On Truth Social and other sites identified with former president, seething loyalists threaten to riot, kill political opponents and judicial figures in response to conviction

Supporters of former United States president Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury Thursday, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution.

After Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime, his supporters responded with dozens of violent online posts, according to a Reuters review of comments on three Trump-aligned websites: the former president’s own Truth Social platform, Patriots.win and the Gateway Pundit.

Some called for attacks on jurors, the execution of the judge, Justice Juan Merchan, or outright civil war and armed insurrection.

“Someone in NY with nothing to lose needs to take care of Merchan,” wrote one commentator on Patriots.win. “Hopefully he gets met with illegals with a machete,” the post said in reference to illegal immigrants.

On Gateway Pundit, one poster suggested shooting liberals after the verdict. “Time to start capping some leftys,” said the post. “This cannot be fixed by voting.”

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