Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser revealed officials within her office were “very shocked and, quite frankly, outraged” by the president's aggressive dispersal of crowds demonstrating outside the White House on Monday evening
on CNN that the use of violence “to remove peacemakers from in front of the church — so you can hold up a Bible and say how great America is while you’re promising military action against peaceful protesters — seems to me to be the complete opposite of what Jesus taught.
” Ahead of Trump’s scheduled visit Tuesday to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory called it “baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles.”, “was an ardent defender of the rights and dignity of human beings,” and “certainly would not condone the use of tear gas and other deterrents to silence, scatter or intimidate them for a photo opportunity in front of a place of worship and peace.” The president has repeatedly advocated for a reinforced law enforcement presence, including the deployment of the National Guard, in states to quash the increasingly volatile protests that have spread across the country since George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died in Minneapolis police custody last week. Trump encouraged America’s governors on a conference call Monday to “dominate” cities ravaged by lootings and riots, and later that evening at the White House to call on the military to put an end to the nationwide wave of racial unrest if state and local officials refused to activate the National Guard.to the president’s comments on the call, declared Tuesday he would “reject” any attempt by Trump to foist a military presence upon his state, and warned that such a maneuver by the commander in chief would be met with a legal challenge. “He does not have the ability to send troops in without being called on by the states to do it,” PritzkerMSNBC. “I don’t know any governor that’s going to call on the federal government, federal troops enter their state. We don’t need that.” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appeared uninterested in debating the finer points of a potential constitutional clash between her office and the federal government, should Trump move to send troops to her state.MSNBC that “division” from the White House and “threats of military [force]” were unhelpful in solving the myriad problems at hand, and said she would not “make decisions based on threats to be bullied or tweets or anything other than what I know to be the right thing to do on behalf of the people of the state,” Whitmer said. Trump’s remarks Monday and treatment of protesters in Washington also provided fodder for his chief political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, who
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