Posted on 06/13/2020 5:50:54 PM PDT by Libloather
President Trump on Saturday accused Joe Biden and his supporters in the Democratic Party of seeking to ‘totally destroy our great police departments’ before adding: ‘No way!!!’
Trump posted the tweet just hours before he was scheduled to give the commencement address at West Point, where some 1,100 graduates will gather for a socially distanced ceremony at the US Military Academy on Saturday.
The president retweeted a post from his re-election campaign accusing the Democrats and their nominee of planning to do away with local law enforcement in response to the police-involved killing of George Floyd.
‘The train to “Defund the Police” has left the station and Joe Biden is on it,’ read the post from the Trump campaign.
‘Biden’s allies have signaled their support for the effort.
‘Yet again, Biden is kneeling to leftists no matter how dangerous and radical this proposal is!’
On Wednesday, Biden wrote an op-ed in USA Today in which he came out against defunding the police.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Biden, or whoever tells him what to say, is carefully avoiding saying anything that could be construed as joining the left wing of his party. At the same time he wants the lefties to turn out for him.
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