In June 2020, Trump had peaceful protesters tear-gassed so he could make his way to the nearby St. John’s Church, where he held up a Bible and posed for photos.
. Even some Republicans were critical of the stunt. “We long ago lost sight of normal, but this was a singularly immoral act,” Republican operative. “The president used force against American citizens, not to protect property, but to soothe his own insecurities.” A senior White House official
“As I watched President Trump listening to his daughter, I could tell he loved the idea,” Meadows writes. Meadows also writes that Trump’s aides scrambled to find a Bible for the president to use on June 1, pulling ones from their offices and stacking them on a desk outside the Oval Office. Trump, he says, ultimately chose one of the Bibles less because of its appearance and more for “the way it felt in his hands.
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