Meanwhile, Back In Lafayette Park...

Its Narrative versus Reality at Lafayette Park. Or is it Narrative versus Narrative? ABC News on the Inspector General's report about the clearing of Layayette Park prior to Trump's controversial photo op last summer:

Police did not clear Lafayette Square so Trump could hold 'Bible' photo op: Watchdog

Trump claimed the inspector general's report "totally" exonerated him.

Well, OK-ish. The IG is a Trump-appointed holdover, so there's that. And regardless of when the clearing of the park was originally planned, I'm skeptical that the tempo wasn't affected by the surprise news of an impending Presidential visit. My emphasis on the word "planning" below:

U.S. Park Police did not clear Lafayette Park and the nearby area of protesters on June 1, 2020, so President Donald Trump could walk from the White House over to St. John’s Church, but learned of his interest in surveying the site hours after they already had begun planning to clear the area to put up new fencing, according to a new watchdog report.

And later in the story:

Interior Department Inspector General Mark Greenblatt, nominated by Trump, called the events of June 1 a "a particularly tumultuous event in a tumultuous time" and said their review looked at why U.S. Park Police decided to clear Lafayette Square when and in the manner they did, and whether the president's plans to come out of the White House influenced those decisions. The review ultimately found park police had been planning to clear the area for days to install anti-scale fencing and that the decisions on the ground were not changed because of the president or White House's plans.

"We did not find evidence that a potential presidential visit to the park or the St John's Church influenced the park police's decision making, or their deployment, you know, in their operation to clear out the park. So that's the big, the big finding of our report is, is the is the clear evidence of why they decided to do so and when they made the decision, and on the flip side, the lack of evidence related to the President's potential visit influencing that decision," he said on ABC News Live.

...

Citing interviews, radio dispatches, videos and other records from Park Police, the 38-page report echoes claims from senior Trump administration officials last year that the park wasn’t cleared for Trump’s controversial photo op.

One Park Police commander told the inspector general's office they were caught off guard about Trump's plans during a conversation with Attorney General Bill Barr, who asked, "Are these people still going to be here when POTUS [President of the United States] comes out?" according to the report.

"The USPP operations commander told us he had not known until then that the President would be coming out of the White House and into Lafayette Park. He said he replied to the Attorney General, 'Are you freaking kidding me?'" the report reads.

But it does not explore why so many officers used as much force as they did against peaceful protesters in the area that day -- or dig deeper into the actions of the Secret Service and other federal entities on the ground.

I'm surprised the White House would schedule a Presidential stroll without calling ahead. But that was the Park Police story and the IG didn't vex others to hear their version.

Greenblatt told ABC News that even though his office did not speak to Barr, the White House, or Secret Service for this review, it would have done so if the evidence indicated there was pressure from any of those sources that had an impact on Park Police decisions.

"We would have pursued evidence had it gone elsewhere. But we found that the U.S. Park Police officials on the ground, they owned the decision and the corroborating evidence supported that," he said on ABC News Live.

Well. Fire and brimstone from Glenn Greenwald, who dislikes the legacy media more than he dislikes Trump. Hot Air has more excerpts from the report.

 

Comments

[Narciso]

It sure sounds like larry wants to make blofelds promise a reality.

[Narciso]

Her grandmother is smart enough to know better, only the daily mail bothered to ask.

[Narciso]

I didnt know revere was of french huguenot extraction.

[MissMarple2]

I am under the weather. Kept the windows open Until last night and the heat and humidity aggravated my allergies. Now i am sneezing and coughing. Blah.

Had to go to granddaughter’s high school graduation this afternoon. Very nice with a video of her through the years,a display with all of her awards amf an outdoor dining area with tent and balloons. Couldnt stay too long due to the heat.

[MissMarple2]

Graduation open house

[Narciso]

The mills grind slowly

Revere's business began to suffer when the British economy entered a recession in the years following the Seven Years' War, and declined further when the Stamp Act of 1765 resulted in a further downturn in the Massachusetts economy.[15] Business was so poor that an attempt was made to seize his property in late 1765.[16] To help make ends meet he even took up dentistry, a skill set he was taught by a practicing surgeon who lodged at a friend's house.[17] One client was Joseph Warren, a local physician and political opposition leader with whom Revere formed a close friendship.[18][19] Revere and Warren, in addition to having common political views,

[Narciso]

Cograts miss marple for her

I thought it would be coolet up there then down here.

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://mobile.twitter.com/lwoodhouse/status/1403462984530153473

[Narciso]

They fired mcneil (although considering his stupid judgements before hand)

[Narciso]

What that picture tells us

https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1403746883466526725

[Narciso]

Ah the maple archipelago

https://www.jccf.ca/maxime-bernier-to-be-freed-from-jail-after-arrest-in-manitoba-for-speaking-at-rally/

[Narciso]

Surprising no one

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/11/june-21-lockdown-lifting-called/

[MissMarple2]

Narciso,

No. It was 93 today. Ick!

I am heading to bed.

Good night, all.

[Narciso]

How convenient

https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/the-blackstone-group-technologies-llc-chicago-il

[Narciso]

Re raiders its interesting how john rhys davies was a actually a year or two younger than harrison.

[Narciso]

Well thats unhelpful

https://mobile.twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1403803324240039940

[Narciso]

You serious (jonah jameson jif)

https://mobile.twitter.com/CopyOfOne/status/1403788469642608642

[Neo]

Chicago police will be adopting a new foot chase police that looks to limit when an officer can engage in the tactic. This comes after two cases of police killing someone they were in pursuit of on foot.

Next, you won’t be able to interrupt a cop while eating a donut.

[Narciso]

Just remember the confy chair

https://mobile.twitter.com/proteinwisdom/status/1403817551491076102

[matt - deplore me if you must]

As I recall the Huguenots were tremendous craftsmen, so the Revere career would fit. And the name Revere' could behave been French. His silver work is stunning. Pure lines and simply gorgeous.

So a man made virus, weaponized and a vaccine that's worth f all. Europe fell on its face and it looks as if China is about to reap the whirlwind.

In the meantime Biden is f'ing up a wet dream.

[Narciso]

And the wiki makes it further nons from a note by fisher that the north church was the one that revere rung bells as a boy.

[Narciso]

Well the piltdown prize would be worth something if they gave it to him.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1403868285762998273

[Narciso]

I could also call it pyrite, fwiw.

[Narciso]

They are screaming
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1403886729594081280

[Davod]

‘That Ain’t MAGA’: Video Shows Antifa Black Bloc First to Breach Capitol on January 6
By J.D. Rucker • Jun. 11, 2021

https://thelibertydaily.com/that-aint-maga-video-shows-antifa-black-bloc-first-to-breach-capitol-on-january-6/

[Narciso]

Trust me tater they are family

https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1403726727604543494

[Melinda]

Blackstone Hotel is there, narc.

[Narciso]

54 million is a nice chunk of change

[Melinda]

Check that decimal point again.

[Melinda]

Blackstone Group of Chicago is not at all related to Scwarzman’s shop in NYC.

Predates it by several decades and is the origin of the “ Smoke Filled Room” stories. Particularly for Roosevelt’s 4th term.

[Narciso]

Well i stand corrected then

https://mobile.twitter.com/aynrandfan/status/1403753850914316289

[Narciso]

Like with the tarp the stimulus and othsr slush funds too many of the combine uniparty slake their thirsr.

[Narciso]

Change my mind about that,

[Melinda]

This is who you are thinking of::

https://www.blackstone.com/

Not this:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blackstone_Hotel

[Melinda]

TARP is a completely different matter.

[Narciso]

You cant win with these people

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jtruzmah/status/1403426814484115457

[Narciso]

Whats all this then

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnOSullivanNR/status/1403388522753626115

[jim nj]

Crap. I broke another tooth. I'm falling apart.

Well I have an appointment Wednesday to have what's left of the other one removed. I guess I'll have something else to talk to the neophyte dentist about.

The first one to break was an uncrowned upper right rear wisdom tooth. The only uncrowned tooth left in my mouth. This one was a crowned upper left molar so I may make a small profit on it with gold hovering around $1,800.00 an oz.

[Narciso]

What did you bite inton that cracked the tooth.

[Pinandpuller]

Jeffrey Toobin reminds me of those people who can’t even wait until they’re done pumping gas to light up a cigarette.

[jim nj]

Months ago when the dentist told me she wanted to remove the two rearmost right upper teeth I said no.

I've seen this before. Break a tooth and the geometry changes putting pressure on other teeth. And something else breaks.

So nature intervenes and takes out the last tooth on the right that she wanted. The cascade affect on the left tooth shouldn't surprise me. It's happened before.

I think they may have jinxed me. I got one of those six-month follow-up postcards from my earlier visit this Thursday.

Ha, I thought, little do they know I've already been back there already. I'm covered.

[Narciso]

Heh, pin yez he would be like one of zoolanders gas dancer

[Narciso]

I know i went to have a filling and they recommended in an extraction in one thats is almost undetectable.

[jim nj]

narciso,

A Cherry Cheese danish. Can you think of anything softer, besides applesauce, to do that, unless there was a small foreign object in it?

[Narciso]

Thats seems unlikely, if it was lika an entenmans crunchy pastry maybe

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the-sun.com/news/1660951/casey-greenfield-lawyer-jeffrey-toobin-affair-child/amp/

Yes pin i dont get it

[jim nj]

When I was younger dentistry was still a dark art. And I had a drill-crazed dentist. Anytime he found a soft spot in a tooth he drilled and filled it.

Back then once you drilled into a tooth and put in an amalgam filling it was doomed.

Some years later the girl who lived next door to me went to work for him as a dental assistant before she decided to go to college. She told me to find another dentist.

I did. The next guy never found a new cavity, but he spent years fixing all the prior work replacing amalgam fillings with the new epoxy materials.

[Pinandpuller]

Are you the wine guy:

The modern far right are obsessed with genocide. We need to stop letting the mainstream stigmatised #Antifa - as in the 1930s we need a mass movement, cultural, political and social to stop a second fascist upsurge... bit.ly/3czSrMs

https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1403671534779183111?s=21

[Narciso]

Well he has been drinking heavily but i dont think so, those radio signals from the mirror universe like that jet li film with jason statham

[Pinandpuller]

aT lEaSt wE bEaT tHe FaSCisTs:

“The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it! Let us cut their throats and drag them over the altar! And let them drown in their own blood! I dream of the day when the last priest is strangled on the guts of the last preacher.” Gus Hall (Chairman, Communist Party U.S.A.)

[Narciso]

He seems nice i actually met frank richardson he was a long time aclu figure at nova u who was with one of these committees against repression or some such his career went by to 1936, ans this was in 1994

[jim nj]

I regularly snack on Planters peanuts, but, no, I was done in by a Danish.

It's a conspiracy.

[Narciso]

They cant be sneaky now a pastelito preferably guava or a turron almond nougat now those are deadly

[Narciso]

And on that note, adieu for now.

[Dave (in MA)]

Reporter who broke story on Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting found dead, being investigated as a suicidehttps://t.co/bXIMRY96X5

— AntifaBook.com (@JackPosobiec) June 13, 2021

[jim nj]

I feel like Gollum. "My precious," as I heft the tooth in my hand. It feels heavier than it should.

The last time I took a crown to a jeweler about 9 years ago, gold was at about the same price as it is now.

As gold got more expensive crowns tended to be 14, 16, or 18K in content. This was a really old crown and assayed at 21K.

[jim nj]

nytol

[Neo]

A Nantucket restaurant is considering hiring 8th graders because of the lack of available workers amid the US labor shortage
"We're at the point in the hiring process where not only are we considering eighth graders but we're interviewing them," chef Gabriel Frasca said.

[Neo]

The Biden Administration has a real problem: nobody hires 100 lawyers to hide an election victory.

Nobody has the DOJ interfere in a state ordered audit because they won fair and square.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1403737733475049475

[MissMarple2]

Good morning!

"The Dangers of Electricity", 1889:

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/reporter-who-broke-story-on-clinton-lynch-tarmac-meeting-found-dead

[MissMarple2]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/06/13/nasas-perseverance-rover-begins-its-first-science-campaign-on-mars/

[MissMarple2]

Daily Mail US
@DailyMail
·
1h
Researchers warn beachgoers that four HUGE great white sharks who are making their way from NY and NJ to Cape Cod

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9680347/Shark-taggers-warn-four-huge-great-white-sharks-prowling-waters-NY-NJ.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/deal-closing-coal-subsidizing-nuclear-power-expected-next-week

This is in Illinois. Totally stupid.

[Jim Eagle]

In Southampton, we would see Great White's all the time. Sometimes, they were within 500 yards of the beaches. "Jaws" was based on Benchley's experience living in the Hamptons and going out of Montauk on spotting missions.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9680085/British-head-science-funding-body-Wellcome-Trust-accused-chilling-bid-stifle-debate.html

British head of science-funding body Wellcome Trust is accused of a 'chilling' bid to stifle debate on Wuhan lab leak theory

Sir Jeremy Farrar said he had ‘tremendous responsibility to be accountable'

He claimed scientists ‘know’ Covid not created in lab and theory is 'conspiracy'

The Mail on Sunday can reveal emails from US diseases chief, Anthony Fauci

By Ian Birell For The Mail On Sunday

[Narciso]

He was at the war game back in october 2019 sponsored by world economic forum

[Narciso]

Even earlier

https://youtu.be/6gBDkXzgMDM

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://mobile.twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1404060992212914184

[Melinda]

The question gets posed::

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/06/what_happens_if_the_election_audits_go_trumps_way.html

[Narciso]

Its the tip of the iceberg

https://mobile.twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1403625723282210822

[jimmyk]

When I was younger dentistry was still a dark art. And I had a drill-crazed dentist. Anytime he found a soft spot in a tooth he drilled and filled it.

JimNJ: My childhood dentist did not use novocaine or any other anesthetic, and I regularly had a mouthful of cavities. Probably the worst pain I've ever endured. Maybe that was more common back then. But I still have all my teeth and no crowns, root canals or anything else, so I guess he did a good job. My sympathies for your dental woes.

[MissMarple2]

Thread about the new Israeli Prime Minister being sworn in.

https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1404080184031125509

At least 3 members of Bibi's party were removed, catcalls, insults, and Bibi said "we'll be back".

[jimmyk]

What Happens if the Election Audits Go Trump's Way?

I think we know the answer to that. [Sounds of crickets chirping.]

[MissMarple2]

From a gal I follow on Twitter:

[MissMarple2]

Jonathan Chait
@jonathanchait
· 2h
Excellent @nycsouthpaw close read of the IG report on the Lafayette Square operation, the narrow scope of which obscures any clear understanding of what happened and why https://nycsouthpaw.com/p/reading-the-
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David Horowitz
@horowitz39
·
7m
What happened is that an anti-American fascist mob was threatening to torch the White House and a patriotic Park Police and President shut them down to the hand wringing crocodile tears of Democrats and their journalist shills like you.

[MissMarple2]

https://iranintl.com/en/world/ahmadinejad-claims-israel-infiltrated-iranian-intelligence

This is interesting. Don't know how much is true, but it would be quite the intelligence coup by Mossad.

[MissMarple2]

Once in a while I come across something on Twitter which just stuns me. Did anyone know this even existed?

Traditionalism revival
@trad_revival
·
3h
The traditional art of camel barbering.

[Narciso]

Wonder why

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/06/pulitzers-ignore-nursing-home-patient-deaths-favor-daniel-greenfield/

[MissMarple2]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-explainer/explainer-whos-who-in-israels-new-patchwork-coalition-government-idUSKCN2DP0EX

This article was helpful to me as I get confused by all of the parties in Israel.

[Narciso]

Tim blair was so much on point

https://www.google.com/amp/s/meaww.com/amp/pulse-nightclub-gunman-omar-mateen-wife-noor-zahi-salman-where-is-she-acquital-muslim-legal-fund

[Narciso]

This was the first piece that named the gunman in any context

[GUS]

Pin, Nancy errrr John Brennan voted for GUS HALL. (NOT ME).
Jeffie Toobin is hired for his JUDGEMENT.

[GUS]

If these clowns KNOW that THE CHINA VIRUS was not created in a lab. THEY ARE DIRTY and need to be investigated.

Even Lord Fraudski Earl of DOUCHE BAG does not make such a claim.

Btw FRAUDSKI needs to die in prison. He could share a cell with Andy Cuomo.

[clarice]

https://spectator.org/chauvin-floyd-evidence/Cashill reams prosecution--evidence Chauvin did not caused death

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Thanks for linking that clarice. Was going to but forgot.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

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