A federal judge threw out most of a lawsuit Monday against former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General William Barr that was filed by Black Lives Matter leaders over the clearing of Lafayette Square last June.
Mollie Hemingway said news media deception contributed to dozens of deaths and billions of dollars in damage in violent riots across 2020.
On the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, the American left attempted to stage a “color revolution” in Lafayette Square to force President Donald Trump to resign.
The exoneration of former President Trump of the false accusations that he used tear gas to clear “peaceful protesters” from Lafayette Square for a “photo op,” is thrusting then-candidate Joe Biden’s false assertions into the spotlight, as he initially accused Trump of using the U.S. military “against the American people.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” CNN host and Chief Domestic Correspondent Jim Acosta stated that the report by Interior Department Inspector General Mark Greenblatt that Park Police did not clear protesters from Lafayette Park so then-President Donald Trump could do
U.S. Department of the Interior Inspector General’s report officially debunked the claim that President Trump had used tear gas to clear protesters from Lafayette Square last year, a fake news story which I debunked in my book “Breaking the News.”
The inspector general of the U.S Department of the Interior released a report Wednesday exonerating President Donald Trump from false claims that he used tear gas to clear “peaceful protesters” from Lafayette Square for a Bible photo-op.
Biden claimed during the first presidential debate that Gen. Mark Milley said that President Trump wants to divide people, not unite them.
Joe Biden was wrong again: The protest was violent, Trump did not order it cleared, and tear gas was not used.
CLAIM: Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden (D) claimed during Thursday’s CNN town hall that President Trump held a Bible upside down outside of St. John’s Episcopal Church and retreated to his bunker. He also claimed that there was “no violence whatsoever” outside of the White House.
“MANY people in custody, with many others being sought for Vandalization of Federal Property in Lafayette Park,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “10 year prison sentences!”
Protesters began arriving at Lafayette Park in front of the White House with black-painted wooden shields, according to videos on social media, as they confronted police.
Vandals have spray-painted the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church a block away from the White House with “B-H-A-Z” for “Black House Autonomous Zone.”
The U.S. Park Police deny tear gas was used to clear protesters from Lafayette Park on June 1 when President Trump visited St. John’s church.
Friday on MSNBC, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) said it was “disgusting,” the Trump administration used police, state troopers and National Guard members to move protesters out of at Lafayette Square to the president could visit St. John’s Church.
Filmmaker Spike Lee embraced several conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump in an interview published Sunday in GQ magazine, including the infamous “fine people hoax” about neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia.
James Mattis calls the rioters and looters a “small number of lawbreakers” and slams Trump for using military resources to restore order.
Top Republicans in the Senate are behind President Donald Trump’s effort to quell the violence and looting in the nation’s capital.
“Maybe they didn’t have tear gas, I don’t know,” Nancy Pelosi said, describing the clearing of Lafayette Park on Monday.
A couple of hundred protesters gathered outside the eight-foot-high fence late at night and early Wednesday morning, some grabbing it and rocking it back and forth, according to a video filmed by reporters and posted on social media.
The United States Park Police said in a statement that while 51 officers were injured during riots in Lafayette Park, no tear gas was used.
Protesters in recent days have wrestled with Secret Service agents over the shorter temporary “bike rack” barriers.
Trump reminded the nation who we are: people of the Book, or many books, bound by the words of a covenant, and grounded in moral precepts.
Law enforcement and city officials are preparing for protesters and counter-protesters to descend on Washington, DC, this weekend.
