In the aftermath of the shooting, incendiary rhetoric and calls for retaliatory violence exploded online.
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Militia and anti-government groups across the United States are using the attempted assassination of聽聽as an opportunity to organize, recruit, and train.
鈥淎n attack on President Trump was an attack on us, people like us鈥攍ike-minded American patriots,鈥� says Scott Seddon, the Pennsylvania-based founder of the American Patriots Three Percenters (APIII), in a video posted to TikTok on Sunday. APIII is a decentralized militia network with chapters across the US. 鈥淭here comes a point in time where everybody in this group needs to start being accountable for what they鈥檙e doing to help grow the organization and building a network of like-minded people in their area. Because they鈥檙e coming for us.鈥�
Seddon goes on in the video to say that he鈥檚 looking at coordinating a meeting with other militias around Pennsylvania. 鈥淭his is not going to just go away. We need to become fuckin鈥� strong, fuckin鈥� lions,鈥� says Seddon. 鈥淪tart reaching out to individuals in your state that are trustworthy, that have the like-minded vision of local strong communities, to hold down the fort, just in case [of] war, or for when shit hits the fan.鈥�