"Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump!â
That was the rallying cry heard from thousands of protesters who gathered 2 miles from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 for the âSave America Rally.âÂ
âThank youâ was President Donald Trumpâs response to his supporters during a nearly hourlong speech in which he repeated the now often-heard, yet still unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him.Â
Throughout, he called on the crowd to âwalk down Pennsylvania Avenueââ to the Capitol, where legislators were in the midst of certifying Joe Bidenâs Electoral College victory.Â
Whether Trump expected â or intended â for his supporters to take the call to fight literally, many did, in an unprecedented raid on the Capitol that resulted in vandalism, as many as six deaths, at least 120 arrests and a nation shocked that one of its most secure sites could be breached despite a guarding force of 2,000 Capitol Police officers.