{"id":1653,"date":"2020-11-14T21:06:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/engg\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2020-11-14T21:06:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T21:06:10","slug":"million-maga-march-thousands-of-pro-trump-protesters-rally-in-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Million MAGA March: Thousands of pro-Trump protesters rally in Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump have turned out in Washington DC to back his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the US election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flag-carrying demonstrators were joined by members of far-right groups including the Proud Boys, some wearing helmets and bullet-proof vests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier protesters swarmed Mr Trump&#8217;s motorcade as he drove past on his way to his golf course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe Biden won the 3 November election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, he solidified his victory with a projected win in the state of Georgia &#8211; making him the first Democratic candidate to take the state since 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He now has 306 votes in the electoral college &#8211; the system the US uses to choose its president &#8211; which far exceeds the 270 threshold to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Mr Trump has so far refused to concede. He has launched a flurry of legal challenges in key states and made unsubstantiated allegations of widespread electoral fraud &#8211; but his efforts have so far been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s been happening at the pro-Trump rally?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Trump&#8217;s supporters kicked off the demonstrations at about noon local time (17:00G) near Freedom Plaza, just east of the White House, and were to head towards the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They have been using different names for the event, including Million MAGA March &#8211; using the acronym for Mr Trump&#8217;s Make America Great Again slogan &#8211; as well as the March for Trump and Stop the Steal DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as more mainstream Trump supporters, members of the far-right Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers militia group were among the marchers. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones addressed the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump have turned out in Washington DC to back his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the US election. Flag-carrying demonstrators were joined by members of far-right groups including the Proud Boys, some wearing helmets and bullet-proof vests. Earlier protesters swarmed Mr Trump&#8217;s motorcade as he drove past on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}