Donald Trump has become obsessed with the media coverage of him being rushed to the White House bunker as people protested against police brutality in Washington D.C.
According to reports, Trump is now demanding that officials find and prosecute those responsible” for leaking the incident to the press.
After multiple news outlets reported that Trump hid in the White House bunker, many of his critics created ads and called him out for being scared and panicking during a time that he needed to bring the country together.
“Go back to your bunker,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan tweeted after Trump criticized the city’s response to the protests as too weak.
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Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign also released an ad criticizing Trump’s response to the protests and mocking the bunker episode.
“Donald Trump: too scared to face the people, too weak to lead,” the ad says. “The nation marches for justice, and like a deer in the headlights, he’s paralyzed with fear. He doesn’t know what to do, so he hides in his bunker.”
Trump has claimed that he did not hide, but was “inspecting” the bunker.
“It was a false report. I wasn’t down. I went down during the day, and I was there for a tiny little short period of time, and it was much more for an inspection,” Trump claimed earlier this month. “They said it would be a good time to go down. ‘Take a look, because maybe sometime you’re going to need it’ . . . I was down for a very very short period of time — very, very short period of time. I can’t tell you who went with me, but a whole group of people went with me as an inspecting factor. I was back-up, and Brian it was during the day. It wasn’t during the night. I think they reported during the night.”
But arrest records from the night of the protest obtained by The Washington Post and law enforcement officials contradicted the president’s claim. And Attorney General William Barr later refuted Trump’s claim in an interview with Fox News.
“Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended the president go down to the bunker,” Barr said last week.
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