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Former President Trump claimed exoneration after a watchdog report on Wednesday determined that his plans to walk through Lafayette Square did not influence officers' decisions to clear protesters out of the park last year. “Thank you to the Department of the Interior Inspector General for Completely and Totally exonerating me...
CNN anchor Jim Acosta ripped Trump-appointed Interior Department Inspector General Mark Greenblatt over a report that former President Donald Trump says exonerates him in the violent clearing of protesters from Lafayette Park just before his Bible-toting photo-op last June. The inspector general’s report was greeted by one of Trump’s non-Twitter tweet-style statements, which began “Thank […]
A report from the inspector general in the United States Interior Department is being met with wide skepticism after its findings claimed there was no connection between the violent removal of Black Lives Matter protesters in Lafayette Park outside of the White House and a photo op taken by former President Donald Trump shortly after at a nearby church last year. The 41-page report by Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt, an appointee of Trump’s, stated that U.S. Park Police (USPP) did not force protesters to leave using violent methods on June 1, 2020, for the former president, but rather...
Print this article A new government report has chipped away at the long-held narrative that then-President Donald Trump ordered federal police to clear protesters from Lafayette Park last summer so he could walk to a D.C. church for a photo-op with a Bible. The report, released Wednesday by the Interior Department's inspector general, said U.S. Park Police did not clear the park and nearby area of protesters on June 1, 2020, for Trump. Instead, the Park Police learned of Trump's interest in the site several hours after they had already started plans to clear the area to put up new fencing.
U.S. Park Police Cleared Protesters From Park to Install Fencing, Not for Trump Visit: Report On 6/9/21 at 3:20 PM EDT U.S. Park Police cleared protesters from a park in front of the White House last June to install new fencing, not for former President Donald Trump's visit to take photos, according to a report released Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. The Interior Department's inspector general issued the report following an internal investigation into the event in which people protesting the death of George Floyd on June 1 at Lafayette Park were forced to vacate the vicinity with p...