Supporters of Donald Trump this Saturday in Washington.TASOS KATOPODIS / AFP
Washington this Saturday received thousands of Trumpists who traveled long distances to support the US president and echo the accusations without evidence of electoral fraud.
The US capital, which a week ago took to the streets en masse to celebrate the triumph of Joe Biden, has witnessed the other side of America, the one that refuses to concede victory to the Democrat.
Donald Trump made a brief appearance around 10 a.m., almost two hours before the convocation in the heart of the city.
From his official car, the Republican president greeted his bases with a smile and then headed to his golf club in the suburbs of Virginia.
"Four more years! Four more years!" Shouted the supporters of the outgoing president, most of them without masks. The banners demanded "Stop the fraud" and that "the legal votes" be counted. In Washington capital the 90% voted for Biden. In general, few red
Make America Great Again
(MAGA)
caps are seen
on the street and in the four years of the Trump Administration not a mass demonstration has been called in favor But this Saturday the city completely changed its face. There were no T-shirts with the slogan
Black lives matter
or masks of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as is often the case in demonstrations in Washington. American flags reigned, the military pants and even cowboy hats.
Trump tweeted that "hundreds of thousands of people" had shown support for him this Saturday and said they were not going to lend themselves to "A rigged and corrupt election!"
Hours before and from her personal Twitter account, the White House spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, celebrated "one million attendees."
However, estimates from the main local media speak of "a couple thousand" protesters.
The Park Service authorization was for an event of 10,000 attendees.
Dozens of members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group that the FBI links to white nationalism and misogyny, traveled to the capital.
Trump had told them in a televised debate to stay alert, waiting.
"Back off and wait," Trump said of the extremist group when Biden called on him to condemn them.
They did not want to make statements to the press, but they made themselves heard when they chanted at the top of their lungs through the streets of downtown "Fuck the Antifa."
Among those who marched to the Capitol was Alex Jones, driver for Infowars.
The announcer has been propagating the most toxic theories of the far right in the United States for years and has been banned on YouTube, Apple, Facebook and Spotify.
Mary, 57, traveled from northern Virginia because, she explained, "no one understands what is happening, at least none of us who follow Trump." She criticizes the "witch hunt" of the Russian plot and the "stupid "
Impeachment
process
. It uses exactly the same language as the Republican president. A Venezuelan celebrated by megaphone the second amendment, which defends the right to have and bear arms, and the thousands of Trumpists exploded in shouts of merriment. In Washington it is prohibited to carry Weapons in plain sight, but the protesters managed: some wore T-shirts with printed machine guns and there was one that covered the back with an American flag where there were guns instead of stars.
This Friday, ten days after the elections, the projections yielded a final result of 306 electoral votes for Biden (well above the 270 required to win the elections) and 232 for Trump.
The legal battle led by the Republican is not bearing fruit.
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona have reduced the hopes of the US president by ending their lawsuits for lack of evidence.
Wlliam Melhem, 53, traveled from Pennsylvania for the first time to the capital.
"It is not fair what is happening, but I think it is already done, however it is important that we manifest ourselves so that they know that we do not agree," he explains. "They may never be able to prove [the fraud], but we will do what what we have to do ”.
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