Biden DOJ defends Trump clear­ing 2020 George Floyd pro­test­ers from park near White House

The Depart­ment of Jus­tice (DOJ) is will­ing to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for actions tak­en by for­mer Pres­i­dent Trump against pro­test­ers in 2020.The DOJ sub­mit­ted a court fil­ing on Mon­day cer­ti­fy­ing that Trump was act­ing with­in the scope of his office when he ordered the Nation­al Guard to dis­perse riot­ers gath­ered near the White House fol­low­ing the death of George Floyd.“On the basis of the infor­ma­tion now avail­able with respect to the claims set forth there­in, I find that Don­ald J. Trump was act­ing with­in the scope of fed­er­al office or employ­ment at the time of the inci­dent out of which the plain­tiffs’ claims arise,” wrote James Touhey Jr., head of the Torts Branch in the DOJ’s Civ­il Divi­sion­DOJ SUDDENLY LOCATED BIDEN BIOGRAPHER TRANSCRIPTS CREATED BY ROBERT HUR: WATCH­DOGTh­ree indi­vid­u­als who were protest­ing on Lafayette Square in 2020 fol­low­ing Floy­d’s …