Trump requests toppled Confederate statue in DC be restored – report – By Joan E Greve (The Guardian) / June 25 2020
President asks to put back up statue of Brigadier Gen Albert Pike, a senior figure in the South’s military forces, NBC reports
Donald Trump has personally requested that a statue of a Confederate general be put back up after protesters in Washington tore the monument down, according to NBC News.
The network reported that the US president had called interior secretary David Bernhardt and asked the Park Service to restore the fallen monument to Albert Pike, a senior figure in the slave-holding south’s military forces.
An interior department spokesman told NBC: “The secretary has made his position quite clear when it comes to lawlessness, violence against police, and destruction of public property.”
Protesters in Washington tore down the Pike statue last week. The statue has been a center of controversy for decades, with a number of local officials repeatedly calling for its removal.
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