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Members of the Proud Boys amid the chaos of the December 14 rally for Trump fans in DC. Photograph by Evy Mages
The Proud Boys will not wear their trademark black-and-yellow clothing during the January 6 rallies in support of President Trump, according to their chairman, Enrique Tarrio. Tarrio wrote on the niche social media site Parler that members of the group “will be incognito and we will spread across downtown DC in smaller teams. And who knows….we might dress in all BLACK for the occasion.”
The plan appears to be to look like people in antifascist groups and other counterprotesters. “Guess what, motherfuckers, we’re gonna look just like you,” Proud Boys bigwig Joe Biggs said in a video in which he wore a mask, put up the hood of his sweatshirt, and donned plastic Groucho Marx-style glasses.
Pro-Trump rallies mount for Jan. 6
Marissa J. Lang, The Washington Post
Dec. 30, 2020
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WASHINGTON - Protests planned in support of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6 are multiplying by the week.
Four seemingly competing rallies to demand that Congress overturn the results of the presidential election, which their participants falsely view as illegitimate, are scheduled on the day Congress is set to convene to certify electoral college votes, declaring President-elect Joe Biden the winner.
The events will be headlined by Trump s most ardent supporters, including recently pardoned George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to Trump s 2016 campaign who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during its Russia investigation, and longtime ally Roger Stone, whose sentence for seeking to impede a congressional probe into Russian election interference was commuted by Trump in July before being upgraded to a full pardon.
WUSA9 found several posts on the website TheDonaldWin encouraging supporters to “bring guns.”
WUSA9 reached out to the administer of the online forum but did not hear back. After contacting several hotels, WUSA9 did hear back from Marriott. A spokesperson said the hotel will not close but, in a statement explained, “we are monitoring the situation very closely and have operational and security plans in place.”
“Your silence is violence,” Taylor said.
WUSA9 s Delia Gonçalves spotted some barricade gates on standby outside the downtown hotel and some employees surveying the property Wednesday.
D.C. Police confirm to WUSA9 they are not aware of any specific barricades gates near the hotel, but a spokesperson emailed us a statement saying: