J6 'truth' rally at Capitol flops: report
Supporters of Donald Trump failed to draw a crowd for a Saturday rally seeking to rewrite Donald Trump's coup attempt ahead of Wednesday's hearing by the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Forbes used the headline, "Pro-Trump 'Truth’ Rally Fizzles—Draws Nearly As Many Counter-Protesters." The Daily Beast headline was "Jan. 6 ‘Truth’ Rally at Capitol Fails Spectacularly."
"When the far-right blog The Gateway Pundit said a Jan. 6 Capitol rioter rally on Saturday afternoon would be the 'biggest to date,' crowds were expected. But instead of big crowds, the “Truth Rally” attracted around the same number of counter-protesters as rally attendees—a few dozen, at best," Zachary Petrizzo reported for The Beast.
One counter-protester shouted, “Trump is a loser, a little baby loser."
NBC New reporter Ben Collins also covered the rally.
He said the "loudest applause line today at this 1/6 Truth Rally was for a woman giving the URL for a site where you can buy 'Abolish the FBI' tee shirts."
"Nobody at this January 6th Truth Rally has really settled on if the rioters are proud of it, if they didn’t do it, or if they did it and it was a setup. The theme is basically: There was no insurrection on January 6th, and we’d do it again," Collins reported.
\u201cDemonstrators sing the national anthem and chant "USA" during a \u201cJanuary 6th Solidarity Truth Rally\u201d to support people who have been prosecuted in the January 6th insurrection near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. \n\nMore #GettyFootage \ud83c\udfa5 @alexwongcw \u27a1\ufe0f https://t.co/DI3tVf7mOZ\u201d— Getty Images News (@Getty Images News) 1664067341
\u201cThe \u201cTruth Rally\u201d is off to a rough start as its electronic backdrop has some broken panels.\u201d— Zachary Petrizzo (@Zachary Petrizzo) 1664038556