Was Pike big in the Klan? What's got Trump all a-fuss? Just who Trump is, or some membership dimension above and beyond the bluster and fuss of who he regularly is? There is this. What basis would a simple blogger have to affirm or deny that? If it's on the Internet it must be true. That's what they say.
UPDATE: What's Biden have to say about the Pike monument, present and future? Someone should ask him for a statement.
FURTHER: Is Barr a Mason? Wilbur Ross? Ross and Jarad seem the constants in the flow of personnel through the Trump term in office. With Barr a "late blooming" keeper, in Trumpland. So, Barr, Ross, and nepotism defining the aberrational consistency - sticking in the funnel when all else washed out.
FURTHER: Downing of the Pike statue is online, all of the tedium, full length. It is highly informative.
It was a handful of people. Bullhorns were there. Ropes. People in black climbing onto the statue, looking white to me, tying and re-tying. Doing that while the bullhorns were being worked, and the statue was lit up for filming. It was not a belligerent crowd. Fear of police interdiction seemed wholly absent for reasons we can only guess. A mixed race crowd, and once toppled the statue was subject to a kind of ceremonial burning; a token burning effort perhaps only for show, since bronze requires more heat than a liter of combustible fluid atop inch-thick bronze provides. With the levels of other preparation if an actual fully destructive intent were the aim a welding torch could have been easily brought with bullhorns and lighting. It had all the earmarks of a staged event. On Juneteenth. A Friday evening. The YouTube post is from a DC TV station, this being mid-item:
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A link. WaPo, here and here. LaRouche. Statue detail. Temple detail. Official statement, from Grand Commander James D. Cole, 33rd Degree.
