.MaddowBlog: Pushing bogus anti-Biden claim, Pres. Trump tripped up by reality
The platform does not support defunding the police, as Biden and his campaign have stated on multiple occasions. Wallace points this out, saying the plan "says nothing about defunding the police." "Oh really? It says abolish, it says defund. Let’s go! Get me the charter, please," Trump said, turning to speak to staff out-of-frame.
Not surprisingly, this didn't work out well for the White House: neither Trump nor his aides could substantiate the president's transparently and demonstrably false claim. Wallace told viewers that Trump “couldn’t find any indication, because there isn’t any, that Joe Biden has sought to defund [or] abolish the police.”
In the same interview, Wallace noted that when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, the United States has an alarmingly high mortality rate by international standards. Trump said the host had it backwards, insisting,"I think we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world."to an off-screen staffer,"Can you please get me the mortality rates?"At face value, the fact that Trump is still peddling nonsense may not seem especially interesting.
There's been speculation for years about the nature of Trump's dishonesty. When he makes ridiculous claims, for example, about Joe Biden's agenda, is he deliberately trying to deceive the public or does he genuinely believe his falsehoods? Yesterday's Fox News interview tipped the scales toward the latter: the president's eagerness to turn to aides to bolster his nonsense suggests he really didn't know how wrong he was.
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