After rampant claims by the mainstream media that police in Washington, D.C., used tear gas to disperse protesters so that President Trump could visit St. John’s Episcopal Church on Monday, pushback began, with a Park Police source asserting “tear gas was never used — instead smoke canisters were deployed, which don’t have an uncomfortable irritant in them.”
On Wednesday, appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a statement indicating that she wasn’t sure the claims of tear gas being used were accurate, admitting, “Maybe they didn’t have tear gas, I don’t know.” On Tuesday, Pelosi had stated, “We would hope that the president of the United States would follow the lead of so many other presidents and be a healer in chief and not a fanner of the flame,” The New York Times reported.
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