(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Trump plans Waco, Texas rally coinciding with 30th anniversary of child-raping cult's armed standoff [1] ['Daily Kos Staff', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-03-21 Trump's been trying to gin up support for Jan. 6-style riots by supporters willing to take to the streets to stop him from being arrested for crimes, and he and his allies have specifically been trying to rile anti-government, white nationalist militia types to the cause with repeated references blaming "globalists" and George Soros for the very existence of Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney presenting evidence of Trump's possible campaign finance crimes linked to "hush money" payments to women Trump cheated on his wife with. The message is clear: Mere laws cannot constrain Dear Orange Leader, and how dare Soros and "globalists" and the other enemies of fascism—sorry, "Republicans"—so much as investigate any of Trump's many suspected criminal acts, much less suggest consequences for them? Trump already has a violent attempted coup under his belt, and the Republican Party and Republican lawmakers swiftly rallied to make sure he would suffer no consequences for that; it's only natural, then, that Trump would now use the same hoax-based tactics not against the U.S. Congress, but against any state or federal prosecutor investigating anything Donald has done in his sorry cheating life. The choice of Waco, Texas, on the three-decade anniversary of the federal raid that launched the modern far-right militia movement fits squarely into Trump's preference for violence over justice. In 1993, an attempt to serve warrants against Branch Davidian cult leader "David Koresh" at the cult's religious center resulted in a firefight between federal agents and cult members. State and federal agents were not there on a whim. There was ample evidence that Koresh, who was known to be violent, and the others were constructing and stockpiling illegal weapons from grenades to machine guns, and that federal probe was running alongside a expose by the Waco Tribune-Herald that reported Koresh, as proclaimed cult leader, was serially raping and impregnating 12- and 13-year-old child "brides." After the resulting firefight killed four ATF agents and wounded numerous others, an armed standoff between cult and law enforcement ended when federal officials began pumping tear gas into the buildings, at which point members of the cult set multiple fires inside the building, causing the entire compound to go up in flames. It resulted in the deaths of 76 cult members in total, 25 of them children. Multiple of those casualties were due not to smoke inhalation but to gunshot wounds, with Koresh himself apparently being shot as part of a murder-suicide pact between himself and another cult member. The federal agencies involved were heavily criticized for what was seen as an unnecessarily violent end to the confrontation, both by actual law enforcement experts and by creepy far-right figures willing to entirely brush aside the child rapes and illegal weapons stockpile to bellow that actually the government had no right to intervene with the serial child rape and gun club at all. The result was a blossoming of an anti-movement militia movement with adherents who were responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, numerous other federal standoffs, and a new now-mainstream Republican belief that American child rapists have the right to stockpile and use whatever guns they want against a federal government that places one too many rules on them. The Waco standoff was exactly 30 years ago, stretching from Feb. 28 to April 19, 1993. Trump's Sunday rally will coincide with it during a time when Trump is himself attempting to rally anti-government militias to act as shields between himself and law enforcement, because Donald Trump is a seditious piece of shit who has now unmoored himself from even the thinnest pretenses of morality as he, too, fights off rape accusations in New York, campaign finance violations in New York, election tampering in Georgia, and possible federal seditious conspiracy charges if anyone in Washington, D.C., manages to grow a narrow wisp of a backbone between now and his eventual, presumed burger-related death. It's a game to him. He considers himself above all laws, and House Republicans, his White House sycophants, and the Republican Party at large have taken aggressive action to shield him from consequences in two impeachment trials, even now launching themselves into new attacks on Bragg meant to preemptively undermine whatever indictment he might announce. Trump is soliciting violence on his behalf precisely because seditious House Republicans backed him when he attempted it the first time. Going to Waco for the anniversary of the birth of the modern far-right, pro-child-rape, anti-government militia movement isn't a dog whistle from the Trump camp. It's intended to stoke real fascist violence rather than abide his own humiliation. RELATED STORIES: Trump is trying to incite another Jan. 6, and his supporters are responding Donald Trump claims he will be arrested on Tuesday, calls for protest from his supporters House Republicans demand Bragg turn over all documents pertaining to possible Trump indictment Kevin McCarthy responds to possible Trump indictment by threatening Manhattan DA Everyone is beyond tired of sucky fundraising emails foretelling DOOM, but there's a better way. 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