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rioters stormed and vandalized Capitol Hill Wednesday, a journalist pointed out that the Biden-Harris administration rescinded a Trump-era executive order that protected national monuments from defacement.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.”