Washington Post’s Leonnig: Officials Were ‘On The Prowl For Weapons Of War To Use Against Protestors

Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig breaks down the news that in early June before officials cleared peaceful protestors from Lafayette Square, they stockpiled combat equipment including body-armor-piercing bullets, to prepare for a potential ‘war with protestors’. Aired on 9/18/2020.
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Washington Post’s Leonnig: Officials Were ‘On The Prowl For Weapons Of War To Use Against Protestors

74 comments

    1. Julian Brunner
      National Guard not Riots, give more money to the police not defund, Put rioters in jail don’t let them back out, Trump not Biden.

    2. @Desperado5501 boy, I bet writing that comment gave you a little stiffy, didn’t it? Boy, you are really owning the libs aren’t you junior.

    1. To the trump cult they still think it’s the same thing, they’re stuck on civil war because trump has made so much division in this country

  1. Your nutjob cleared Lafayette square, filled with peaceful protesters, to hold up a Bible upside down for a photo op.

    Any idea how ridiculous this makes the US look around the world? 🤔

    1. Masson H oh, I do, South Korean, French and U.K. friends, cannot believe he was allowed into the highest office of the USA.🌊💙💙🇺🇸

    2. From germany : i worry for the “normal ” People
      And i hope that there will be a majority of them at election Day.

    1. @Harold Moops Trump has asked so many foreign countries for election help the shorter list is the countries Trump hasn’t requested help from.

  2. If the federal officials were looking for a weapon to make people feel as if their skin was burning, they could have just borrowed one of Trumps sun lamps 🤣

    1. Carol what do you mean even Canada and Cuba?? Both countries have a form of universal health care and more importantly people who are reasonable enough to understand that wearing a mask saves lives. Masks are NOT a political statement!

    2. Carol trump knew it hit minorities and elderly disproportionately. He wants to do away with social security. For god sakes, he stopped his own nephews medical coverage after his father died. This man cares for one person DJT🙏🏼💙💙🌊🇺🇸

    1. Barr lies as easily as Trump. His lies about the origins of the Trump/Russia investigation being from the mostly proven true Steele Dossier and his four page summary of lies about the Mueller Report are reason enough for the House to call his fat butt in an explain why he is lying and misdirecting to aid the corrupt POS Trump.

  3. Charge those guys with sedition but don’t charge the “protestors” that were supporting Confederate soldiers who were actual seditious. Welcome to the twilight zone!

    1. Not nice is it. Well, it’s what your taxes have paid for to inflict on many other countries over the last 70 years. Today its Americans attacking each other. What a dump.

    2. @Kelly Willis
      “The military” are the same the world over, they’ll go along with anything, particularly if it’s fascist.

  4. I remember trump saying they had “ominous” weapons ready for use months ago. He said it to frighten off would be protesters. Even the peaceful protests.

  5. One of these guys said that protesters were violent, and warned over a “megaphone speaker” to “move back,” yet this National Guard Major said “no such speaking device was present, and there was no violence.” Somebody lied to Congress!!!

    1. @Laura Lafauve Only if you have the number to convict and the GoP will never convict one of their own. Even if they did convict, who would prosecute? Barr will only allow it if agent orange demands it.

    1. We definitely need to stop providing Secret Service protection for life to former presidents. Waste of the taxpayers’ money.

  6. How can anyone not see that Trump is trying to install himself as a dictator???
    🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 BIDEN/HARRIS 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
    🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

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