Statues and memorials were desecrated during Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots.
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The Kuhner ReportOct 26, 2026
Multiple sources, including a Reuters investigation and a Stanford-style scholarly article, document statues and memorials being torn down or defaced during the 2020 George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests, with Antifa participation reported in some incidents (e.g., Portland statue toppling).
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… it's Kuhnert country, rightly, is upset, and Fox Newsweek thinks it's newsworthy, and they'll do a segment or two, and, you know, I guess they'll do something to this guy, but you can just tell we're getting used to this as a country. We're becoming numb, because they tore down so many statues during the Black Lives Matter riots and Antifa, and they desecrated so many memorials, and there's a constant war on our military, on our heroes, on our history, on our culture, that it just, you can just tell, it's like, "Okay, well, oh, oh, they took down another statue today? Really? Oh, they decapitated him? Oh, a guy took a sledgehammer? …
The Kuhner Report · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Scholarly work on damnatio memoriae in the BLM era documents protesters defacing, toppling and beheading statues of Columbus, Washington and others in 2020.[2]
Supports. Reporting on a 2026 Portland incident describes Black Lives Matter-Antifa activists toppling statues of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, showing Antifa-linked statue destruction.[4]
Supports. Commentary and a Catholic League report describe Antifa and BLM rioters attacking statues, memorials and church property during 2020 protests.[3][5]
Context. Reuters reports little evidence supports Trump's sweeping claim of a central Antifa role in triggering disturbances, so the Antifa share of the destruction is less documented than BLM protest involvement.[1][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 1 tier 2, 3 not rated
- 1American Antifa: From Girl Scout to anarchist street warriorreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Damnatio Memoriae and Black Lives Matterscholarlycommons.law.emory.edu · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3New 9/11 Memorial Vandal Underscores Left’s Deep-Rooted ...spectator.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4Statues of Lincoln And Roosevelt Pulled Down With Chains in Portlandground.news · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5NON-VIOLENT RIOTERS PUNISHED MORE THAN VIOLENT ONEScatholicleague.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6George Floyd protests - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
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