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Far-right online forums are seething with references to potential violence and urging supporters of President Trump to bring guns to Wednesday’s protests in Washington — in violation of local laws — as Congress meets to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

Many of the posts appear to be direct responses to Trump’s demands that his supporters pack the nation’s capital in support of his bogus claims that November’s national vote for Biden resulted from election fraud. Congress’s largely ceremonial role in confirming Biden’s victory has emerged as a catalyst for expected unrest that has D.C. police and the National Guard deploying on city streets to quell potential trouble.

Talk of guns and potential violence is rife on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, the conservative social media site Parler and on thedonald.win, an online forum that previously operated on Reddit before the company banned it in June after years of racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and calls for violence.

Trump’s tweet last month pushing baseless fraud claims and promoting the “big protest” on Jan. 6 — “Be there, will be wild!” — has become a central rallying cry. It was the top post on thedonald.win Tuesday morning, and anonymous commenters saw it as a call to action: “We’ve got marching orders,” the top reply said.

Discussion in the thread followed about how most effectively to sneak guns into Washington, laced with occasional references to using them. D.C. has some of the nation’s strictest gun laws: Openly carrying guns is banned, concealed-carry licenses from other states aren’t recognized, and all firearms in the District must be registered with local police.

Of carrying guns in D.C., one poster in the thread wrote, “Yes, it’s illegal, but this is war and we’re clearly in a post-legal phase of our society.” Wrote another: “LIVE AS A FREE AMERICAN AND BRING YOUR ARMS!”

More than half of the top 50 posts on thedonald.win’s homepage Monday related to Wednesday’s certification featured calls of violence within the top five comments, according to research by Advance Democracy, a group headed by former FBI analyst and Senate investigator Daniel J. Jones, who lead the review of the CIA’s torture program.

The group said thedonald.win had more than 18 million visits in November, and the recent posts with calls for violence had more than 40,000 engagements. One particularly troubling post said protesters should travel in groups that should “not let [anyone] disarm someone without stacking bodies.” It added that protesters should be “ARMED WITH RIFLE, HANDGUN, 2 KNIVES AND AS MUCH AMMO AS YOU CAN CARRY.”

In one thread promoted by moderators Tuesday morning, titled “GOOD LUCK PATRIOTS, THE EYES OF THE WORLD LOOK UPON YOU NOW!!!,” posters shared tactical guides on how to avoid police blockades and D.C. gun laws, including: “If you plan on carrying concealed, don’t tell anyone you have a gun.” One commenter responded, “We The People, will not tolerate a Steal. No retreat, No Surrender. Restore to my President what you stole or reap the consequences!!!”

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Then why did Trump make that phone call this past Saturday, weeks after Georgia and every other state certified the election results, after the electoral college convened, after Georgia's 3 separate recounts, and so on?

If Trump wants Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes, then he can have them.

Biden would still be over the 270 vote threshold.

Though, it seems unlikely Wisconsin's votes will change to Trump.

No he doesnt, hes really not that stupid, (prhaps hes got you under his spell but he sure aint buyin his own BS).

He is afraid of his post presidency legal life. He fears financial loss and even prison.
Thats the only reason that hes continuing his entire charade, he fears "The Orange Duds Clothier".

He is an amoral critter and he is showing his worth right now by abandoning any pretenses of leadership while a US citizen dies of covid every 30 seconds.

Such an evil self dealing person should NOT be given another term of office and should be repudiated by the GOP as a valid candidate in 2024

Sadly, what's going to happen is the Justice Department will launch investigations and all the bit-players will pay the price for the illegal, treasonous acts, and the malfeasance of people like Trump, his entire cabinet and all of the duds he installed in vital parts of our government....that enabled his attempt to destroy democracy.

I was with DOD during those events, and the buck never stopped with the responsible felons.

And you apparently live in your own pocket universe, completely insulated from the real world and reality.

The above are behaviours of people with honest beliefs who also want to be fair and legitimate about their claims...but Trump exhibits none of those types of behaviours.

I do not agree that your list describes how honest people would necessarily behave.

I do not agree that Mr. Trump's behavior is incompatible with the listed behaviors.

- you don't explain how the honest behaviours I described are anything but downright honest behaviours

- you give no alternative honest behaviours
- you give nothing of honest behaviours to compare Trumps behaviour to

- you offer no explanation of how they are supposedly compatible with the list I provided...