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6. There were calls to remove Lincoln and Jackson statues in 2020
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 04:42 PM
Aug 2025
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dc-delegate-showdown-trump-removing-lincoln-jackson-statues/story?id=71453290

"President Donald Trump has said removing statues of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C., is "not gonna happen" while he's around -- but the delegate who represents the city in Congress is trying to do just that.

Democratic Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who is Black, said she will introduce a bill in the House next week to have the two statues removed from federal land in the District -- Jackson's from Lafayette Park across from the White House and Lincoln's from near the Capitol."

The showdown comes as protesters claim they will try to take down the Lincoln statue Friday night and after Trump's promise to sign an executive order "before the end of the week" to make it easier to prosecute those who target statues with "long-term jail time."

From June 2020 ABC News article

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