Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) defended former President Donald Trump during a combative interview over the weekend with a partisan news host. Scott’s Sunday interview with Jonathan Karl on ABC News’ “This Week” started out with the vice presidential hopeful hitting President Joe Biden over the violent crime that has rocked inner cities throughout his administration. “What we need to focus on is the violence that we’re seeing across this nation,” Scott said. “Under Joe Biden we’ve seen the greatest increase in violent crime in my lifetime. And so focusing on ways for us to reduce that crime means getting four more years of Donald Trump. Under Donald Trump we actually respected law enforcement. Under Joe Biden, we’ve seen the movement to defund the police, leaving communities like the one I grew up in devastated and ravaged by a wave of violent crime that we have not seen literally in five decades.” Karl claimed that violent crime was “actually down”, which is only partially true. The statement also fails to put things into context, namely that violent crime is up under Biden even if it came down from his previous high a year earlier. “Let’s take a look at those crime rates,” he said. “We’ve seen over 4,000 shootings just in the city of Chicago. We’ve seen a spike in violent crime. It’s nice to see something plateau.” He said that neighborhoods like the ones he grew up in never had the crime problems that they face today as mothers today are “trapped in their houses from the time the sun goes down until it comes up again.” He said that the American people want the southern border closed after “10 million illegal immigrants have invaded our country” and people want to see strong U.S. foreign policy again. WATCH:

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said over the weekend that President Joe Biden is the greatest threat to democracy that the U.S. faces — not former President Donald Trump. Scott made the remarks during a Sunday ABC News interview with Jonathan Karl on “This Week” while talking about the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Scott said that he believes that any of the rioters who attacked police officers should face punishments for their actions. “The question is for those nonviolent folks who sat outside, who actually simply protested or came into the Capitol because the doors were open, and created no crime, no challenges, those folks today sitting crime in pretrial. That’s a devastation,” he said. “Some of those have been in pretrial incarcerated for longer than the sentence attached to that crime.” “The greatest threat to democracy today is Joe Biden,” he continued. “It started back when he became president. We saw a botched Afghanistan withdrawal where 13 Americans lost their lives. We’ve seen a wide-open, insecure, unsafe southern border with sleeper cells likely in our country, over 100,000 Chinese nationals crossing our southern border, men from Yemen, Iraq, and Afghanistan now populating our country. Part of the 10 million illegal immigrant invasion.” WATCH: Pressed by @JonKarl on whether he agrees with former Pres. Trump’s claims that Jan. 6 defendants are “warriors,” GOP Sen. Tim Scott says, “Anyone who attacks an officer—whether on the Capitol grounds or any place else in the country—should serve time.” https://t.co/tAYu3tyq1l pic.twitter.com/y9mtzzkBT5 — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 16, 2024

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