{"id":4174,"date":"2021-01-08T18:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:06:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:06:20","slug":"trump-supporters-storm-the-us-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4174","title":{"rendered":"Trump supporters storm the US Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Thousands of Trump supporters gathered in Washington, DC<\/a>, for what Trump dubbed a \u201cSave America Rally,\u201d a two-day protest meant to demonstrate support for the disproven conspiracy theory that widespread fraud marred the 2020 presidential election \u2014 and that Trump, rather than Biden, is the rightful winner of that contest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump himself addressed a crowd of several thousand rally attendees near the White House on Wednesday, and encouraged them to take their protest to the Capitol following his remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, several hundred supporters did not wait that long, and began to march to the Capitol area before the conclusion of the president\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Washington Post\u2019s Rebecca Tan reported<\/a> that the Trump supporters were met with barricades, which they destroyed. They proceeded to fight with police, according to HuffPost\u2019s Philip Lewis<\/a>, who shared video of police working to reestablish control as Trump supporters shouted at them, with several appearing to tell various officers they were \u201cfucking traitor[s].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to the congressional evacuation, several nearby federal buildings<\/a>, including the Library of Congress<\/a>, were reportedly evacuated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, the police couldn\u2019t contain the protesters, who broke into the Capitol itself \u2014 and things got scarier.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/1\/6\/22217307\/thousands-trump-supporters-stormed-us-capitol-evacuate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Thousands of Trump supporters gathered in Washington, DC, for what Trump dubbed a \u201cSave America Rally,\u201d a two-day protest meant to demonstrate support for the disproven conspiracy theory that widespread fraud marred the 2020 presidential election \u2014 and that Trump, rather than Biden, is the rightful winner of that contest.<\/p>\n

Trump himself addressed a crowd of several thousand rally attendees near the White House on Wednesday, and encouraged them to take their protest to the Capitol following his remarks.<\/p>\n

However, several hundred supporters did not wait that long, and began to march to the Capitol area before the conclusion of the president\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post\u2019s Rebecca Tan reported that the Trump supporters were met with barricades, which they destroyed. They proceeded to fight with police, according to HuffPost\u2019s Philip Lewis, who shared video of police working to reestablish control as Trump supporters shouted at them, with several appearing to tell various officers they were \u201cfucking traitor[s].\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to the congressional evacuation, several nearby federal buildings, including the Library of Congress, were reportedly evacuated.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the police couldn\u2019t contain the protesters, who broke into the Capitol itself \u2014 and things got scarier.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1138,431,221],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-capitol-building","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}