On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) assailed the lack of arrests related to the riotous protest over the weekend near the White House urging President Joe Biden to cut military aid to Israel and demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza war against Hamas.
The Louisiana Republican reacted to the demonstration that trashed Lafayette Park, as well as a widely-condemned protest in New York outside of an exhibit memorializing the victims of the deadly Hamas attack on Israel last October, during a press conference.
“Outside a New York memorial for October 7th victims, shamefully, protesters chanted ‘Long live the Intifada,’ and outside the White House, vandals and apparently aspiring Hamas members chanted ‘Hezbollah, Hezbollah!’ and ‘Kill another Zionist now,’” he said.
“Yeah, that happened in Lafayette Park,” Johnson added. “Plain and simple, it’s dangerous behavior…
