Washington Post's Glenn Kessler, Sen. Tom Cotton clash over fact-check on Biden's 'defund the police' stance
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Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler took a swipe at Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who knocked his reporting on President Biden's stance on the “defund the police” movement.
"During the 2020 election, the Trump campaign desperately tried to claim that Joe Biden was a supporter of the ‘defund the police’ movement advocated by some elements of the Democratic Party… Trump lost the election. But here we are, six months into Biden’s presidency, and Republicans are still making this false claim," Kessler wrote. "At The Fact Checker, we obviously take no position on the issue. But this is a catchphrase that can be easily twisted to mean something else — leaving the door wide open for political attacks." Kessler acknowledged the pro-defund the police rhetoric from two of Biden's DOJ appointees Kristen Clarke and Vanita Gupta who Republican critics often cite, but stressed that their comments were made "before" they joined the administration.
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