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AIn the end there was violence again. Throughout Saturday, thousands of Donald Trump supporters had been walking back and forth between the Capitol and the National Mall in Washington. There were not as many as in November. The president also paid them a brief visit. He said on Twitter that he knew nothing about this “Stop the Steal” demonstration, only to fly over Freedom Plaza shortly after in his “Marine One” helicopter, where the American anthem was playing.
Majid sattar
Political Correspondent for North America based in Washington.
When it got dark, clashes between hard-core Trump supporters, including the right-wing radical “Proud Boys,” began with counter-protesters. In the end, four people were said to have been hospitalized with stab wounds. At first, the authorities could not say whether they were supporters of the US president or his opponents. Police also reported 23 arrests.
Trump supporters protested the Supreme Court’s decision Friday night. For the second time, constitutional judges rejected a motion designed to deprive Democrat Joe Biden of electoral victory. Trump probably had an idea of how the rally would end. His suggestion that he knew nothing about the meeting should certainly serve as a precaution against criticism. After all, during the election campaign he asked the “Proud Boys” to “stand back and stay out.” Now they marched in small groups through the streets of the capital and chanted: “1776”, the year of the American declaration of independence.
Twitter from the helicopter
Trump had yet to calm down on his flight over Freedom Plaza, as his posts on Twitter showed. Constitutional judges had spoiled his mood Friday night. A party had already gathered at the White House for a Christmas party: in government, you take the liberty of ignoring your own crown rules. Shortly before his scheduled appearance, the assembly was informed that the president would not be coming.
What he had to do instead, they could follow him on Twitter. The Supreme Court “really let us down,” Trump wrote. He has neither wisdom nor courage. The president-elect wrote that he was “very disappointed” with the constitutional judges. They concluded that he, that is, Trump, as well as Texas and the other states, had no right to sue: “We were not allowed to present our evidence.”
In fact, the president, the Texas attorney general, and eighteen of their counterparts, as well as the 126 Republican congressmen who supported the lawsuit, were slapped. The Supreme Court only needed three sentences for the decision that Trump had said after dozens of defeats in various other courts that it was “the big deal.” All nine constitutional judges, three of whom he nominated, dismissed the motion not to recognize the results of elections in four states where Biden had won. They found that Texas had shown no legally identifiable interest in how other states conducted their elections.
