Donald Trump is holding a “victory rally” in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, the day earlier than his inauguration. The incoming president and convicted felon will host a celebratory pat-on-the-back get together at Capitol One Area, which inserts 20,000 folks.
Trump and his transition crew don’t appear to be fazed by the final time they held a rally forward of inauguration day in 2020—and the disastrous outcomes.
Whereas the tables have turned in Trump’s favor this time and his claims of election fraud have all however disappeared, tensions surrounding the 2024 election have remained excessive whilst the fallout from the 2020 election continues.
As many may recall, Trump’s “Save America” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, resulted in seven deaths and plenty of terrified folks on Capitol Hill barricading themselves out of concern for his or her lives. Regardless of the violence being being extensively reported and recorded, Trump referred to as it “a day of love”—then lied on the marketing campaign path by claiming that nobody died within the protest led by crazed Trump supporters.
“I think the people of January 6 were treated very unfairly,” Trump stated in a September press convention. Evaluating the rebel to a obscure concept of “other things that took place in this country,” Trump incorrectly claimed “nobody was killed.”
As of November, federal judges have been nonetheless doling out jail sentences for attendees. Nevertheless, Trump has already hinted that his insurrectionist supporters will likely be pardoned after he takes the oath of workplace as soon as once more. And regardless of being charged with felonies or misdemeanors and being prohibited from touring to our nation’s capital, some rallygoers are attempting to get particular permission to have a good time their felon-elect at his subsequent swearing-in.
Each day Kos reached out to Trump’s transition crew for touch upon deliberate safety measures for the upcoming rally, however didn’t instantly hear again. Different particulars concerning the occasion are unclear, together with any scheduled audio system or leisure.
Questions are additionally swirling round how the Trump crew is paying for this large occasion. Extra particularly, it’s unknown if he’s pulling {dollars} from his controversial inaugural fund to ebook the stadium.
Whereas Each day Kos has reported on the tech billionaires lining as much as fork over seven figures in an effort to curry his favor, Trump conveniently didn’t signal a customary settlement with the outgoing Biden administration providing $7.2 million in federal funds for his transition effort—so long as he disclosed the names of his donors and agreed to donation caps.
In different phrases, it seems that Trump can take as a lot cash as he’d like—and doesn’t have to inform anybody who it got here from or how a lot they gave him.
