Trump wants another MAGA terrorist attack—and alarmingly he may get it.

MAGA is Terrorism.

“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!” Those were the words—and to be blunt—the instructions to his followers that Donald Trump posted in all caps on his social media platform Friday afternoon. Trump wrote this a day after he was arraigned in federal court for his crimes for attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

In fact, these words were so alarming that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s offices cited them in their motion Friday seeking a protective order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to ensure that sensitive materials produced in pre-trial discovery are not disclosed to the public. As Smith’s team argued in their motion, “Such a restriction is particularly important in this case because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys and others associated with legal matters pending against him."

But Trump doesn’t “issue statements,” he makes personal attacks designed to stir up anger and to incite violence. Over the weekend, he attacked Judge Chutkan in posts including writing that, “There is no way I can get a fair trial with the judge ‘assigned’ to the ridiculous freedom of speech/fair elections case.”

Come Monday night, CNN reported that security had to be increased to ensure the safety of Judge Chutkan. As CNN noted, they “observed more security detailed to Judge Tanya Chutkan, and deputy US Marshals discussed security plans for the judge on Monday.”

Even fellow Republicans are not safe, with Mike Pence being angrily heckled by Trump supporters Friday night in New Hampshire where he was called a “traitor” and another yelled, “Why’d you sell out the people?” Despite Pence having Secret Service protection, these Trump supporters—as you can hear in the video—were menacingly yelling at Pence for not overturning the 2020 election as Trump demanded.

And Trump egged on even more attacks against Pence Saturday, posting online that his former vice president “has gone to the Dark Side” " and who "now wants to show he’s a tough guy." The reference to Pence wanting to now be a “tough guy” is a clear invitation by Trump to his supporters to further challenge Pence. This is especially alarming given Pence is a key witness in the Jan 6 case against Trump and it appears he wants his supporters to intimidate him from testifying.

Trump knows his supporters better than any of us. He understands that some will make threats to avenge him—while others will even commit violence.  We saw that in the past at Trump rallies where people committed violence for Trump to silence hecklers to the MAGA bomber to of course the Jan 6 attack waged by MAGA on Trump’s behalf to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

More recently, after Trump’s Mar-a-Lago was searched last August, Trump repeatedly attacked the FBI, smearing them with lies such as they planted evidence.  It is not surprising given Trump’s words that the FBI was soon subject to an “unprecedented” number of threats against FBI agents. One person—who had in the past repeated Trump’s false 2020 election claims on Trump’s social media platform-even waged an armed attack against the FBI office in Cincinnati and was killed a short time later in a shootout with the police.

And just two months ago in June, on the same day Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama, a Trump supporter named Taylor Taranto —who had been charge with Jan 6 charges—was arrested in the Obama’s neighborhood with guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his vehicle.  Before his arrest that day, Taranto had reposted on social media Obama’s address shared by Trump and declared, “We got these losers surrounded! See you in hell, Podesta’s and Obama’s.” Taranto also told followers on his YouTube live stream that he was looking to get a “good angle on a shot.”

Come July, The Washington Post reported that “prosecutors involved in the classified documents case against former president Donald Trump are facing substantial harassment and threats online and elsewhere.” That reporting also alarmingly explained that “Far-right Trump supporters are posting the names of prosecutors and government workers online and yelling them at demonstrations, threatening them and sometimes revealing details about their personal lives.”

Trump knows this. And so does law enforcement which is why this week in Fulton County, Georgia, where additional charges against Trump are expected for his election crimes in that state, the roads near the courthouse have been closed to traffic, orange barricades and metal barriers line the street, and officers from both the sheriff’s and marshal’s offices have a visible presence. As NBC reported, on “Monday morning, a bomb-sniffing dog was brought in to check media vehicles.”

Take a moment and think about where we are as a nation. Our judges, prosecutors and law enforcement must be protected from Trump’s supporters because there is a credible concern they could engage in more violence to avenge Trump—from another Jan 6 type attack to lone wolf terrorism.

We will see the same concerns with the witnesses who testify against Trump given MAGA will threaten them or worse. In fact, at Trump’s arraignment Thursday, the federal magistrate told Trump to his face in open court, "It is a crime to try to influence a juror or to threaten or attempt to bribe a witness or any other person who may have information about your case, or to retaliate against anyone for providing information about your case to the prosecution, or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice." That didn’t stop Trump from on Saturday inciting more anger against Pence—a very vital witness in the Jan 6 case.

And we know jurors will be targets as well. That is why in the civil trial earlier this year by journalist E. Jean Carroll versus Trump, the federal judge presiding over that case  ruled that jurors’ names were to be kept secret, citing “a very strong risk” they would otherwise face harassment and more. And even after the trial, the judge implored jurors for their own protection, stating, “My advice to you is not to identify yourselves. Not now and not for a long time,” adding, “I direct you not to identify anyone else who sat on this jury.”

This is something you would expect to hear in a trial a mob boss or ISIS leader. Same goes for the extensive security at the courthouse that mimics the type employed by authorities in the trials of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed  and drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

And on a personal note, since Trump left office I have not received the threatening types of emails form Trump supporters as I did when Trump was in office. In fact, in 2019, I sued Trump loving Neo-Nazis in federal court and won for their threats against me.

But now I have seen a big uptick in angry emails from Trumpers. (See two examples below.)

To me this akin to what we called “Al Qaeda” chatter during the 2000’s that homeland security would warn about when Al Qaeda operatives were increasing talk of violence and attacks.  But now it’s MAGA terrorist chatter. Given this, I’m concerned that MAGA will strike again soon with acts of violence to avenge Trump—just as Trump desperately wants.

This is what Trump—and MAGA--have done to our nation. How much longer do we have to endure this before MAGA is treated as the terrorist threat that it truly is?!

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