Protester blasts Trump in Washington DC bridge stunt: "Illegal"

A protester who climbed Washington, D.C.’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge denounced President Donald Trump’s Iran policy as an “illegal” war in an interview on Friday night.His demonstration coincided with planned protests across the U.S. from a coalition of groups advocating higher taxes on the wealthy, an end to ICE operations, a halt to war, and the curtailing corporate influence in elections.Why It MattersThe protests marked the latest in a string of nationwide demonstrations opposing the Trump administration’s policies since Trump returned to office in January last year.In March, crowds congregated in cities across the country for a third wave of “No Kings” protests—which the White House dismissed as “Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions.”...What To KnowGuido Reichstadter spoke from atop the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge after disrupting peak-hour traffic, telling NewsNation he was calling for “an immediate end to the Trump regime’s illegal war on Iran” through mass nonviolent action.“I’m calling on the people of the United States to bring an immediate end to the Trump regime’s illegal war on Iran and the removal of the regime’s power through mass nonviolent direct action and non-cooperation,” Reichstadter told the outlet.He also warned of “the imminent danger we are in of crossing a point