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Anonymous ID: f29c62 March 21, 2023, 6:44 a.m. No.18551700   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Will Carless,USA TODAY

 

Tue, March 21, 2023 at 2:30 AM PDT

 

Despite Trump's calls for protests, few efforts emerge, as supporters worry: 'It's a trap'

 

"PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!"

 

"WE MUST SAVE AMERICA! PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!"

 

So ended two posts from former President Donald Trump, who has been posting incessantly — often in all caps — on his Truth Social page for the last few days. The messages have been flowing ever since Trump announced on Saturday that he believes he will be arrested in New York on Tuesday.

 

But while the former president calls on his supporters to gather in protest at his prosecution, that message seems to be falling on deaf — or at least unwilling — ears. Three days after Trump's desperate pleas, online support for public protests remains unfocused, disorganized and muted, according to experts who monitor far-right extremists online.

 

Rather than organizing protests, prominent Trump supporters online are instead driving a different narrative: That any public events are a "trap" set by law enforcement, and that attending any events will be counterproductive and will likely result in protesters being arrested.

 

That reaction fits a pattern, experts say: Broadly, extremist movements are often whipsawed, with aggressive activity followed by pushback from law enforcement, resulting in withdrawal as remaining followers grow paranoid.

 

The Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, which was preceded by a call to action at a Trump rally, has led to nearly 1,000 prosecutions. That offers even the most ardent supporter tangible evidence that pro-Trump fervor can lead to jail time — even as some conspiracy theorists continue to claim those Jan. 6 rioters were somehow framed.

 

And unlike Jan. 6, details on this latest rallying cry are scant. With no known time and place for a Trump arrest — and the possibility that he won't even be arrested, that his call to action is some kind of ruse — there remains no central target for his supporters this time around.

 

"We're seeing folks cautioning people about engaging in protests out of fear that it's a trap by the government," said Oren Segal, Vice President, of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. "We're also seeing some people urging people to protest despite that risk, with some calls for violence. But overall, there is no sort of cohesive movement in terms of where these protests should happen."

 

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