Supporters of the president are already gathering in Washington DC outside the White House for tomorrow's #MillionMAGAMarch," an event meant to encourage Trump not to concede the election.
Trump has said he may "stop by" at the event.
I was out there for a couple hours today and didn't see any serious violence, but there were some scuffles and tense moments like this one when a Trump supporter grabbed a sign away that was put near his face and got called a "bitch" to which he replied, "What are you, a retard?"
I asked this guy to explain his sign which reads (verbatim) "Bydon's Laptop Matters, Castrate Michelle Obaman Now!"
"The whole system is manipulating us!" said a counter-protester against the Trump folks with a Trump effigy on a stick. "We're not supposed to be like this as people."
Trump supporters offered for him to join their side then.
"No, I can't do that!" he said.
"Joe Biden's a racist freak, a pedophile, and his whole family is smoking crack in China," alleged a Trump supporter to a protester.
"Who's making money in China? Donald J Trump!" said the protester.
"Wrong! Wrong!" said the Trump supporter. "He's got nothing."
Owen Shroyer asked the crowd "Who believes Donald Trump won Pennsylvania?" to cheers.
"That means that Donald J. Trump goes over 270 electoral votes, and that means Donald J. Trump was re-elected president of the United State of America!"
"Four more years! Four more years!"
To be clear, this was toward the end of a lengthy presentation in which Shroyer broke down the battleground states describing what he sees as fraud in all of them.
Alex Jones' son, Rex Jones, spoke to the crowd as well.
He started by satirizing Democrats, before saying the election is a "lie."
"If you role over and let it happen, you're just as guilty," he said. "These people are literal demons."
"Pot-belly goblins!" the crowd chanted.
Following chants of "Beijing Biden! Beijing Biden!" Owen Shroyer condemned "the libtards" and seemingly included Fox News among that label.
"Fox sucks!" the crowd chanted.
"We like some of the guys on Fox but they sold us out didn't they?"
While the confrontation between Trump supporters and opponents took the attention today, @ShutDown_DC had already planned to come out today.
They also gathered in front of the White House, but then marched to protest law offices involved in Trump's contesting of the election.
Tomorrow's #MillionMAGAMarch" which protesters are already arriving and gathering in DC for has the explicit support of President Trump, who says he "may even try to stop by and say hello."
Here is my full HD @N2Sreports video summary of today's Trump supporters outside the White House.
As always, contact me for licensing.
I'll be covering tomorrow's #MillionMAGAMarch" live throughout the day.
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VIDEO THREAD: Earlier tonight, about 8:15pm or so, I arrived toward the tail-end of a fight between the Proud Boys and their opponents. Mace was in the air when I arrived.
One person appeared knocked out, taking about a minute to get up. Unclear which side.
"All commies are bastards!" chanted the Proud Boys.
Another fight broke out, but the person sparring with a Proud Boy ran away.
As some began chasing the man, another tried to stop them yelling, "No! It's a bad look!"
The fight didn't continue after a block-long chase.
As Proud Boys and Trump supporters marched on, antifascists did stand in their path, but police swiftly moved between the two sides, rendering violence between them basically impossible.
Proud Boys diverted and marched away chanting "fuck antifa!"
VIDEO THREAD: Trump supporters tore down the "Black Lives Matter" wooden signs posted on a building tonight at the intersection of I and 16th Street, just north of the White House.
When police realized Trump supporters were tearing the wooden signs from a building, they did step in and escorted one person away from the building, but did not make any arrests.
Riot officers soon came in to police the MAGA protest and formed a line, but they parted to make an opening for the enormous (it took a couple dozen people to carry it) "TRUMP: LAW AND ORDER" flag to get through.
THREAD: When the #MillionMAGAMarch reached the Supreme Court this afternoon, antifascist activists were already there to confront them with shields and a banner that read "PUNCH MAGA IN THE FACE."
"Fuck antifa!" chanted the Trump supporters.
While no violence had occurred, riot police moved in between the two sides, facing toward the antifa side.
"Back the blue!" chanted the Trump side. "Trump! Trump! Trump!"
"Antifa f****ts! Fucking homos!" yelled one Trump supporter.
I got around to the antifa side of the fence to film there, and some of the left retreated a bit.
Police took advantage of the retreat to push forward and create a wider gap between the two sides.
VIDEO THREAD: Today thousands of Trump supporters including Proud Boys gathered in Washington DC to advocate that President Trump not concede the election.
"Fuck antifa!" was a common chant along with "Stop the steal!"
Here's footage from the walk as thousands marched from Freedom Plaza to the Supreme Court.
"Joe Biden is a communist Chinese agent and a compromised pedophile with the rest of his satanic family," yelled Alex Jones as he marched with Proud Boys protection.
"Joe Biden's going to prison, he's not going to the White House," he said.
HD Video: Earlier today at the #MillionMAGAMarch, violence broke out when members of @RefuseFascism tried to counter-protest and were physically pushed away.
Here's what some of the beginning of that confrontation looked like. I have a fully uncut (18 minutes long) video of the entire situation uploading now.
Mike Dunn @realmikedunn is a "Boogaloo Boy" who actually fought *against* the Proud Boys during that fight.
Mike says "I can't stand commies" but he felt he had to protect their right to speak.
He adds that the Proud Boys "hit like a bunch of wooses."