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Pro-Trump protesters rally for a coup: “We’re not going anywhere”

Pro-Trump protests in Washington, DC, and Washington state turn violent as court defeats pile up.

By Cameron Peters@jcameronpeters  Dec 13, 2020,

[A man in a black hoodie with the yellow laurel arch logo of the Proud Boys and a black helmet is illuminated by streetlights. His hands are behind his back; behind him, is a Black woman in the navy uniform of the DC police.

A member of the Proud Boys is detained by police during a protest on December 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. Stephanie ]

Supporters of President Donald Trump demonstrated against the results of the 2020 presidential election on Saturday, in a series of rallies that underscored the hold the president retains on backers both within and outside the Republican Party.

At least two of these protests ultimately became violent — four people were stabbed in Washington, DC, and one person was shot in the city of Olympia, in Washington state.No deaths were reported, though all four stabbing victims are said to be hospitalized in critical condition as of Sunday. As of early Sunday, no information is available about the status of the shooting victim in Washington state.

In addition to the four people who were stabbed, at least five others were hospitalized in DC on Saturday, and more than 20 people were arrested on a variety of charges, including assault. Three people, including the suspected shooter, were arrested in Olympia, according to the Olympian.

Members of the Proud Boys — a violent, neofascist hate group that frequently traffics in white nationalism and misogyny — were also recorded in DC assaulting bystanders and destroying property. Among other incidents, the group tore down Black Lives Matter signs from multiple DC churches, and burned at least one sign.

The Proud Boys were in Washington, DC, for overlapping protests meant to show support for Trump’s false claim that the election was stolen from him. Members of the religious far right, as well as attendees of a second “Million MAGA March” — a sequel to a November event that saw tens of thousands of Trump supporters protest in the capital — all converged on DC.

Saturday’s event was far smaller than the one in November, featuring a few thousand people, but was nevertheless celebrated by the president.

“Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal,” he tweeted Saturday morning. “Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them!”

Trump later shared video of the rally on Twitter, which showed a tightly packed crowd of maskless supporters cheering on Marine One as it flew overhead.

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020

It was a similar story in Olympia, albeit without any cameos from presidential aircraft, and on a smaller scale. According to the Seattle Times, pro-Trump rallies have become “a regular weekend occurrence at Washington’s Capitol campus,” and Trump supporters clashed with counter-protesters throughout the day Saturday.

Both events came as Trump approaches his sixth week of denying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, which took place on November 3, and as the president continues to spread disinformation about the election’s results. Those results will be further cemented Monday, when the Electoral College votes to formally elect Biden.

The rhetoric of the protesters and their leaders, however, suggests that fact will have little influence on false claims the election was stolen from Trump — and that the president’s supporters will remain loyal to him and his alternate-reality claims.

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Trump’s rhetoric is emboldening his supporters — and solidifying their support

The events in Washington, DC, featured not just Proud Boys and grassroots activists but an eclectic parade of well-known Trump allies, conspiracy theorists, and grifters, all of whom echoed Trump’s efforts to spread disinformation, encouraged the crowd to continue to reject the results of the election, and made their loyalty to Trump plain.

Recently pardoned former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn told the crowd how important it was to let Trump know “that we love him.” And MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell joined many of the day’s speakers in placing the president’s struggle to overturn the election’s results in a religious context, saying the world may now be in “end times.”

Lindell also took time during his speech — as the president has done repeatedly in recent days — to call out Republicans who have been insufficiently fervent in their defenses of Trump’s lies about the election, calling them “cowards,” and warning them, “We’re not going anywhere.”

Other prominent figures went further than Lindell; speaking to a crowd of supporters, Nick Fuentes — a white nationalist leader in a far-right movement that views many Trump allies as insufficiently conservative — said, “We are going to destroy the GOP.”

The crowd responded by chanting, “Destroy the GOP,” and with boos when Fuentes brought up Georgia Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Both are running in January special elections, and the GOP’s Senate majority rests on both winning.

Other speakers included Alex Jones— a conspiracy theorist known for harassing the families of mass shooting victims and promoting 9/11 trutherism — and US Representative-elect Bob Good of Virginia, who began his speech by describing the coronavirus as a “phony pandemic,” despite the fact that nearly 300,000 people have now died of Covid-19 in the US.

QAnon, the insane pro-Trump conspiracy theory that posits the existence of a global cabal of Satanic pedophiles, was also represented at the rally.

Across the board, however, Saturday’s rallygoers emphasized their dedication to Trump — and his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and install himself to an unelected second term in office — above all else.

“If President Trump accepts [his election loss] and Vice President Pence accepts it, then we will accept it,” one attendee, a pastor from California, told the Washington Post. “But right now, this is a Godly protest.”

There’s no end in sight for Trump’s election fraud lies

Despite a rapid-fire string of legal defeats at every level of the federal court system, the energy — and money — that has been generated by the president’s efforts to overturn the election’s results seem to indicate that there’s no end in sight for Trump’s false election fraud rhetoric.

What’s more, the fervent dedication exhibited by rallygoers Saturday underscores an unfortunate reality: Republicans have an electoral incentive to continue their support of Trump’s anti-democratic efforts, in order to escape a primary challenge to the right.

Trump, for his part, has proven completely unwilling to give any ground in his fight to subvert democracy. As recently as Sunday morning, he tweeted without evidence that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost by more than 7 million votes, was the “MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY!”

These tweets have been backed up by action from the Trump campaign and Republican lawmakers, who have failed time and time again to turn up any evidence of voter fraud or other irregularities. According to Democratic voting-rights lawyer Marc Elias, the president and his supporters are now 1-59 in court, with their most recent loss coming Sunday in Georgia.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Sunday rejected an appeal by the Trump campaign in a case alleging large-scale voter fraud without evidence.

And separately, a Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice told a lawyer for the Trump campaign Saturday that its election lawsuit challenging the results “smacks of racism.”

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On Friday, the US Supreme Court also rejected for lack of standing a Texas lawsuit attempting to overturn election results in four key swing states won by Biden. The suit — referred to by Trump as “the big one” — was supported by 17 state attorneys general, as well as more than half of the House Republican conference.

With an Electoral College vote imminent on Monday, both Trump and the Republican establishment are quickly running out of venues to challenge the election results, but as of Sunday, they show few signs of acknowledging reality. On Fox News Sunday, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise — the second most powerful Republican in the chamber — again refused to recognize Biden as the president-elect when pressed by anchor Chris Wallace.

Scalise’s acknowledgement isn’t necessary — the presidential transition has already begun and Biden will be sworn in as president on January 20. But it presages a likely fight in Congress over the official counting of Electoral College votes on January 6 — one that Republicans can’t win, as Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains — and it’s an alarming sign in its own right that leaders of one of the country’s two major political parties are unwilling to accept the results of a free and fair election.

The GOP’s willingness to support Trump in his disinformation campaign could have long-term consequences: In a Saturday Fox News poll, for example, 56 percent of registered voters indicated that Trump’s continued refusal to concede was “weakening American democracy.”

But Trump appears unconcerned about the damage he’s doing to the country. “WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!” he tweeted Saturday.

speakers included former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, whom the president pardoned after he was twice convicted of lying to the FBI in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

“We stand at a crucible moment in United States history,” Flynn told the mostly maskless crowd. “This country is awake now.”

...A pro-Trump rally Dec. 12 ended in violence as hundreds of Trump supporters, wearing the signature black and yellow of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, sought out confrontations with a collective of local activists attempting to bar them from Black Lives Matter Plaza, an area near the White House. At least two local Black churches had Black Lives Matter banners torn down and set ablaze.

On Monday, police arrested the leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, 36, after he arrived in Washington ahead of this week’s protests. Tarrio was accused of burning one of the Black Lives Matter banners in December and was found with two high-capacity firearm magazines, police said. A judge signed an order Tuesday banning Tarrio from entering the District of Columbia, with very limited exceptions related to his criminal case.

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November 14, after a long day jeering at antifascist and Black Lives Matter protesters, the Proud Boys were thirsty. In downtown Washington, D.C., where about 400 of the group’s members had gathered for the Million MAGA March to protest President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat, a small band of Proud Boys wandered down E Street, their feet dragging in heavy tan combat boots. The weather in D.C. had been unseasonably warm for November—about 65 degrees and sunny—and the group looked sunburned and tired. Toward the back of the pack, a middle-aged man in a tactical vest and blue-mirrored sunglasses came to a stop, pulled a mango White Claw from the front pocket of his vest and cracked it open.

“I want to punch some commies,” he said, and took a sip.

In the nation’s capital, it’s not easy for a Proud Boy to get a drink. Coronavirus restrictions aside, many of D.C.’s restaurants refuse to serve members of the far-right hate group, who are easily identified by their signature black-and-gold Fred Perry polo shirts. “Hate not welcome here,” read a sign posted in one downtown shop window. So instead of roaming the streets in search of another drink, the gang of Proud Boys headed toward the group’s favorite D.C. watering hole: Harry’s Pub, in the heart of Penn Quarter.

Protestors attending the second day of the Million Maga March at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C., pass by Harry’s Restaurant and Bar in the Harrington Hotel on Dec. 12, 2020.

The low-key bar has suddenly been news for all the wrong reasons. On Saturday night, after the second running of the Million MAGA March, police responded to a fight between Trump-supporting rallygoers and counterprotests near Harry’s, in which at least four people were stabbed. On election night in November, a group of Proud Boys that included Enrique Tarrio, the group’s national chair, and the conservative provocateur Bevelyn Beatty was assaulted while leaving a watch party at Harry’s. Beatty suffered a non-life-threatening stab wound to her back.

In a city known for its high-powered, wood-paneled eateries, Harry’s can seem out of place. Housed on the ground floor of the Hotel Harrington, Washington’s self-proclaimed “tourist hotel” where rooms begin at $95 per night, Harry’s is a rare dive bar in the middle of the city’s expense account district, an oasis of $6 Bud Lights in an ocean of $18 Manhattans. Hundreds of police patches hang on the walls of the narrow bar, which is filled with old-school red vinyl stools and faux-Tiffany lamps, while black-and-white tiled floors gives the place a sort of fun-house feel. The food is cheap, and the atmosphere is casual. “Don’t eat the fish,” counsels a top review on Yelp.

But what for years was a low-key haunt for off-duty police officers and busloads of tourist groups has, during the Donald Trump presidency, attracted a brand-new clientele.In the past four years, Harry’s has become the de-facto D.C. headquarters of the Proud Boys, the all-male extremist group known for its members’ thinly veiled racism, penchant for street violence and unwavering support for the president. When they’re in town for rallies or protests, the Proud Boys and other rank-and-file MAGA loyalists toast Trump and down beers among the vinyl stools here, or on the patio, under the eerie technicolor glow cast by the pub’s neon signs.

If the Trump International Hotel has become the social nerve center of the MAGA elite—Republican senators and foreign oligarchs courting favor with the president under the gilded lobby vaulting—Harry’s Bar, a block away from the hotel, is where the other half of MAGA social life in D.C. unfolds—a hangout for bearded militiamen and young, clean-cut white nationalists and Trump supporters on a budget. Stella Artois at the Trump Hotel’s high-end cocktail bar costs $11, and cocktails start at $22. At Harry’s, drinks cost half as much. But it’s still close enough to feel like part of the hotel’s upper-class ecosystem, benefiting from its power and appeal through some mysterious social osmosis.

DECEMBER 12, 2020: A member of the Proud Boys holds an organizational flag outside the Trump International Hotel along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DCon the day of the second Million Maga March at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC.

“We bounce back and forth from Harry’s to the Trump almost every night we’re [in Washington], but the Trump is a little too expensive,” said Tarrio over the phone. “[Harry’s] is your practical, everyday run-of-the-mill bar.”

In the twilight hours of the first Million MAGA March on November 14, the Proud Boys’ bravado was on full display at Harry’s. Groups of scowling men in tactical vests milled around, eating popcorn, drinking pitchers of beer and trading war stories from past rallies. The crowd spilled onto the outdoor patio, where a vendor was selling American flags and Trump knickknacks from the back of a trailer. Many wore MAGA hats. Few wore masks. At one point, a group gathered in the street in front of Harry’s to unfurl a massive “Thin Blue Line” flag with “TRUMP” emblazoned across the top in oversize block letters. A handful of Proud Boys ran under the flag while its handlers sent ripples across the surface, like toddlers at some sort of beer-soaked jamboree. The city’s Beverage Regulation Administration later slapped Harry’s with two $1,000 fines for violating social distancing guidelines and occupancy restrictions during the gathering.

For D.C.’s left-leaning residents and business owners, the growing presence in the capital of groups like the Proud Boys has been a frightening sign of the times. The group’s leaders deny any link to white supremacist or neo-fascist ideologies, preferring the less inflammatory label of “Western chauvinists.” But behind closed doors and in private group chats, members traffic in the meme-heavy discourse of white nationalism that has become a calling card of the radical right. The FBI considers the Proud Boys “an extremist group with ties to white nationalism,” while the Southern Poverty Law Center opts for the punchier “right-wing hate group.”

Asked whether D.C. locals frequent the bar today, Bryan Coxwell, a resident of Penn Quarter, laughed out loud. “F--- no,” Coxwell said. “Look at the type of people who go there.”

Windoe signs at Harry’s Bar and Restaurant in downtown Washington, DC.

In addition to salads, steaks and fries, Harry's offers a hangout spot for Proud Boys.

Meanwhile, Harry’s isn’t saying much about its newfound popularity.

“We’re just a burger joint,” said Harry’s owner John Boyle, before declining to comment further.

The Harrington opened in 1914 and has never since fully closed for a renovation, making it the longest continuously operating hotel in the District. At the end of Prohibition, the hotel’s owners opened a cocktail bar called the Pink Elephant Lounge on the ground floor which soon became popular with hotel guests and the city’s downtown workforce. The lounge was briefly converted into a more modest tavern during the Second World War, but the Pink Elephant returned with a new Art Deco flair in the early 1950s. In 1993, the lounge closed and Harry’s moved in, its name a tribute to Harrington Mills, the hotel’s original owner. Today, the Harrington’s guests can choose between Harry’s and the hotel’s two other restaurants, Harriet’s Family Restaurant, a sit-down place that opened in 2006, and Ollie’s Trolley, an old-timey-theme fast-food restaurant around the corner.

It’s clear enough why the Proud Boys like Harry’s. Located at the corner of 11th and E Street, the bar is a short walk from the Trump International Hotel, the National Mall and the White House, all epicenters of recent pro-Trump rallies. Proud Boys visiting from out of town—which is most of them—frequently stay above the bar at the Harrington. During the Million MAGA March, rumors swirled on far-right social media that Alex Jones was staying upstairs and planned to make an appearance at Harry’s. (Jones in fact stayed a few blocks away at the Willard, a landmark luxury hotel where a discount room costs $250.)

“It’s been a place that’s, like, a Republican hangout, and people just know that it’s a friendly spot to go to if you’re on the right,” said Bobby Pickles, a member of the Proud Boys’ southern Florida chapter, in a phone conversation. (Pickles is an alias.) “I’m happy that they give us a safe haven to go to.”

The group’s choice of a dive bar as its haven is on brand. The Proud Boys call themselves “a fraternal drinking club,” and getting drunk with other dudes allows members to sustain the culture of “toxic masculinity” that they claim as a badge of honor. Regional chapters meet primarily at nondescript bars around the country, and the preliminary stages of the group’s multistep “vetting” process for prospective members typically involves sharing a beer with regional leaders. (The latter stages of the initiation process include a ritualized beating and a pledge not to masturbate.) According to Tarrio, the D.C. regional chapter doesn’t vet new members at Harry’s. Instead, the bar functions as a sort of all-purpose MAGA mecca, a place where Trump’s faithful from around the country can gather during their occasional pilgrimages to the capital.

Top: DECEMBER 12, 2020: A member of the Proud Boys at the second Million Maga March in Washington, DC.

Bottom Left: DECEMBER 12, 2020: A member of the Proud Boys at the second Million Maga March in Washington, DC.

Bottom Right: DECEMBER 12, 2020: Protestors attending the second Million Maga March at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, DC pass by Harry’s Restaurant and Bar in the Harrington Hotel.

The Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violent confrontations, were one of several groups of extremists and Trump loyalists to swarm the nation's capital on Dec. 12 for a second so-called Million Maga March, after a prior demonstration on Nov. 14.

Harry’s first gained traction with the Proud Boys during the Mother of All Rallies (M.O.A.R), a pro-Trump gathering on the National Mall in September 2017. The rally’s organizers promised crowds of more than a million, but the event ended up drawing closer to 1,000 Trump loyalists, leading some to dub it “the Mother of All Flops.”The Proud Boys, however, were well represented, as were members of a number of other far-right extremist groups, including the Three Percenters, Oath Keepers and American Guard. The after-party coalesced at Harry’s.

In September 2018, the Proud Boys returned to the bar after the second M.O.A.R., which drew similarly underwhelming crowds. Over Fourth of July weekend in 2019, Harry’s served as the group’s home base during the “Demand Free Speech” rally, a hodgepodge of speeches and marches that the Proud Boys nominally organized. More recently, the bar made headlines this October when Trump retweeted a video of unmasked Harry’s patrons first-bumping Metropolitan Police Department officers and chanting “back the blue” as the officers ordered food. The video triggered an investigation by the city’s Beverage Regulation Administration, resulting in two warnings for pandemic restriction violations.

Meanwhile, the Proud Boys’ adversaries have also taken notice of Harry’s. During the Demand Free Speech rally in 2019, a group of antifascist counterprotesters confronted the Proud Boys on the bar’s patio, which was heavily patrolled by police. The groups traded insults across a line of officers before the counterprotesters dispersed. Violence broke out in earnest this past November, though, when roaming bands of Proud Boys clashed with antifascists and BLM activists in the streets surrounding Harry’s, resulting in at least 20 arrests and a number of serious injuries.

During the second Million MAGA March on December 12, this past weekend, police arrived outside Harry’s in the early afternoon in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent clashes between the Proud Boys and other pro-Trump demonstrators who had gathered outside the bar and counterprotesters who had gathered nearby at Black Lives Matter Plaza. At 4 p.m., Harry’s closed, leaving large crowds of Proud Boys milling around on the sidewalk. (If Harry’s gets a third Covid-19 violation, the pub’s liquor license will be reviewed by the Alcoholic Beverage Control board.) At night, four people were stabbed around 11th and F Street, less than a block from the bar. The police have not yet said who the victims are.

As for the Hotel Harrington, they’re trying to keep away from the controversy. The hotel’s managing director, Ann Terry, recently told the Washingtonian that the bar’s new MAGA scene is “Harry’s responsibility.” “I really don’t keep up with it a lot. We don’t play any part in running things,” she said.

With Trump set to depart from the White House in January, the Proud Boys’ future at Harry’s remains uncertain. According to Tarrio, the Proud Boys are planning to increase their presence in Washington during the Biden presidency, and Tarrio is considering buying a second home in the area so he can split his time more evenly between the capital and his native Miami.

“I think you’ll see us a lot more often in D.C. now, if Biden assumes the presidency, which is very likely,” Tarrio said. “I can see already by Biden’s posture what his policies are going to be on certain things … and there’s gonna be a f---ton of policies that I’ll probably disagree with.”

DECEMBER 12, 2020: Protestors attending the second Million Maga March at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, DC pass by Harry’s Restaurant and Bar in the Harrington Hotel.

But after the violence at the Million MAGA March and the city’s crackdown on pandemic restriction violations, the Proud Boys are adding new bars to their rotation. According to Tarrio, members have scoped out two nearby bars to accommodate overflow crowds from Harry’s, though he declined to identify either of the two bars, saying he didn’t “want to burn them.”

Meanwhile, the Trump Organization has announced its intention to sell the Trump International, leaving some Washington socialites to wonder where Republican officials will gather for after-hours cocktails.

Tarrio couldn’t care less.

“I’m not looking at officials. I’m looking at the people—the 70 million pissed-off people in the streets. And they’re gonna continue to be pissed off.”

Pissed off and, as Harry’s knows, thirsty.

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