(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Echoing his calls for peaceful protest at the J6 Stop the Steal rally before it descended into what growing evidence points to as a fedsurrection, former President Donald Trump on Monday night urged his supporters to engage in peaceful and civil protest as thousands are expected in Miami on Tuesday for his arraignment.
During a Monday interview with MAGA operative Steve Bannon, Trump said that his supporters “have to protest peacefully,” but for a purpose.
“We need strength at this point, and everyone’s afraid to do anything,” Trump said in likely reference to the boot-jacketed treatment hundreds of peaceful J6 protestor have received from the Biden administration. “They’re afraid to talk, and they have to go out and they have to protest peacefully. They have to go.”
When asked if he had a message for his supporters planning protests on Tuesday, Trump said that “We need to strengthen our country now, our country is being taken away from us.” The country, he said, “is going communist, it’s going Marxist, it’s going really bad. The people of our country aren’t that way, but the people running it are.”
A case in point could be made for the political targeting of Trump, who is slated to be arraigned on the Biden DOJ’s indictment on 37 felony counts for alleged mishandling of classified documents, alleged attempts to obstruct the investigation and for allegedly lying to investigators.
“Look, our country has to protest. We have plenty to protest. We’ve lost everything. We’ve lost our borders, we’ve lost our election integrity, we’ve lost respect all over the world,” Trump said, before slamming Democrats for wanting to hike taxes to push a radical leftist agenda.
Bannon, likewise, encouraged peaceful protest.
“I have urged all of your supporters, that it they decide to go it is essential that they keep it peaceful, civil and legal,” he said.
Reportedly imprisoned J6 patriot protester Jon Mellis also lobbied for peaceful protest.
“We appreciate your support of President Trump. Thank you for showing up for him,” Mellis wrote from his cell in the DC Gulag, according to the Gateway Pundit.
“Please do NOT let any violence happen while you show your support and patriotism to the greatest President in American history,” Mellis advised. “We all know too well that government operatives may be involved. Antifa and BLM agitators will try to attack you, egg you on, and even infiltrate your crowd to cause problems.”
While constrained in his comments to Stone, a defiant Trump blasted what he called “ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before in our Country!” in a post made to Truth Social on Monday before flying on Trump Force One to Miami.
“I hope the entire country is watching what the radical left lunatics are doing to America, and all we stand for,” Trump wrote in his trademark all caps, before vowing that if he’s reelected he would “appoint a real special ‘prosecutor’ to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the USA, Joe Biden.”
“Joe Biden just stated he never spoke to Attorney General Garland about Indicting his POLITICAL OPPONENT, who just happens to be leading him, by a lot, in the polls,” Trump wrote. “Used to say the same thing about Hunter’s business partners, until that was revealed to be a lie! Met with them many, many times. Crooked Joe & his thugs are destroying America.”
