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Thousands of people gathered to participate in protests for Trump in Washington DC
Thousands of supporters of Donald Trump took to the streets this Saturday in the United States alleging electoral fraud. During the protests, there were isolated clashes with counter-protesters.
In the US capital Washington, more than 20 people were arrested and four were stabbed, police said.
Trump lost the November 3 election to Joe Biden, but has yet to give up.
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The Electoral College, the system that elects US presidents, is expected to confirm Biden’s victory on Monday.
Biden won 306 votes to Trump’s 232 in the Electoral College and had more than seven million votes more than his Republican rival in the popular vote.
In the country’s capital, the police tried to keep the two sides separate. The strategy included isolating the area known as Black Lives Matter Plaza, where anti-Donald Trump protesters gathered.
The pro-Trump protesters, gathered with flags bearing the words “Stop the Steal,” were joined by members of the far-right group Proud Boys, dressed in yellow and black.
Many wore bulletproof vests and made racist connotations with their hands.
Trump caused controversy by saying the group should “back off and wait” in a presidential debate in September. The president later said he condemned “all white supremacists.”
As night fell, the Proud Boys and Antifa, mostly separated by police barriers, shouted insults. There have been isolated cases of physical violence.
The stabbings occurred near a bar in the center of the capital, but it was not clear to which group the wounded belonged, according to the Washington Post.
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Counter-protesters were kept at a distance from Trump supporters by Washington DC police
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The far-right group Proud Boys Boys made gestures symbolizing white supremacy as they gathered near the Washington Monument
The protests also took place in Olympia, the capital of Washington state, and in the cities of Atlanta and St Paul, Minnesota. Olympia police said one person was shot and three were arrested during the clash between rival groups.
The Washington DC law drew several thousand Trump supporters, but it was fewer than a similar event on November 14.
Few participants wore masks, despite Covid-19 restrictions.
There were speeches by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, now pardoned by Trump, and by Sebastian Gorka, another former White House official.
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Trump’s pardoned former national security adviser Michael Flynn was among those who spoke
Gorka urged the president not to give up his legal campaign, based on unsubstantiated accusations of electoral fraud, to reverse the election results.
The president’s latest legal defeat came on Friday, when the Supreme Court rejected an unprecedented attempt to overturn the results in four battle states won by Biden.
Trump has already lost more than 50 election-related cases.
There was applause as the presidential helicopter, Marine One, flew over the Washington rally taking Trump to the Army and Navy football game in West Point, New York.
The president had previously expressed his support for Twitter. “Wow! Thousands of people are gathering in Washington for ‘Stop Theft’. I didn’t know it, but I’ll join you!”
General Flynn compared the protesters to soldiers and priests walking through the walls of Jericho, echoing the call by the organizers of the “Jericho marches” rally to overturn the election result.
