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After all, he encouraged people he knew to be armed to march on the Capitol.
And there's this nugget from his 2016 campaign.
Repeating his contention that Mrs. Clinton wanted to abolish the right to bear arms, Mr. Trump warned at a rally here that it would be “a horrible day” if Mrs. Clinton were elected and got to appoint a tiebreaking Supreme Court justice.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”
Implicit threats of violence against his political opponents has always been a part of Trumpism. It's now gotten explicit.
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