Senators: ‘Far-Left Radicals’ Causing ’Anarchy' by Tearing Down Statues

A vandal wraps chains around the neck of the statue of former President Andrew Jackson during an attempt by protesters to pull the statue down in the middle of Lafayette Park in front of the White House during racial inequality protests in Washington, on June 22, 2020. Joshua Roberts/Reuters

Republican senators on June 23 harshly criticized groups who toppled or defaced statues of former Presidents Ulysses Grant, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

“A crazy fringe is treating their monuments like vanity statues of tinhorn tyrants. Our Founding Fathers are being roped to the ground like they were Saddam Hussein,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor in Washington.