- President
Donald Trump urged his supporters to flock to Washington, DC, on January 6, promising them a "wild" rally. - January 6 is the day when Congress is scheduled to meet to formally finalize the presidential election results.
- Though not much can legally be done on the date, many pro-Trump Republicans have said they will try to disrupt the process.
President Donald Trump promised his supporters there would be a "wild" rally in Washington, DC, on January 6, the day when Congress is scheduled to meet to formally finalize the presidential election results.
"Statistically impossible to have lost the $4," Trump tweeted on Saturday. "Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"
Trump's tweet - which included an outright false claim in challenging the possibility of his losing - came in response to a 36-page report published by the White House economic advisor Peter Navarro that included $4 of election fraud.
His tweet has since been flagged by Twitter as "disputed."
—Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) $4
The January 6 gathering of House and Senate lawmakers is considered a formality in which they simply approve the long-decided count of electoral votes.
Trump lost to Joe Biden by 306 electoral votes to 232, a result confirmed by the Electoral College on December 14.
Several pro-Trump Republicans, however, have said they plan to disrupt the formal process, with Representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia tweeting on Saturday: "On January 6th...I will OBJECT and REJECT the fraudulent electoral votes from several states across the country."
—Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) $4
$4, repeatedly pushing baseless claims challenging the integrity of the result.
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Two weeks later, on January 20, Biden is set to be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, $4.
Trump told aides last week that he might refuse to leave the White House that day, according to $4, which added that few of them believed he would follow through on the threat.
$4 that it didn't bother him "personally" that Trump might not attend his inauguration but that he was concerned how Trump's absence would look "to the rest of the world."