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Federal officers stockpiled semiautomatic rifles and tried to obtain a controversial 'heat ray' ahead of tear-gassing protesters for Trump's photo op, a whistleblower says
A top National Guard officer's testimony contradicted Trump administration claims that protesters w…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Trump's evangelical base is ecstatic over his bible photo op, which many other Christian leaders have condemned
President Trump received widespread criticism for his photo op with a bible outside St John's Episc…
Mia Jankowicz
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Police used facial recognition tech on a Twitter video to find and charge a Lafayette Square protester with assault
Court documents offer a rare insight into how the police use facial recognition tech in tandem with…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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US official says he is 'uncomfortable' with praise from Trump for report that he did not order police to violently clear protestors for his Bible photo opp
The former president seized on the Interior Department report as an exoneration, but its author str…
Tom Porter
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Secret Service responds to reports that reporters were ordered to leave White House while protests took place nearby, says '4 members of the media were misdirected by the Secret Service' to leave.
Journalists were asked to vacate the White House while protests were taking place in nearby Lafayet…
Charles Davis
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Law enforcement did not clear protesters from Lafayette Park for a Trump photo op, Interior Department watchdog concludes
The Secret Service and US Park Police had already planned to clear the area to install anti-scale f…
Grace Panetta
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Trump's Lafayette Park photo-op is a clear example of how democracies slide into dictatorship
Trump using police to clear a park of peaceful protestors to get a photo-op is a perfect example of…
David Plotz
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Police used tear gas to clear protesters from Lafayette park so Trump could take a photo at St. John's Church
Police officers used tear gas on a peaceful protest so US President Donald Trump could walk to the …
Charles Davis
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An attorney for DC police said the agency used 'tear gas' in Lafayette Square Park ahead of Trump's bible photo-op: report
Previously, DC police have maintained they were "not involved in the unscheduled movement of the pr…
Connor Perrett
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A federal judge tossed out most claims in a lawsuit to sue Trump over the clearing of Lafayette Square during BLM protests
The judge said it was too speculative to say that officials cleared the Washington, DC, square last…
Ashley Collman
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Park Police contradict the White House's claims that it didn't use tear gas on protesters, admit they were 'incorrect' in saying pepper balls aren't tear gas
The White House has repeatedly accused the media of lying about its tear gas use at protests on Mon…
Eliza Relman
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Police forcefully removed protesters from Lafayette Square so Trump could pose in front of a church. White House officials say the photo op was Ivanka's idea.
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told a senior staff meeting that the church photo op was actually Ivank…
Canela López
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The NYC park where Marjorie Taylor Greene hosted the rally for Trump used to be an open sewer the city tried to fill in with land but it sank (and stank)
Collect Pond Park was once a pond that supplied the city with drinking water before becoming an ope…
Rebecca Cohen
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Maine governor thought Trump was having a 'nervous breakdown' during a call on which he complained about George Floyd protests: book
Floyd's murder "seemed to trigger something else entirely in Trump" in comparison to Joe Biden, per…
John L. Dorman
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Mark Meadows said in his book that he 'was never prouder to be serving under President Trump' than when they walked over to Trump's controversial Bible photo op in Lafayette Square
"As I walked behind him, I thought that our walk from the White House was a perfect metaphor for Pr…
Bryan Metzger
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he 'didn't know' where he was going when he walked with Trump through a park aggressively cleared of protesters moments before
Esper said he thought he was going to look at a vandalized bathroom in the park and had 'no idea' p…
Ryan Pickrell
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National Guard commander says Park Police used 'excessive' force against peaceful protesters for Trump's Bible photo-op
The National Guard commander said that the events he witnessed in Lafayette Square on June 1 were "…
John Haltiwanger
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Gen. Mark Milley fumed that he was 'fucking done with this shit' after Trump used him to stage a photo op during George Floyd protests: book
Defense Secretary Mark Esper reportedly said they'd been "duped," and Colin Powell called Trump "a …
Sonam Sheth,Bryan Metzger
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'You're all f---ed up': Trump exploded after his officials warned against using military troops to end George Floyd protests, book says
"Mr. President, that guy had an insurrection," Gen. Mark Milley said as he pointed to a portrait of…
John L. Dorman
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'Betrayed' by the Court: From Tulsa to Nashville to Salt Lake City to New York, huge protests erupted on Friday in defense of abortion rights
In New York and LA, pro choice advocates came out in force after the Supreme Court threw out Roe v.…