Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict

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Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict

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Supporters of former President Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution.

Some called for attacks on jurors, the execution of the judge, Justice Juan Merchan, or outright civil war and armed insurrection. 

 

BLM protests are anathema to the MAGA CULT, but don't dare convict Donald IN COURT. 🤮

 

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Trump supporters try to dox jurors and post violent threats after his conviction


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Advance Democracy, a nonprofit that conducts public interest research, said there has been a high volume of social media posts containing violent rhetoric targeting New York Judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, including a post with Bragg’s purported home address. The group also found posts of the purported addresses of jurors on a fringe internet message board known for pro-Trump content and harassing and violent posts, although it is unclear if any actual jurors had been correctly identified.

The posts, which have been reviewed by NBC News, appear on many of the same websites used by Trump supporters to organize for violence ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. These forums were hotbeds of threats inspired by Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, which he lost, and that the voting system was “rigged” against him. They now feature new threats echoing Trump’s rhetoric and false claims about the hush money trial, including that the judicial system is now “rigged” against him.

“Dox the Jurors. Dox them now,” one user wrote after Trump’s conviction on a website formerly known as “The Donald,” which was popular among participants in the Capitol attack. (That post appears to have been quickly removed by moderators.)

“We need to identify each juror. Then make them miserable. Maybe even suicidal,” wrote another user on the same forum. “1,000,000 men (armed) need to go to Washington and hang everyone. That’s the only solution,” wrote another user. “This s--- is out of control.”

“I hope every juror is doxxed and they pay for what they have done,” another user wrote on Trump’s Truth Social platform Thursday. “May God strike them dead. We will on November 5th and they will pay!”

“War,” read a Telegram post from one chapter of the Proud Boys, the far-right group whose former chair and three other members were convicted of seditious conspiracy because of their actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6, just a few months after Trump infamously told the group to “stand back and stand by” during a 2020 debate. 

MAGA CULT INSANITY. 🤮

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Trump and his supporters are again threatening violence-don’t ignore them.

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Since Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, we have seen Trump supporters—both on camera and online—threaten violence.  And on Sunday, Trump joined those by threatening that if he is jailed, it could be a “breaking point” for his supporters.

These threats can’t be ignored. Recent history tells us that Trump and his MAGA followers are capable of not just threats—but violence as well.

And there’s one more thing to add to this combustible mix. After Trump’s conviction, he is even more desperate and dangerous.  If Trump had been acquitted--or even if there had been a hung jury--Trump could’ve still believed he truly was the “Teflon Don” who would never be held  accountable.

That is no longer the reality. Rather, Trump is now like the person first called the “Teflon Don,” mobster John Gotti, who earned that moniker after avoiding criminal convictions in prior cases. Gotti’s Teflon, though, ended in 1992 after a jury found him guilty in a case where a former close associate testified against him. (Like Michael Cohen in Trump’s trial.) Gotti was sentenced to life in prison, where he ultimately died in 2002.

To be blunt, Trump is facing the same potential fate as Gotti --and especially if Trump is convicted in his other three criminal cases.  It's in that vein Trump’s alarming comment about potential jail time in a Fox News interview released Sunday must be viewed.  During that interview, the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee first responded when asked about the prospect of being sentenced to jail with a Gotti sense of bravado, saying, “I’m OK with it.”

But then after a little more back and forth, Trump—who is still clearly processing his new status as a convicted felon—alarmingly commented about the potential of being sentenced to jail, “I don’t know that the public would stand it, you know?” He continued, “I think it would be tough for the public to take.” Trump then added ominously, “At a certain point, there’s a breaking point.”

In response to Trump’s “breaking point” comment, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) stated bluntly on CNN Sunday, "this is clearly Donald Trump once again inciting violence." Schiff—who has been a vocal Trump critic for years—is right.

This is a far more alarming comment than Trump made after the verdict on Thursday where he slammed the case as a “a rigged, disgraceful trial.  Or on Friday, when he held a press conference where he repeated the “rigged” line while again peddling a series of lies about the trial—including that President Biden somehow orchestrated the New York state prosecution.

Trump is apparently beginning to understand that he could face jail time given each of the 34 felonies he was convicted of carries up to a four-year prison sentence. Even Trump’s own lawyer Todd Blanche told The Associated Press while it would be “extraordinary” to send Trump to jail, it was not out of the question given “this is a very highly publicized case” and some might argue Trump deserves a harsher punishment because he faces charges elsewhere.

It's unclear what Trump will do—but one thing is certain. Trump now understands he is no longer Teflon and that he could end up in prison. His first order of business will be not being sentenced to jail in the New York case. Then it will be winning the 2024 election because that is the only way for Trump to guarantee he will avoid a John Gotti-like end to his life. To do that, Trump will do any and everything to prevail in this election.

Given Trump’s history combined with his new level of desperation, law enforcement must on guard for threats or violence from the MAGA faithful. And so should we. 

Poor Donny came to believe he could violate the law with impunity. 🤮