Convicted Rioter Pushes For Civil War On MAGA Forum

August 9, 2022 Extremists, Trump cultists

Some users on pro-Trump internet forums told users to “lock and load,” agitated for civil war and urged protesters to head to Mar-a-Lago in the hours after news broke that former President Donald Trump’s Florida compound was searched by the FBI on Monday.

One user posting about the “civil war” shortly after the search was Tyler Welsh Slaeker, a Washington man awaiting sentencing for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to previous research and statements posted online.

Later on in the night, Slaeker clarified in a reply that he could not be more specific about his civil war post. “I am awaiting sentencing for trespassing into the Capitol,” he wrote. “I am only being careful with my words.”

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