Biden Suddenly Endorses Law and Order for Riot-Plagued Cities, Questions Mount Over Who's Funding It All
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- With his number sagging in the polls,
Democratic presidentialcandidate Joe Biden looks
to be trying to reinvent himself
as the kinder, gentler,law and order candidate,
speaking not in the shatteredcities of Portland or Kenosha,
but in Pittsburgh.
Rioting is not protesting.
Looting is not protesting.
Setting fires is not protesting.
None of this is protesting.
It's lawlessness, plain and simple.
- [Dale] But PresidentTrump wasn't letting Biden
off the hook.
- The violent rioters shareBiden's same talking points
and they share his sameagenda for our nation.
- [Dale] This after deaths in two cities
after police failed to put down protests.
In Portland, authorities identified
the victim as a memberof a right wing group
called Patriot Prayer.
Police are seeking aperson who self identified
as antifascist in connectionwith this shooting.
- I am not sad that a(bleep) fascist died tonight.
- [Dale] Journalist andformer Portland resident
Mark Hemingway writes inthe "Wall Street Journal"
that violent radicalism hasbeen enabled by 50 years
of political leadershipthat has been as corrupt
and depraved as it has been progressive.
After the shooting,
a number of progressive groups in Portland
are calling for the mayorand police chief to resign
for failing to protect citizens.
President Trump is set tovisit Kenosha, Wisconsin today
and defended Kyle Rittenhouse,the teenager accused
of fatally shooting twodemonstrators there.
- Trying to get away from them, I guess.
He probably would have been killed.
It's under investigation.
- [Dale] Rittenhouse'slawyer says he was acting
to defend the communitywhen police would not.
But Trump says he doesn't want
his supporters confronting rioters.
In an interview on FoxNews "The Ingram Angle,"
the president accusedstupid, foolish, rich people
and corporations of funding the riots.
- But money is coming from somewhere.
- [Donald] Money is coming from-
- How can it be tracked?
- From some very stupid rich people
that have no idea that iftheir thing ever succeeded,
which it won't, they willbe thrown to the wolves
like you've never seen before.
- Colorado Republican Congressman Ken Buck
is calling for congressional hearings
into the source of thefunding for the riots
that have erupted in American cities.
Dale Hurd, "CBN News."