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- 'Boy, did we screw up there': Charles Koch regrets backing Tea Party
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Thousands of Donald Trump's supporters rallied in Washington on Saturday, chanting "four more years" and refusing to accept his defeat.
Mr Trump himself made a drive-by in his motorcade, on his way to play golf, smiling through his limousine window to wild cheers, and giving a double thumbs up.
His supporters, few of whom wore masks, gathered on the city's Freedom Plaza before marching towards the Supreme Court, waving flags and signs in an atmosphere reminiscent of a Trump campaign rally.
With right-wing militia group the Proud Boys also among those attending, a large security presence was deployed.
Maureen Healy, 26, from New York, carrying a "Women For Trump" flag, told The Telegraph: "I went to bed on Tuesday night thinking that Trump won because I saw all the same things as were happening 2016.
"Then, miraculously, all these votes turned up at four o' clock in the morning. This is America not a third world country. It literally happened overnight, and this is what happens in communist countries."
Read more: What happens if Donald Trump refuses to concede 2020 presidency?
Republican mega-donor Charles Koch says 'Boy did we screw up!'
One of America's most influential Republican donors has told of his regret at backing the Tea Party, in a remarkable about-face from a conservative hero whose financial support turned the movement into a political juggernaut.
Charles Koch, the 85-year-old libertarian tycoon, said that supporting the Tea Party, whose best-known figures included Sarah Palin, made partisan divisions in the United States far worse.
“Boy, did we screw up!” he writes in his new book. “What a mess!” Mr Koch told the Wall Street Journal: "We did not create the Tea Party. We shared their concern about unsustainable government spending, and we supported some tea-party groups on that issue.
“But it seems to me the Tea Party was largely unsuccessful long-term, given that we’re coming off a Republican administration with the largest government spending in history.”
Mr Koch and his brother David, who died in August 2019 aged 79, declined to endorse Donald Trump in either 2016 or 2020.
John Kelly says Donald Trump not co-operating with transition could be 'catastrophic'
John Kelly, Mr Trump's former chief of staff, issued a rare public statement lambasting Mr Trump for not helping with the transition to a Biden administration.
Mr Kelly said: "The delay in transitioning is an increasing national security and health crisis. It costs the current administration nothing to start to brief Mr Biden, Ms Harris, the new chief of staff, and all identified cabinet members and senior staff."
He said the "downside to not doing so could be catastrophic to our people regardless of who they voted for."
Mr Kelly said: "The current administration does not have to concede, but it should do the right thing just in case the Constitutional system declares they lost.
"It is not about the Republican or the Democrat Party. It is not about the president or about M. Biden. It is about America and what is best for our people.
"Mr Trump should order the transition process begin immediately. It is the right and moral thing to do."
Read more: Republicans urge president to allow Biden intelligence briefings
Mike Pompeo arrives in Paris
The US secretary of state arrived in Paris on Saturday on the first leg of a tricky seven-country tour which will see him try to reassure nations deeply troubled by Mr Trump's refusal to accept the election result.
Mike Pompeo will, over the next ten days, speak to senior officials in France, Turkey, Georgia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
World leaders - among them the rulers of France, Israel, and Saudi Arabia - have already congratulated Mr Biden as the president-elect.
Mr Pompeo, with one eye on making a run for the White House himself in 2024, has refused to accept Mr Trump's loss.
Earlier in the week he said there would be a "smooth transition to a second Trump administration."
Mr Pompeo's trip is aimed at shoring-up the priorities of the outgoing administration.
It will include visits to Israeli settlements in the West Bank that have been avoided by previous secretaries of state.