posted June 09, 2021 06:40 PM            

1. To remove a case where President Trump was being sued as President for allegedly raping a woman in a department store in the mid 1990s.

2. Garland moved to keep a classified memo used by Barr to justify not charging President Trump in the Mueller probe.

posted June 10, 2021 12:09 PM            

Another leftist lie...a lie bought into by some leftist members here that has now blown up in their little leftist faces.

The lie:
Trump ordered teargas used to clear out 'peaceful protestors' from outside the White House so he could walk across the street to a church, holding a bible for a photo op!

Washington Post’s Award-winning ‘Video Timeline’ Supported False Lafayette Square Narrative
Joel B. Pollak
9 Jun 2021

The Washington Post, among other mainstream media organizations, created the false impression that President Donald Trump ordered Lafayette Square cleared with “tear gas” to remove “peaceful protesters” for a “photo-op” last June 1.

Those claims have been definitively debunked by an inspector general’s report from the Department of Interior, which confirmed the Trump administration’s story: that U.S. Park Police had already planned to enlarge the perimeter around the White House after violent attacks by rioters on law enforcement, and cleared the park using pepper balls, not tear gas.

The report also confirms that it was the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, under the control of Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser, who used tear gas at a different site nearby, after protesters had already been cleared from the park.

At the time, the Post‘s 12-minute “video timeline” was celebrated as an important piece of investigative journalism:

The Post reported that “police” had used tear gas, adding that “their actions cleared the way” for Trump’s “photo-op” holding a Bible at the St. John’s Episcopal Church, which had partly been burned by rioters the night before.

The video timeline does not distinguish between federal law enforcement forces and Metropolitan Police Department personnel. It also ignores the violence directed at law enforcement on the two nights prior to the park being cleared.

The Post noted that a tear gas canister was found, as if to dispute claims by federal law enforcement that they had used it. (Ironically, the Post also noted that Mayor Muriel Bowser called federal actions “shameful,” though it was her own city’s forces that had used the tear gas against protesters — an action that Washington, DC, is now defending in federal court.)

The inspector general’s report concluded:

We did not obtain evidence suggesting that the USPP cleared Lafayette Park so the President could visit St. John’s Church. Instead, we found that by approximately 10 a.m. on June 1, the USPP had already begun developing a plan to clear protesters from the area to enable the contractor to safely install the antiscale fence. … We found no evidence establishing that the USPP knew of any potential movement by the President through Lafayette Park until hours later.

False claims about Trump’s actions that day were repeated by Democrats and the media throughout the 2020 presidential election campaign. President-elect Joe Biden repeated those claims in blaming Trump for the Capitol riot in January.