Except for the parts that were conveniently not mentioned in the article.
No matter.
Enjoy your day.

 

And you claim to be an ex cop.


At least two separate instances of assault and battery and theft and distribution of private property. Of course as you have shown many times you do not believe any laws apply to treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans.

 

Missouri man planned to shoot at immigrants, murder federal agents at Mexican border: DOJ

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Luke Nozicka
Thu, June 1, 2023 at 10:23 AM MDT




Two self-styled militia members, who were arrested after one shot at FBI agents at the Lake of the Ozarks, planned to travel to Texas shoot at undocumented immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border and murder Border Patrol agents who would have tried to stop them, according to new charges filed against them.

Jonathan O’Dell, 33, of Warsaw in Missouri’s Benton County, and 37-year-old Bryan Perry, of Tennessee, were arrested in October after Perry allegedly fired 11 shots at multiple FBI special agents trying to execute a search warrant at O’Dell’s residence.

At the time, little was known about why the FBI was searching the residence in the 30000 block of US 65 Highway, about 100 miles southeast of Kansas City.

But a 44-count second superseding indictment, returned this week by a federal grand jury in Jefferson City, alleges the men conspired to go “to war with” border patrol agents.


The men, who remain detained, now face charges of conspiracy to murder a federal officer and employee and attempted murder of a federal officer and employee, among other crimes. They face life in prison if convicted.

O’Dell’s attorney, Daniel Dodson, said he will plead not guilty and intends to “fight these charges.”

“It looks like the government intends to prove a lot of talk,” said Dodson, who is based in Jefferson City.

As early as winter 2021, the men communicated about their “various grievances” against the U.S. government. The next year, they recruited others to their group, “2nd American Militia,” according to the indictment.

Among their communications, Perry texted O’Dell images of the U.S. Capitol, the Secret Service’s headquarters and other government buildings in Washington, D.C., to “stop the madness going on,” prosecutors said.

Perry allegedly got a hold of a multi-caliber rifle weeks later and texted O’Dell to say he was “good to go.” In September 2022, Perry traveled to Warsaw, Missouri, to live with O’Dell, bringing the rifle, a handgun and body armor, according to the indictment.

That month, Perry posted a video on the social media app TikTok, in which he said Border Patrol was committing treason by allowing undocumented immigrants to enter the U.S., and that the penalty for treason “was death,” according to the indictment.

Perry posted another video the next day, saying he was “ready to go to war against this government,” prosecutors allege. In yet a different video, he allegedly said they were “out to shoot to kill” and that their group “is gonna go protect this country.”

Additionally, prosecutors allege Perry used TikTok to contact someone in Louisiana, listed in the indictment as “Individual #1,” to join he and O’Dell.

The men allegedly planned to leave for Eagle Pass, Texas, on Oct. 8 from a Warsaw grocery store. In one phone call, prosecutors allege, Perry told another person they would “acquire night vision goggles and ammunition from murdered federal law enforcement officers,” according to the indictment, which paraphrased his comments.

Days before they planned to leave, Perry and O’Dell practiced target shooting, prosecutors said. They allegedly amassed six guns, 1,770 rounds of ammunition, two gas masks and other items.

FBI agents showed up to O’Dell’s residence the day before the two apparently planned to leave. Gunshots rang out as Perry allegedly fired at the agents, striking the lead vehicle. The FBI did not fire back and eventually arrested both men.

Perry assaulted at least one agent while trying to avoid arrest, according to court records.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/missouri-man-planned-shoot-immigrants-162333380.html

 

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Failed Republican candidate charged in shooting spree aimed at New Mexico Democrats

FILE PHOTO: Solomon Pena poses for a jail booking photograph after his arrest by the Albuquerque Police Department
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Kanishka Singh
Wed, May 31, 2023 at 5:30 PM MDT·2 min read




By Kanishka Singh

(Reuters) - A failed Republican state candidate in New Mexico was charged by federal authorities on Wednesday for a shooting spree targeting the homes of four elected Democratic officials, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.

Solomon Pena, 40, lost a state House of Representatives race last November. After his defeat, Pena organized the shootings on the homes of two Bernalillo County commissioners and two New Mexico state legislators, prosecutors said.

The shootings, one of which involved a machine gun, were carried out between Dec. 4, 2022, and Jan. 3, 2023, with assistance from co-conspirators, the Justice Department said. The federal indictment was unsealed Wednesday in the District of New Mexico.


"There is no room in our democracy for politically motivated violence, especially when it is used to undermine election results," said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s criminal division.

If convicted, Pena faces a mandatory minimum of 60 years in prison, according to the Justice Department.

Pena, described as a "radical right election denier" by Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, was arrested in January and charged by local county prosecutors with contracting four gunmen to shoot at the homes of the Democratic officials after he visited them to dispute his 2022 election defeat.

There were no fatalities in the shootings, which followed sometimes heated arguments as Pena visited the homes of three county commissioners and state Senator Linda Lopez to allege fraud in a House race he lost by 47 percentage points, police had said.

Pena is a supporter of false theories spread by prominent New Mexico-based election denier David Clements, according to Pena's website and messages in a Telegram group run by Clements' wife.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/failed-republican-candidate-charged-shooting-233036311.html

 

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Luke Nozicka
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Two self-styled militia members, who were arrested after one shot at FBI agents at the Lake of the Ozarks, planned to travel to Texas shoot at undocumented immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border and murder Border Patrol agents who would have tried to stop them, according to new charges filed against them.

Jonathan O’Dell, 33, of Warsaw in Missouri’s Benton County, and 37-year-old Bryan Perry, of Tennessee, were arrested in October after Perry allegedly fired 11 shots at multiple FBI special agents trying to execute a search warrant at O’Dell’s residence.

At the time, little was known about why the FBI was searching the residence in the 30000 block of US 65 Highway, about 100 miles southeast of Kansas City.

But a 44-count second superseding indictment, returned this week by a federal grand jury in Jefferson City, alleges the men conspired to go “to war with” border patrol agents.


The men, who remain detained, now face charges of conspiracy to murder a federal officer and employee and attempted murder of a federal officer and employee, among other crimes. They face life in prison if convicted.

O’Dell’s attorney, Daniel Dodson, said he will plead not guilty and intends to “fight these charges.”

“It looks like the government intends to prove a lot of talk,” said Dodson, who is based in Jefferson City.

As early as winter 2021, the men communicated about their “various grievances” against the U.S. government. The next year, they recruited others to their group, “2nd American Militia,” according to the indictment.

Among their communications, Perry texted O’Dell images of the U.S. Capitol, the Secret Service’s headquarters and other government buildings in Washington, D.C., to “stop the madness going on,” prosecutors said.

Perry allegedly got a hold of a multi-caliber rifle weeks later and texted O’Dell to say he was “good to go.” In September 2022, Perry traveled to Warsaw, Missouri, to live with O’Dell, bringing the rifle, a handgun and body armor, according to the indictment.

That month, Perry posted a video on the social media app TikTok, in which he said Border Patrol was committing treason by allowing undocumented immigrants to enter the U.S., and that the penalty for treason “was death,” according to the indictment.

Perry posted another video the next day, saying he was “ready to go to war against this government,” prosecutors allege. In yet a different video, he allegedly said they were “out to shoot to kill” and that their group “is gonna go protect this country.”

Additionally, prosecutors allege Perry used TikTok to contact someone in Louisiana, listed in the indictment as “Individual #1,” to join he and O’Dell.

The men allegedly planned to leave for Eagle Pass, Texas, on Oct. 8 from a Warsaw grocery store. In one phone call, prosecutors allege, Perry told another person they would “acquire night vision goggles and ammunition from murdered federal law enforcement officers,” according to the indictment, which paraphrased his comments.

Days before they planned to leave, Perry and O’Dell practiced target shooting, prosecutors said. They allegedly amassed six guns, 1,770 rounds of ammunition, two gas masks and other items.

FBI agents showed up to O’Dell’s residence the day before the two apparently planned to leave. Gunshots rang out as Perry allegedly fired at the agents, striking the lead vehicle. The FBI did not fire back and eventually arrested both men.

Perry assaulted at least one agent while trying to avoid arrest, according to court records.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/missouri-man-planned-shoot-immigrants-162333380.html

 

'Scary as hell': Militia expert says Trump tweet from GOP's Clay Higgins is call for 'civil war'

Travis Gettys
June 9, 2023, 10:50 AM ET



Rep. Clay Higgins (Facebook)


Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) mystified many social media users with his response to Donald Trump's indictment, but one militia expert interpreted his tweet as a call to arms.

The Louisiana Republican tweeted out a seemingly inscrutable message Thursday after the former president confirmed he had been indicted in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, but award-winning journalist and author Jeff Sharlet saw the message as a violent threat.


"President Trump said he has 'been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM,'" Higgins tweeted. "This is a perimeter probe from the oppressors. Hold. rPOTUS has this. Buckle up. 1/50K know your bridges. Rock steady calm. That is all."

Sharlet, whose latest book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, features in-depth reporting on right-wing extremists, warned that the GOP lawmaker appeared to be calling for an insurgency.

"Deep scary: 1/50 k refers to military scale maps & publicly available US Geological Survey maps of areas mostly surrounding military installations," Sharlet said. "This isn’t a metaphor. This isn’t slow civil war. This is a congressman calling for the real thing."

"I think this is scary as hell," he added.

Higgins, a former police officer who claims to hold an "active commission" in law enforcement, was caught on video last month manhandling an activist who asked him about his ties to right-wing extremists, and he resigned from one police department in 2007 before he could face discipline for using unnecessary force by slapping a Black man while on duty.

He later gained notoriety by posting viral videos online showing himself wearing a police uniform and threatening purported criminals with violence and calling them "animals" and "heathens."

Higgins has previously spoken at events held by mostly white militias, including the Oath Keepers, and sold T-shirts at political events featuring the logo of the anti-government III Percent militia, while threatening to shoot members of a Black militia that took part in Black Lives Matter marches in 2020.

"If you’re laughing at Rep Clay Higgins using militia speak, referencing military grade maps, & telling Trumpers to 'know your bridges,' recall that Canadian far rightists held border bridges recently in a tense stand off," Sharlet warned. "This is on the table."

Sharlet went through and defined the phrases the congressman deployed and determined he was calling for a "county-level insurrection" in response to Trump's federal indictment, which Higgins characterized as an act of war.

"Take this seriously," Sharlet said. “'Perimeter probe': Higgins thinks indictment precedes bigger attack. 'rPOTUS': real POTUS,' Trump. 'Hold': 'stand back & stand by.' 'Buckle up': prepare for war. '1/50 k': military scale maps. 'Know your bridges': militia speak for prepare to seize bridges."

https://www.rawstory.com/rep-clay-higgins/

 

Shooter checks his secret MAGA decoder ring.
ah. We'll have to get moving if we're going to make it in time, he thinks.
*starts packing his dopp kit and pulling together his rucksack.
Azimuth check is 5 by 5.
BFT activated.
Charlie Mike confirmed.
Oscar Mike ETA 3 minutes.

 

Republican Congressman Slammed For Tweet Appearing to Call For ‘County Level Insurrection’ In Wake of Trump Indictment
By Alex GriffingJun 9th, 2023, 12:35 pm





Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) raised many eyebrows on Thursday night with a cryptic tweet in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s federal indictment. Higgin’s tweet confused many journalists and observers unfamiliar with the language he used, but Jeff Sharlet, a bestselling author and expert on right-wing militias, explained the meaning and called the tweet “deep scary.”

“President Trump said he has ‘been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM.’ This is a perimeter probe from the oppressors. Hold. rPOTUS has this,” Higgins wrote, adding:


Buckle up. 1/50K know your bridges. Rock steady calm. That is all.

Aaron Blake of the Washington Post replied, “‘rPOTUS’ = ‘real POTUS,’ I assume.” While Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman added, “i still have no idea what this means.”







Will Sommer commented, “Any ideas on what “1/50k know your bridges” means, besides literally knowing your local bridges? Not something I’ve encountered before.”




Sharlet, who penned the New York Times bestselling book “The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War,” was quick to explain:

Deep scary: 1/50 k refers to military scale maps & publicly available US Geological Survey maps of areas mostly surrounding military installations. This isn’t a metaphor. This isn’t slow civil war. This is a congressman calling for the real thing.




Sharlet answered some of the specific questions regarding Higgin’s message to his followers. “Prepare for war. ‘Know your bridges’ is militia speak for closing them down. County level insurrection,” Sharlet noted, interpreting “Buckle up” as code for “prepare for war.”

Below are some additional responses to Higgins:

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'War phase': Far-right Arizona Rep. demands 'eye for an eye' after Trump indictment

Gideon Rubin
June 9, 2023, 3:41 PM ET



Congressman Andy Biggs speaking with supporters of President of the United States Donald Trump at a "Keep America Great" rally. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


A far right Arizona congressman on Friday appeared to call for unrest in an incendiary social media post.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said “we have now reached a war phase” as prosecutors unsealed a 37-count indictment against former President Donald Trump in connection with the handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Special counsel Jack Smith unsealed the charges Friday.

“We have now reached a war phase,” Biggs tweeted. “Eye for an eye.”

Biggs in a social media post earlier on Friday echoed the former president’s allegation that Trump is the victim of a political persecution.

“The Biden Admin is weaponizing our federal police apparatus to target their top political opponent,” Biggs tweeted.

“Even worse, their move comes as soon as we unveiled that both Joe and Hunter received $5 million from a foreign entity. This is exactly what an authoritarian regime looks like."

Biggs, a third-term congressman and a loyal Trump supporter who backs the former president’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen, is no stranger to controversy.

Former Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican who also supported Trump in the 2020 election, alleged that Biggs urged him to decertify the 2020 election.


https://www.rawstory.com/andy-biggs-2661183914/

 

'We need to start killing': Some Trump supporters flood social media with demands for violence

Sky Palma
June 9, 2023, 4:44 PM ET



Donald Trump (Photo by Brendan Smialowski for AFP)


Some of Donald Trump's most vocal supporters lashed out with violent rhetoric after news broke that the former president was indicted for his handling of classified information, VICE News reported.

“We need to start killing these traitorous f---stains,” wrote one person on the the pro-Trump messaging board, The Donald.

“It's not gonna stop until bodies start stacking up. We are not civilly represented anymore and they'll come for us next. Some of us, they already have," wrote another.

Another person shared an article about Attorney General Merrick Garland's family, prompting one user to reply, “His children are fair game as far as I’m concerned.”

One person wrote that it's time for a "civil war" that the Democrats "have been trying to start for years now."

The 44-page indictment alleges that Trump "endeavored to obstruct the FBI and grand jury investigations and conceal retention of classified documents."

Even some GOP members of Congress apparently encouraged violence.

“We have now reached a war phase,” tweeted Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ). “Eye for an eye.”

And Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) tweeted out a message that a militia expert said was a coded message effectively calling for civil war. "This is scary as hell," said award-winning journalist Jeff Sharlet.

Read the full report over at VICE News.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2661184570/

 

I hate to say it but I will say it again. If treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans want to commit violence because Traitor Trump got indicted bring it. I am sick and tired of these fucking traitors threatening all the rest of us. Time to put up or shut up and find out how fucking weak you really are. Fuck around and find out.



Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment

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Tim Dickinson
Fri, June 9, 2023 at 2:21 PM MDT




Extreme supporters of Donald Trump have met news of his federal indictment with visions of violence and retribution.

At The Donald, a forum for ultra-MAGA Trump supporters, users demanded public executions and other forms of lynching to avenge the federal prosecution of Trump, for the alleged mishandling of state secrets at Mar a Lago after he was no longer president.

The calls for violence appeared in comment threads, responding to posts on the front page of the forum Thursday night, after news broke of Trump’s latest legal troubles. The most extreme comments were written in response to a fanciful post insisting “the only solution” to DOJ’s efforts to lock up Trump would be to vote him back into the presidency, so Trump could “pardon himself and begin arresting those guilty of insurrection and sedition.”


A user named “Belac186” offered a far deadlier fix: “The only way this country ever becomes anything like the Constitution says this country should be is if thousands of traitorous rats are publicly executed.” Commenter “DogFaceKilla” quickly chimed in to offer supplies: “I got some rope somewhere in the garage…” And “Heavy_Metal_Patriot” added: “Hans says we can borrow the flammenwerfer” — a reference to a battlefield flame thrower used to by German soldiers in World War II.

The proposal for mass killing struck user “BlackPilledMAGA” as going too far: “Doesn’t have to be thousands, just a few dozen would do. Shit would STOP immediately.” But user “Nerdrem1” insisted taking out a few elites wouldn’t make the difference, suggesting the number of dead required was on a genocidal scale: “Millions. The real problem is the people that vote for them, as long as they exist the problem can’t be solved.” A user named “Heavy_Metal_Patriot” concurred: “Correct.”

It might be tempting to dismiss these calls for mass murder as loose talk among angry MAGAdonians. Yet there is dark history here. In a previous iteration, The Donald was used to help plot and promote the violence at the Capitol in 2021, as detailed in the final report of the House Jan. 6 Committee, including by users who “openly discussed surrounding and occupying the U.S. Capitol.”

On The Donald, users can post a headline or a meme with hopes that others will “upvote” to the front page. Clicking on a post then brings up a comment section, where the most popular comments similarly rise to the top. The forum is rightly notorious as a place for bad Internet behavior. It began on Reddit, before getting banned for upvoting “rule-breaking content” and for moderators who “refused to meet our most basic expectations.” The forum then launched as a standalone site at TheDonald.win, but a top moderator pulled the plug on that site following the havoc of Jan. 6. Finally it was rebooted for third time at Patriots.win, where it continues to connect the Trump faithful — and offer the rest of us a disturbing window into the psyche of the MAGA fever swamps.

The Donald still bills itself as “a high-energy rally for supporters of President Trump” and the forum’s rules include exhortations to “Follow the Law” and to “Be Vigilant” because “your posts and comments may become news.” The forum did not respond to questions emailed to its press line about its moderation practices or how it handles open calls to violence.

As Rolling Stone has reported, The Donald has lately gravitated away from hero worship of the 45th president and toward noxious culture-war issues, particularly promoting hate toward LGBTQ people. (To wit: the top “Hot” post by Friday morning was a post bemoaning the endorsement of Pride month by a fast-casual restaurant chain: “Cracker Barrel went woke.”)

But big news events involving Trump still stoke the passions of extremist users. Katie McCarthy is an investigative researcher with the Anti-Defamation League who monitors The Donald closely. She recalls that users were also ”very angry” about Trump’s first indictment in New York, making posts that included “calls for civil war, violence, and retribution.”

In fact, the threat of civil war was on the minds of The Donald again on Thursday. Under a meme post showing Donald Trump with laser eyes and the text “YUGE MISTAKE,” forum posters wrote of preparing for violence.

User “horsepaste420” wrote: “I just feel like we’re going through the motions until all hell breaks loose.” A commenter named “Blackrider” concurred: “Same here dude. Stacking bags and loading mags. Just waiting for the calm to end, and the chaos to begin.” A responding to another user’s prediction of “civil war,” a commenter named ”pushbackv2” called such a conflict “inevitable” and predicted “it’s right around the corner.”

Elsewhere in the same comments section, user “vax_was_a_bioweapon” posted about the indictment as though it were interference in the democratic process — a development that would demand a deadly response: “If they steal the election again why are we talking about anything but dragging the political elite out of their homes and setting them on fire?” User “HawkTheSlayer” suggested a somewhat different lynching strategy: “I prefer tying them to vehicles and dragging them across concrete until they are ground down to nothing.”

A user whose handle is “-jjjjjjjjjj-” then appeared to reference a famous revolutionary quote from Thomas Jefferson about the “the tree of liberty” needing to be “refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants,” suggesting that Trump could jumpstart hostilities with a single phrase:

“The only thing that’s going to change the course of this country from its present heading of a Marxist dictatorship,” the commenter wrote, “is if Trump stands up in Court and says ‘to all of my supporters, the tree needs watering and now is the time.’”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-extremists-demand-civil-war-202112664.html

 

AH GOD, STOP ANON!
YOU'RE KILLING US!
SO FUNNY!
KEYBOARD WARRIORS ALL TALK...!

 

Bring it you bunch of fucking traitors against the United States America thinking no laws or the Constitution can be applied to your Chosen One Traitor Trump-. Fuck around just ding out who weak and impotent you are up aaint the government of the United States of America and true Americans who do love teir country.



Kari Lake Warns Biden, DOJ Will Have to Go Through ‘Card-Carrying Members of the NRA’ to Get to Trump
By Charlie NashJun 10th, 2023, 9:48 am


Republican politician and commentator Kari Lake said on Friday that those seeking to prosecute former President Donald Trump would have to go through her and 75 million other Americans, before warning that many of them were “card-carrying members” of the National Rifle Association (NRA).

“I have a message tonight for Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith, and Joe Biden,” said Lake during a speech at the Georgia Republican Party convention, following news of Trump’s indictment. “And the guys back there in the fake news media, you should listen up as well, this one’s for you.”

She then warned, “If you wanna get to President Trump, you’re gonna have to go through me, and you’re gonna have to go through 75 million Americans just like me.”


“And I’m gonna tell you, most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA,” Lake continued, as the audience cheered. “That’s not a threat, that’s a public service announcement.”

Lake doubled down on her comments in a Twitter post, telling Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf, “I meant what I said.”

After former Vice President Mike Pence, the scheduled keynote speaker, dropped out of the convention less than two weeks prior, he was replaced with Lake — a vocal Trump supporter who was reported in March to be among those Trump was considering to be his 2024 running mate.

The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment of Trump on Friday with 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified documents, which he had retained from his time as president.

According to the indictment, the documents “included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign counties; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to foreign attack.”

Watch above via Georgia Republican Party.


https://www.mediaite.com/politics/k...-carrying-members-of-the-nra-to-get-to-trump/

 

'Rhetoric like this has consequences': experts concerned about warlike language from Trump acolytes

David McAfee
June 10, 2023, 9:50 PM ET



Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons


From Kari Lake to congressmen throughout the United States, violent rhetoric following Donald Trump's federal indictment has reportedly been steady and is now officially raising red flags with experts.

The violent messages from Trump's supporters are not exactly new, as they have arisen before, including after the FBI raided the former president's property at Mar-a-Lago. But they do appear to be escalating, according to a report by Michael S. Schmidt, Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman, and Adam Goldman of the New York Times.


"The federal indictment of former President Donald J. Trump has unleashed a wave of calls by his supporters for violence and an uprising to defend him, disturbing observers and raising concerns of a warlike atmosphere ahead of his court appearance in Miami on Tuesday," according to the article. "In social media posts and public remarks, close allies of Mr. Trump — including a member of Congress — have portrayed the indictment as an act of war, called for retribution and highlighted the fact that much of his base carries weapons."

The analysis further shows that this type of rhetoric could actually make real-life violence more likely.

"The calls to action and threats have been amplified on right-wing media sites and have been met by supportive responses from social media users and cheers from crowds, who have become conditioned over several years by Mr. Trump and his allies to see any efforts to hold him accountable as assaults against him," the New York Times writers wrote Saturday. "Experts on political violence warn that attacks against people or institutions become more likely when elected officials or prominent media figures are able to issue threats or calls for violence with impunity."

The article specifically points to the behavior of failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.

“'If you want to get to President Trump, you are going to have go through me, and you are going to have to go through 75 million Americans just like me,' said Lake, the Republican former candidate for governor of Arizona. 'And I’m going to tell you, most of us are card-carrying members of the N.R.A.'"

Read the full article here.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supporter-violent-rhetoric/

 

Escalating online chatter puts authorities on alert before Trump's arraignment: Washington Post

Adam Nichols
June 11, 2023, 9:25 PM ET



Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


Online threats and plans for expected gatherings of far-right extremists are being monitored as federal and Florida security forces went on alert Sunday, the Washington Post reported.

Growing online chatter mentioning violence, coupled with statements from former President Donald Trump and his supporters, have left authorities readying for protests – or worse.

Trump is due in Miami Tuesday to be arraigned on 37 federal counts involving his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Among the chatter being monitored is online conversations regarding a pro-Trump rally being planned outside the Miami federal courthouse that’s suspected of being organized by the right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys, the Washington Post reported.

Some leaders of the group were recently convicted of seditious conspiracy for their part in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump, who is currently in New Jersey, is expected to fly to Miami Monday.

On a radio interview with Roger Stone Sunday, Trump called for protest – with Stone urging any protesters to remain peaceful, the Post reported.

But there have been many direct calls for violence, including a congressman who called for “an eye for an eye” and Kari Lake, who told her supporters “We’re at war, people. We’re at war.”



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-protests/

 

So predictable.

 

'I want blood': Rabid Trump supporters' fury is building as arraignment nears

Travis Gettys
June 12, 2023, 11:45 AM ET



Thousands of Trump supporters gather at the Supreme Court to show their support for President Trump after the election. (Shutterstock.com)


Donald Trump's supporters are threatening war over the former president's indictment on espionage-related charges.

Republican lawmakers and politicians have responded to the indictment with incendiary rhetoric, while pro-Trump message boards have been ablaze with violent threats reminiscent of the online chatter before the Jan. 6 insurrection, reported Vice News.

“MAGA will make Waco look like a tea party,” said a user called 1776take2 on the pro-Trump forum The Donald. "I used to laugh when my mom said that she was afraid if she registered Republican she may be arrested one day. I’m not laughing any more. Just buying more ammo.”

A federal grand jury indicted Trump last week on 37 charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith, and some of the threats targeted the official who appointed him, attorney general Merrick Garland.

“America cannot allow this cowardly thug to destroy our democracy," wrote one Trump supporter on the forum. "This is what the Second Amendment was made for. Buy a gun or help organize your local militia today.”

Some of the Trump supporters used language suggesting they hoped the unrest would launch a race war.

“Accelerate, the quicker the normies realize this isn’t a free country, the quicker things can be fixed,” wrote one user on The Donald.

Others were more succinct.

“I want blood," one said. "I want f---ing blood.”



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supporters-civil-war-2661213275/

 

The final battle': Trump tells followers they 'have to' protest as some promise to be 'well-armed'

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
June 12, 2023, 4:15 PM ET



Former US president Donald Trump (AFP)


More than 24 hours before he is scheduled to be arraigned, Donald Trump’s supporters have started to show up at the federal courthouse in Miami, where the ex-president will be formally advised of the 37 felony criminal charges against him Tuesday at 3 PM.

Trump wants a big showing – “See you in Miami on Tuesday!!!” – he posted to his Truth Social account last week, in all-caps.

“This is the final battle,” Trump told supporters Saturday, Axios reports, and warned, “our people are angry.”

VICE on Monday reported Trump’s supporters “are planning mass protests at a Miami courthouse on Tuesday, following Trump’s indictment last week. Many are promising to come ‘well-armed.'”

It quoted some Trump supporters, including one who said, “MAGA will make Waco look like a tea party.”

“I used to laugh when my mom said that she was afraid if she registered Republican she may be arrested one day. I’m not laughing any more. Just buying more ammo,” VICE says another wrote.

Yet another over the weekend posted a photo of Attorney General Merrick Garland, and wrote: “America cannot allow this cowardly thug to destroy our democracy. This is what the Second Amendment was made for. Buy a gun or help organize your local militia today.”

On the highly-trafficked forum known as The Donald, many posts “directly referenced Trump’s own posts on his social media platform Truth Social. Under one screenshot of a Trump post about his aide Walt Nauta also being indicted, one user wrote: ‘Revolution Now.’ Another added: ‘I want blood. I want fucking blood.'”

Trump, VICE notes, “has done nothing to tamp down any potential threats, repeatedly calling for his own supporters to turn up en masse in Miami on Tuesday, just as he did ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot,” and he “shared a meme about his indictment with a caption declaring, ‘THIS IS NOT A GAME, THIS IS WAR.'”

Pushing for a big showing, Trump spoke Sunday on the radio show of his longtime friend and advisor Roger Stone, whose sentence he commuted.

Our country has to protest,” Trump said, as Rolling Stone reported. “We’ve lost everything.”

Real Clear Politics adds that Trump told Stone, “our country is being taken away from us. Our country is going communist, it’s going Marxist, it’s going really bad, and the people of our country aren’t that way. But the people running it are. And we need strength at this point and everyone’s afraid to do anything. They’re afraid to talk, and they have to go out and they have to protest peacefully. They have to go.”

Reuters posted this live video feed Monday afternoon. Not a big showing.

Last week author Jeff Sharlet, who writes about extremism and the religious right, said he was “skeptical” that they would show, after all the January 6 arrests.

Sharlet says Trump’s remarks, like “Saturday’s claim that World War III ‘WILL’ occur if he’s not back, & that he is the ‘only one’ who can stop the obliteration of the world, are claims to divinity.”

On Friday The Guardian reported there are 12 million Americans who “believe violence is justified to restore Trump to power.”



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The left media started (predictably) claiming that there would be violence at the Trump arraignment in Miami yesterday.
We saw breathless headlines shouting about Trump calling for armed resistance, and the ever mysterious "source familiar with the situation" warning that Trump supporters were out for blood, and scary reports of authorities bracing for violence in Miami. Miami law enforcement predicted 50,000 rioters and was calling in all resources to prepare for "civil war".

And Kari Lake was quoted as trying to foment violence;

"On Sunday, Lake hinted at violence, warning that if prosecutors “want to get to President Trump,” they’re ”going to have to go through me, and 75 million Americans just like me. And most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA.”​

Well?
Protesters gather outside Miami courthouse for 'historical day' of Trump's arraignment (msn.com)
3 guys showed up in costumes, one as Uncle Sam, one in prison garb(see below), and one as a circus ring master. There might have been as many as 1,000 Trump supporters, but it was hard to tell what with all the media minions swarming the place.

And Kari Lake's planned protest managed to garner about 600 protesters, but since it was at a well known night club, no one was sure how many showed up to support Trump, and how many showed up for the booze and the show.

But there was violence. Sort of.

" Chaos as motorcade departs courthouse
Later, as Trump left the courthouse, a man was tackled by authorities and placed under arrest after he attempted to run in front of the former president's motorcade.

Dominic Santana, 61, held a sign outside the courthouse reading “Lock him up,” and was dressed in a striped prisoner’s outfit. Santana, who lives in Miami but is originally from Cuba, told reporters earlier in the day that while he could not show his "disdain for Cuban government he could for the U.S. government."

The motorcade proceeded without incident after Santana was tackled and detained by law enforcement officials. ​

There might have been more police, DHS security, secret service and media present than were supporters and protesters.
Trump supporters, protestors arrive in Miami for indictment hearing (usatoday.com)

So the next time you read of the expected violence from conservative circles and hear of the doomsday predictions of our way of life coming to an end, all courtesy of Trump fanatics, check the source and try to remember that the despicable violence card is played with the same fervor, the same goal and the same lack of reality checks as climate cooling climate warming climate change climate crisis climate shift.