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Far-right groups are using this week’s violence to peddle falsehoods and push their agenda.
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As Americans began to process the horrors of Wednesday’s assault on Capitol Hill, many far-right groups exulted in what they saw as a triumph, using the deadly riot to push an extremist agenda of sedition, conspiracy theories and overthrowing the government.
Footage of the invasion of the inner sanctum of American democracy was quickly uploaded and livestreamed to online communities for right-wingers and supporters of President Donald Trump, turned into memes or used to peddle falsehoods and bogus theories about the violence including the death of a Trump supporter who had stormed the Capitol Building.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump supporters call dead MAGA mobster Ashli Babbitt a martyr and say her death was the first shot in a revolution - and plan to return to D.C. on SATURDAY- as their locked and loaded plan to storm Capitol is revealed in social media posts
Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was shot dead by Capitol Hill police in Wednesday s riot, is being hailed a martyr by online extremists
The extremists are saying the bullet that killed the 35-year-old army vet is the first shot in a revolution, DailyMail.com can reveal
Now Trump loyalists are planning to descend on D.C. once again this Saturday
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A supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump wears a costume from the movie Predator while walking on a downtown Washington street as Trump backers from around the country rallied in the U.S. capital to protest the upcoming Electoral College certification of Joe Biden as president on Wednesday. | AFP-JIJI
BLOOMBERG Jan 7, 2021
In some of the more obscure corners of the internet, the calls for violence and revolution have been consistent among what appeared to be a subset of U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters in the months since he lost re-election.