
WASHINGTON, DC — Right-wing activists gathered on the Capitol grounds Friday afternoon for another pro-Trump demonstration after a similar event epic failure less than two weeks ago, but again struggled to explain the pathetically low turnout.
Fiery supporters of the Jan. 6 Defendants, a MAGA-loving fashion designer, and a shaggy gentleman dressed in early colonial attire were just a few of the characters outside the Capitol, equally angry at President Joe Biden and at the Capitol rioters behind bars. stay.
Despite their efforts to bring in the MAGA believers by playing Donald Trump’s speeches for their first speaker, the “Stop the Tyrants & Unite for Freedom” meeting flopped. Even with frequent Steve Bannon podcast guest Matt Braynard in attendance, only 27 people — including two hired private security guards — showed up.
Braynard, a leading Jan. 6 advocate and director of the right-wing organization “Look Ahead America,” took the miniature stage and almost immediately wept angrily over five liberal activists who had shown up to protest the event.
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But these were not activists. Instead, these activists, whom event organizer John Paul Moran called “paid agitators” and members of Antifa, brought with them particularly disturbing and nuisance trinkets to derail the pro-Trump rally: whistles.
“I want you to recognize something,” Braynard said. “They try to interrupt. That’s why they blow the clock. To make it hard to hear us!”
Further, the irony of defending Capitol police officers had apparently escaped him.
“You’ve got a purple-haired freak, two inches from your face, who’s blowing a whistle, making you… [police officers] hearing loss,” Braynard continued, trying to be a white knight on behalf of the same Capitol Police Force that would be attacked by defendants on Jan. 6.
Elsewhere at the event, theories abounded as to why the event failed to materialize and drew the crowd.
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