>>> FOR THIS WEEKS GOTCHA, I
WANT TO ADDRESS ONE OF THE
REPUBLICANS LATEST LIES ABOUT
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, A TALL TALE
SO CONVOLUTED, YOU HAVE TO SPLIT
NOT TWO JUST TO SORT IT ALL OUT.
THE FALSEHOOD GOES LIKE THIS.
VIOLENT CRIME RATES ARE GOING
THROUGH THE ROOF, AND ITS ALL
BECAUSE OF THIS PRESIDENTS PLAN
TO DEFUND POLICE DEPARTMENTS.
IM GOING TO START WITH THE
LADDER, THE LADDER HALF OF THAT
LIE BECAUSE ITS INCREDIBLY EASY
TO DEBUNK.
NOT ONLY DOES PRESIDENT BIDEN
OPPOSE INITIATIVES TO DEFUND
POLICE CHAMPIONED BY SOME REFORM
ACTIVISTS, HE ACTUALLY WANTS TO
INCREASE FUNDING FOR POLICE.
PRESIDENT BIDEN PROPOSED THAT
SOME COVID-19 RELIEF MONEY GET
FUNDED INTO POLICE BUDGETS, AND
INITIATIVE MANY REPUBLICANS
OPPOSED.
SO LETS DIVE INTO THE OTHER
HALF OF THE REPUBLICAN LIE.
FEARMONGERING ABOUT RISING CRIME
RATES, BECAUSE WHILE IT IS TRUE
THAT VIOLENT CRIME RATES ROSE IN
2020 AND APPEAR TO BE ON AN
UPWARD TRAJECTORY SO FAR IN
2021, YOU CAN SEE BY LOOKING AT
THIS CHART OF THE FBI DATA THAT
VIOLENT CRIME IS STILL CLOSE TO
ITS LOWEST POINT OVER THE LAST
35 YEARS.
IF YOU BREAK THAT FBI DATA OUT
AND CATEGORIZE IT BY CRIME TYPE,
YOU SEE THAT MOST TYPES OF
VIOLENT CRIMES ACTUALLY WENT
DOWN IN THE LAST YEAR WITH
HOMICIDE BEING THE NOTABLE
OUTLIER.
SO WHAT CAUSED THIS JUMP IN
HOMICIDES?
ONE FACTOR WAS THE STEEP
INCREASE IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
MURDERS.
WHEN AMERICANS WERE CONFINED IN
THEIR HOMES DURING THE PANDEMIC,
SOME OF THEM WERE FORCED TO
QUARANTINE WITH VIOLENT
PARTNERS.
THAT ISOLATION COUPLED WITH
BUDGET CRISIS AMONG MANY
ANTI-DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVOCACY
PROGRAMS LED TO A DOUBLING OF
DOMESTIC PARTNER HOMICIDES IN
SOME COUNTIES.
IT DIDNT HELP THAT THE VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN ACT WHICH FUNDS
MANY OF THOSE PROGRAMS WAS
ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO LAPSE BY
CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS DURING
THAT SAME TIME.
MEANWHILE, EVEN SOME REPUBLICANS
BLAME BIDEN FOR THE RISE IN
VIOLENT CRIME, THE
REAUTHORIZATION OF THE VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN ACT, WHICH WAS
ORIGINALLY SPONSORED BY THEN
SENATOR JOE BIDEN IN 1994 IS
BEING HELD UP BY REPUBLICANS IN
THE SENATE.
THE OTHER MAJOR FACTOR BEHIND
THE RISE IN HOMICIDES IS RISING
GUN VIOLENCE, THE NONPROFIT GUN
VIOLENCE ARCHIVE TRACKED NEARLY
4,000 MORE GUN KILLINGS IN 2020
THAN 2019.
AND GUN VIOLENCE IS YET ANOTHER
ISSUE THAT THE PRESIDENT IS
READY TO TACKLE, BUT HE IS
FORCED TO DO SO WITHOUT ANY
REPUBLICAN SUPPORT.
PRESIDENT BIDENS GUN PLAN IS
MULTI-TIERED AND POPULAR AMONG
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
SO NATURALLY, REPUBLICANS ARE
MALIGNING IT AT EVERY TURN, ALL
WHILE PROPOSING NEW SOLUTIONS
THEMSELVES.
TO THOSE REPUBLICANS WHO WOULD
EXPLOIT THE DEATHS OF THEIR
FELLOW AMERICANS FOR PARTISAN
GAIN WE SEE YOU.
WE SEE YOUR CYNICISM.
WE SEE YOUR INACTION.
WE SEE YOU TRYING TO SHIFT THE
BLAME.
AND NONE OF ITS GOING TO WORK.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN SEE
THROUGH YOUR BLUSTERING AND YOUR