WASHINGTON ― Three top Trump administration officials including Vice President JD Vance fired back at noisy protesters targeting the recent federal takeover of Washington D.C. during a wild scene at Union Station, the city’s transit hub.
Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller, a senior White House official, dropped by Union Station unannounced on Aug. 20 for a photo-op to tout President Donald Trump’s recent deployment of National Guard troops to the nation’s capital to crack down on crime.
But as the trio spoke from a Shake Shack to claim credit for bringing down crime, a small group of protesters could be heard from the main hall chanting “Free D.C.!” and producing a drumbeat of noise that drowned out and visibly irritated the Trump officials.
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