Post by robeiae on Jun 10, 2021 7:41:32 GMT -5
abcnews.go.com/Politics/police-clear-lafayette-park-area-trump-hold-bible/story?id=78171712
Greenwald's piece on this: Yet Another Media Tale -- Trump Tear-Gassed Protesters For a Church Photo Op -- Collapses
From it:
It turns out that--according to the IG--Hemingway was 100%. What's really sad here--imo--is that her story was easily verifiable, yet no one in the MSM bothered to, you know, check it out.
But even with the old narrative in flames, some will not, cannot relent. Witness the "logic" of CNN's Senior Legal Analyst:
Jesus Christ.
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.
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.
Greenwald's piece on this: Yet Another Media Tale -- Trump Tear-Gassed Protesters For a Church Photo Op -- Collapses
From it:
Meanwhile, The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway — in an article retweeted by Trump as a "must read” — cited sources to assert that the entire media narrative was false because force was to clear the Park not to enable Trump's photo op but rather “because [protesters] had climbed on top of a structure in Lafayette Park that had been burned the prior night” and the Park Police decided to build a barrier to protect it.
But even with the old narrative in flames, some will not, cannot relent. Witness the "logic" of CNN's Senior Legal Analyst:
Jesus Christ.