Posted on 06/27/2021 9:52:43 AM PDT by RandFan
"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace sparred with Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) over Banks's vote against an emergency relief bill that would have allocated funds to police and first responders.
"Can't you make the argument that it's you and the Republicans who defunded the police?" Wallace asked Banks, who is the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee.
"Not at all, Chris. Let's go back and look at the record over the last year, the comments that Democrats have made to [Rep.] Rashida Tlaib [D-Mich.]," Banks responded.
Wallace interrupted Banks, telling him that President Biden's American Rescue Plan, which Banks voted against, would have given localities more money to hire police officers, invest in new technology and create new crime intervention programs.
"I've heard your point about the last year," Wallace said. "But you and every other Republican voted against this $350 billion."
"When Rep. [Ilhan] Omar [D-Minn.] says that policing is rooted in evil, and [Speaker] Nancy Pelosi [D-Calif.] compares police officers to Nazi storm troopers, it makes it very difficult for police departments around the country to recruit police officers," Banks responded.
Pelosi said in July that police in Portland, Ore., who wore no identifying emblems were causing severe injuries to protesters demonstrating against police brutality and in favor of racial justice, calling them "unidentified stormtroopers" and "Trump's secret police."
Wallace asked Banks about comments made earlier in the program by Cedric Richmond, a senior White House aide, suggesting that access to guns is the cause of rising crime rates in America, not the slashing of department budgets.
"Is there any gun control that you can support?" Wallace asked Banks.
"What I'm saying is if we are serious about reducing violent crime in America, then Joe Biden will go on a national public relations campaign to admonish the radical voices in the Democrat party that stigmatize police officers and law enforcement," Banks said.
Not crazy, just literate. The rats launched this bogus talking point a week or two ago. He’s just reading it off their press release
Chris “The lapdog” Wallace.
Little Chrissy is just trying to be a shadow of his overrated old man.
Why is anyone listening to this guy Wallass? Who cares what he says?
He’s a has Been.
Why the Hell do Republicans keep going on these stupid propaganda shows? There are dozens of grassroots podcasts and journalists they can sit down with on Sunday. These network shows are an anachronism. You might as well buy a TV that has a turn-dial channel changer.
I’ll sure be glad when all the Democrat crime families finally have enough vacation homes.
DC money to hire? - Comes with strings attached. Always.
New technologies? - Kick-backs to Democrart Party cronies. Have no doubt.
New crime intervention programs? - Boondoggles. Each and every one. Count on it
“ “Is there any gun control that you can support?” Wallace asked Banks.”
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Banks is an amateur.
He should have replied with:
“Well yes I do Chris. I support the gun control laws the city of Chicago has.”
Or, second option:
“Well Chris, I support you getting a good douching from a 10 gallon tank.”
Why would the federal government pay for the local police ? Regardless Wallace must have gotten the memo that “defund the police” has been shown to be a political loser so they are trying to shift it onto the Republicans. I doubt it will work though.
At least Dems realized what a stupid idea it is.
Because they want to federalize the police.
I'm curious what federal strings and control were attached to that bill.
Does anyone watch asshole matthews anymore?
DNC newspuppet Chrissie Wallace spews the FAX download talking points from his Democrat puppet masters.
Trump removed the masks from all the political actors on the stage.
Think Hissy Matthews has been off the air for a while.
The punk Wallace should be retired too. But he’s the true face of the Murdoch kids and their wives.
Lib-Leftists all the way.
Hah, he never was!
“Chris Wallace Claims Kamala Harris is “Not Far to the Left”.
Perhaps Wallace is really so far left she seems moderate to him.
When police departments are given grants for more police officers they don’t hire street comps they’ll have to fire later when the grants run out.
Just like Clinton’s 100,000 cops they used the grant money to hire fluff positions that were just done away with when the grant money ran out.
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