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‘LOCK AND LOAD’: TRUMP-LOVING EXTREMISTS REACT TO FBI SEARCH OF
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Kenny Stancil
August 9, 2022
Common Dreams
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_ "None of this demonstrating in the snow shit," one commenter wrote
in a MAGA forum. "Summertime was made for killing fields." _

Supporters of former President Donald Trump hold flags in front of
his home at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida.,
(Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)

 

THE FAR-RIGHT IN THE United States responded ominously to the FBI's
Monday night search
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former President Donald Trump's Florida mansion, with Republican
lawmakers and television personalities baselessly accusing
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administration of weaponizing the Justice Department and popular as
well as anonymous social media users beating the drums of a civil war.

"Lock and load," says the top comment
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to the Mar-a-Lago search on patriots.win—a pro-Trump comment forum
that emerged after Reddit banned the r/The_Donald group of nearly
800,000 for repeatedly posting racist and misogynistic content in
violation of its rules against harassment and targeting.

When one user asks, "Are we not in a cold civil war at this point?"
another suggests that violence is imminent, with "authentic pain"
coming soon.

According to_ NBC News_ reporter Ben Collins, the content shared on
pro-Trump forums Monday night was arguably even more violent than what
was posted in the lead-up to the deadly January 6, 2021 attack.

As he did before last year's insurrection at the Capitol, Trump only
has "to ask us," notes one commenter. Another writes: "None of this
demonstrating in the snow shit. Summertime was made for killing
fields."

It wasn't just anonymous posters threatening to mow down their
perceived political enemies. For instance, highly influential
reactionary Steven Crowder tweeted
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"Tomorrow is war," followed
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than 12 hours later by, "Today is war." The NRA also leapt
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opportunity to boost gun sales.

_Fox News _hosts and guests, meanwhile, quickly disparaged the
Mar-a-Lago search as a "partisan witch hunt," "dark day for our
republic," "preemptive coup," "Third World bullshit," and the work of
the "Gestapo" and "Stasi," as documented
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Matters for America_.

The right-wing outrage machine was adopting talking points that Trump
laid out in a statement
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himself as the victim of "prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization
of the justice system, and an attack by radical left Democrats who
desperately don't want me to run for president."

"Such an assault could only take place in broken, third world
countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those countries,
corrupt at a level not seen before," said Trump. "The lawlessness,
political persecution, and witch hunt must be exposed and stopped."

As _The Washington Post_ reported
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We don't yet know much about what was in the search warrant used to
raid Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago on Monday. We do know
that the raid concerned the removal of classified documents from the
White Hous
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that, according to Trump, agents raided his safe.

But we also quickly found out that a lot of influential people are
rather uninterested in any of that, reflexively shouting "witch hunt"
and baselessly blaming President [Joe] Biden for the raid in a way
that bodes very poorly for whatever comes next in this process. Trump
has marshaled his army of supporters to declare, in knee-jerk fashion,
any legal scrutiny of him a deep-state operation.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) endorsed
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unsubstantiated claim that the Biden White House is "using government
power to persecute political opponents," calling it "something we have
seen many times" from authoritarian regimes in impoverished nations
"but never before in America." The House Judiciary Committee's
Republicans, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), echoed
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message.

During an appearance on Fox News, Jordan demanded
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Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray—a
Trump appointee—answer the GOP's questions about Monday night's
search at Mar-a-Lago.

As _Media Matters_ senior fellow Matthew Gertz explained, the
Justice Department is not yet able to provide details given the
ongoing nature of investigations into Trump's attempt to overthrow the
U.S. government and other possible crimes, so the ex-president and his
allies are "filling that vacuum" with baseless allegations of
political malfeasance.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said
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statement that "when Republicans take back the House, we will conduct
immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no
stone unturned," telling Garland: "Preserve your documents and clear
your calendar."

Despite the fact that Garland hasn't yet publicly responded to the
GOP's planned inquiry, McCarthy concluded that "the Department of
Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization"
while Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel declared
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"Democrats continually weaponize the bureaucracy against Republicans."

As the _Post_ noted: "That's a lot of firm conclusions based on not
much at all. But it's the fruit of years of Trump claiming
persecution."

The newspaper continued:

This investigation hardly comes out of nowhere: Trump's handling of
government documents has long been a focal point. _The Washington
Post_ reported as far back as February on Trump's "relentless
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A couple of days later, the National Archives confirmed that it had
retrieved 15 boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago—including records
marked as "classified" and even "top secret"
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should have been turned over, and then asked the Justice Department
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investigate, which it clearly has.

The question from there is whether this is a matter that merits a
search warrant. That the Justice Department would go this route would
seem to suggest it sees something potentially incriminating beyond
merely shoddy record-keeping and document retention. The department
knows this decision will be harshly scrutinized; going down this path
only for its destination to be a minor finding, ending in a slap on
the wrist, isn't worth the blowback it'll get from 40% to 45% of the
country.

Ironically, the_ Post_ added, Trump's supporters were "once quite
consumed with the import of document security by would-be presidential
candidates—and quite happy to promote the idea that their preferred
candidate ought to 'lock' such an opponent 'up.'"

Trump relentlessly attacked his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton
over her private email server during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Right-wing media outlets and members of Congress who condemned Clinton
had much less to say when it was revealed that Trump unlawfully took
documents to Mar-a-Lago.

Trump also tried
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use his power as president to harm his political rivals, repeatedly
asking Ukraine's president to investigate Hunter Biden. And although
Clinton's home wasn't searched, the FBI did conduct a public probe of
her use of a private email server in 2016—possibly contributing to
her failure to win the White House that year.

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