MAGA faithful call for riots and lynchings after Trump’s guilty verdict

Hardcore followers of Donald Trump are calling for riots, insurrection, and assassination after he was criminally convicted of falsifying business records on Thursday.

A New York jury found the former president guilty on 34 counts of falsifying records to cover up payments to porn star Stormy Daniels as part of a conspiracy to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

Republican politicians widely refused to accept the verdict from the Manhattan trial, decrying the process as «rigged», «corrupt», «ridiculous», and «bulls***».

But in messages seen by The Independent, and others reported by Reuters, Trump loyalists on right-wing social networks went much further.

«Find the jurors. All of them. Take no prisoners,» wrote one user on a Trump-focused message board.

«Just give them the rope,» said another, in an explicit reference to lynching. «The time for talking has long gone. Let them swing outside the courthouse.»

Some posts used coded language, such as one which urged «short drops» – that is, execution by hanging – for the people responsible for Trump's trial.

Another user replied with «short walks and long drops», plus a helicopter emoji – an apparent reference to «death flights» such as those used by right-wing dictators in Argentina and Chile to dispose of dissidents.

One post seen by Reuters claimed that «someone in New York with nothing to lose needs to take care of Merchan,» referring to the judge who oversaw the trial, while another declared: «Time to start capping some lefties.»

The overwhelming sentiment from MAGA loyallists is that Trump's conviction is wholly unjustified, and proves that the American political and justice systems are irretrievably rigged.

«One million men (armed) need to go to Washington