The U.S. justice department has announced charges against four men accused of damaging a statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House, as Donald Trump retweeted a series of 'wanted' posters for 15 people accused of vandalism. The four people were charged with destruction of federal property in connection with their alleged effort to tear down Jackson's statue in Lafayette Square on June 22. Jackson, a populist who admirers say reformed Washington DC, is a hero of Trump's, and Trump chose his portrait to hang in the Oval Office. The movement to topple or deface monuments of Confederate war heroes and U.S. presidents with poor civil rights records has angered the president. 'Now they are looking at Jesus Christ, they are looking at George Washington, they're looking at Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson.

Source: Daily Mail June 28, 2020 04:21 UTC