By Nicholas Rowan
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/author/nicholas-rowan
Trump supporters clashed with protesters outside the White House on Saturday as the president nominated Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court.
The protesters, many of whom carried signs demanding the president respect the legacy of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, chanted "racist scumbag" to combat the shouts of "four more years" coming from people decked out in Trump paraphernalia.
Many of the Trump supporters previously attended the evangelical pastor Franklin Graham's March for Prayer, which also took place in Washington, D.C., earlier Saturday.
Many people standing behind the White House, which, in recent months, has become a hot spot for racial justice protests, watched the nomination on their phones. Police stood nearby, in a line surrounding St. John's Episcopal Church, which protesters burned this summer following the death of George Floyd.
After the nomination concluded, a man dressed in a Black Lives Matter T-shirt, who refused to be named, confronted a crowd of people dressed in Trump gear. He castigated a man wearing a hat advertising his Christianity, repeatedly saying, "F— Jesus."
The other man, who would only identify himself to the Washington Examiner as a "conservative black preacher" debated the protester, as a crowd formed around the two.
"F- you, and f- anyone not wearing this shirt," the man told the crowd, as he tugged at his "Black Lives Matter" T-shirt.
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