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Thousands gather in D.C. for pro-Trump demonstrations With waving flags, air horns and chants of “four more years,” protesters who refuse to accept that President-elect Joe Biden won the election are rallying Saturday in the streets of Washington. Thousands of people gathered in downtown D.C. to show support for the president, two days before the electoral college votes to cement his 306-to-232 loss. There were no official crowd estimates, but the Saturday gathering seemed to attract far fewer of the president’s supporters than pro-Trump demonstrations one month earlier. Saturday’s crowd was energized by visits from recently pardoned national security adviser Michael Flynn, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and around midday, a flyover from what appeared to be Marine One. “There he is! There is our guy!” a woman exclaimed, reaching toward the sky. A few hours earlier, Trump had indicated on Twitter he was surprised to learn people were gathering in his honor once again. “Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them! #MAGA,” he wrote. By midafternoon, the crowd’s attention was focused not on the president but on a group he once told to “stand back and stand by”: the Proud Boys, a male-chauvinist organization with ties to white nationalism. In helmets and bulletproof vests, hundreds of men in their ranks marched through downtown in militarylike rows, shouting “Move out” and “1776!” But tension still escalated in fits and starts. Shortly before midnight Friday, a brawl between a dozen Trump supporters and counterprotesters resulted in the arrest of at least four people. Around 11 a.m. Saturday, a police officer was hit in the eyes by pepper spray during a confrontation between two groups of demonstrators at 10th and H streets NW. Soon after, another person was injured during an altercation on 3rd Street NW near Constitution Avenue. They seemed intent on intimidating onlookers, and adopted a chant popular with counterprotesters: “Who’s streets? Our streets.” They were blocked from going near Black Lives Matter Plaza, which has been the site of both peaceful protests and combative moments for months. For much of the day, police largely fenced off the area, then made various formations on bikes to form human barricades, hoping to keep the Proud Boys from going near counterprotesters gathered there.