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Nancy Pelosi brandishes her OWN Bible as she slams Donald Trump for having peaceful protesters 'beaten' for his church photo-op - then reads from it and tells him to be 'healer-in-chief'

Speaker Nancy Pelosi brandished her own bible on Tuesday to chastise President Donald Trump for having protesters 'beaten' so he c...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi brandished her own bible on Tuesday to chastise President Donald Trump for having protesters 'beaten' so he could hold a photo-op in front of St. John's church.
The speaker held up her bible, in a counter to President Trump brandishing a bible on Monday afternoon, to read from Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8, focusing on its message of a 'time to heal.'
'Let's focus from time to time to heal,' she said during an event in the U.S. Capitol. 'We have had as the role of President of the United States, role of commander of chief, a person who has a responsibility to heal.'

Speaker Nancy Pelosi brandished her own bible on Tuesday to chastise President Donald Trump for having protesters 'beaten' so he could hold a photo-op
Speaker Nancy Pelosi brandished her own bible on Tuesday to chastise President Donald Trump for having protesters 'beaten' so he could hold a photo-op
Speaker Nancy Pelosi read from Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8, focusing on its message of a 'time to heal'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi read from Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8, focusing on its message of a 'time to heal'
President Trump held a bible in front of St. John's on Monday but did not read from it or pray during his short visit to the historic church
President Trump held a bible in front of St. John's on Monday but did not read from it or pray during his short visit to the historic church
She cited the example of President George H.W. Bush's address during the LA riots during the 1990s in the wake of police officers being acquitted for using excessive force against Rodney King.
She quoted Bush's words: 'Those terrible scenes stir us all to demand an end to gratuitous violence and gratuitous brutality. Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend. It was sickening to see the beating that was rendered and there's no way, no way, in my view, to explain that away.' 
Pelosi then criticized President Trump after law enforcement officials used rubber bullets, tear gas and officers on horse back to clear out protesters so the president could leave the White House, and cross Lafayette Park to pose with a bible in front of the historic St. Johns' Church, known as the Church of Presidents as every president since James Madison has prayed there.
'We would hope that the President of the United States would follow the lead of so many other presidents before has to be a healer in chief and not a fanner of the flame. Yesterday we saw a most unfortunate situation where before the curfew -the time of the curfew occurred - peaceful protesters in front of the White House were beaten so the president could come out and go forward. What is that? That has no place and it's time for us to do away with that. A time to heal,' she said.

President Trump held a bible in front of St. John's after addressing the nation Monday to threaten to use military force to end protests that broke out throughout the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man killed when a white cop knelt on his neck for eight minutes.
He did not read from it or go inside to pray. When reporters asked him if it was his bible, he said 'it's a bible.' 
He was criticized for the use of force to move protesters 30 minutes before Washington D.C.'s curfew went into affect and shortly before took his walk to spend five minutes at the church. 
Both D.C. officials and church officials said they were given no advance notice of Trump's plans. 
But the president bragged Tuesday morning that law enforcement 'dominated' in Washington, D.C. Monday night as he claimed there were 'no problems' with rioters, but in the same tweet claimed there were 'many arrests.'
'D.C. had no problems last night,' Trump boasted in his Tuesday morning tweet. 'Many arrests. Great job done by all. Overwhelming force. Domination.'
Trump will also appeal to his religious base by visiting the Saint John Paul II National Shrine Tuesday morning before signing a religious freedom executive order from the Oval Office later in the day. 
The shrine to Pope John Paul II is located in Northeast Washington, D.C. and is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. While it is a place of prayer for Catholics, it welcomes people of all faiths.
The president will travel there by motorcade with first lady Melania.
Riot police rush protestors to clear Lafayette Park and the area around it across from the White House for President Donald Trump to be able to walk through for a photo opportunity in front of St. John's Episcopal Church (seen at rear)
Riot police rush protestors to clear Lafayette Park and the area around it across from the White House for President Donald Trump to be able to walk through for a photo opportunity in front of St. John's Episcopal Church (seen at rear)
President Trump walked out of the White House surrounded by Cabinet officials, aides and security
President Trump walked out of the White House surrounded by Cabinet officials, aides and security
It comes after he marched out of the White House Monday evening - surrounded by aides, Cabinet officials, military members and Secret Service agents - to visit St. John's church, which was damaged during Sunday night's protest in downtown D.C.
The church is located directly across from the north side of the White House, only separated by Lafayette Park, which was tear gassed to disperse protesters moments before the president emerged.
Priests from the church revealed Monday that they were part of a peaceful crowd that was tear gassed by cops who were clearing a path for Trump.
Gini Gerbasi, a rector at the Church, revealed on Facebook Monday that she and other clergy and laypeople were passing out water to protesters when police flooded the area, pushing protesters, deploying tear gas and unleashing rubber bullets.
'That man turned it into a BATTLE GROUND first, and a cheap political stunt second,' Gerbasi said in her post. 
Speaker Pelosi and President Trump have clashed about manners of faith before. 
Pelosi, a devout Catholic, has repeatedly said she prays for the president. 
Trump, at the National Prayer Breakfast in February shortly after he was cleared of two article of impeachment, said he doesn't like 'people who say I pray for you when they know that's not so.'

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