Washington (CNN) Attorney General William Barr said Monday that the US Secret Service recommended moving President Donald Trump to the underground White House bunker during late May protests, contradicting the President's earlier assertion that his visit to the bunker was for "inspection." Barr told Fox News that the June 1 action to expand the perimeter around the White House and Lafayette Square was a reaction "to three days of extremely violent demonstrations right across from the White House -- a lot of injuries to police officers, arson." "Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended that the President go down to the bunker," Barr said, referencing protests on May 29. And that was what we were doing (on June 1)." "I went down during the day, and I was there for a tiny little short period of time, and it was much more for an inspection, there was no problem during the day," Trump said.

Source: CNN June 08, 2020 23:16 UTC