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On November 10, 2016, Trump tweeted, “Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protestors, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!” On November 11, 2016, the Associated Press reported that Portland, Oregon, was the epicenter of the anti-Trump riots spreading across the country, with some 4,000 protestors marching in Portland’s downtown area, smashing windows and chanting “We reject the president-elect.” As midnight approached, Portland police pushed back against the crowd, arresting 26 demonstrators as protestors threw rocks at them.1 Similar gatherings occurred throughout the United States:

 • In Denver, protesters managed to briefly shut down Interstate 25 as demonstrators made their way onto the freeway. Traffic was halted in the northbound and southbound lanes for about 30 minutes. Protesters also briefly shut down interstate highways in Minneapolis and Los Angeles.

 • In San Francisco, high-spirited high school students marched through downtown, chanting “Not my president” and holding signs urging a Donald Trump eviction. Protestors waved rainbow banners and Mexican flags as bystanders high-fived the marchers from the sidelines.

 • In New York City, a large group of demonstrators gathered outside Trump Tower on 5th Avenue, chanting angry slogans and waving banners bearing anti-Trump messages.

 • In Philadelphia, protesters near city hall held signs bearing slogans like “Not Our President,” “Trans against Trump,” and “Make America Safe for All.”

Three days after the election, the Washington Post reported that some 225 people had been arrested in anti-Trump protests, with at least 185 arrested in Los Angeles alone.2 To Hillary’s consternation, many of the people protesting in the streets had not even bothered to vote in the election. NBC’s KGW in Portland, Oregon, reported that most of the 112 protestors arrested in that city did not vote in Oregon, according to state election records, with 79 of the demonstrators arrested either not registered to vote in the state or not recorded as having turned in a ballot.3 An analysis conducted by the Oregonian newspaper in Portland investigating those arrested in ant-Trump demonstrations who did not vote revealed that at least one-third were out-of-state college students not eligible to vote in Oregon.4

Meanwhile, the conservative blogger known as the Gateway Pundit found proof that George Soros, the billionaire currency trader and investor whose Open Society Foundation is notorious for funding left-wing progressive causes, had funded anti-Trump leftist groups who were advertising on the internet to hire demonstrations in various cities across the United States.5