WASHINGTON – Most Republicans continued Tuesday to avoid any criticism of President Donald Trump, though at least two GOP senators spoke out against police use of tear gas to clear peaceful demonstrators from a park near the White House so Trump could walk to a nearby church and pose with a Bible. "There is no right to riot, no right to destroy others’ property, and no right to throw rocks at police.
But there is a fundamental — a Constitutional — right to protest, and I’m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop,'' said Nebraska Sen.
Ben Sasse. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, said he did not think Trump’s visit to St.