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was wheeled into the main ballroom.<br />
On Sunday, Trump delivered<br />
the Keynote Address to<br />
deep-pocket conservative activists<br />
who salivate at the prospect<br />
of Trump being restored to<br />
his old stumping ground. His<br />
delusional promise of a third<br />
successful run for<br />
the Presidency was<br />
met with expected<br />
applause.<br />
In recent polls,<br />
more than 60% of<br />
GOP voters still do<br />
not recognize President<br />
Joe Biden as<br />
their legitimate<br />
President.<br />
Proud Boys<br />
leader, Enrique<br />
Tarrio, boasted<br />
this week that<br />
when President<br />
Trump in a pre-<br />
January 6th. debate<br />
told white supremacists<br />
to 'stand<br />
down and stand by'<br />
his membership<br />
doubled.<br />
At Insurrection<br />
hearings on the<br />
Hill this week, Sen.<br />
Ron Johnson (R. Wis.) read an<br />
eyewitness testimony that anti-<br />
Trump elements and provocateurs<br />
were responsible for the<br />
mayhem that was unleashed at<br />
the Capitol. Initial estimates of<br />
damage to the Capitol and other<br />
liability exceed $30 million.<br />
Johnson testified that the President's<br />
supporters proceeded to<br />
the Capitol in a festive mood.<br />
Because of ongoing omi-<br />
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nous chatter on the internet, including<br />
one that threatened to<br />
blow up the Capitol with every<br />
lawmaker inside, barricades<br />
have remained in place since<br />
January 7th.<br />
Biden's upcoming State of<br />
the Union Address fits the profile<br />
that would present a major<br />
concern for national security<br />
planners. Even on March 4rd<br />
the Capitol went dark to protect<br />
lawmakers from Qanon’s<br />
threatened inauguration of<br />
Trump to the presidency.<br />
So entrenched is blind support<br />
for Trump throughout the<br />
country that even the Pentagon<br />
is scrambling to vet their own<br />
ranks to weed out potential anarchists.<br />
At least 28 former and<br />
current members of the military<br />
face serious felony charges including<br />
conspiracy for sedition.<br />
One in five rioters arrested in<br />
connection with the events of<br />
January 6, <strong>2021</strong> are either current<br />
US military personnel or<br />
bona fide veterans.<br />
Even religious organizations<br />
have not been spared the outreach<br />
of Trump's cult-like conscription.<br />
Churches are now fertile<br />
breeding grounds for Q-anon's<br />
conspiracy theory proponents.<br />
There are members of the<br />
church hierarchy and their<br />
flock who worship the very<br />
ground Trump walks on be-
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