Hundreds of Trump supporters rally for embattled president on Capitol grounds

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Hundreds of Trump supporters rally for embattled president on Capitol grounds
The House impeachment inquiry into whether Trump abused his office by pressuring Ukraine to investigate a political rival is dismissed by many as a ‘coup’ attempt

By Fredrick Kunkle
Oct. 17, 2019 at 6:29 p.m. EDT

Several hundred Trump supporters massed at the Capitol on Thursday to show support for the embattled president and denounce efforts to remove him from office.

The Stop Impeachment Now! rally — brought together by Women for Trump founder Amy Kremer — took aim at the impeachment inquiry undertaken by Democratic members of Congress. The investigation is attempting to determine whether President Trump abused his office by pressuring Ukraine into opening a criminal investigation into a political rival.

[Pence, Giuliani refuse to cooperate with impeachment inquiry]

Several speakers, including House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), said the impeachment effort suggests Democrats intend to use Congress to remove the president because they fear another possible loss at the ballot box next year. Some characterized the process as an attempted “coup.”
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Meg Fisher, 64, who owns a landscaping business in Chicago, said Trump has said things that seemed shocking or offensive to her since taking office, but that outrageous and unrestrained style was also why she and many supporters liked him.

“He’s a normal person. People say offensive things to me all the time. I don’t attack them. I turn the other cheek. He’s not politically correct — he’s just correct,” Fisher said. She credited Trump administration policies for a strong economy that has allowed her to take home more pay and pay her workers more while excusing his inability to carry through on some promises — such as building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border — as the fault of opponents.

“If he had Congress on his side, he’d have the wall done,” Fisher said.

Fredrick Kunkle is a reporter on the Metro desk. He has written about transportation, politics, courts, police, and local government in Maryland and Virginia. Follow https://twitter.com/KunkleFredrick

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‘Women for Trump’? A rally and a mystery I wanted to solve.

By Petula Dvorak, Columnist
Oct. 17, 2019 at 5:40 p.m. EDT

The women at the foot of the U.S. Capitol wore a smattering of red Make America Great Again hats. ... Herds of school kids passing by, in their matching field-trip T-shirts, threatened to outnumber the few hundred or so rallygoers, described by one blogger as an “ocean of MAGA caps.” ... The March for Trump, organized by Women for Trump, was more like a puddle.

But I wanted to mingle with these folks. ... I wanted to hear from the women waving the big pink “Women for Trump” flags or wearing the “Women for Trump” hats. They are the WFTs. And though others may assemble those three letters differently when describing their movement, I wanted to hear why they remain die-hards in a dwindling minority. ... Because there was no denying it — the crowd was tiny. I’ve covered 20 years of marches in Washington — from the World Bank protests at the turn of the century to 2017’s ocean-of-pink Women’s March — and this gathering was barely there.
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Each of the speakers looked upon the small crowd and marveled at its spirit. ... The rally’s size, though? ... “There would be a lot more of us here if that didn’t happen,” a woman who drove in from Chantilly, Va., told me. ... What happened? A conspiracy, natch.

Organizers said bus companies across the nation canceled the buses hired to bring supporters to the nation’s capital. ... “We feel this was done intentionally and will be issuing a statement at a later time,” Kremer said in a statement posted on the March for Trump’s Facebook page.

From bus stations in Pennsylvania to a Walmart parking lot in North Carolina, Trump supporters said they were left in the cold and dark early Thursday, waiting for buses that didn’t show up. ... The president they think they have — a man who will unite our country and treat everyone with respect — he hasn’t shown up, either.

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Cultists Scream That Deep State “Sabotaged” DC Rally After Buses Canceled Over Their Declined Credit Cards

October 18, 2019 Teabagistan, Trump cultists

The Daily Beast reports:

A couple hundred Donald Trump fans rallied outside Congress on Thursday for the “March for Trump,” an event meant to oppose House Democrats’ impeachment investigation. According to organizers, though, there would have been hundreds more people shouting “stop the coup” in Washington’s streets if not for a liberal plot against their buses.

That’s because, as would-be rally attendees gathered across the East Coast for the US Coachways buses that the organizer had promised would take them to Washington, those buses never showed. The no-shows provoked a wave of anger, accusations that the “deep state” had colluded to stop a show of Trump support in Washington, and bad reviews aimed at US Coachways.

But US Coachways has a simpler explanation for what happened—it was never paid for the requested buses due to a series of declined credit card payments. “We want to get people down there,” Joseph Heap, US Coachways’ chief marketing officer, told The Daily Beast. “But unfortunately, payment is required.”

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1. not a mystery

misogynists can be women almost as easily as men. These women hate women, love a "strong" man, and hate intellectuals just like their male brethren. They want to own the libs and are as vicious and nasty as any man.

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2. The Deplorables are truly that - Deplorable in every way imaginable.

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3. In some ways deplorable woman are worse

When I used to talk to the deplorables, the woman were far more likely to use the "lack of manhood" line of personal attack.