[October 24, 2024: Duluth, GA] The Palast Investigative Team worked itself into the Trump rally in Duluth, Georgia on Wednesday, where the themes were denial of Trump’s election defeat in 2020 and threats of armed violence if he’s not declared victor in two weeks.
Festooned in a red-white-and-blue tutu, Trump socks, Trump earnings and other Trump gewgaws, one die hard supporter repeated a line we heard over and over, “They [the Democrats] cheated. There was bushels and baskets full and car loads of, votes that came in in the middle of the night.”
How will the MAGAs react if Trump loses? Another Trump supporter, Derek Molenhour, showing off his AR-15 assault weapon T-shirt — he sells piles of them — said, “If [Trump] loses this, then it’s it’s impossible to say that it was not rigged.”
And they are ready to use their weapons.
Molenhour said, “The Three Percenters, who are protectors of our nation, as far as militia, not necessary military, we the people, are going to come together and there’s going to be a revolution. Jefferson, talked about it in the beginning of America. We the people can overthrow the government if need be because we have more numbers.”
I asked, “You think that that’s what’s going to happen?”
He pointed to the sea of MAGA fanatics waiting for 8 hours in the sun for their Orange Savior and said they would not accept Trump’s loss. “I mean, take a look at this. I would reiterate the fact that her winning would be wrong.”
Zach D. Roberts, co-producer of our film Vigilantes Inc., America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen, recognized a whole posse who’d just come from the “Rod of Iron” gathering in Pennsylvania where assault weapons are literally worshipped.
This crowd is armed, locked and loaded for what LaTosha Brown, Co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, calls, “Civil War 2.0.”
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Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and the book and documentary, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
His latest film is All Washed Away: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans and Texas. Palast is currently working on a new documentary Long Knife, exposing the Koch Brothers' theft of Osage oil, to be released in 2025.
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