6/26/2020

EXECUTIVE ORDERS/PROTESTS: “Over the last 5 weeks, there has been a sustained assault on the life and property of civilians, law enforcement officers, government property, and revered American monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial. Many of the rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists who have carried out and supported these acts have explicitly identified themselves with ideologies — such as Marxism — that call for the destruction of the United States system of government.

Anarchists and left-wing extremists have sought to advance a fringe ideology that paints the United States of America as fundamentally unjust and have sought to impose that ideology on Americans through violence and mob intimidation.”

-Donald Trump, “Executive Order on Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence,” whitehouse.gov, June 26, 2020