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Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” network political commentator former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) accused President Donald Trump of not being Christian while commenting on Trump holding the Bible during his visit to St. John’s Church on Monday.

During Tuesday’s broadcast of “New Day” on CNN, network contributor reacted to police using tear gas to move protesters for President Donald Trump’s photo-op at St. John’s Church the day before.

An NBC News reporter covering the riots over George Floyd’s death in Seattle was hit with a flash-bang grenade during a live broadcast on Monday night.

The establishment media and Democrats are encouraging Americans to go out and riot, which proves the coronavirus lockdowns are purely political.

Charamagne tha God told Rush Limbaugh the problem was “white privilege.” Iironically, “white privilege,” as an idea, gives whites more power.

Appearing Monday on CNN, New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones — famous for falsely claiming that the American Revolution was fought primarily to preserve slavery — euphemized the act of looting as “symbolic” restitution from a society that oppresses black Americans.

Author and historian Jon Meacham on Tuesday warned President Donald Trump is “drawing on” authoritarianism and “verging toward” “dictatorial power,” the more his presidency goes on.

Tuesday, MSNBC contributor and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson reacted to President Donald Trump having police use tear gas and flashbangs on peaceful protesters so he could get to Lafayette Park and threatening to utilize military to contain the protests, some of which have turned violent.

Critics on the left are furious at the New York Times for a banner headline on the front page of its Tuesday edition that declares: “AS CHAOS SPREADS, TRUMP VOWS TO ‘END IT NOW’.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued a joint statement Monday evening condemning President Donald Trump for his statement on the ongoing nationwide violence.

Monday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper opened his show with a monologue criticizing President Donald Trump’s handling of nationwide protests and looting in response to the death of George Floyd.

Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” CNN host Don Lemon decried President Donald Trump’s pledge to restore order through the use of the military, if necessary.

Police confronted a shopkeeper, his son, and several community members as they attempted to protect a local store from looters on Monday evening in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.

Monday on CNN, chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta accused President Donald Trump of looking like a “wannabe dictator” by having the military to clear out protesters, so he could have a “photo op” in front of St. John’s Church, which was damaged in a fire set during protests on Sunday night.

Monday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his program with a scathing critique of how the government responded to the chaos and rioting committed in the name of protesting the death of George Floyd while in the hands of Minneapolis police last week.

CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta shouted at a question at President Donald Trump Monday evening, demanding to know if the United States is “still a democracy” after air and ground troops from the District of Columbia National Guard were deployed around the nation’s capital.

Monday on CNN, Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) said God would be with the protesters, some of which that faced tear gas and rubber bullets, that were cleared from Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. so President Donald Trump could pay a visit to nearby St. John’s Church, which was damaged in a fire set during protests on Sunday night.

People have made their choice to vote for increasingly radical Democrats and the riots that come with them, so if the media want to keep the riots going, I’m just going to clean my guns and then go back to my bowl of caramel corn and reruns of Hogan’s Heroes.

Conservative journalist Cassandra Fairbanks reported on Monday morning that assailants showed up to her home and began firing off guns and fireworks in the middle of the night. Fairbanks noted that her home address was posted online last week, leading to hundreds of death threats.

Hollywood actor George Clooney reacted to the police involved death of George Floyd in an opinion-editorial, declaring  that “anti-black racism” is America’s pandemic. “It infects all of us, and in 400 years we’ve yet to find a vaccine.”

Appearing Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” George Floyd’s brother, Terence, issued a plea for calm as protests descend into riots, saying violent unrest is “not what my brother was about.” 

Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” network anchor Al Sharpton reacted to the nationwide protests over George Floyd’s death while in the custody of Minneapolis Police officers, some of which turned violent with looting, buildings set on fire, attacking people and more.

The New York Times described Sunday’s nationwide riots as a wave of police violence against “protesters and bystanders,” even as law enforcement abandoned large urban areas to rioters and looters who ran amok for hours.

Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Fayetteville, Atlanta, New York, Nashville, Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia,  Chicago, Milwaukee, Salt Lake, Washington DC, Detroit, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Kansas City, Houston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Denver, Dallas, Phoenix, Tampa, Baltimore, Oakland, Louisville…

One of the witnesses who reported Dominic Cummings for allegedly breaking lockdown drove 250 miles during it himself, while another now admits he made up a sighting of the adviser — supposedly as a joke.

During CNN’s coverage of the nationwide George Floyd protests on Sunday, network anchor Chris Cuomo touted his coverage a situation without dragging politics into his coverage.

Alabama was not an exception to the civil unrest underway nationwide done in the name of George Floyd, who died in custody on Minneapolis police.

Cleveland police reportedly banned the media from being downtown on Sunday during the second consecutive day of George Floyd riots in the city.

Sunday just moments before a curfew went into effect in Washington, D.C., MSNBC’s Garrett Haake reacted to President Donald Trump’s tweet proclaiming, “FAKE NEWS!” Haake offered viewers an on-the-ground assessment of Lafayette Square near the north side of the White

CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker is teasing a bid for mayor of New York City as the Big Apple and cities around the country are experiencing mass protests and rioting over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The Verizon-owned HuffPost over the weekend described the violent protests across the nation as an instance of “cop rage,” declaring “police violence nationwide” as rioters continue to engage in criminal activity, attacking officers and destroying businesses in their own communities.

Sunday on CNN, veteran reporter Carl Bernstein accused President Donald Trump of “igniting” America’s “cold civil war.”

Sunday on MSNBC, network host Al Sharpton said President Donald Trump’s administration “aggressively reversed” policies that hold police accountable in cases of abuse.

Michel Martin, the black host of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday, said “protesters” in Minneapolis have been subjected to tear gas and other enforcement while “mostly white protesters” who gathered in Wisconsin and Michigan last month to push for governors to allow businesses to reopen after the coronavirus lockdown were “heavily armed” and “occupied” the state capitols.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison once tweeted support for Antifa — the so-called “anti-fascist” group that many blame for the ongoing riots in Minneapolis and elsewhere following the killing of George Floyd last week.

Politico suggested Friday that President Donald Trump bore some responsibility for unrest around the country, claiming he was confronting “a culture war of his own making” in the riots after the death of George Floyd.