“Make Them Pay”—The Far Right Responds to Trump’s Conviction

I sifted through some big MAGA feelings about the verdict so you don’t have to.

Zany: I must thank this Mother Jones reporter for reading MAGA’s reactions to Trump’s guilty verdict. As much as I wanted to do my job and report those reactions to you, I just couldn’t do it. I didn’t want to ruin the feeling I had after hearing that Donald “Teflon Don” Trump had finally been held accountable for something after a lifetime as a criminal and conman. I already knew what types of things would be coming from the mouths of his supporters and complicit Conservative media hosts.

I don’t know if anyone heard what Trump said after leaving the courthouse or in his press conference, but if not, I can sum it up for you. He used combinations of “DA” “jury” “judge” “disgraced” “corrupt” and “rigged” over and over and over. He just kept repeating those words in a different order each time. I even said to my son, “He just keeps saying everything is a disgrace or rigged. Doesn’t he know any other descriptive words?”

MOTHER JONES

In the wake of Donald Trump’s conviction yesterday, far-right influencers have taken to Twitter to express their dismay—and desire for revenge. While some have simply urged Trump supporters to show their support at the ballot box in November, others have gone full apocalypse, urging retribution through thinly disguised calls for violence. Here are a few of the suggestions they have for standing up for their hero during his time of need.

First up: the more establishment wing of the MAGAverse. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) oozes with disgust over “the left’s smirking, pretentious little faces:”

Then, there’s Charlie Kirk, head of the conservative student movement group TurningPoint USA. On Thursday following the verdict, he tweeted this to his 2.9 million followers on X:

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