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CV NEWS FEED // After hundreds of pro-Palestine rioters stormed and vandalized Capitol Hill Wednesday, a journalist pointed out that the Biden-Harris administration rescinded a Trump-era executive order that protected national monuments from defacement.
The Washington Times Senior Congressional Reporter Kerry Picket wrote that the “National Park Service on Thursday began removing graffiti and repairing statues … that protesters damaged the day before.”
The vandalism came “during demonstrations against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress,” Picket noted.
She described the demonstrators’ graffiti as including “phrases such as ‘Free Gaza,’ ‘Hamas,’ ‘child killers’ ‘F—- Netanyahu’ and ‘Free Palestine.’”
Picket pointed out that graffiti spray-painted by rioters by protesters on the Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain next to the Capitol grounds “will need several days of cleaning treatment, according to a Park Service worker.”
Vice President Kamala Harris – who earlier this week became the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee – on Thursday issued a statement on the previous day’s destructive protests.
“I condemn any individuals associating with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas,” Harris wrote in the statement posted to her U.S. government X (formerly Twitter) account. “Pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric is abhorrent and we must not tolerate it in our nation.”
However, less than an hour after Harris posted her statement, Picket pointed out that Harris and Biden’s administration worked to undo a Trump administration executive order that had imposed harsher penalties for such acts of vandalism.
“Former President Donald Trump issued an executive order in June 2020, during the [Black Lives Matter (BLM)] riots,” Picket noted.
She explained that the order had directed “federal law enforcement to prosecute individuals who damaged monuments and threaten[ed] to withhold funding from local governments that failed to protect their own statues from vandals.”
The Biden-Harris administration “rescinded that order on May 14, 2021.”
Former FBI agent, whistleblower, and 2023 CatholicVote Hero of the Year Kyle Seraphin responded to Picket’s post, writing that her observation is “worth remembering.”
Harris already has a controversial history regarding violent and destructive riots.
As CatholicVote reported earlier this week, Harris in 2020 “publicly supported a bail fund that helped participants in violent riots backed by BLM and other far-left groups.”
CatholicVote added:
Harris wrote on X (then known as Twitter) at the time: “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.”
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