An earlier version misstated the day.President Donald Trump’s threat of violent police retaliation and military intervention in Minnesota on Friday thrust him squarely into a familiar position as racial instigator and defender of law enforcement. Again, thank you to the Inspector General!"Ĭorrection: The Interior Department's inspector general released the report on Wednesday. Fortunately, we were there to stop the fire from spreading beyond the basement-and it was our great honor and privilege to do so. "In this instance, they tried burning down the church the day before the clearing.
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"As we have said all along, and it was backed up in today's highly detailed and professionally written report, our fine Park Police made the decision to clear the park to allow a contractor to safely install antiscale fencing to protect from Antifa rioters, radical BLM protestors, and other violent demonstrators who are causing chaos and death to our cities," Trump said. Trump later Wednesday released a statement thanking Greenblatt "for Completely and Totally exonerating me in the clearing of Lafayette Park!" So, we did not find that the attorney general's visit or his statements to the incident commander were the catalyst for them to then clear the park." "And, as I said earlier, the machinations were already underway at that point for them to begin their clearing operation. "And that reflected to us the fact that he did not know that there was going to be a potential presidential visit," Greenblatt said. "And, at that point, apparently, the incident commander told us that he slumped shoulders - you can see this on video - he slumped shoulders and said, 'are you freaking kidding me?'" Greenblatt said. "Why are the protesters here? Are they going to be cleared out for the POTUS visit," Barr said to the commander, according to Greenblatt. Greenblatt also during the same interview discussed a section of the report that detailed how Barr had walked out of the White House and asked the police incident commander at the scene why protesters were still in the park when that commander warned him that "this is a very dangerous area." "They said they made the call and they were credible and all the corroborating evidence that we could find seems to support that finding." Park Police officials, who owned this decision, and the operational plan," the inspector general said. "We have evidence from all of the key U.S. Greenblatt, during an interview later with NBC News, said, "We have no evidence that the attorney general ordered this operation." "As such, we determined that the evidence did not support a finding that the USPP cleared the park on June 1, 2020, so that then President Trump could enter the park."
"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," Greenblatt wrote. The attorney general said "the media is missing" that fact in reporting about Trump's photo op. It was communicated to all the police agencies."
"That decision was made by me in the morning. "When I came in Monday it was clear to me that we did have to increase the perimeter on that side of Lafayette Park and push it out one block," Barr said on the show. It was an operation to move the perimeter one block." The watchdog's report backed up Barr's claim, made less than a week after the incident on CBS News' "Face the Nation," that, "This was not an operation to respond to that particular crowd. "The evidence we reviewed showed that the USPP cleared the park to allow a contractor to safely install antiscale fencing in response to the destruction of Federal property and injury to officers that occurred on May 30 and May 31," wrote Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt in a statement released with the report. The report said that at 7:30 p.m., a contractor began assembling and installing the new fence and completed the work within about five hours. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was dressed in a camouflage combat uniform, not his dress uniform. Trump was accompanied on his way through the park by then-Attorney General William Barr, then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper and U.S.
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