It was among a dozen similar scenes across the country where the president’s most committed supporters turned to violence as they refused to concede he lost.
Early Wednesday afternoon, a crowd of some 300 pro-Trump protesters and Proud Boys gathered around a projector screen in a parking lot outside the Capitol, shielded from the Oregon rain by a tent. On the screen, President Trump issued a video message via social media to insurrectionists who had raided the U.S. Capitol.