Key Points
Through a ton of social media posts, some of Donald Trump's supporters called for attacks on jurors, the execution of the judge, Justice Juan Merchan, or outright civil war and armed insurrection...
Supporters of former US President Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution...
After Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime, his supporters responded with dozens of violent online posts, according to a Reuters review of comments on three Trump-aligned websites- the former president's own Truth Social platform, Patriots.Win and the Gateway Pundit...
Jacob Ware, a co-author of the book "God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America", said the violent language used by Trumps followers was testament to the former presidents "ironclad ability to mobilise more extreme supporters to action, both at the ballot box and through violence"...
Still, one researcher who studies extremist militias said the guilty verdict could inspire violence by reinforcing a conviction among some of Trump's supporters that he's a victim of a conspiracy orchestrated by his enemies...
