ordered staff to 'bust some heads' to clear George Floyd protesters in ...

ordered staff to 'bust some heads' to clear George Floyd protesters in ...
Trump ordered staff to 'bust some heads' to clear George Floyd protesters in ...

Meadows' memoir The Chief's Chief was released for sale on Tuesday

Meadows' memoir The Chief's Chief was released for sale on Tuesday

Former President Donald Trump told his then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to 'bust some heads and make some arrests' when Black Lives Matter activists were protesting outside the White House in Lafayette Square in June 2020, Meadows wrote in his new book.

The demonstrators were cleared for Trump's now-infamous photo op holding a Bible in front of St. John's Episcopal Church.

US Park Police and National Guard troops violently dispersed peaceful protesters blocking Pennsylvania Avenue using tear gas and mounted officers, allowing Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Attorney General Bill Barr and Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley and others to pass through. 

Ivanka Trump reportedly came up with the stunt that day, but according to Meadows, Trump had already been agitated that protesters were blocking the street in front of the White House.

In his new memoir out Tuesday, titled The Chief's Chief, Meadows wrote that Trump 'was growing anxious' after 'he had given an order for the park to be cleared, and it was not being followed.'

That demonstration and others occurring nationwide at the time were sparked by the killing of black Minneapolis resident George Floyd by white police officer Derek Chauvin. 

'The various law enforcement agencies that were supposed to be under the command of Bill Barr were clearly not communicating with one another, and it did not seem that a single arrest had yet been made,' Meadows recounted of June 1, 2020.

The ex-White House official claimed to have called Trump when he was 'fed up' and believed the protesters were trying to pull down a statue of Andrew Jackson.

'It looks like we have a situation out there,' Meadows recounted saying. 

The events described in this excerpt preceded Trump's now-infamous photo shoot in front of St. John's Episcopal Church on June 1, 2020

The events described in this excerpt preceded Trump's now-infamous photo shoot in front of St. John's Episcopal Church on June 1, 2020

US Park Police and National Guard troops violently cleared protesters from Lafayette Square, which was directly between the church and the White House

US Park Police and National Guard troops violently cleared protesters from Lafayette Square, which was directly between the church and the White House

'They’re trying to tear down statues and vandalizing the park. I assume that we have the authority to deploy whatever law enforcement

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