President Trump and Fox News presenter Chris Wallace are debating whether Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden “wants to unseat” police in a provocation for an interview that will air on Sunday.
In a clip of the recorded interview, “Fox News Sunday” presenter Wallace rejects Trump’s claim that Biden’s unity agenda with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) has pledged to either disburse or abolish the police.
“Come on, bring me the letter, please!” Trump says hectic in the short clip.
The exchange began when Wallace asked Trump about the increase in shootings in cities like New York and Chicago.
“I explain it very simply by saying that they are cities run by Democrats, that they are run liberally, that they are stupidly run,” Trump said.
Wallace lobbied Trump, saying the liberal Democrats who run cities are not new.
“It was always bad, but now it’s totally out of control, and it’s actually because they want to pay the police and Biden wants to eliminate the police,” Trump said.
Wallace replied, “Sir, it doesn’t.”
Trump searched. “He signed a letter with Bernie Sanders … he says abolish, he says to disburse,” Trump said before calling an aide to get the agenda for the 110-page Biden-Sanders unit.
According to Wallace, Trump studied the document carefully and could not find calls to disburse or abolish the police because “there are none.”
Wallace said Trump “went through that and found many things that he opposed and that Biden accepted.” But he couldn’t find any indication because there is none that Joe Biden has tried to eliminate and abolish the police. “
The interview was conducted outdoors near the Oval Office in a heat close to 100 degrees.
“It was around 100 degrees and he kept saying, ‘Whose idea was this?’ Well, of course, it was the president’s idea, but as he said, he wanted to see me sweat, “Wallace told fellow Fox News host Bill Hemmer, who broadcast the video.
Trump frequently criticizes Wallace for being biased against Republicans despite his position on the conservative cable news network, and it was the journalist’s first interview with Trump since 2018.
In April, Trump tweeted, “I just saw Mike Wallace, the Chris Wallace wannabe, on @FoxNews. Now I’m convinced he’s even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd from Meet the Press (please!), OR the people of Deface the Nation. What the hell is happening to @FoxNews?
Two weeks later, Trump added: “Chris Wallace is more obnoxious to Republicans than even Deface the Nation or Sleepy Eyes.”
During Trump’s last interview with Wallace, Wallace asked if Trump was “in a cocoon of bitterness and resentment,” why he didn’t visit the Arlington Cemetery on Veterans’ days, and if he would try to change the Constitution to allow himself a third term.
The Biden-Sanders unit agenda does not use the term defund, but calls for “policies that reorient our public safety approach toward prevention and away from excessive surveillance.”
Biden made an oral commitment last week to divert funds from the police. An interviewer asked the former vice president, “But do we agree that we can redirect some of the [police] money?”
“Yes, absolutely,” said Biden.
Polls show that crafting the debate is important to public support.
A recent YouGov poll found only 25 percent support to “cut funding for the police,” but 49 percent to “redirect police funds to increase the number of social workers, drug counselors, and health experts. mentally responsible for responding to non-violent emergencies. “
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