MAGA extremists embrace violent rhetoric ahead of midterms; Oath Keepers leader on trial for seditious conspiracy

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Katie Phang hosts "The Beat" on Wednesday, October 5 and reports on a New York Times story that shows online mentions of "civil war," apparently "ignited by the Mar-A-Lago search," have spiked 3000% on Twitter ahead of the midterms. Plus, newly released audio evidence of Oath Keepers Leader Stewart Rhodes indicates he said his "only regret" was the group "should have brought rifles" on Jan. 6. Fordham political science professor Christina Greer and Guardian Reporter Hugo Lowell join, as well as Congressional candidate Adam Frisch.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Beat I'm Katie Fang in for RE Melbourne.
0:07.1	We begin with the disturbing violent rhetoric that's surging on the far right about a quote
0:13.0	civil war.
0:14.4	The New York Times reporting, talk of civil war ignited by the Mar-Lago search is flaring
0:20.1	online.
0:21.7	That search happened on August 8th.
0:24.2	Just hours after Trump made the search public, mentions of civil war on Twitter spiked
0:29.7	a whopping 3,000%.
0:33.0	The Times says similar spikes happened on Facebook, Reddit, Telegram, Parlor, Gab, and Truth
0:38.8	Social.
0:40.0	And of course, some Trump allies are fanning the flames at a campaign event for an election
0:44.7	denier in Arizona, former Trump official Michael Flynn openly talked about governors
0:49.6	declaring war.
0:52.6	States rights.
0:53.6	Did you know that a governor can declare war?
0:58.8	Can declare war?
0:59.8	Okay?
1:00.8	And we're going to probably see that.
1:06.7	That comes after Q congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said this at a Trump rally in Michigan.
1:14.7	I'm not going to win meant swards with you all.
1:17.9	Democrats want Republicans dead.
1:20.7	And they've already started the killings.
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