Trump camp: ‘Mid-level staffer’ Biden statement on defunding police not enough

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President Trump’s campaign called on Joe Biden to directly disavow far-left activist calls to defund police departments rather than just issue a statement from a campaign staff member.

“Joe Biden cannot be let off the hook after his campaign issued a weak statement from a mid-level staffer. We still haven’t heard from Joe Biden himself on the radical ‘Defund the Police’ movement in the Democrat Party,” Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said in a statement on Monday. “It would have been the simplest thing in the world to stick his name on a statement, but he didn’t even do that.”

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