Last week, we talked about how crime has once again emerged as a big issue for Democrats ahead of the 2024 campaign season.
Whether he realized it or not (probably not), President Joe Biden confirmed this when he tweeted his support last Thursday for the Republican-led effort in the Senate to overturn the woke Washington, D.C. Council’s radical overhaul of their criminal code, which Republicans view as a “soft on crime” law considering it lowers penalties for some violent offenses.
The GOP-controlled House had already voted a month ago to overturn it, with 31 Democrats voting with them.
Though the chairman of the D.C. Council said earlier this week that he has pulled the controversial measure, Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sided with the Senate GOP as well in announcing he’d vote with them, saying the vote will take place this week.
The statements by both Biden and Schumer were made in an effort to dodge allegations by Republicans heading into the 2024 campaign season that Democrats aren’t tough on crime. No doubt they haven’t forgotten how Democrats embracing some or all elements of the Defund the Police movement during the violent 2020 Antifa/Black Lives Matter-led riots hurt House Dems in the fall elections that year.
“That’s how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we’re talking about defunding the police. We’re not,” Biden told civil rights leaders in a virtual meeting a month after the 2020 elections.
Six months later, the Biden White House repeatedly tried to flip the script by falsely claiming it was Republicans who wanted to defund the police simply because they voted against Biden’s so-called “American Rescue Plan,” which included some funding for local law enforcement.
Even FactCheck.org set the record straight on the claims about Republicans and defunding the police being made by then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki and other Biden officials at the time.
Here we are in March 2023, and Joe Biden is telling the same lie his administration previously tried to pass off as factual:
“MAGA Republicans are calling for defunding the police department and defunding the FBI now,” Biden said during an event at the Finishing Trades Institute in Philadelphia. “That’s a good one. I like that.”Biden, who has previously said that he doesn’t want to strip police departments of funding, included in his budget proposal hiring 100,000 additional police on the streets, plus money for crime prevention strategies and community violence intervention.
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It’s true that some Republicans called for either defunding or abolishing the FBI after, among other things, their politically-motivated raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
But the phony claim from Biden about Republicans “calling for defunding the police department” is just chutzpah on steroids when you consider the fact that Democratic leaders are on record as agreeing with the anti-police sentiment of the Defund the Police movement and/or supporting efforts to yank money from police departments in order to “reallocate” it to social services programs and the like, regardless of what those same Democrats have said or done since they realized doing so was a political liability:
The tape doesn’t lie, but Joe Biden sure does.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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