In this daily series, Newsweek explores the steps that led to the January 6 Capitol Riot.
On Saturday November 7, with Arizona and Wisconsin definitively in Joe Biden's column, the Associated Press and then the networks and cable stations declared that the former vice president had won the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump was playing golf.
President-elect Biden addressed his supporters in Wilmington, Delaware. "Folks, the people of this nation have spoken. They've delivered us a clear victory, a convincing victory," he said. "Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now."
Claiming "this was a stolen election," Trump again took to Twitter to rant.
| November 7, 2020 13:20:18 |
Tens of thousands of votes were illegally received after 8 P.M. on Tuesday, Election Day, totally and easily changing the results in Pennsylvania and certain other razor thin states. As a separate matter, hundreds of thousands of Votes were illegally not allowed to be OBSERVED... |
| November 7, 2020 13:20:19 |
....This would ALSO change the Election result in numerous States, including Pennsylvania, which everyone thought was easily won on Election Night, only to see a massive lead disappear, without anyone being allowed to OBSERVE, for long intervals of time, what the happened... |
| November 7, 2020 13:20:20 |
....Bad things took place during those hours where LEGAL TRANSPARENCY was viciously & crudely not allowed. Tractors blocked doors & windows were covered with thick cardboard so that observers could not see into the count rooms. BAD THINGS HAPPENED INSIDE. BIG CHANGES TOOK PLACE! |
| November 7, 2020 13:20:18 |
Tens of thousands of votes were illegally received after 8 P.M. on Tuesday, Election Day, totally and easily changing the results in Pennsylvania and certain other razor thin states. As a separate matter, hundreds of thousands of Votes were illegally not allowed to be OBSERVED... |
| November 7, 2020 13:20:19 |
....This would ALSO change the Election result in numerous States, including Pennsylvania, which everyone thought was easily won on Election Night, only to see a massive lead disappear, without anyone being allowed to OBSERVE, for long intervals of time, what the happened... |
| November 7, 2020 13:20:20 |
....Bad things took place during those hours where LEGAL TRANSPARENCY was viciously & crudely not allowed. Tractors blocked doors & windows were covered with thick cardboard so that observers could not see into the count rooms. BAD THINGS HAPPENED INSIDE. BIG CHANGES TOOK PLACE! |
| November 7, 2020 13:28:02 |
People were screaming STOP THE COUNT & WE DEMAND TRANSPARENCY (As Legal Observers were refused admittance to count rooms)! |
| November 7, 2020 14:35:36 |
Lawyers Press Conference at Four Seasons, Philadelphia. 11:00 A.M. |
| November 7, 2020 14:45:37 |
Big press conference today in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping — 11:30am! |
| November 7, 2020 15:00:27 |
Lawyer's Press Conference at Four Season's Landscaping, Philadelphia. Enjoy! |
| November 7, 2020 15:23:00 |
Georgia Counties Using Same Software as Michigan Counties Also Encounter'Glitch' https://t.co/N2KlEOezGi via @BreitbartNews What a total mess this election has been! |
| November 7, 2020 15:36:36 |
I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT! |
| November 7, 2020 21:53:34 |
THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM! |
| November 7, 2020 21:54:48 |
71,000,000 Legal Votes. The most EVER for a sitting President! |
Son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of the few "adults" in the White House who had the president's ear, tried to talk him into conceding the election, CNN reported. But as Trump descended into fury and self-delusion, another pattern emerged. People inside the White House started to disappear, either because they were shunned by the president or they wanted to divorce themselves from Trump's increasingly incoherent challenge.
Even Kushner vanished, off to the Middle East to continue work on the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations between Israel and select Arab states, of which Saudi Arabia and the rich Gulf States were the ultimate prize. And Kushner's wife, presidential daughter Ivanka Trump, disappeared as well, spending time in Florida to make arrangements for post-White House life, finding a house and a school for the kids.
Trumpworld was in chaos, increasingly split between the regulars and the external yes men and women whom Trump increasingly relied on. Rudy Giuliani and several other hangers-on held a news conference in Philadelphia, in the outskirts of the city in an industrial part of town in the parking lot in front of a business called Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
The former mayor of New York, once a 9/11 hero, rambled at length, saying the president not going to concede, throwing out one conspiracy claim after another, including a claim that Pennsylvania ballots had been tampered with.
Donald Trump, who'd tweeted that his lawyers would appear at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia, wasn't happy with Giuliani's performance. He was particularly upset with the low-rent venue.
It was the news media's reaction to the Giuliani show, once Trump got back to watching television from his normal weekend at the golf course, that galvanized him. Cable TV and the Internet were on fire with every form of mockery of Rudy and the Trump camp. Biden won, and as more votes came in, that lead would surely grow.
The MAGA spectacle, now transformed into a raucous tantrum, amused the mainstream media and Biden supporters. They believed that those in the streets didn't represent a constituency: they were idiots being instigated by a brilliant Donald Trump and riled up by an alternative media world that existed on a channel that Biden backers didn't watch. And most important, the view took hold that the protestors were white supremacists and armed militia, fascists and extremists. The names—Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, QAnon, Boogaloo Bois— started to become household talking points while the tens of millions of other Trump voters were invisible.
Stop the Steal protests took place across the United States at state capitols and ballot-counting locations in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia. At the Pennsylvania state capitol, extremists including armed militias, white supremacists, QAnon believers, and Proud Boys participated in a heavily armed protest.
Extremists, including white nationalist movement leaders and Proud Boys, also begin promoting and planning a "Million MAGA March" in Washington D.C. for Nov. 14.
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser traveled Saturday to Delaware, a state with significantly higher coronavirus risk than the District, to celebrate President-elect Joe Biden's victory, drawing immediate criticism from conservative media. Fox News' headline: "DC mayor disregarded own COVID restrictions to attend Biden victory speech, defends 'essential travel.' "
"STOP WATCHING CORPORATE MEDIA OUTLETS. AND YES, THIS INCLUDES FOX NEWS," posted Kelly O'Brien, an Allentown, Pennsylvania, activist who would later be charged with entering a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct, and engaging in physical violence on January 6.
"The media doesn't decide who our President is. We do. ... YOUR PRESIDENT IS FIGHTING FOR YOU! KEEP FIGHTING FOR HIM!," she said.
"WE NEED PATRIOTS! WE NEED FREEDOM FIGHTERS! Now!"
At the Pentagon, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley attended his first security briefing about the November 14 "Million MAGA March."
"This could be the modern American equivalent of 'brownshirts in the streets,'" he feared.
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