Or pepper gas.
So, AG Barr and Pres. Trump (and also the commander of the US Park Police, I think) have been hotly denying that tear gas was used last Monday June 1 in the attack by the Praetorian Guard on peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square. Various of them have also been claiming that as many as three warnings were issued to the crowd before they attacked and also have claimed that the protesters were throwing things at them and hus were violent rioters. The latter claims have been denied by nearly all observers, including journalists, although it may have been that perfunctory warnings were issued very quietly so that almost nobody could hear them and that maybe one bottle got thrown. Barr has also denied giving the order for this attack, laying it on the Park Police chief, and also denied that it had anything to do with Trump walking across the square a few minutes after the protesters were cleared to have his photo op at St. John’s Church with an upside-down backwards Bible, after church personnel were forced off their own church grounds by the attack. All of this has turned into a massive embarrassment as polls on this have turned sharply against Trump, and the National Guard from 11 states are now being removed from Washington, if not the still non-IDed Praetorian Guard Barr oversees himself.
Then we have the matter of tear gas, with protesters clearly crying and coughing and exhibiting symptoms usually associated with being tear gassed as they fled the square, and with most of them claiming to have been “tear gassed.” This has been roundly denied by the three parties identified above. Instead it has been admitted that “pepper balls” were thrown into the crowd, along with rubber bullets being used and flash-bang grenades. While both Barr and Trump have both since claimed that these “pepper balls” are not “eye irritants,” clearly they are, and a variety of expert sources have reported that they are.
They are arguing that “Water Is Not Wet”
Same as the gun nuts arguing that semi auto with a bump stock is not a
“Machine Gun”.
George Orwell would recognize what’s going on.
Judge gets it right:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michael-flynn-john-gleeson-amicus-filing-justice-department
” rel=”nofollow”>Hey Ken:
Read that tpm article you linked to. I agree. Sullivan should go ahead and sentence him with prejudice. Trump can’t pardon him and if he did the pardon would not erase the record.
Some stalwart journalist should ask Trump or his consigliere Barr just what exactly they’re using these “gasses” for if they’re NOT eye irritants? Special Effects for COPS?
@ Kwark
Yes, indeed.
And, that journalist should be a “nasty” non-Anglo woman.
The followup question should be: How much do you weigh, fatso?
Like Trump, Barr, his consigliere, lies, obfuscates, and should never be trusted.
Dana Milbank in today’s WaPo reports that apparently Barr was a notorious bully in junior high and high school and even got in trouble for it. Thus his current willingness to order violent attacks with a secret police Praetorian guard are not all that surprising.