Supporters of President Trump gather at Freedom Plaza on Tuesday. Washington Post photo by Matt McClain
WASHINGTON One day before Congress votes to certify that Joe Biden won the presidential election, Donald Trump supporters who refuse to accept the reality of his defeat demonstrated in Washington again. The city is bracing for potentially violent protests, egged on by President Trump himself.
All Tuesday afternoon, people bundled against the cold but free of masks arrived in downtown Washington for what they see as a last stand for Trump, who has continued to falsely assert that the election was stolen from him.
Unmasked Trump supporters descend on D.C. to protest election results
Throughout Tuesday, speakers repeated election conspiracy theories, closed their eyes to pray and shared discount codes for MyPillow, a company owned by a Trump ally.
By Marissa J. Lang, Emily Davies, Peter Hermann and Jessica ContreraThe Washington Post
Supporters of President Trump gather at Freedom Plaza on Tuesday. Washington Post photo by Matt McClain
WASHINGTON One day before Congress votes to certify that Joe Biden won the presidential election, Donald Trump supporters who refuse to accept the reality of his defeat demonstrated in Washington again. The city is bracing for potentially violent protests, egged on by President Trump himself.
Trump loyalists harboring martial law fantasies don’t know their history Gillian Brockell Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman’s bayonet aside in Cambridge, Md., on July 21, 1963, as she moves among a crowd of African Americans to convince them to disperse. (AP) Some of President Trump’s most rabid loyalists are calling for him to declare martial law so he won’t have to cede power to President-elect Joe Biden next month though his White House aides have rejected that idea as a way to overturn the election. A frustrated Trump redoubles efforts to overturn election result
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Proud Boys leader says he burned Black Lives Matter banner stolen from church during demonstrations in D.C.
Peter Hermann, The Washington Post
Dec. 18, 2020
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The leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, said he participated in the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner that had been ripped from the facade of a historic Black church during unrest in downtown Washington following a rally earlier this month for President Donald Trump.
Tarrio, the chairman of the male-chauvinist organization with ties to white nationalism, said in an interview with The Washington Post he would plead guilty to destruction of property, pay the church the cost of the banner and surrender to authorities if that criminal charge is filed.
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