The continuing GOP fiction that President Biden supports defunding police

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Here is the link to the Washington Post fact checkhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/29/continuing-gop-fiction-that-president-biden-supports-defunding-police/

During the 2020 election, the Trump campaign desperately tried to claim that Joe Biden was a supporter of the “defund the police” movement advocated by some elements of the Democratic Party. But as we noted, Trump had a problem: Biden firmly rejected calls from left-wing activists to defund police and in fact said he would double funding for a community policing program that would put more officers on the street.

This did not stop the Trump campaign or the former president from falsely suggesting otherwise. On our “Bottomless Pinocchio” list, we listed 72 examples of Trump saying Biden would defund police.

Trump lost the election. But here we are, six months into Biden’s presidency, and Republicans are still making this false claim. Cruz and Banks are two good examples of this effort, though there are many others. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), for example, claimed in a tweet that Biden “went from defund the police during the campaign to now ‘refund the police,’ ” even though his position has not changed.....

The Pinocchio Test
Republicans keep trying to tag Biden with being part of the defund police movement. But that’s simply false. The flimsiness of the charge is demonstrated by the paucity of the evidence that lawmakers muster when making their hyperbolic claims.

The reality is this: Biden wants to boost federal funding to allow for the hiring of more police officers. He said that during the campaign and then fulfilled that pledge in his initial budget proposal. The president sets the policies in his administration — and he’s been entirely consistent.

Cruz and Banks earn Four Pinocchios.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=916

[LonePirate]

1. If Repubs want to play the defund the police game, Dems need to bring up their votes on ARP

ARP contained police funding. Dems voted for it and Repubs voted against it. Dems need to turn the table on this issue and they have the facts/votes to back them up.

[Budi]

2. Gee, thanks for that RightWing Talking Point, geniuses!

Possibly the most ignorant campaign slogan ever used.

Unless...🤔

This Biden statement however is the truth:
"I am not a socialist" ~ joe biden