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In this May 19, 2020, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks with reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans at their weekly luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell offers public support for embattled Defense Secretary Mark Esper

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

U.S. Secret Service police wait in Lafayette Park as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Monday, June 1, 2020, near the White House in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Park Police officers placed on admin. duties following attack on Australian reporters in D.C.

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this March 18, 2020, photo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a press briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Mark Esper, Pentagon chief, opposes Trump plan: ‘I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announces that the G-7 will be held at Trump National Doral, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Mick Mulvaney: St. John’s Episcopal Church visit was ‘a very Trump kind of move’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this Monday, June 1, 2020 photo, protesters prepare to observe nine minutes of silence on the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Ore. Portland will not impose a curfew on Tuesday night for the first time in four days after several thousand demonstrators remained largely peaceful during a march the night before to protest the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP)

The Latest: Seattle ends city-wide curfew ahead of schedule

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Donald Trump walks past police in Lafayette Park after he visited outside St. John's Church across from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Part of the church was set on fire during protests on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump denies Secret Service rushed him to bunker during protest, says visit was for ‘inspection’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this April 1, 2020, file photo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

White House noncommittal on Donald Trump’s confidence in Mark Esper

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Fireworks go off in front of police, who with protesters in front of police headquarters in St. Louis on Monday, June 1, 2020. The small group of protesters was originally part of a much larger group demonstrating earlier in the afternoon against the death of George Floyd. (Colter Peterson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

The Latest: Thousands on New York City streets after curfew

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, at left, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, Dean of Washington National Cathedral, right, await their signal to begin a livestreamed Easter Sunday service at the National Cathedral with no parishioners, Sunday, April 12, 2020, in Washington, in light of coronavirus pandemic precautions. The large Cathedral would normally be full on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mariann Edgar Budde: I had to disassociate us from Trump’s ‘symbolic’ gesture at St. John’s

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this April 16, 2012 file photo, then GSA Inspector General Brian Miller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump’s choice to oversee a significant chunk of the $2 trillion economic rescue law is pledging to conduct audits and investigations “with fairness and impartiality.″ Brian Miller, currently a lawyer in the White House counsel’s office, goes before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday for his nomination as special inspector general for pandemic recovery. The post would place him in charge of overseeing a roughly $500 billion Treasury fund created as part of economic rescue law approved in late March. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Brian Miller confirmed as inspector general for coronavirus funds over Democrats’ opposition

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visit Saint John Paul II National Shrine, Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Donald Trump, first lady visit John Paul II shrine ahead of religious-freedom order

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump walks past police in Lafayette Park after he visited outside St. John's Church across from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Part of the church was set on fire during protests on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Homeland Security Chair Thompson demands briefing on clearing protestors from Lafayette Park

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Members of the U.S. Secret Service stand near Lafayette Park across from the White House, Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in Washington, following protests over the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Gerry Connolly, Democratic chairman, says Donald Trump made Secret Service ‘a tool of fascism’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought speaks during a Cabinet Meeting in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Russell Vought, budget director critiqued for religious views, up for Senate confirmation

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

Protesters raise their fists during a rally Monday, June 1, 2020, in Las Vegas, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Protesters return to the streets as Trump decries ‘lowlifes’

By ZEKE MILLER and TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Police officers in riot gear stand by in Times Square during a protest in Manhattan in New York, Monday, June 1, 2020. New York City imposed an 11 p.m. curfew Monday as the nation's biggest city tried to head off another night of destruction erupting amid protests over George Floyd's death. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Federal, state leaders grapple with looting, violence amid ongoing protests

By David Sherfinski, Alex Swoyer and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Donald Trump mobilizing military amid George Floyd protests

By Tom Howell Jr. and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Members of the Shiloh Christian Center pray, sing and speak in tounges on the &quot;With God All Things Are Possible&quot; seal on the west lawn of the Ohio Statehouse as protesters gather at the Ohio Statehouse for a peaceful Sunday, May 31, 2020 protest over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. (Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

Officials see extremist groups, disinformation in protests

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER and MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

Demonstrators vandalize a car as they protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near the White House in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump meets with Barr, state police leaders after weekend of riots

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Park of the church was set on fire during protests on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Amid protests, Trump talks of war — and reelection

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN and ALAN SUDERMAN - Associated Press