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“Let’s stop the robbery,” Trump supporters protest in Washington DC

EFE- To the shout of “Let’s stop the robbery” thousands of followers of the president Donald Trump they demonstrated this Saturday in the streets of Washington to denounce an alleged “fraud” in the November elections, which the Democrat won Joe Biden.

Supporters of the Republican organized in three marches in the center of the American capital a day after the Supreme Court rejected another demand of the campaign of Trump.

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“We are in a spiritual battle for the heart and soul of this country. We will win, “said Michael Flynn, the country’s first national security adviser. Trump, in one of the marches held in front of the highest court in the country.

Flynn received a presidential pardon in late November after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.

In another speech, Katrina Pierson, former campaign spokesperson for Trump He insisted that the dispute “is not over, and it is only the beginning”, despite the fact that there are no clear legal channels to deny the victory at the polls of Biden.

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“We are the cavalry. No one is going to come to save us, “he stressed between chants of” four more years. “

Shortly after, Trump He flew over the march from the presidential helicopter on his way to the traditional annual football game between the army and the ground army at the military school in West Point, New York.

According to the permits granted, the organizers expected an influx of 16 thousand people, although as they were able to verify Efe the number of attendees was lower.

Among them was the far-right group “Proud Boys”, whose president, Enrique Tarrio, published on social networks an image of his visit to the White House this morning fueling rumors of a meeting with Trump.

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Minutes later, a White House spokesman, Judd Deere, issued a statement in which he denied the meeting and pointed out that Tarrio was part of one of the usual public tours at Christmas time.

“He did not meet with the president, nor was he invited by the White HouseDeere pointed out.

Definitive judicial setback

The march comes a day after the United States Supreme Court delivered the coup de grace to the latest attempt to Trump to revoke the results of the elections of November 3, by rejecting a lawsuit filed by Texas.

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The high court decided to dismiss the complaint filed by an ally of Trump, Texas Attorney General, Republican Ken Paxton, to turn around the result of the presidential election that won the democrat Joe Biden.

Own Trump, which has not recognized its defeat in the elections by alleging without evidence an alleged electoral fraud, charged against the decision.

This Monday, the Electoral College is scheduled to meet to formally ratify Biden as the next president of the United States, who will take office in the ceremony scheduled for January 20.

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