Clashes between supporters of the current US President Donald Trump with the police took place in Washington on the eve of the approval of the election results by Congress. This is reported by USA Today.
According to the newspaper's estimates, hundreds of people gathered near the White House, many waving American flags. During the protest action, there was a lively sale of T-shirts and caps with the slogans “Stop theft” and “Trump is my president.”
Police detained six demonstrators for carrying unlicensed firearms and assaulting officers. The protests were a prelude to the main protests scheduled for Wednesday. Trump is expected to take part in them.
Earlier, Trump said that thousands of people who oppose the victory of the “left-wing Democrats” in the presidential elections flooded Washington. Citizens who have arrived in the city will not allow President-elect Joe Biden and his supporters to “steal” the Republican election victory, he said. Trump noted that US residents “will no longer tolerate this.”
On November 3, 2020, the next presidential elections were held in the United States. The counting of votes and the proceedings on this issue are still ongoing. According to the media, Biden received the necessary number of electoral votes to win, thus surpassing the current American leader Donald Trump. The democrat has already proclaimed himself the elected president of the United States. Trump, in turn, said that Biden was in a hurry to call himself the country's new leader.
