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> 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.
>
> Over the weekend those threats continued, with one user posting a picture
> of Garland and writing, ?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.?
>
> The former president is scheduled to appear at 3 p.m. on Tuesday at the
> Florida Southern District Courthouse in downtown Miami when he will be
> formally charged. Law enforcement is already on high alert for planned
> protests. Both federal and local law enforcement agencies are monitoring
> online chatter ahead of the protest and planning increased security
> measures, the Washington Post reported Sunday. And law enforcement will
> take precautions similar to those employed when Trump was arraigned in New
> York in April, which included barricades, rooftop security, street
> closures, and sharpshooters, reported 7News Miami.
>
> Researchers who track online extremism at the nonpartisan think tank
> Advance Democracy told VICE News that they have not so far not identified
> any ?credible or definitive plans to engage in violence or large-scale
> disruptive activity,? but they have identified individual users who are
> threatening violence against Trump?s perceived enemies and at least one
> who has explicitly said they are planning on attending with guns.
>
> Some users on the forum were also trying to find others who were planning
> on attending Tuesday?s protest.
>
> ?Who's coming with me on Tuesday? I will be the one in the [fuck around
> and find out] armor, easy to find, KEK on the back collar,? one member of
> The Donald wrote on Friday. ?I will be there peacefully to speak up about
> this misjustice, legally I will also be armed, well armed.?
>
> Many of the posts on The Donald 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.?
>
> Other members of The Donald used language associated with white
> supremacist groups that advocate for acts of violence they claim will
> hasten a race war. ?Accelerate, the quicker the normies realize this isn?t
> a free country, the quicker things can be fixed,? one user wrote under a
> post about Trump?s indictment.
>
> But the use of military and extremist language around the protests has not
> been limited to fringe message boards: politicians and right-wing
> commentators are fanning the flames as well.
>
> Within minutes of Trump announcing on Truth Social that he had been
> indicted, right-wing media figures like Charlie Kirk were calling for mass
> protests in Miami this Tuesday. On Twitter, GOP Rep. Clay Higgins posted
> what appeared to be a battlefield command for Tuesday?s protests in a
> message that featured militia speak, referenced military grade maps, and
> told Trump supporters to ?know your bridges.?
>
> As extremism researcher Caroline Orr pointed out, Higgins is on the House
> GOP Homeland Security Committee, which is tasked with ?ensur[ing] that the
> American people [are] protected from terrorist attacks.?
>
> ?The involvement of members of Congress, prominent political figures, and
> Trump himself in promoting, inciting, and even hinting at violence is a
> risk factor for acts of political violence,? Orr wrote in her newsletter
> about the comments.
>
> And over the weekend, multiple groups formed more concrete plans.
>
> The Christian conservative group Florida Republican Assembly said they
> chartered four buses to bring Trump fans from all corners of the state to
> Miami on Tuesday, in what they are dubbing the ?America First Freedom Road
> Trip.?
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> A flier from Florida Republican Assembly advertising their upcoming
> protest in Miami.
>
> Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and failed congressional candidate in
> Florida, has also organized what she called a ?peaceful rally? to protest
> the ?weaponization of government? on Tuesday outside the courthouse.
>
> Loomer?s plans were shared by the Telegram channel of the local Proud Boys
> chapter.
>
> Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who many predict could
> be a possible vice presidential candidate for Trump?s 2024 run, has also
> organized a rally in Palm Beach on Monday night and has said she plans to
> be in Miami on Tuesday to join the protest. Over the weekend, Lake made it
> clear that Trump supporters should come armed.
>
> ?If you want to get to President Trump, you'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. That's not a threat, that's a public service
> announcement,? Lake said while speaking at a Georgia Republican conference
> on Saturday. ?We?re at war, people?we?re at war.?
>
> Trump himself 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.
>
> Over the weekend, Trump raged on Truth Social, and called Bill Barr a
> ?gutless pig? after the former attorney general called the indictment
> ?seriously damning.? Trump also shared a meme about his indictment with a
> caption declaring, ?THIS IS NOT A GAME, THIS IS WAR.?
>
> In his first post-indictment interview, Trump spoke to his former adviser
> Roger Stone, who played a key role in mobilizing the protest movement
> ahead of Jan. 6th.
>
> ?Our country has to protest,? Trump told Stone, framing the indictment as
> a political persecution and claiming, without evidence, that the charges
> were brought only to ?cover up a massive crime? perpetrated by Hunter
> Biden. ?We?ve lost everything.?
and it never happened so you are full of it.