US President Donald Trump has clashed with a Fox News interviewer over his claims that Democratic challenger Joe Biden plans to defund the police. During the interview conducted on the patio outside the Oval Office, Trump blamed rising violence in some cities on their Democratic leaders. "They
Washington - US President Donald Trump has clashed with a Fox News interviewer over his claims that Democratic challenger Joe Biden plans to defund the police.
"They've run them poorly," Trump said after reporter Chris Wallace pointed out that many of the cities had been run by Democratic mayors for decades. "No, sir, he does not," Wallace countered during a testy moment in the exchange shown in a clip tweeted by Fox News Sunday. When contradicted, Trump demanded his aides find the policy charter but was not able to find any such statement, Wallace said in later comments on Fox.
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