White House Spokeswoman Criticises ‘Rioting’

White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany is speaking now, in the first briefing since Trump walked through a dispersed protest to visit a church.

“The First Amendment doesn’t give anyone the right to riot,” she says, adding nor does it give anyone the right to “loot”, “burn down buildings”, or “assault private citizens and assault police officers”.

Protesters opposite the White House on Monday were demonstrating peacefully before they were removed for Trump and his aides to visit a nearby church.

McEnany also invoked civil rights icon Dr Martin Luther King and the 1963 March on Washington where he spoke from the Lincoln Memorial.