wouldn't it be something for the workmen to start tearing down the WH itself?.....I guess that would definitely be a "tell".....
It was not a gallows. That is so ridiculous. It was a press box for filming an inauguration that either happened in secret (and the video of which we are yet to see) or did not happen as expected. The box is built every time there is an inauguration and you can go search past press boxes built in front of the White House. Those pushing that it was a gallows are only making us and themselves look stupid. Prove me wrong.
(this is not aimed at you personally cherry, but in general)
There is a lot of beautiful history tied up with the WH, the Supreme Court, and other buildings in DC. The buildings themselves have not been guilty of any wrongdoing.