Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump spent time in a White House bunker during Friday night’s protests outside the executive mansion.
Secret Service agents rushed him there as some of the demonstrators were throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades.
Trump spent nearly an hour in the underground shelter, which was designed for use in emergencies like terrorist attacks.
That’s according to a Republican close to the White House who was not authorized to publicly discuss private matters and requested anonymity.
The account was confirmed by an administration official who also spoke on condition of anonymity.
Washington D.C. is on fire in every direction as the uprising against racism & police violence has spread to the capital.
Protesters clashed with the National Guard at the White House, with Trump reportedly taking shelter in a bunker & the presidential residence going dark. pic.twitter.com/s7StnB79gt— redfish (@redfishstream) June 1, 2020
Meantime, with cities wounded by days of violent unrest, America went into a new week with neighborhoods in shambles, urban streets on lockdown and shaken confidence about when its leaders will find the answers to control the mayhem amid unrelenting raw emotion over police killings of black people.
All of it smashed into a nation already bludgeoned by a death toll that surged past 100,000 from the coronavirus pandemic and unemployment that soared to levels not seen since the Great Depression. Arrests have topped 4,400 according to an Associated Press tally.
