In an interview that aired on Fox News Channel’s Friday broadcast of “Fox & Friends,” President Joe Biden asked why he did not attend the service for fallen NYPD officer Jonathan Diller in Massapequa, New York, and spoke on the radio. We speculated about whether he chose to attend a fundraiser at City Music. Hall with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama 60 miles away in Manhattan.
Trump suggested Biden’s decision had to do with his supporters and their potential reaction to Biden’s support for police.
A partial transcription follows:
KILMEADE: I was looking at the monitor, and the split screen was showing President Biden, President Obama, and President Clinton going to a fundraiser in Radio City. You know about logistics, right?
Is it possible for President Biden to arrive in Massapequa and visit his family?
TRUMP: I think it’s less than 30 minutes, depending on your means of transportation. This means they can move fairly fast.
Kilmeade: What does that tell you?
TRUMP: I don’t think politically he can support the police. I think he also makes mistakes. But politically, I don’t think his base will allow him to support the police.
And I support the police. I think it’s the highest level of any president we’ve ever had, maybe double or triple. And they knew it.
That’s why when I walked into that funeral home, it was like love. It’s just that they want to avoid it.
I didn’t even call my family. They could have called. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know if they’ll take his call, which probably would even be a phone call.
Kilmeade: Yes.
TRUMP: I really don’t know if they’re going to take his call.
Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor
