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Capitol Attack Was Round 2 of Trump Insurrection

Nance warns insurrectionists aren’t going away

Manny Otiko
4 min readJan 11, 2021
President Donald Trump riles up his followers before the Capitol attack (VOA/Facebook)

You would think that after reading Malcolm Nance’s books and listening to him over the last four years, I would have learned to trust his predictions. He warned of the coming MAGA terrorist attack about two weeks ago on “The Stephanie Miller Show.” Nance, a retired intelligence officer, was one of the first to sound the alarm about Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s ties to President Donald Trump. He also warned of the Russian-led influence campaign which had “hacked Americans’ minds” and convinced them to associate Hillary Clinton with emails and corruption, and overlook Trump’s checkered past. He was right about that, and he was right about the Capitol attack.

MAGA insurrection was planned on social media

According to Nance, chatter about an attack on the Capitol was rampant on Parler, the far-right’s favored social media site. He also said that MAGA fans call Trump GEOTUSA on Parler. That stands for God Emperor of the United States of America. I had seen references to that term before but thought it had to be an inside joke. A quick search for that hashtag pulls up a picture of Trump and rapper Kanye West. And domestic terrorists just tried to depose the government and place Trump back in charge, even…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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