'I Want Blood': Heavily-Armed Trump Supporters Say They'll Protest Trump's Indictment [View all]

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Source: Vice

Supporters of former president Donald Trump are planning mass protests at a Miami courthouse on Tuesday, following Trump’s indictment last week. Many are promising to come “well-armed.”

“MAGA will make Waco look like a tea party,” a user with the screen name 1776take2 wrote about the planned protest on the pro-Trump messaging board known as The Donald, which was instrumental to the planning of the Capitol riot. “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.”

In addition to the angry comments and plans posted anonymously on far-right message boards, Republican lawmakers, politicians, and right-wing pundits have also used incendiary language about Trump’s indictment. “We have now reached a war phase. Eye for an eye,” GOP Rep. Andy Biggs tweeted to his 730,000 Twitter followers.

Trump is facing an unprecedented 37-count federal indictment brought by special prosecutor Jack Smith. Thirty-one of the charges claim Trump willfully kept classified documents in his possession after leaving the White House—some of them in a bathroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort—and showed those documents to people who did not have security clearance to view them. When news of the indictment broke last week, members of The Donald made explicit threats against Attorney General Merrick Garland and his children.

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