{"id":570403,"date":"2021-06-22T13:21:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570403"},"modified":"2021-06-22T13:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:21:18","slug":"dc-mayor-pushes-debunked-claim-that-trump-used-military-and-police-to-gas-protesters-for-photo-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-mayor-pushes-debunked-claim-that-trump-used-military-and-police-to-gas-protesters-for-photo-op\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Mayor Pushes Debunked Claim That Trump Used Military And Police To Gas Protesters For Photo Op"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdc-mayor-pushes-debunked-claim-that-trump-used-military-and-police-to-gas-protesters-for-photo-op%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570403&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-22-at-11.07.36-AM-e1624381015430.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"39.624309392265\">\n<p>Democratic Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser continued to push the debunked claim that former President Donald Trump ordered police to clear Lafayette Park of protesters for a photo op.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser appeared Tuesday on CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/10\/donald-trump-lafayette-square-investigator-general-report-harris-new-york-times-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeated the claim<\/a> despite the recent Inspector General\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/protesters-werent-forcibly-cleared-lafayette-park-because-donald-trump-photo-op-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> which determined that the park had been cleared in order to allow contractors access to install anti-scale fencing \u2014 and that the move had been authorized hours before Trump decided to walk across the park for a photo op at St. John\u2019s Church. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/10\/msnbc-morning-joe-ig-report-trump-photo-op\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0Joe And Mika Were Absolutely Dismayed This Morning To Find Out One Of Their Favorite Trump Conspiracy Theories Is False)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Day\u201d host Brianna Keilar mentioned the fact that, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/11\/gillian-turner-flames-scarborough-for-mocking-ig-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IG report<\/a>, a judge had dismissed a number of claims accusing Trump of \u201cauthorizing an unprovoked attack\u201d on the protesters who were gathered in Lafayette Square. She then turned to Bowser for her reaction.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.7777777777778\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A U.S. judge has dismissed most claims filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C., Black Lives Matter and others who in lawsuits accused the Trump administration of authorizing an unprovoked attack on demonstrators in Lafayette Square last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jGhxvCt853\">https:\/\/t.co\/jGhxvCt853<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yamiche\/status\/1407124710580760579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI actually haven\u2019t read that decision or heard something about it. I think you know how I feel about federal law enforcement and the United States military being used for a photo op at Lafayette Square,\u201d Bowser said. \u201cI thought that was a disgraceful act of presidential power that should never happen in the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keilar made no move to correct Bowser\u2019s assertion based on the IG\u2019s report, instead moving on to the next segment.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/investigations\/mpd-admits-it-tear-gassed-protesters-june-2020\/65-b91a5d65-b683-4e22-b30a-7a740e9cf61d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent statement<\/a> from the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), it was not only federal law enforcement that had employed crowd control measures. The MPD also deployed tear gas canisters that day in response to an incendiary device allegedly thrown by protesters that injured a police officer. The MPD denied any involvement in Trump\u2019s movement that day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser continued to push the debunked claim that former President Donald Trump ordered police to clear Lafayette Park of protesters for a photo &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280966,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-22-at-11.07.36-AM-e1624381015430.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"DC Mayor Pushes Debunked Claim That Trump Used Military And Police To Gas Protesters For Photo Op","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-22-at-11.07.36-AM-e1624381015430.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"DC Mayor Pushes Debunked Claim That Trump Used Military And Police To Gas Protesters For Photo Op","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}