successful office, helium selected Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd to articulation a spot connected an advisory committee for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention — a presumption which was eliminated erstwhile erstwhile President Joe Biden took office. 

Over the years, Judd has made a sanction for himself to supporters arsenic "America’s Sheriff" owed to his beardown stance connected crime. With a caller Trump word underway, the Florida instrumentality enforcement authoritative sat down with Fox News Digital for an exclusive interview, sharing his excitement astir different term, section instrumentality enforcement’s effect to wide deportations, thoughts connected whether Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives beryllium successful a sheriff’s bureau and the president’s caller pardons. 

"We are exceptionally excited astir our caller president," Sheriff Judd said.

"No president tin marque each regularisation that everyone agrees with," helium added. "No president tin marque each enactment oregon instrumentality each enactment that everyone's going to hold with. But astatine the extremity of the day, are you safer? Can you thrive? Can you spend to live? And that's what Trump's gonna connection us."

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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd gives his sentiment connected what America tin spot from different Trump term, concerning safety.  (Fox News Digital)

One of the actions the sheriff remarked connected was immigration. As Trump’s borderline czar, Tom Homan, begins the process of carrying out mass deportation operations, Judd doesn’t judge the roles of section constabulary volition alteration much.

"We tally into those that are present illegally and committing transgression each day, and we study them to ICE each day," helium said. "The occupation is that ICE has not been deporting them. And that's going to change. There's a caller time and a caller sheriff successful Washington."

The enforcement bid Trump signed concerning wide deportations besides declared a nationalist exigency to let the subject to beryllium deployed to the border. 

Judd elaborated connected what helium viewed arsenic a mandate for Trump and his thoughts connected Florida’s relation successful the process of deportations. 

"But I judge that you'll spot a assemblage and a authorities and a federation that's overmuch safer. And with Gov. [Ron] DeSantis, we're going to acceptable the gait of the mode that states request to respond and request to enactment the national authorities and request to respond and enactment President Trump," helium said. 

"Because astatine the extremity of the day, President Trump is responding to the mandate fixed to him by the radical of the United States. And here's what I've heard. The radical of the United States are bushed of being victims. And arsenic a result, we're going to enactment really, truly hard to support the radical of the United States, and Florida volition pb the way," Judd continued. 

Prior to the inauguration, Judd was joined by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and different section and authorities officials during a property league to sermon actions to combat amerciable immigration. During the conference, Judd said a crackdown would assistance trim crime. 

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Border Czar Tom Homan and ICE agents making arrests. ((Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images and Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images))

Another taxable the sheriff discussed was DEI, peculiarly however it affects constabulary departments. It continues to beryllium a hot-button contented arsenic Trump precocious ordered the closure of DEI offices successful the national authorities and corporations person begun scaling back initiatives. 

However, erstwhile it comes to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Judd said that had ne'er been a priority.

"DEI has ne'er been an inaugural present astatine the sheriff's bureau successful Polk County, we've ne'er paid immoderate attraction to that nonsense. That's conscionable brainsick speech by brainsick people. We judge successful fairness and equality, successful treating everyone professionally and respectfully," helium said. 

He went on, giving his sentiment connected the ongoing statement concerning whether DEI measures should beryllium a precedence successful sheriffs’ departments crossed the country.    

"It doesn't request to beryllium successful immoderate authorities oregon successful immoderate sheriff's office, constabulary bureau oregon government. The bottommost enactment to this is we each request to understand. We're each God's people, and we request to respect each other, but we don't request people's idiosyncratic lives rubbed successful different people's faces," Judd said. 

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The national Office of Personnel Management notified agencies and departments that they indispensable statesman taking steps to adjacent each diversity, equity and inclusion offices by the extremity of the time Wednesday. (Fox News Digital)

Sheriff Judd besides gave his thoughts connected Florida’s "Stand Your Ground" law, which allows radical to usage deadly unit successful bid to support themselves. Florida has faced respective instances of this instrumentality being nether scrutiny, including the well-known lawsuit of Trayvon Martin. The sheriff shared that "Stand Your Ground" laws could beryllium applicable successful each state. 

The sheriff besides scrutinized cities nether Democratic leadership.

"Why bash the Democrat leaders successful California, New York and successful the large cities deliberation much of the criminals who are victimizing the good, law-abiding citizens? Why bash they deliberation much of them?" Judd asked. 

"Why don't they clasp the criminals accountable to marque it a harmless situation for radical to unrecorded successful these large cities? If you look to spot the precocious transgression complaint and the information successful the large cities, it's who you elite to nationalist bureau that makes the rules."

"We enactment atrocious guys successful jail, and that's not going to alteration nether the Trump administration, due to the fact that we've ever done that. But, the Trump medication is going to springiness the vigor for others to basal up against their elected officials successful these large cities and go, ‘Hey, halt caring for criminals, alternatively than caring astir honest, law-abiding citizens. Care for them. Put the criminals successful jail,’" Judd continued.

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U.S. President Donald Trump signs pardons for January 6 defendants successful the Oval Office astatine the White House connected Inauguration Day successful Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025.   (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

While the sheriff shares his excitement astir a caller Trump term, helium has besides been outspoken astir his disapproval of 1 of Trump’s archetypal acts arsenic president — the pardoning of anyone convicted for roles successful the U.S. Capitol riot connected January 6, 2021.

"Now I indispensable archer you, erstwhile helium pardoned those folks that assaulted, hit, struck, injured instrumentality enforcement officers, I had hoped that they were looked astatine individually, due to the fact that there's a large quality successful idiosyncratic who trespassed and walked astir successful the legislature building, and idiosyncratic who viciously attacked instrumentality enforcement officers," helium said. "So, I privation that helium would person taken much clip to person looked successful much item earlier helium issued broad pardons."

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There is section relevance to the pardons, fixed that respective Polk County residents participated successful the riot, according to section paper, The Ledger.

"But having said that, Trump has ever been a large protagonist of instrumentality enforcement. So, we're excited astir that. He believes that close is close and incorrect is incorrect and incorrect is ne'er right," Judd said.