Police did not clear Lafayette Square so Trump could hold 'Bible' photo op: Watchdog

ByStephanie Ebbs andBenjamin Siegel
June 10, 2021, 6:47 AM
• 13 min read

U.S. Park Police did not clear Lafayette Park and the nearby area of protesters on June 1, 2020, so President Donald Trump could walk from the White House over to St. John’s Church, but learned of his interest in surveying the site hours after they already had begun planning to clear the area to put up new fencing, according to a new watchdog report.

The Interior Department’s inspector general did not determine whether law enforcement acted inappropriately against demonstrators last year and did not focus on individual incidents of police use of force, but found that poor communication between agencies and ineffective dispersal warnings "may have contributed to confusion during the operation and the use of tactics that appeared inconsistent" with initial plans.
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Police did not clear Lafayette Square so Trump could hold 'Bible' photo op: Watchdog

Perhaps ATS members forget how many false claims were made by the mainstream media about President Trump. Including this one, in which for months the mainstream media kept falsely claiming that the violent protesters whom even burned the church were gassed just because President Trump wanted to have a photo op at the church. It was all a lie.

The fencing was being installed because useful idiots anti-Trumpers were resorting to violence against agents and police officers around that area. So the area had to be cleared, the anti-Trumpers even burned the St. John's Church in case anti-Trump liars in ATS forget...

Here is an excerpt from another article of why that area had been cleared, and not what the anti-Trump useful idiots even in the media claimed happened...

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"The evidence we reviewed showed that the USPP cleared the park to allow a contractor to safely install antiscale fencing in response to destruction of Federal property and injury to officers that occurred on May 30 and May 31," reads an accompanying letter from Interior Department Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt. "Moreover, the evidence established that relevant USPP officials had made those decisions and had begun implementing the operational plan several hours before they knew of a potential Presidential visit to the park, which occurred later that day."
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The Truth Comes Out: Police Didn't Clear Lafayette Park for Trump to Visit St. John's Church

In fact the visit to St. John's Church by President Trump wasn't even scheduled and at least one park police commander made that clear, and I quote:

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One Park Police commander told the inspector general's office they were caught off guard about Trump's plans during a conversation with Attorney General Bill Barr, who asked, "Are these people still going to be here when POTUS [President of the United States] comes out?" according to the report.
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Police did not clear Lafayette Square so Trump could hold 'Bible' photo op: Watchdog

This is just one of the many lies the mainstream media kept repeating, and of course now democrat leaders are claiming that this is just a whitewash...

So they are saying that if not for the people putting up the fence, they would not have cleared the park so the President of the United States and some of his Administration could walk through? They would have let the President of the United States walk through a ton of protestors? C'mon. Think.

And I saw the video. People were cleared and the President came through. Duh!

originally posted by: MiddleInsite
So they are saying that if not for the people putting up the fence, they would not have cleared the park so the President of the United States and some of his Administration could walk through? They would have let the President of the United States walk through a ton of protestors? C'mon. Think.

And I saw the video. People were cleared and the President came through. Duh!

wow... The article even points out the facts and you just want to ignore them... Another person not interested in facts... Duh!!!

a reply to: MiddleInsite

No. They're saying that they planned to clear the protest for the contractor's. The President's excursion caught them off guard, meaning they didn't plan for his presence. They will clear an area for the POTUS, they just didn't expect it.

The OP's point seems to be that the MSM portrayed the removal, and subsequent use of force, as a direct and planned action perpetrated by Trump's word. It turns out that they were wrong, which is usually the case when one forces an agenda.

originally posted by: MiddleInsite
So they are saying that if not for the people putting up the fence, they would not have cleared the park so the President of the United States and some of his Administration could walk through? They would have let the President of the United States walk through a ton of protestors? C'mon. Think.

And I saw the video. People were cleared and the President came through. Duh!

People were bulldozed by police in some cases, (the ones they don't want to talk about)

I don't think that disgraceful police summary will go down well in people's minds...especially when the AG's picture viewing the protest in advance of the police attack, is all over the shop.

a reply to: ElectricUniverse

Today’s “journalist” leaves a lot to be desired.

I’ve lost count of the stories that have been reported with great gusto only to later be found totally wrong or out of context.

a reply to: Bluntone22

Doesn't matter unfortunately. Kind of like when Harry Reid was confronted about lying about Mitt Romney. These people have no ethics, morals, or shame. To them the ends justify the means. The ends was for Trump to not get re-elected the means was lie , lie, lie.

But Reid has no regrets. “I don’t regret that at all,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash on Tuesday in the interview clip above. “Romney didn’t win did he?”

www.huffpost.com...

Also it is astonishing to me that in 2015 Huffpost had some integrity to call out a democrat, that would not happen with todays Huffpo

originally posted by: MiddleInsite
So they are saying that if not for the people putting up the fence, they would not have cleared the park so the President of the United States and some of his Administration could walk through? They would have let the President of the United States walk through a ton of protestors? C'mon. Think.

And I saw the video. People were cleared and the President came through. Duh!

It is saying that since the park was cleared, the president took advantage of the situation and went there to do a publicity stunt, just like all politicians and candidates seem to do publicity stunts. If they had not cleared the area, the president would probably have not gone there for that. It was a last minute decision since the area had been secured already to protect those doing work there.

originally posted by: smurfy

originally posted by: MiddleInsite
So they are saying that if not for the people putting up the fence, they would not have cleared the park so the President of the United States and some of his Administration could walk through? They would have let the President of the United States walk through a ton of protestors? C'mon. Think.

And I saw the video. People were cleared and the President came through. Duh!

People were bulldozed by police in some cases, (the ones they don't want to talk about)

I don't think that disgraceful police summary will go down well in people's minds...especially when the AG's picture viewing the protest in advance of the police attack, is all over the shop.

'Bulldozed'?

'Protests'?

'People'?



Maybe should be:

'Pushed out of park'

'Terrorist base for attacking Whitehouse 5 nights in a row'

'Democrat party terrorists, who had attacked Whitehouse for 5 straight nights'


But you still get a participation trophy.

a reply to: ElectricUniverse
I think the only thing that really unites them is their hate for Trump. Take that away and they have to deal with the deep divide in the party.

Imagine being so thick that your IQ let you believe President Trump actually ordered those police to teargas the crowd so he could get a photo taken

The media, still manipulating ONLY the very-easily manipulated

a reply to: ElectricUniverse

Sadly, most sheep will continue believing lies from MSM. There's nothing that will stop it, because sheep have been conditioned to think MSM tells the truth.

But here's a site that has documented MSM lies, for anyone who gives a flip.

MSM lies

a reply to: Bluntone22

There's a reason that Journalism is a "LIBERAL" Arts degree.

a reply to: rickymouse

Yeah if they hadn't cleared it secret service would not have allowed the visit. Funny part is back then everyone was talking about how they blocked off the white house. Today there are walls with the military around the capital and not a peep.

originally posted by: JefeFeesh
a reply to: MiddleInsite

No. They're saying that they planned to clear the protest for the contractor's. The President's excursion caught them off guard, meaning they didn't plan for his presence. They will clear an area for the POTUS, they just didn't expect it.

The OP's point seems to be that the MSM portrayed the removal, and subsequent use of force, as a direct and planned action perpetrated by Trump's word. It turns out that they were wrong, which is usually the case when one forces an agenda.

They weren't wrong. That would imply a mistake. They where lying imo.

the mental gymnastics used to try and justify the narrative from last year would do any Olympic gymnast proud.

now we just need people to make the next step in critical thinking and apply consequences to the people that pushed these lies for the last year.

Anti-Trumpers are the biggest liars the world has ever seen.

These weren't the only times when the anti-Trumpers, and media lied. Remember the claims that President Trump told the Georgia official to "find the fraud" and that "she would be considered a hero"?... It was all lies...

The tape of the conversation was released and the true conversation was finally revealed.

Washington Post Now Says Trump Never Told Georgia Official to ‘Find the Fraud’

When are anti-Trumpers/leftists going to realize that they LIE to you day in and day out about President Trump? Yet you find that the CCP loyalist democrat leaders and the lying mainstream media has been lying to you about President Trump and you suckers keep falling for more and more lies...

There are several stories like these that just came out showing how the media and the CCP loyalist democrat leaders have been lying about President Trump and making up a false narrative. Yet even after you all found out you were lied to about "Trump colluded with Russia" and similar LIES, you all keep falling for more and more lies...

a reply to: ElectricUniverse

hey

a reply to: readnews55443

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a reply to: readnews55443

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