(EFE).– Washington DC authorities have activated at least 340 National Guard troops to protect the US capital in the face of a demonstration called for Wednesday by supporters of President Donald Trump.
The organizing groups have estimated that about 15,000 people will gather in downtown DC when Congress meets to certify the Electoral College votes from the Nov. 3 presidential election, which Democrat Joe Biden won but which Trump has steadily refused to acknowledge.
Capital Mayor Muriel Bowser said at a press conference that she was considering the option of declaring a curfew and the Metropolitan Police chief, Robert Contee, said that he had received information that certain individuals will try to enter the District of Columbia with assorted weaponry.
Contee added that the authorities expect a larger crowd at the demonstration than at previous pro-Trump events in the city, some of those earlier demonstrations having resulted in violent confrontations.
Trump, who has filed – and lost – dozens of lawsuits in various courts around the country claiming election fraud in the Nov. 3 balloting, has been pressuring Georgia electoral officials to “find” the 11,780 votes he needs to deny Biden the win in that state.
In a message on his Twitter account, the president has insisted that it is “statistically impossible” that he lost the presidential vote and has referred to the pending Washington demonstration, which has been billed in MAGA circles as the “March for Trump” and “March to Save America Rally” in DC on Wednesday.
“Be there. Will be wild!” Trump tweeted on the weekend in urging his supporters to show up at the demonstration.
Various factions loyal to Trump are saying that they are organizing the March for Trump and one of them by that very name has called on its backers to defend the US against what it asserts was election fraud that denied Trump reelection.
Neither the president nor his backers have yet put forth any credible evidence that significant instances of election fraud occurred.
GOPUSA Editor’s Note: The media claim of no evidence of voter fraud is disputed. Election Fraud Archive
The Department of Justice and election authorities around the country – including those governed by Republicans – have said that there is no evidence of generalized election fraud in the Nov. 3 vote and they have acknowledged the results that gave Biden more than 80 million votes to Trump’s 74 million, along with a crucial 306 electoral votes for the Democrat, handily above the 270 needed to win the presidency.
Among the other groups supporting the march are Million MAGA March, along with militant groups like the Three Percenters, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who are mobilizing caravans to head to DC, where local authorities intend to prohibit them from carrying weapons, in contrast to what those groups have done at other demonstrations.
Bowser, meanwhile, said that under federal law it is illegal to carry firearms at the US Capitol and in National Park Service zones, including Freedom Plaza, the Ellipse and the National Mall.
Thousands of Trump supporters marched in Washington in mid-December, many of them outfitted in combat gear, and when night fell at least four people were stabbed near a bar that had been transformed into a meeting place for the Proud Boys.
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Capital Mayor Muriel Bowser, you are a piece of work, you Antifa / blm / riot supporter.
So rioters, gt no guard, and even merely saying they should have been activated, makes someone a ‘tyrant’. BUT CALLING THEM OUT On trump supporters, when THERE HAS NOT EVER BEEN ANY VIOLENCE caused/started by the trump fans, that’s “Doing your due dilligence’//?
The mayor (and all mayors) should stop the defacing on our public roads with illegal graffiti!
During the French revolution THE PEOPLE stormed the “Bastille”. In this election The government will use strom troopers to suppress THE PEOPLE while the @ Steal”,,,,the election, and prove the illegitimacy of their kind which is essence defines what a is. Those “feel Good” fools who claim there are no illegitimate children should have watched as those conceived in secular promoted lust, matured and grew up as power lustful Democrats whose idea of legitimacy is to use any illegal means necessary to gain their objectives, then any means necessary to suppress those who legitimately resist those conceived in illegitimacy. The party of passion is about to conquer the party of rational sound minds and it won’t be a pretty sight when it’s over.
WE need to do the same as they did in france.. TILL THE SAME END< with these tyrant wanna be's, heads on the guilltoine!
If it had been the Dems or Antifa, no national guard would have been called up
UNLESS its to prevent proud boys or other conservative groups from responding TO THE VIOLENCE antifa/blm starts!
It will be ANTIFA and BLM that start the trouble, but they won’t be the ones arrested.
Notice the picture of the BLM rioter yelling in the face of the National Guardsman is NOT a Trump supporter. The Trump support rally will be peaceful, as have all of the Trump support rallies, until the rioters get involved. Also, are these court officials and Republicans who want to defend the election results not seeing the same Georgia video that I saw? It seems like a pretty definite case of tampering with the election. If I lived in one of the states where the results are questioned, I’d be notifying my representative to absolutely challenge the election.
No, those courts are NOT seeing the same evidence.. AS THEY ARE REFUSING TO see any evidence..
lock and load america!
And if you waited till NOW< to arm up, it might well be too late.
BUT, it won’t be those rallying for President Trump who will be the cause of the violence, the destruction, or any disruption. I doubt that most of those entering with assorted weaponry will not be among the peaceful protesters but most certainly among BLM and Antifa who will already have such items conveniently stashed at appropriate locations for minimal inconvenience and maximum availability!
National Guard should be supporting the marchers, not Bowser. She is a domestic enemy.
They did nothing during the violent BLM/Antifa riots, yet activate the National Guard for a peaceful Trump rally ?!?
militant groups like the Three Percenters, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers
Conservatives are ‘militant groups’ yet rioters and looters are peaceful protesters. Yes. you are Fake News.