Washington, D.C., Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered the 2020 protest-era “BLACK LIVES MATTER” mural removed from the street near the White House last week, and crews began doing it Monday morning.

The news of the work starting comes from The Washington Post, which claimed the move was done due to pressure from Republicans.

Bowser, who has long been under fire from President Donald Trump for her local governance in the nation’s capital, merely called it a “distraction” — coincidentally which is what critics from the right called it during the hot-button 2020 presidential campaign.

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