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10 Jan, 20 tweets, 7 min read
This is such BS

The storming of the Capitol was just the latest in a long line of examples in which Trump's supporters took him LITERALLY.

At least 87 ppl were killed by right-wing terrorists in the first 3 years of Trump b/c they took him LITERALLY docs.google.com/document/d/1RK…
Here are other examples of right-wing terrorists being inspired by Trump's rhetoric

AUGUST 2015: 2 brothers beat a homeless man in Boston with a metal pipe who they believed to be an undocumented immigrant. “Donald Trump was right,” they told police. cnn.com/2015/08/20/pol…
3/ OCTOBER 2016: 3 men arrested for plotting a series of bomb attacks against Somali-Americans in Kansas.

Two of the three men were Trump supporters who shared his anti-immigrant views. foxnews.com/us/three-men-a…
4/ MAY 2017: A University of Maryland student accused of stabbing a black U.S. Army lieutenant to death apparently liked memes about Donald Trump, white supremacy, and the alt-right. thedailybeast.com/accused-killer…
5/ AUGUST 2017: Members of a far-right militia bombed the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, MN in an effort “to scare” Muslims. nytimes.com/2017/08/05/us/…
6/ AUGUST 2017: A man crashes car into a crowd protesting a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing Heather Heyer. The driver enjoyed drawing swastikas, talked about “loving Hitler,” and adored Trump. apnews.com/93d3cba12d1348…
7/ JANURAY 2018: A 19-year-old calls CNN 22 times threatening to kill employees. “Fake news. I’m coming to gun you all down."

A high school classmate described the individual as a Trump supporter who “came in after the election and was very happy.” washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…
8/ OCTOBER 2018: Trump supporter sends a dozen pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and the media. washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10…
9/ JANUARY 2019: A man stabs two people to death on a train in Portland, Oregon, and writes “If Donald Trump is the Next Hitler then I am joining his SS.” oregonlive.com/portland/2017/…
10/ AUGUST 2019: Man who praised Trump’s anti-immigrant policies kills 23 people at an El Paso Walmart, the majority of them Latinx. nytimes.com/2019/08/04/us/…
11/ Here are the trends that demonstrate how violence against Black, Brown, LGBTQ Americans ⬆️ b/c Trump's supporters have been taking him LITERALLY from the beginning:

A 70% ⬆️ in violent attacks perpetrated in the name of far-right ideology in 2017 info.publicintelligence.net/CTC-ViolentFar…
12/ The Anti-Defamation League reported a 57% growth in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States during Trump’s first year in office: adl.org/media/11174/do…
13/ The Anti-Defamation League also observed a 77% increase in incidents of white supremacist propaganda and recruitment efforts on college campuses from 2017 to 2018 adl.org/news/press-rel…
14/ November 9, 2016 to November 7, 2017: 302 incidents of hate violence and xenophobic political rhetoric against South Asian Americans, an over 45% increase from our previous analysis in just one year. saalt.org/wp-content/upl…
15/ ALSO: remember that as some of Trump's supporters took him LITERALLY and carried out violence in HIS NAME, Trump ACTIVELY made it harder for law enforcement to hold them accountable.

Here's how....
16/ Trump worked to cut all funding to a Department of Homeland Security program known as “countering violent extremism,” which provides grants to communities to counter radicalism through outreach. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
17/ White House officials worked to suppress the phrase “domestic terrorism.” politico.com/news/2020/08/2…
18/ Trump’s DHS refuses to implement a domestic extremism plan designed to guide local governments on how to spend new grant funding: nytimes.com/2020/09/01/us/…
19/ To summarize:

1) Trump's hardcore supporters have been terrorizing Black, Latinx, Muslim, LGBTQ Americans since 2015

2) Trump continued to spew hate, knowing that it led to violence

3) Trump tried to prevent law enforcement from going after right-wing domestic terrorism
20/ At the end of last year, @FBI reported that hate crimes *rose to their highest numbers in a decade* with a record-breaking 51 fatal attacks: npr.org/2020/11/16/935…

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11 Jan
1/ @NRA has called for armed insurrection for years & it funded the Jan. 6th event & the lawmakers behind it

-NRA donated $50,000 to organization that sponsored Jan. 6th event

-@GunsDownAmerica finds that @NRA donated $525,813 to 135 (of 147) seditious lawmakers in 2018 & 2020
@NRA @GunsDownAmerica 2/ @NRA & top leaders regularly encourage insurrectionism, urging Americans to purchase firearms & ammunition to protect liberty and fight against government tyranny. On Jan 6, as a mob of thousands stormed the U.S. Capitol, they echoed NRA’s message of armed revolution
@NRA @GunsDownAmerica 3/ Once the House & Senate reconvened on Jan. 6, most of the lawmakers beholden to @NRA acted as legislative insurrectionists.

135 of the 147 lawmakers who voted to overturn the election received @NRA funding. They got $525,813 from @NRA between 2018 and 2020.
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7 Jan
1/ If you’re surprised that extremists stormed the Capitol, don’t be.

These domestic terrorists & their enablers within GOP & conservative media have fomented dangerous & racist conspiracy theories about “their country” being taken away from “them” FOR YEARS. Here’s how.
2/ Organizations like @NRA & Republican lawmakers ACTIVELY encourage followers to go out and purchase firearms to protect themselves from "tyrannical government." Some lawmakers directly advocated for a militant coup. Here’s how @NRA does it:
@NRA 3/ In 2008, the election of our first black president only accelerated the hate, racism and division.

Republican lawmakers immediately adopted a tactic of delegitimizing Obama and his policies (even if they had agreed with those policies in years past).
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7 Jan
27/ Here is @SteveScalise, Representative from LA-01

“Each state has a process for selecting their electors and sending them to Washington. Madam speaker, in a number of those states, that constitutional process was not followed.” nytimes.com/live/2021/01/0…
@SteveScalise 28/ Here is @RepTedBudd, Representative from NC-13

@SteveScalise @RepTedBudd 29/ Here is @HawleyMO, Senator from MO (and the ring-leader of the effort to undermine the electoral college certification)

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7 Jan
Hours after a mob stormed the Capitol radicalized by false claims about the election being stolen, @foxnews just had someone on air who:

1. blamed the violence on "bad apples" who were inspired by "antifa & the left"

2. regurgitated the lies about the election being stolen
@FoxNews Fox has now moved on to having someone else on explaining that the mob is rightfully frustrated because the media has lied to them and perpetrated "the Russia hoax"
@FoxNews "When people can't trust the media, then yes, things like this will be the result," Sarah Palin tells @foxnews before claiming that the violence at the Capitol was probably instigated by antifa.

(Not kidding)
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6 Jan
1/ I'm starting a thread of all of the Republicans who humored Trump after his loss, spread lies and misinformation about the election and created a permission structure for these domestic terrorists to cause chaos.

Pls help me add to the list here: forms.gle/eq3SAEqGtCixMy…
2/ Here is @RogerMarshallMD, U.S. Senator from Kansas.

@RogerMarshallMD 3/ Here is @SenRandPaul, U.S. Senator from Kentucky.

“The election in many ways was stolen." vox.com/platform/amp/2…
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6 Jan
1/ Last night’s election in GA underscores that voters are demanding federal action to build safer communities with fewer guns.

@NRA poured millions in outside spending into the runoff, but voters rejected their “guns everywhere” agenda
@NRA 2/ GA voters rejected two "guns everywhere" GA senate candidates after a year in which gun sales spiked and our nation experienced a significant increase in gun deaths.

In 2020, Atlanta’s homicide count rose to the highest levels since 1998.
@NRA 3/ Biden & Harris ran the most ambitious agenda for reducing gun deaths in history & received most votes ever cast for a presidential ticket

Yesterday’s election results in GA demonstrate that the new admin must take *proactive action to build safer communities on day 1*
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