Trump: Biden Base Won’t Let Him Support Police

By JEFF POOR

During an interview that aired on Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” speculated as to why President Joe Biden did not attend services in Massapequa, NY for fallen NYPD police officer Jonathan Diller but opted to attend a fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in Manhattan 40 miles away.

• Trump suggested Biden’s decision was tied to his supporters and their potential reaction to Biden’s police support.

  Partial transcript as follows:

  KILMEADE: I was watching the monitor and the split screen was President Biden, President Obama and President Clinton going to a fundraiser at Radio City. You know the logistics.
  
  Would it be possible for President Biden to have got to Massapequa and visited the family?
  
  TRUMP: I’d say within a half an hour, depending on the mode of travel. So, they have some pretty fast travel.
  
  KILMEADE: What does it tell you?
  
  TRUMP: I think that politically he can’t support of the police. I think he’s also making a mistake. But I think, politically, his base won’t let him support the police.
  
  And I support the police. I would say at the highest level of any president by far, maybe double or triple. And they knew that.
  
  That’s why when I walked into that funeral parlor, it was — it was like love. It was just — they want to shy away from it.
  
  They didn’t even call the family. They could have called. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know even a call would be, perhaps — I’m not sure they’d take his call.
  
  KILMEADE: Right.
  
  TRUMP: I’m really not sure they’d take his call.