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. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Beat. I'm Katie Fang in for Ari Melbur. We begin with the disturbing, violent rhetoric
0:09.7	that's surging on the far right about a quote, civil war. The New York Times reporting,
0:15.9	talk of civil war ignited by the Mar-a-Lago search is flaring online. That search happened on August 8th, just
0:24.3	hours after Trump made the search public, mentions of Civil War on Twitter spiked a whopping
0:30.3	3,000 percent. The Times says similar spikes happened on Facebook, Reddit, telegram, parlor, gab, and truth
0:38.7	social. And of course, some Trump allies are fanning the flames. At a campaign event for an
0:44.4	election denier in Arizona, former Trump official Michael Flynn openly talked about governors
0:49.4	declaring war. States rights. Did you know that a governor can declare war?
0:58.0	Governor can declare war, okay?
1:01.0	And we're going to probably, we're going to probably see that.
1:06.0	That comes after Q Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green said this at a Trump rally in Michigan.
1:14.2	I'm not going to wince words with you all. Democrats want Republicans dead. And they've already
1:21.2	started the killings. Yet when President Biden gave a speech describing the quote,
1:29.6	semi-fascism in the MAGA movement,
1:32.6	Trump allies claimed he was being unfair.
1:36.6	He looked like he was in the depths of hell.
1:41.1	He was talking about how half the country are basically domestic terrorists.
1:48.1	But watch how conservatives embraced that description at the right-wing CPAC summit just a month earlier. Ladies and gentlemen, we are all domestic terrorists.
1:57.7	Joining me now is Rick Wilson, Lincoln Project co-founder and Christina Greer, political science
2:03.5	professor with Fordham University.
2:06.0	My thanks to both of you for getting our show kicked off.
2:08.9	Rick, I'm going to start with you.
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