America Attack on Parliament The kind of incidents which have been witnessed in Washington in the past, many people are in a hurry. But people monitoring the online activities of ultra-right groups and conspirators had foreseen such a crisis.
The night Donald Trump was on the stage of the East Room of the White House, he declared victory on the same day the votes were cast for the US presidency. He had said, “We are preparing to win this election. If we say it clearly, we have won this election.”
His address came an hour after his own tweet. He tweeted an hour ago, “They are trying to steal election results.”
Although he did not win the election. There was no victory, which someone would try to steal. But facts did not matter to his overzealous supporters and still do not.
After 65 days, a group of rioters destroyed the capital building of America. These riots included a wide variety of people, groups of extremist right-wingers, online trolls and Donald Trump pro-Qinon people who believe that the world is being run by a group of pedophiles and Trump will teach everyone a lesson. These people also included members of ‘Stop the Steel’, a group of Trump supporters who accused them of rigging the election.
On January 8, about 48 hours after the riots at Washington’s Capitol House, Twitter began shutting down some of Trump’s most influential accounts, these were accounts that were constantly promoting conspiracies and direct action to reverse the election results. Were provoking people to do. Not only this, Twitter also banned President Donald Trump’s account after this. The reason behind banning Trump’s account of more than 88 million followers has been told that his tweet threatens to create more violence.
The world is shocked by the violence in Washington and it seemed that police and officers are not present in America. But it is not surprising for those who were watching the link of this incident online and in the streets of American cities.
Election results can be affected, Donald Trump was saying this through his speeches and tweets months before the vote was cast. Even on the day of election, when the Americans started voting, the era of rumors started.
The polling agent of the Republican Party did not get permission to enter the Philadelphia polling station. The video prohibiting entry of this polling agent went viral. This was due to a mistake in understanding the rules. Later this man was allowed to enter the polling station.
But it was included in those initial videos which went viral for several days. Along with this, a new hashtag ‘# Stop the Steel’ was raised through other videos, photographs and graphics that the vote has to be rigged. The message of this hashtag was clear that Trump had won by a huge vote but the forces in the power establishment were stealing the victory from him.
On Wednesday, November 4, 2020, in the early hours of the day as counting of votes continued and three days were left on TV networks to announce Joe Biden’s victory, President Trump had claimed the victory, alleging that Americans The public is being cheated. However, there was no evidence in favor of his claim. However, the study of the first elections in the US, it is clear that any disturbance in the counting of votes is absolutely impossible. By midday, a Facebook group called ‘Stop the Steel’ was formed, which proved to be the fastest growing group in the history of Facebook. By Thursday morning, more than three lakh people had joined this group.
In most of the posts, without any proof that allegations were being rigged in a large number of votes, it was also said that thousands of people have died. It was also alleged that the vote counting machine has been designed in such a way that it is counting Trump’s votes in Biden’s votes.
But some posts were really more worrying, in these posts the need for civil war and revolution was being told. By Thursday afternoon, Facebook removed the Stop the Steel page, but by then more than half a million comments, likes and reactions were received on this page. By the time this page was removed, dozens of such groups were ready.
The talk of stealing Trump’s votes was spreading online. Soon, a dedicated website called Stop the Steel was launched in the name of protecting votes. On Saturday, November 7, major news networks declared Joe Biden the winner of the election. In the stronghold of the Democrats, people took to the streets to celebrate. But the online reactions of Trump’s overzealous supporters were displeasing and challenging the outcome.
These people proposed a rally in Washington DC on Saturday in the name of Million Make America Great Again March. Trump also tweeted about this, that they can try to stop it through demonstrations. Earlier, not many people had gathered at Trump supporter rallies in Washington, but thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza on Saturday morning.
An extremist researcher called the crowd of this rally the beginning of a revolt by Trump supporters. When the convoy of trump vehicles passed through the city, supporters vied for a glimpse of them. Trump was seen in front of supporters wearing the cap of ‘Make America Great Again’.
The rally included ultra-right groups, anti-migrants and members of the men’s group Proud Boys who were carrying out street violence and later entering the American Capitol Building. It was attended by the army, right-wing media and all those who advocated conspiracy theories. By nightfall, reports of violent clashes had started coming in from Trump supporters and their opponents, in which an incident occurred five blocks away from the White House. Although the police was also involved in these violence, but it could be predicted from the coming days.
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