Trump ad ties Biden to defund police effort, warns Americans 'won't be safe'

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/507445-trump-campaign-ad-ties-biden-to-defund-police-effort-warns-americans-wont

The Trump campaign is doubling down on its message of "law and order" with a dark ad released Wednesday telling Americans they "won't be safe" if presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is elected president.

 

Biden has refused to back calls to defund the police but has voiced support for further justice system reforms and expressed sympathy with activists protesting racial inequality.

“The vast majority of police are decent, honorable people, but there are bad apples, man. And we have to change the way we teach the police,” Biden said at a recent fundraiser. “We have to make sure that we deal with an entire new set of standards at the federal level like Barack [Obama] and I were doing before we left office. There’s so much we can do, the country is ready for it. We don’t have to defund the police departments, we have to make sure they meet minimum basic standards of decency.” 

A similar Trump campaign ad that aired earlier this month received four Pinocchios from The Washington Post’s fact-checker.