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Biden Tries to Gaslight America on Crime

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In blue cities across the country the results of the Defund the Police, pro-criminal “social justice” reform movements are on full display. 

This week in New York City women were warned to be extra cautious as grown men -- many of them illegal aliens welcomed into country by the Left -- prowl the city, striking them in the face. 

"The Women's Caucus is deeply disturbed and concerned about widespread reports of attacks against women in New York City that have been confirmed by the NYPD. The Women's Caucus calls on the NYPD for an immediate and comprehensive investigation into these incidents with transparent updates to the public,” the New York City Council Women’s Caucus released in a statement. “We are encouraging New Yorkers with similar experiences to notify the NYPD to conduct a thorough investigation. Amid an alarming trend in violence against women, this kind of violence is reprehensible.”

Following the unjust arrest and criminal charging of Marine Daniel Penny last year, after he subdued a man on the NYC subway threatening to kill passengers, women are on their own. To avoid jail time, good men are staying out of it. 

With the 2024 presidential election just months away the Biden administration, which is packed with defund the police officials, the White House is trying to gaslight the country into thinking it’s really President Joe Biden -- not former President Donald Trump -- who is tough on crime. 

“Across America, families want the same thing: the freedom to feel safe in their community. To know their kids are secure. My Administration is making it a reality. This week, the FBI released data showing that crime declined across nearly every category in 2023. Keeping communities safe is my priority. While we’ve made major progress, we still have more work to do,” Biden recently released in a statement, ignoring that left wing prosecutors have been regularly downgrading felony charges or dropping prosecution of violent crimes altogether, skewing the data. 

Worse was this out of context claim: “In 2020, before I took office, the prior administration oversaw the largest increase in murders ever recorded.”

Let’s revisit what was happening in summer 2020, shall we? 

Riots, led by Black Lives Matter and endorsed by Democrats, were raging in cities across the country. They were justified with arguments of racial justice and reckoning. 

In Washington D.C., President Donald Trump called in the National Guard to quell the chaos and was met with scorn from the leftist media and their political allies on Capitol Hill. Rioters were given space to destroy by liberal mayors who believe in their cause, resulting in the most expensive riots in American history. 

“Riots sparked by the police killing of George Floyd could cost insurance companies $1 billion to $2 billion — possibly making them the most expensive in US history, an industry group says,” the New York Post reported at the time. “The potentially record-setting insured losses piled up as the demonstrations sometimes descended into looting, arson and vandalism in more than 20 states across the country from May 26 to June 8, according to the Insurance Information Institute.”

Rallies were held to defund the police by allocating their funding to social justice programs, a message Biden agreed with on the 2020 campaign trail. 

During an interview with leftist publication This Now in July 2020, Biden said the police are over militarized, can "become the enemy" and said funding should "absolutely" be reallocated elsewhere.

Biden isn’t a law and order president and he’s put anti-police, pro-criminal radicals — like Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke and Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta — into powerful positions at the Department of Justice. Not to crack down on violent individuals, but to target police officers. He’s nominated pro-cop killer judges, like Adeel Manji, to sit on the federal bench. Biden attends glitzy fundraisers while blowing off respects for murdered cops and their families, including New York Police Officer Jonathan Diller just this week. 

Don’t fall for the charade or the cooked numbers on crime. Biden and Democrats built this monster and Americans are still suffering the consequences. 

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