Trump fans protest - but how many were there?
The US President once again feels like a “victim” of “Fox News”, which he praised not long ago.
Trump
* fans have marched in Washington - in protest against
Joe Biden's
*
election victory
.
The nationalist
“Proud Boys”
were among the demonstrators
.
Donald Trump * was
celebrated by the demonstrators
on the way to the
golf club
- and rushed against
"Fox News"
.
Update from November 16, 12.12 p.m .:
“I won the election!” With these words in capital letters,
US President Donald Trump
said goodbye
on Twitter into the night (local time).
He does not give up.
Shortly before that, he spoke again on Sunday about the
lawsuits
against the vote count, which are still planned - and promised great
things
: “Our big cases, which show the unconstitutionality of the
2020 elections
and the outrage about things that were done to bring about the result changes will be submitted soon! "
But official
election officers
, such as election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, had already announced that there had been no signs of major
irregularities
.
So far, Trump has not had much success with his lawsuits.
Like some media
report, his lawyers have even toned down a lawsuit in the state of
Pennsylvania
themselves
.
Before it was deleted, the allegation was that the
constitutional rights
of observers from the Trump camp had been violated during the vote count.
Now it only means that
Republican
voters
were disadvantaged because in some places it was allowed
to correct
mistakes in
ballot papers
- mind you in some districts with a democratic orientation.
In
Pennsylvania, Biden leads
Trump
with
over 68,000 votes
,
according to
CNN
.
Many of the court cases being filed all over the country are not ours, but rather those of people that have seen horrible abuses.
Our big cases showing the unconstitutionality of the 2020 Election, & the outrage of things that were done to change the outcome, will soon be filed!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
Trump even went a
step
further
in one of his many daily tweets
.
Those "who are responsible for upholding our
constitution
" should not allow "the fake results of the 2020 postal vote to endure".
By that he could mean the
US Supreme Court *
.
Meanwhile, ex-President
Barack Obama
also spoke up
.
"I don't think he will succeed in denying the reality," Obama told
NPR
radio
in an interview that was published in advance on Monday.
Especially the fact that Trump, his team and the Republicans are
hindering
a smooth
transfer of office
annoys Obama.
This is yet another example of "Donald Trump's disregard for basic democratic norms harms the American people."
US election 2020: Barack Obama criticizes Donald Trump in his memoir
Update from November 15, 8:10 p.m.:
On Tuesday, about two weeks after the
US election
, the former
US President Barack Obama published
his memoir.
Der
Spiegel
has now published the first sections of the book.
In it,
Obama
also
criticizes
Donald Trump who started his
political career by lying about him "I was not only born in Kenya, [...] but I am also a secret Muslim socialist and a 'Manchurian candidate', brainwashed and remote controlled, who was smuggled into the United States with forged documents and prepared from childhood to infiltrate the highest levels of American politics, ”writes Obama.
In addition,
Obama
describes
in the book a strange phone call his advisor made to
Donald Trump
.
After the explosion of the “Deepwater Horizon” oil platform, the oil in the Gulf of Mexico caused an environmental disaster.
Trump
called "out of the blue" David Axelrod,
Obama's
advisor.
Trump
suggested that they "should let him seal the hole".
But since the borehole was almost closed,
Trump
suddenly offered instead to build “a beautiful ballroom” on the White House property.
The
Obama administration
gratefully declined.
US election 2020: Trump fans protest against Biden's election victory
First report from November 5, 9:01 am:
Washington -
Trump fans
do not want
to admit
it - and on Saturday on the streets in Washington they demanded
"four more years"
for the incumbent US President, despite the election victory of his challenger
Joe Biden
from the US Democrats *.
Your "argument": alleged
electoral fraud
.
Donald Trump was there - and waved to his fans with a smile from his armored
limousine
.
How many pro Trump fans were there?
Assessments by observers and the media ranged from a few thousand to a good
10,000.
Trump preferred to
tweet
about "hundreds of thousands" and attacked
Fox News
in a tweet: The station does not show the massive gatherings, he complained, but instead places its reporters in "almost empty" streets - "We are now dealing with PRESS SUPPRESSION to do".
. @ FoxNews and the Fake News Networks aren't showing these massive gatherings.
Instead they have their reporters standing in almost empty streets.
We now have SUPPRESSION BY THE PRESS.
MAGA!
https://t.co/RMOa4jKZwA
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2020
Trump's spokeswoman
Kayleigh McEnany even
spoke of a
million participants
on Twitter
, which was obviously grossly exaggerated.
The Trump administration had already started its term of office by exaggerating the number of participants when he was
inaugurated
in
January 2017
.
It has come full circle.
AMAZING!
More than one MILLION marchers for President @realDonaldTrump descend on the swamp in support.
Best base in political history - we LOVE you guys !!!
❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/vU65nqCSns
- Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) November 14, 2020
Trump fans oppose Biden's election victory: "Fox News are enemies of the people!"
Trump's convoy was on the way to a
golf club
in Freedom Plaza
during the protests,
where at least 10,000 fans greeted him with cheers.
"Fox News are enemies of the people!" One of the speakers shouted into the crowd.
The channel from
Rupert Murdoch's
media empire
was Trump's house
channel for a
long time - but recently moved noticeably away from him.
Trump had repeatedly referred to the media as "enemies of the people".
Various groups had called for the pro-Trump demos, including Enrique Tarrio, leader of the
nationalist "Proud Boys"
(
represented by a
good hundred
members
according to information from the
picture
) and the group
"Women for Trump"
.
Many participants in the demonstration did not wear masks as a protective measure against Corona *.
The incumbent of the Republican Party * has been speaking for days
without evidence
of alleged
election fraud
using postal voting * and accuses the Democrats of wanting to "steal" his election.
So far, the electoral authorities have not reported any major irregularities in a single US state.
On Friday, however, he seemed for the first time to
indicate
a
possible
relenting: The "future" will show who will rule the country in the future, he said in a
subordinate sentence
at a speech in the rose garden of the White House.
(dpa / AFP / frs)
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