As the national urban crime wave threatens Democrats’ control of Congress next election, the party and its apologists have begun backing away from their prior advocacy of defunding the police. The Washington Post’s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, added to this chorus by denouncing “[t]he continuing GOP fiction that President Biden supports defunding police.” Kessler gave the notion that Biden supports defunding the police “four Pinocchios” in his fact-check for the publication.
One of the supposed myths Kessler quoted came from Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), who wrote, “The problem [causing the 2021 crime spike] isn’t guns and it isn’t COVID either. It’s violent rioting and the Defund the Police movement, both of which were supported, financially and rhetorically, by the Biden admin.”
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