Protesters were cleared using tear gas on Monday so President Trump could pose with a bible at St. John’s church.
Sen. Marco Rubio and Scott Walker, the former Republican governor of Wisconsin, were among the few GOP politicians to rush to President Trump’s defense Monday, after the president posed for a photo op at St. John’s church, an event made possible only after peaceful protesters were cleared with tear gas and flash bangs.... [+]
from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Park of the church was set on fire during protests on Sunday night. In a startling split screen that played out on cable news networks on Monday afternoon, police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters surrounding the White House grounds, as Trump delivered a speech in the Rose Garden in which he called himself “an ally of all peaceful protesters.
Trump then walked beyond the White House gates to a battered and graffitied St John’s church — known as the “Church of the Presidents” because every president since James Madison has attended — to have his picture taken holding a Bible.Monday that Trump was angered by coverage that he was rushed inside a bunker as protests raged in D.C. on Sunday and wanted to be seen outside the White House gates.
Critics were quick to slam the president for the move: “He tear-gassed peaceful protesters and fired rubber bullets...for a photo,” presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said on Twitter. Only a few Republicans, notably Rubio and Walker, came to Trump’s defense: Rubio blamed the media for falling for the “calculated & deliberate tactics of professional agitators” and said the protesters “knew the street needed to be cleared before 7pm curfew.”
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