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Far-right groups and white nationalists have responded to last week's guilty verdict against Donald Trump with vague threats of violence and racist posts about people of color, monitoring groups say.
Why it matters: Trump himself has repeatedly made threats about prosecuting opponents, used bigoted language to describe immigrants and suggested a loss in November may result in violence.
Zoom in: Almost immediately after the verdict was announced, white nationalists went online to compare Trump's conviction to the U.S. becoming a "third world country" or "banana republic," according to Western States Center, a group that monitors anti-democracy movements.
- "Don't be surprised, you know this was going to happen. Stand back and stand by this is far from over, we promise," the far-right Proud Boys wrote on one of its websites. An Ohio Proud Boys chapter vowed "war," according to Reuters.
- "This is the road to serfdom — unless this Marxist lawfare is stopped, halted, and reversed and democracy restored," said former Trump aide and America First Legal president Stephen Miller in a statement.
- Trump responded to the verdict with white replacement theory rhetoric by declaring that "millions of people pouring into our country right now from prisons and from mental institutions...and they're taking over our country…"