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During a virtual town hall, Joe Biden said that Trump was the first “racist” to be elected president.
“We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed, they’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has,” Trump’s Democratic challenger said, the Washington Post reports.
Referring to the police killing of George Floyd, Barr said there was a “terrible event” in Minneapolis but then said as a result of an “extreme” response, “what we have seen then is a significant increase in violent crime in many cities. And this rise is a direct result of the attack on the police forces and the weakening of police forces.”
Again, there’s no proof that this is the case.
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