Trump supporters are calling for civil war following the raid on his estate
Users on pro-Trump forums told their friends to "step and load" their guns, prepare for civil war and come to the Mar-a-Lago estate in protest.
Users also shared from the Telegram account of the "Proud Boys" and wrote that the FBI is "Biden's Gestapo"
Tali Goldstein
10/08/2022
Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 10:28 am Updated: 10:36 am
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On video: The FBI raided the home of former President Donald Trump in Florida (Reuters)
Not surprisingly, the reactions in the fan club of former President Donald Trump following the raid on his estate in Florida on Tuesday (Monday) were extreme and rowdy.
Users on Trump supporter forums told their friends to "lock and load" their weapons, prepare for civil war and arrive at the Mar-a-Lago estate in protest.
FBI agents raided Trump's estate as part of an investigation into the transfer of classified presidential documents to a Mar-a-Lago residence after his term ended.
Trump, who is expected to try and contest the elections in 2024, attacked the move and compared it to the Watergate affair.
"My house is under siege - the extreme Democrats are not interested in me running for president, they will do anything to stop the Republicans," he said.
The former president found out about the raid while staying at his tower in New York.
"They even broke into my safe," Trump said.
According to sources, the FBI executed a search warrant at 9 a.m. local time at the former president's home.
The FBI raid on the home of former US President Donald Trump in Florida, August 9, 2022 (Photo: Reuters)
Tyler Walsh Slicker, participated in the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 (photo: official website, FBI)
The Justice Department, the FBI headquarters in Washington and its field office in Miami declined to comment on the raid.
The Ministry of Justice is conducting two active investigations linked to the former president, one related to the attempt to bias the results of the 2020 presidential elections, and the other to the taking of the secret documents in violation of the law.
One user who posted about "Civil War" shortly after the raid is Tyler Walsh Slicker, a Washington state man who is awaiting sentencing for being among those who stormed Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021. A December report by Advance Democracy found that Slicker posted to the forum TheDonald under the username bananaguard62"".
On Monday night, that name put up a post in which he wrote: "Are we already in a cold civil war at this point?".
Another user replied: "A few steps ago."
Another quoted an anti-Semitic Nazi battle cry in response.
In the months before January 6, 2021, Slicker uploaded selfies to his account.
He then appeared in photos of the attack on Capitol Hill and of the arrests.
On January 6, he uploaded a photo of himself watching Trump's morning speech after climbing a tree.
After the raid, users of TheDonald forum, which provided data and logistics for the attack, called for violence and asked "when does the shooting start?".
They also called on Trump to recruit militias.
The most popular response was the slogan "lock and load".
Later that night, Slicker wrote again "I am awaiting sentencing for entering the Capitol illegally. I am careful with my words" referring to the statement about the Civil War.
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Tyler Walsh Slicker, participated in the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 (photo: official website, FBI)
Trump supporters outside the mansion in Florida (Photo: Reuters)
"Prior to the attack on the Capitol, we witnessed unprecedented online programs for real-world violence," Advance Democracy President Daniel Jones said in a statement.
"The outrage online was based on false allegations of voter fraud and delusional theories of coordinated government corruption. The FBI raid prompted similarly violent rhetoric — including from one person already charged with incitement on January 6."
According to him, "the promotion of government conspiracy theories by political leaders, elected officials and so on continues to undermine our democracy - and will likely lead to more political violence."
Trump supporters called for a rally immediately after the raid at a Florida mansion outside the compound.
Some of them even arrived in trucks at midnight.
One of the trucks had a flag that read "Trump-Pence" with Pence's name crossed out.
In Telegram, the extremist chats proliferated, including a chat of members of Groypers, from the extreme right-wing nationalist movement "America First".
Users also shared from the Telegram account of the "Proud Boys" and wrote that the FBI is "Biden's Gestapo" and that "civil war is near and coming."
The raid on the Trump mansion (Photo: Reuters)
More traditional users, including podcasters with millions of followers on YouTube and Twitter, took their rhetoric to the extreme.
"War tomorrow," wrote Stephen Crowder, who has 5 million followers on YouTube and 1.9 million on Twitter.
"Sleep well tonight," he tweeted.
Incendiary rhetoric was also heard from right-wing politicians, including Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobert, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Green, a controversial lawmaker from Georgia and a staunch Trump supporter, tweeted: "I've talked a lot about civil war in the party, and I tend to believe that because America needs fearless and influential Republicans to put it first after all." She added that "the raid by the The tyrannical FBI at Mar-a-Lago has united us in a way I've never seen before. In January, we will fight the enemy within."
Green also tweeted the US flag upside down, calling to "stop funding the BBI".
"We will not tolerate what is happening now!!!
Florida Governor Rick Scott said in an interview with "Fox Business" yesterday that "the way the federal government is going, it's like the Gestapo, people like that, chasing people, that's what we thought about the Soviet Union, or Latin America."
Bobert said the United States has become a "banana republic at record speed."
According to her, the Republican Party should establish a commission to investigate the raid and persecution of Trump by the government.
DeSantis said "the raid on Male is another escalation in the arming of federal agencies against the dissidents of the police. Banana Republic."
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