Parler rife with talk of guns and violence before Capitol riot
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Trump s reelection campaign joined the social media app Parler in 2018.Getty Images
Anyone perusing the conservative social media site Parler earlier this week might have predicted the mayhem that befell the Capitol on Wednesday.
Talk of guns and violence was widespread in discussions about President Donald Trump s call for supporters to converge on the Capitol to support his baseless claims that the November election was stolen from him. One Parler user on a thread pushing a QAnon conspiracy theory said, To all the Patriots descending on Washington DC on #jan6 ..come armed..