What happened on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. didn't come out of nowhere.

We should not accept this.

Take Tuesday night, when the president's former national security adviser, Mike Flynn,

who he pardoned for the crime of lying to the FBI, got Trump supporters in D.C.

riled up for the next day.

Those of you that don't have the moral fiber in your body, get something tonight because

tomorrow, we the people are going to be here and we want you to know that we will not stand

for a lie.

Also, speaking that night, was a former aide to the president, George Papadopoulos, who

Trump also pardoned for lying to the FBI.

We can't forget though, what Ulysses S. Grant said.

There are about two parties right now, traitors and patriots.

The next day on the national mall, the president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani kept it going.

Let's have trial by combat.

And so did the president's son, Donald Trump Jr.

Guess what folks, if you're going to be the zero and not the hero, we're coming for you

and we're going to have a good time doing it.

The words of the president's allies echoed their rhetoric of the last four years, in the

last four weeks, as they repeated lies about a stolen election.

But what made yesterday different was that the president's supporters were gathered

for a rally called Save America, on a day he had promoted as a day of reckoning.

We will never give up, we will never concede, it doesn't happen, you don't concede with

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