Supporters of former president Donald Trump are vowing to engage in political violence if their leader is not reinstated by August, CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan reported Tuesday.
Sullivan spoke with several MAGA followers ahead of Trump’s first post-presidential rally on Saturday and many of them told him they fully expect the real estate mogul to be reinstated before the end of the summer and warned of “civil war” in America if he is not.
A Trump supporter identified as Ron told O’Sullivan: “He’s coming back soon, and you guys are going down. The military already knows it was a fraud. He won by over 80 percent. He’s coming back before the middle of August.”
“And what if that doesn’t happen?” O’Sullivan asked.
“We’re gonna be in a civil war because the militia will be taking over,” the man responded.
A man in a Kevlar vest, who described himself as a member of the Three Percent militia group who attended the rally, told O’Sullivan he was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when a mob of Trump supporters breached the complex and briefly halted a joint session of Congress from certifying Biden’s electoral college victory.
“He didn’t lose, I know he didn’t lose,” he told O’Sullivan, indicating he believes unfounded claims made by Trump and other Republicans that widespread voter fraud led to an unfair election that swung in President Biden’s favor.
Many of the supporters who gathered for the Saturday rally in Wellington, Ohio wore memorabilia and carried signs with slogans like “Trump won” and “Biden Sucks” displayed across them.
“It’s about all of them, and 2020 and the next one,” a woman told O’Sullivan about her “Trump won” T-Shirt.
O’Sullivan pressed the woman on the election’s result, saying “but he lost though in 2020, right?”
“No!” she responded.
Another group of Trump supporters indicated before the rally that the one message they hoped to hear from the former president is that “he’s coming back.”
Trump has been pressuring allies in right-wing media and other confidants to write and say that the election was stolen and suggest he will be reinstated as soon as August. There is no mechanism by which such a reinstatement could happen.
