On Thursday’s Morning Joe, in the midst of coverage of the Obama Presidential Center’s opening, co-host Jonathan Lemire still had time in the show to attack the Trump administration and changes to security footprint in Washington DC. Lemire complained about security additions at Lafayette Park, the grass-filled park right outside of the White House, which he said made the building “less accessible to the people”
Co-host Willie Geist detailed the story with a frame of the park as a key place for protests. He then actually detailed the project, which he said, “would give officials the ability to shut down the park if they feel it’s necessary, according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity,” before he shortly added: “The Secret Service has been pushing for that plan.”
Geist then mentioned the protests at Lafayette Square in 2020, best known for when law enforcement cleared the protests in front of the White House amid days of violence, before he inferred the security changes might be an attempt to minimize America 250 protests:
Obviously, John, Lafayette Square fraught during the Trump Administration because of that incident that we recalled. They had the National Guard come in and clear the square so Donald Trump could walk through and go to the church. Putting up a fence here, perhaps deterring protests they might be expecting around the America 250 celebration.
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