1/10/25

Trump, Republicans inciting violence against federal employees, stealing presidency



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— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM

Just weeks before Donald Trump led his attempted autogolpe Stewart Rhodes was inciting the Oath Keepers to civil war. Rhodes formed the white supremacist militia in 2009 after Barack Obama was elected POTUS but is now serving an 18-year prison sentence for seditious conspiracy for his role in Trump's insurrection. 

Now, ginned up by Trump's attacks on judges, poll workers, hospitals and public officials will increase in number and severity according to the US Marshals Service. Trump adherent, Representative Harriet Hageman (Earth hater-WY) is calling for wiping out the deep state by targeting federal workers and Wyoming's governor is fanning that wildfire by rejecting at least two Bureau of Land Management resource management plans. In Wyoming members of the so-called Freedom Caucus are preparing to crash the legislative session in Cheyenne so maybe that's the next storm front of the End Times.
In the days and months leading up to a fatal July 4 shootout in Yellowstone National Park, federal prosecutors say Samson “Lucas” B. Fussner sent signals that he was planning “pro white nationalist violence.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeremy Gross and FBI Special Agent Eric Barker laid out the allegations in a verified complaint that seeks to have Fussner’s SUV, four guns and various magazines and ammunition forfeited to the government. Gross contends that all of the items were connected to a plot to carry out an act of terrorism. “In attempting to carry out an attack on the employee dining room at Canyon Lodge, and in actually shooting at federal [National Park Service] employees, Fussner intended to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct,” Gross wrote. [Yellowstone National Park shooter planned ‘Pro White Nationalist Violence,’ feds say]
It’s impossible to imagine a more committed insurrectionist than the Republican Party’s standard bearer who gleefully incites his disciples to bloodbaths on his political enemies.

But, if Chief Justice John Roberts administers the Presidential Oath of Office to Donald Trump he is violating the two oaths he took.
I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as _________ under the Constitution and laws of the United States; and that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” [Supreme Court of the United States]

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