Several websites that analysts say are hotbeds for far-right and racist ideology hosted numerous chat threads urging Trump supporters to “storm the Capitol” on Jan. 6.
On Monday, several posters in the chat room boards.4chan.org/pol/ said Trump supporters planned to force an evacuation of the Capitol on Wednesday as lawmakers voted to affirm electoral ballots for President-elect Joe Biden.
“The storm is coming,” anonymous poster “txMkt1BK” said on the nearly 10,000-word thread. Another person, “ptwPefMr,” wrote that after Trump supporters “storm the Capitol” the “Vote doesnt finish, Ensuing chaos.”
Multiple posters on a site created last year called TheDonald.win also discussed storming the Capitol in the days leading up to Wednesday’s riot. One person under the moniker “EvilGuy” said Monday he was “scouting” Washington as part of an effort to “end this shit this week.”
An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.
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