The assault on St. John’s Episcopal Church by radicals and racists was the ugliest moment of the D.C. riots. Not only was the famous 204-year-old church, which every president since Madison has attended, sprayed with graffiti, but some of the thugs even tried to burn it down by starting a fire in its basement.
The attack and President Trump's subsequent visit to the 'Church of Presidents’ captured the attention of a nation. But what happened to St. John's was not an aberration. The Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots have been associated with attacks on churches and synagogues across the United States.