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Chauncey DeVega

Media ignores MAGA threat against Obama

Donald Trump has spent more than seven years planting millions of seeds of violence, hate, and chaos all over the United States. He is a constant gardener who has sowed a horrible crop.

Last Thursday, Trump posted on his Truth Social disinformation platform what he believed to be the Washington D.C. home address of former president Barack Obama. What happened next was both predictable and what Trump obviously intended. One of Trump's followers, a man authorities say participated in the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, appears to have been intent on assassinating Barack Obama and acted on his Great Leader's encouragement to such violence. According to the Justice Department, 37-year-old Taylor Taranto traveled to D.C. with two firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. And as the Associated Press reports: 

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