PITTSBURGH — Despite a ceremony held in the center of wealth and power, Monday’s inauguration of President Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States was the people’s inauguration.

Erin Koper, a one-time Democrat who gave a speech about crime at the Republican National Convention last summer, said it was a day filled with history and emotion for her.

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