Biden Leaves Reporter Dumbfounded When She Tries A Gotcha Question About ‘Defunding The Police’

On Thursday evening, as he was returning to the White House from a town hall in Cincinnati, President Joe Biden was approached by a reporter from the right-wing media outlet the Daily Caller, which was founded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

The reporter, Shelby Talcott, asked the president:

“Mr. President, can you clarify what you said about no — that there’s no — no one in the Democratic Party is anti-police.”

Biden responded:

“I didn’t say that. I said that that — that is not the Democratic Party’s position. I’m the Democratic Party; I am President. So is the Speaker of the House and so is the –- the Majority Leader. We are not defunding the police.”

Talcott asked the same question again, even though Biden had already answered here:

“Okay. And are there people who — in the Democratic Party, who want to defund the police?”

That’s when the president shut Talcott down, leaving her dumbfounded when he asked:

“Are there people in the Republican Party who think we’re sucking the blood out of kids?”

Clearly, Biden was referencing the infamous QAnon conspiracy theory that’s so popular with right-wingers who support failed, one-term former President Donald Trump.

But perhaps the best part of the exchange is how outraged conservatives were that President Biden dared to raise the specter of QAnon as a way of proving just how absurd Republicans have become in recent years:

There are few things right-wingers hate more than when you use facts on them.