Conservative internet forums have begun to encourage supporters of President Donald Trump to rally with guns across the country and back to the Capitol to oppose the investiture next week of Democrat Joe Biden, though that the American capital will be shielded with more than 10,000 members of the National Guard to avoid scenes such as the assault on January 6.
As reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a bulletin, they have received reports of “armed protests” planned in all 50 states between the 16th and 20th, when Biden will take office, that Trump and his supporters argue that he won fraudulently, which they have failed to prove.
“The FBI has information from an identified armed group that intends to travel to Washington on January 16. They have warned that if Congress tries to remove President (Trump) through Amendment 25 there will be a major uprising “, explains the circular.
After the assault on the Capitol last Wednesday, which resulted in four protesters being killed, including a woman shot dead in the neck, and who is behind the death of two police officers from the Capitol, other groups are expected to try to re-besiege the Legislature’s headquarters between January 17 and 20.
Democratic lawmakers are pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to invoke Amendment 25 to disqualify Trump with support from the executive cabinet or they will submit the president from Wednesday to a political trial for “inciting violence against the government”.
Next January 20 is the investiture ceremony of Biden, an event that traditionally gathers thousands of people on the esplanade of the National Mall, in front of the Capitol, where the new president must swear his office before the flower and cream of American power.
But on this occasion, more than ever before in the history of the United States, the tension forces to raise the precaution to the point that the mayor of Washington, Muriel Bowser, recommended this Monday not to go out during the ceremony, for which will be deployed to up to 15,000 National Guard troops sent from various states, more than three times the number of soldiers currently deployed in Afghanistan.
U.S. authorities at the local and federal levels do not want to be surprised again by a violent mob of trumpeters as happened last Wednesday, when Capitol police were immediately overwhelmed by hundreds of protesters urged by the president to march to the Capitol to protest the certification of Biden’s electoral victory, which was taking place at the time in a joint session of the two chambers.
The irruption of the protesters, who had been heating up the January 6 rally called by Trump and which had political organizers linked to trumpism, is seen as a colossal security and coordination error between the Pentagon authorities, the city of Washington and the Capitol Police, in charge of the security of the legislative headquarters.
Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, forced to resign over security fiasco, said Monday that he called for the District of Columbia District National Guard detachment to be alerted to the arrival of trumpeters on January 6, but that this request was denied to him by the Pentagon and the security officials of the Senate and House of Representatives.
In the midst of an emergency, by the Capitol Dam, which forced Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers to take refuge in the gutters of the Capitol Labyrinth or in offices after barricades of furniture, was local Washington police and federal agencies such as the FBI who came to the rescue.
According to Sund, the Pentagon rejected at 2 p.m., just as the Capitol’s security perimeter began to fall, a request to deploy to the National Guard, although Trump said Thursday that he required the presence of immediate of this military force.
Several American media say that it was Vice President Pence who requested the intervention of the National Guard, which in the case of the federal capital must be approved by the White House.
Sund said in an interview with The New York Times that if security agencies do not agree on what happened last week, it will “happen again” during the inauguration of Biden.
The president-elect said on Monday that he was not afraid to appear on the steps of the Capitol next Wednesday in front of the public, as tradition dictates, despite the alert atmosphere in the country. .
The FBI has information on plans by some ultra-conservative groups that have called for assaults on state, local, judicial and other administrative headquarters to show their opposition to Biden’s appointment, which they consider an election theft, as he has falsely claimed. Trump since before November 3rd.