By Jeffrey M. McCall | June 11, 2021 | 1:29pm EDT
President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside of St John s Episcopal church across Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. on June 1, 2020. (Photo credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Public trust in the establishment media has been cratering for years and that trend is not without cause. News reporting continues to be done with kneejerk reactions, little concern for reality, and too often for partisan purposes.
More evidence of such media malfeasance came out Wednesday in the form of a report from the Interior Department’s Inspector General. The report concluded that the United States Park Police did not remove unruly demonstrators from Lafayette Park near the White House a year ago to allow then-President Donald Trump a photo op near an arson-damaged church.
The report by the Interior Department’s inspector general did not investigate what other law enforcement agencies knew and who might have ordered them to use force to clear Lafayette Square.