🚨 Far right’s new threat

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Far-right groups and white nationalists have responded to last week's guilty verdict against Donald Trump with vague threats of violence and racist posts about people of color, monitoring groups tell Axios' Russell Contreras. Why it matters: Trump himself has repeatedly made threats about prosecuting opponents, used bigoted language to describe immigrants and suggested a loss in November may result in violence. "Don't be surprised, you know this was going to happen. Stand back and stand by this is far from over, we promise," the far-right Proud Boys wrote on one of its websites. An Ohio Proud Boys chapter vowed "war." Many of the posts on social media blame immigrants for the guilty verdict even though the case had nothing to do with immigration, says Lindsay Schubiner, program director at Western States Center. Keep reading.