White House Rewrites History With Claim That Republicans, Not Democrats, Tried To Defund The Police

Unfortunately for White House staff, the rest of the country isn’t as amnesic as their bossman Joe Biden, which is why when press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday tried to pretend it was actually Republicans, not Democrats, who attempted to defund the police, it was easy to call hogwash.

The pants-on-fire moment came in response to a question from Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy, who asked about Biden’s new “comprehensive strategy to combat violent crime and gun violence” that includes a “whole-of-government approach” to hamper the flow of firearms, provide federal support for local law enforcement, and expand summer programming and job opportunities for young people.

Is the idea that criminals are going to stop committing crimes if they have a summer job? Doocy wanted to know.

Psaki’s response gets a handful of Pinocchios:

Part of [Biden’s] announcement is also ensuring there’s specific guidance to communities across the countries to ensure that they have funding to get more community police around the country, something that was supported by the American Jobs Plan that was voted into law by Democrats just a couple of months ago. Some might say that the other party was for defunding the police — I’ll let others say that, but that’s a piece.

The press secretary’s wink and nod with her “some might say” language was a clever attempt to put distance between herself and her own claims, but Psaki’s suggestion was clear: Republicans were “for defunding the police.”

In case anybody is having a Bidenesque brain fart and has lost track of which party was actually calling for police defunding, remember that while then-President Donald Trump was tweeting “LAW & ORDER,” Democrats were decrying the deployment of law enforcement officers to combat the...

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