WASHINGTON (Newsmax) – President Donald Trump issued a threat to anyone defacing a monument of former President Andrew Jackson, saying they’ll face a decade in prison for doing so.
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As protesters across the street from the White House spray painted the Jackson monument in Lafayette Square Monday night, in addition to defacing St. John’s Episcopal Church, Trump called the acts “disgraceful” in a late-night tweet.
“Numerous people arrested in D.C. for the disgraceful vandalism, in Lafayette Park, of the magnificent Statue of Andrew Jackson, in addition to the exterior defacing of St. John’s Church across the street. 10 years in prison under the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act. Beware!” he wrote.
The protesters in Lafayette Square attempted to pull down the statue of Jackson, who served as the nation’s seventh president from 1829 to 1837, even using ropes. They also wrote “Killer Scum” on the statue’s base.
They were unsuccessful at bringing it down, and police moved in to both push them back and form a protective ring around the monument.
Several statues, many of them depicting Confederate figures, have been toppled or removed over the last week as protests that started with the death of George Floyd last month continue nationwide.
Trump doubled down on his threat Tuesday morning, tweeting that action would be taken under “the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent.”
“This action is taken effective immediately,” he added, “but may also be used retroactively for destruction or vandalism already caused. There will be no exceptions!
Sounds like empty threats. Judges pass sentence, not the president.
Quick! Someone tell him blacks are all statues.
Stop with your lying propaganda, the protesters cleared on June 1st weren’t peaceful, were throwing things at the cops and there was a curfew going into affect which means being off the streets in your house not just leaving the area, every vandal should be charged and get the maximum which is 10 years for vandalizing any memorial on federal land for any member of the US military, lock all those Democrat vandals up.
We’ve got to take our Country back. We can’t allow Antifa to dictate to us how to run our lives and this country. All those dumb stupid empty WHITES who are kneeling down before blacks should be kicked out of this Country.
Andy Jackson was responsible for the GENOCIDE and forced removal of all the American Indian tribes of the southeast US. He was a RASHA and has blood on his filthy hentala. He should be blotted out. Google him, buchers, and learn.
The Govt is paid by us. we own the Statues just like we own the parks. Where is Hershy, or Educated to tell this to trump.
Could you imagine one of the hundreds of Jews that got suckered punch or got almost killed in the Hanukkah massacre staging protests and all the Yidden coming together firebombing Ebert single Jewish store in the Jewish neighborhood? Maybe a few Jewish homes and few shuls? Asking for police to be defunded while we all loot the stores of fellow Jews and murder a few jews on the way?
Now realize all this cases of police brutality are happening in states with democrat elected governors and majors, with democrat appointed AG and police sheriff and Democrat city council. But yeah is Trump’s fault. Not because orange man bad but because that’s how communist operate. Believe me, all these things aren’t as stupid or naive as they look. Some of this had been carefully crafted by the communist inside the Democrat party.
If you don’t vote you guys are all talk. Everyone here should vote to get the democRATs out. First they come for the stores then they come for the statues then they come for us jews. These are the evil anti Trump protesters. When the holocaust happens here in America by the Antifa lefty gang I will not go down like a Shepsil to the gas chambers. Vote Trump 2020 so that Trump can get rid of these rioters once and for all.
bye the way what shaychis does the cover pick of this story have to do with it