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.”
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.
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund rejected claims on Tuesday by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) that his officers were more lenient toward the Capitol rioters than they would have been to Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
The Capitol riot was not, as Democrats claimed, an “insurrection.” It was a reaction — terrible, and unjustified — to an insurrection that had already taken place.
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.
Fact check – CLAIM: The Democratic National Convention claimed “peaceful protesters were tear-gassed across from the White House.” VERDICT: FALSE. Tear gas was not used to clear the protesters — and many were violent, not peaceful.
CLAIM: Joe Biden claimed President Trump held a Bible upside-down when he walked to St. John’s Episcopal Church in June. VERDICT: FALSE.
Several pastors traveled to the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) in Seattle, Washington, to protest against threats by left-wing activists linked to the Black Lives Matter movement to remove religious icons depicting Jesus Christ as white.
Protesters near the White House got increasingly rowdy, as they defaced a historic church, tried to take down a statue and 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.”
Rioters attempted to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park near the White House on Monday evening in Washington, DC, before being dispersed by police.
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.
“I mean if that’s the way they feel. I think that’s fine,” he said. “I have good relationships with the military.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday lauded Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley for apologizing for accompanying President Donald Trump on his walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Rev. Al Sharpton invoked scripture to rip Trump during a rant on the reality of “wickedness in high places,” using the president’s visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church — which caught fire during a night of violent riots in D.C. — as an example.
“Were it not for pastors, there would have been no civil rights movement,” said Robert Jeffress, noting America’s history of faith in politics.
Left-wing Wikipedia editors are using articles about the police-involved death of George Floyd and subsequent protests to attack President Donald Trump, including creating individual articles attacking his statements and actions to get them on Wikipedia’s front page. Editors have unduly favored comments criticizing Trump or America, even uncritically repeating attacks from authoritarian governments such as China and Iran, and emphasized police violence over violence from protestors, including Antifa. Such efforts have extended to pushing claims of “far-right” involvement.
Trump is not happy with Defense Secretary Mark Esper for comments opposing using active-duty military forces to quell violent riots.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Pentagon reporters at a briefing Wednesday morning that he was not aware he would be accompanying President Trump to St. John’s church for a “photo op” on Monday.
President Donald Trump’s effort to restore order and respect for historic institutions in the nation’s capital is being slammed by religious leaders who said his visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church after it was set on fire by rioters was “blasphemy.”
Evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham thanked President Donald Trump Tuesday for his walk through Lafayette Park to St. John’s Episcopal Church Monday night amid the violent riots in Washington, DC.
“Joe Biden’s campaign made it clear that they stand with the rioters, the people burning businesses in minority communities and causing mayhem, by donating to post bail for those arrested.”
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.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized President Donald Trump’s holding of a bible outside St. John’s Episcopal Church on Monday, writing on social media: “He holds that Bible like it’s burning him.”
