Barr Undercuts Trump’s Claim Secret Service Only Wanted POTUS To Go To Bunker For Inspection – By Cristina Cabrera (Talking Point Memo) / June 9 2020
During an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier that aired on Monday night, Attorney General Bill Barr defended the federal police’s aggressive tactics against peaceful protesters near the White House on Monday June 1, the day of Trump’s infamous photo-op.
The attorney general claimed the administration was “reacting to three days of extremely violent demonstrations right across from the White House.”
“Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended the President go down to the bunker [on Sunday],” Barr told Baier.
Except that’s the exact opposite of what Trump claimed after reports of his nearly hour-long retreat to the bunker, aka the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, emerged.
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