To counter criticism of his Monday photo op outside St. John’s Church, President Donald Trump and his allies have seized on news reports that police used ‘tear gas” to clear what appeared to be peaceful protesters so he could make his dramatic walkover from the White House, branding them “fake news.”
“They didn’t use tear gas,” President Trump told Fox News Radio on Wednesday.
“It’s said that a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants on,” said Tim Murtaugh, the Trump 2020 communications director. “We now know through the U.S. Park Police that neither they, nor any of their law enforcement partners, used tear gas to quell rising violence.”
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