| | | There’s the Twitter account that apparently belongs to another suspect, Barry Croft, ranting about immigrants, praising President Trump and calling for the prosecution of Trump’s onetime Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. One image featured by the account shows a young man draped in ammunition and cradling a rifle in his hands.
And then there was a Facebook page called “Michigan Militia Corps, Wolverines” that, until it was taken down in recent weeks, enlisted similar rhetoric as the group behind the plot, which authorities identified as “Wolverine Watchmen.” In a May post linking to an article headlined, “Trump sides with protesters against Michigan governor,” there is an accompanying image of men holding massive firearms.
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The revelations underline the warnings from former Department of Homeland Security official Elizabeth Neumann, who charged that Trump’s “divisive language is indirectly tied to attacks we’ve seen in the last two years.”
Via the Wapo:
In an interview, Neumann pointed out that at a minimum, Trump should entertain the possibility that his language is inciting such rage and learn from it.
“The timing is tied to when the president encouraged the people of Michigan to take matters into their own hands,” Neumann told me. “His rhetoric matters.”
Mad King Donnie the SuperSpreader called on his crazed cultists to take out the MI gov, but they failed. |
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