If there was any doubt left that it would be completely suicidal for President Trump to agree to a general election debate with live “fact-checking,” as some dim liberals have proposed, his interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace just removed it.
A clip of the interview set to air Sunday was released two days earlier, and in the snippet, Wallace asks Trump about the race riots throughout the country, specifically naming New York and Chicago, where violent crimes have spiked in recent weeks.
Trump correctly noted that the cities with the highest crimes, including those two, are run from top to bottom by Democrats.
“They’ve run them poorly,” he said. “It was always bad, but now it’s gotten totally out of control, and it’s really because they want to defund the police, and [Joe] Biden wants to defund the police.”
As though he were redirecting a stubborn child, rather than the president of the United States who had stated a fact, Wallace interrupted, “No, he — sir, he does not.”
Wallace again asserted that Biden “says nothing about defunding the police.”
How he said that with a straight face should be studied in professional acting courses for years to come.
Of course Biden said he agreed with defunding the police. Anyone who has had the stamina to find his buried interviews of late has seen it for themselves.
In a very recent interview, Biden was asked, “Do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding [to police departments],” and an enthusiastic Biden said, “Yes, absolutely!”
Conservative news sites were right to highlight that exchange as Biden very obviously stating that he would move resources away from police. And yet, the Associated Press stated in earnest that it was “false” to say Biden was in favor of defunding the police because actually he “supports redirecting some police funding to address mental health or to change the prison system.”
It’s truly astounding.
Wallace is yet another reminder why “fact-checking” is now a profession that requires a rubber nose and a rainbow wig.
