• March 28, 2024

WATCH Chris Wallace Attack Trump Over Biden Wanting to Defund Police, Gets Hit Hard by Truth

 WATCH Chris Wallace Attack Trump Over Biden Wanting to Defund Police, Gets Hit Hard by Truth

Does Chris Wallace watch his own network?

That’s one of the biggest question people should take away from his recent sit-down interview with President Donald Trump. Because that would be one of the only ways he could honestly deny that Trump’s opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, wants to defund the police.

The Hill has the recap:

“It’s gotten totally out of control and it’s really because they want to defund the police, and Biden wants to defund the police,” Trump said in a clip of the interview, which will air in its entirety on Sunday.

“Sir, he does not,” Wallace interjected.

“Look, he signed a charter with Bernie Sanders,” Trump shot back, referencing a lengthy unity platform unveiled by Biden and the Vermont senator that offers a number of progressive policy proposals.

“And it says nothing about defunding the police,” Wallace said.

“Oh really? It says abolish, it says defund. Let’s go. Get me the charter, please,” Trump said, turning to staff off camera.

Wallace recounted on Fox News that Trump had his staff fetch highlights of the unity pledge from the Biden and Sanders team and found “a lot of things that he objected to that Biden has agreed to. But he couldn’t find any indication — because there isn’t any — that Joe Biden has sought to defund and abolish the police.”

A review of the document (whose policing recommendations run from page 56 to page 62) places various conditions on federal funding to police departments, but does not call for simply cutting police funds.

However, Biden has endorsed defunding the police elsewhere, as covered by Fox News — you know, where Chris Wallace works:

Biden’s campaign has said he does not support defunding the police. But in a Now This interview with activist Ady Barkan, the presumptive Democratic nominee said that police forces don’t need surplus military equipment, saying this is what leads them to “become the enemy” in a community.

“But do we agree that we can redirect some of the [police] funding?” Barkan asked Biden.

“Yes, absolutely,” said the former vice president.

If you’re running for public office, you shouldn’t get a pass on advocating that some police funding be taken away and spent on other purposes, just because you also say you don’t want to take all the police’s money away.

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