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.