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In what is becoming a now all-too-familiar trend, former President Donald Trumps far-right supporters have threatened civil war after news broke Thursday that the former president was indicted for allegedly taking classified documents from the White House without permission.
We need to start killing these traitorous fuckstains, wrote one Trump supporter on The Donald, a rabidly pro-Trump message board that played a key role in planning the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Another user added: 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.
Trump has been indicted on seven counts following an investigation by special counsel Jack Smith into classified documents taken by Trump from the White House in 2021. The indictments have not been released, but Trumps attorney Jim Trusty told CNN that his client is facing a charge under the Espionage Act, as well as charges of obstruction of justice, destruction or falsification of records, conspiracy and false statements.
Trump announced the news himself on Truth Social, writing that he had been indicted in the Boxes Hoax case, as he put it, and said he would be arraigned on Tuesday at Florida Southern District Courthouse in Miami. Within minutes, his supporters lit up social media platforms with violent threats and calls for civil war, according to research from VICE News and Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan think tank that tracks online extremism.
Trump supporters are making specific threats too. In one post on The Donald titled, A little bit about Merrick Garland, his wife, his daughters, a user shared a link to an article about the attorney generals children.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjjgb/trump-supporters-are-threatening-civil-war
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Hate these assholes.
catbyte
(34,175 posts)I'm so sick of these Nazis.
RocRizzo55
(980 posts)Just legalize weed, and free all the weed prisoners. There will be plenty of room.
Aristus
(66,099 posts)"coming for them."
Yeah, that's just about as stupid as everything else they say and believe...
onenote
(42,383 posts)roamer65
(36,739 posts)I wanna see how you handle Blackhawk helicopter weaponry.
You will shit your pants like your pedo buddy Nugent and run.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)They love them the United States, but don't trust the Constitution.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)Chainfire
(17,310 posts)They may have another think coming.
Cha
(295,929 posts)CousinIT
(9,151 posts)Screenshot their tweets (incl dates & time) and if there is video of their threats, send links to those.
Chakaconcarne
(2,387 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)It should have happened before Jan. 6th. These assholes are bloodthirsty, deranged, and enabled and emboldened by the right wing propaganda sphere 24 hours a day. They're honestly no different from ISIS or the Taliban at this point.