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Calculated Shard: 113 (from laksa161)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa113.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.pressherald.com/2023/03/20/trump-calls-for-protests-but-even-supporters-dismiss-idea/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.pressherald.com/2023/03/20/trump-calls-for-protests-but-even-supporters-dismiss-idea/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2023\/03\/20\/trump-calls-for-protests-but-even-supporters-dismiss-idea\/","crawl_time":1775278017,"first_indexed_time":1679333078,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,pressherald!www,\/2023\/03\/20\/trump-calls-for-protests-but-even-supporters-dismiss-idea\/ s443","src_root_hash":"11671518145576797113","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Trump calls for protests, but even some ardent supporters dismiss the idea","meta_descriptions":["The hundreds of arrests that followed the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, not to mention the convictions and long prison sentences, may have dampened the desire for repeat mass unrest and violence."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, with even some of his most ardent loyalists dismissing the idea as a waste of time or a law enforcement trap.\nThe ambivalence raises questions about whether Trump, though a leading Republican contender in the 2024 presidential race who retains a devoted following, still has the power to mobilize far-right supporters the way he did more than two years ago before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It also suggests that the hundreds of arrests that followed the Capitol riot, not to mention the convictions and long prison sentences, may have dampened the desire for repeat mass unrest.\nStill, law enforcement in New York is continuing to closely monitor online chatter warning of protests and violence if Trump is arrested, with threats varying in specificity and credibility, four officials told the Associated Press. Mainly posted online and in chat groups, the messages have included calls for armed protesters to block law enforcement officers and attempt to stop any potential arrest, the officials said.\nAround the time the Manhattan courthouse complex opened Monday morning, a New York Police Department truck began dropping off dozens of portable metal barricades that could be used to block off streets or sidewalks.\nThe New York Young Republican Club has announced plans for a protest at an undisclosed location in Manhattan on Monday, and incendiary but isolated posts surfaced on fringe social media platforms from supporters calling for an armed confrontation with law enforcement at Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.\nBut nearly two days after Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday and exhorted followers to protest, there were few signs his appeal had inspired his supporters to organize and rally around an event like the Jan. 6 gathering. A prominent organizer of rallies that preceded the Capitol riot posted on Twitter that he intended to remain on the sidelines.\nAli Alexander, who as an organizer of the “Stop the Steal” movement staged rallies to promote Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election from him, warned Trump supporters that they would be “jailed or worse” if they protested in New York City.\n“You have no liberty or rights there,” he tweeted.\nInfowars founder Alex Jones, shown during his defamation trial in September 2022, is not expected to get involved in any plan to stage protests around the possible indictment of Donald Trump.\nTyler Sizemore\/Hearst Connecticut Media\/Pool via Associated Press\nOne of Alexander’s allies in the “Stop the Steal” campaign was conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who amplified the election fraud claims on his Infowars show. Alexander posted that he had spoken to Jones and said that neither of them would be protesting this time around.\n“We’ve both got enough going on fighting the government,” Alexander wrote. “No billionaire is covering our bills.”\nThat stands in contrast to the days before the Capitol riot when Trump stoked up supporters when he invited them to Washington for a “big protest” on Jan. 6, tweeting, “Be there, will be wild!” Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol that day, busting through windows and violently clashing with officers in an ultimately failed effort to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.\nSince then, about 1,000 participants have been arrested, many racking up steep legal bills and expressing regret and contrition in court for their actions. Some have complained of feeling abandoned by Trump. And conspiracy theories that the riot was fueled or even set up by undercover law enforcement informants in the crowd have continued to flourish online, with Trump supporters citing that angst as a basis for steering clear of a new large-scale protest.\n“How many Feds\/Fed assets are in place to turn to protest against the political arrest of Pres Trump into violence?” tweeted Rep. Marjorie-Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican also invoked a conspiracy theory that an FBI informant had instigated the Jan. 6 riot.\n“Has Ray Epps booked his flight to NY yet?” she tweeted on Sunday.\nEpps, an Arizona man, was filmed encouraging others to enter the Capitol. Conspiracy theorists believe Epps was an FBI informant because he was removed from a Jan. 6 “wanted” list without being charged. In January, the House committee that investigated the Capitol attack said the claims about Epps were “unsupported.”\nJohn Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab who has tracked the “Stop the Steal” movement online, said anxiety over being entrapped by so-called agent provocateurs feeds a “paranoia that if they go and do violence, they may get caught and there may be consequences.”\n“It seems to reduce a lot of people’s willingness to make big statements about being willing to go out” and engage in violence, he said.\nA grand jury is investigating hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump. Prosecutors have not said when their work might conclude or when charges could come. House Republicans on Monday wrote to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seeking documents related to his inquiry, which they called “an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.”\nThe conflicted feelings over how far to support Trump in his fight against prosecution extends into the political realm, including among fellow Republicans seen as likely opponents in the 2024 race.\nFormer President Donald Trump has called for protests in anticipation of his possible criminal indictment in New York.\nSue Ogrocki\/Associated Press\nHis vice president, Mike Pence, who’s expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination, castigated Trump in an ABC News interview this weekend as “reckless” for his actions on Jan. 6 and said history would hold him accountable – even as he echoed the former president’s rhetoric that an indictment would be a “politically charged prosecution.”\n“I do not doubt that President Trump knows how to take care of himself. And he will. But that doesn’t make it right to have a politically charged prosecution of a former president of the United States of America,” Pence said.\nFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an expected GOP presidential candidate, criticized the Trump investigation on Monday as politically motivated but also threw one of his first jabs at the former president in a move likely to intensify their simmering political rivalry.\n“I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some kind of alleged affair. I can’t speak to that,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Panama City.\nBut, he added, “what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. And I think that’s fundamentally wrong.”\nKunzelman reported from Silver Spring, Md. Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo in Washington, Farnoush Amiri in Orlando, Fla., Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Fla., and Larry Neumeister in New York contributed to this report.","attrs_markdown":"- [Press Herald](https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/)\n- [Central Maine](https:\/\/www.centralmaine.com\/)\n- [Sun Journal](https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/)\n- [Times Record](https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/times-record\/)\n- [Your Town News](https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/communities\/)\n\nOffcanvas Menu Open\n\nSections\n\nOffcanvas Menu Close\n\n[![](https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/wp-content\/themes\/newspack-mainetoday\/assets\/svg\/masthead-pressherald.svg)](https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/)\n\n- 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It also suggests that the hundreds of arrests that followed the Capitol riot, not to mention the convictions and long prison sentences, may have dampened the desire for repeat mass unrest.\n\nStill, law enforcement in New York is continuing to closely monitor online chatter warning of protests and violence if Trump is arrested, with threats varying in specificity and credibility, four officials told the Associated Press. Mainly posted online and in chat groups, the messages have included calls for armed protesters to block law enforcement officers and attempt to stop any potential arrest, the officials said.\n\nAround the time the Manhattan courthouse complex opened Monday morning, a New York Police Department truck began dropping off dozens of portable metal barricades that could be used to block off streets or sidewalks.\n\n## Related\n[House speaker McCarthy tells Trump supporters not to protest if ex-president is indicted](https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2023\/03\/20\/mccarthy-tells-trump-supporters-not-to-protest-if-ex-president-is-indicted\/)\n\nThe New York Young Republican Club has announced plans for a protest at an undisclosed location in Manhattan on Monday, and incendiary but isolated posts surfaced on fringe social media platforms from supporters calling for an armed confrontation with law enforcement at Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.\n\nBut nearly two days after Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday and exhorted followers to protest, there were few signs his appeal had inspired his supporters to organize and rally around an event like the Jan. 6 gathering. A prominent organizer of rallies that preceded the Capitol riot posted on Twitter that he intended to remain on the sidelines.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nAli Alexander, who as an organizer of the “Stop the Steal” movement staged rallies to promote Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election from him, warned Trump supporters that they would be “jailed or worse” if they protested in New York City.\n\n“You have no liberty or rights there,” he tweeted.\n\n[![Media After Jones ](https:\/\/vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net\/w2pcms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Media_After_Jones__20788-300x234.jpg)](https:\/\/vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net\/w2pcms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Media_After_Jones__20788.jpg)\n\nInfowars founder Alex Jones, shown during his defamation trial in September 2022, is not expected to get involved in any plan to stage protests around the possible indictment of Donald Trump. *Tyler Sizemore\/Hearst Connecticut Media\/Pool via Associated Press*\n\nOne of Alexander’s allies in the “Stop the Steal” campaign was conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who amplified the election fraud claims on his Infowars show. Alexander posted that he had spoken to Jones and said that neither of them would be protesting this time around.\n\n“We’ve both got enough going on fighting the government,” Alexander wrote. “No billionaire is covering our bills.”\n\nThat stands in contrast to the days before the Capitol riot when Trump stoked up supporters when he invited them to Washington for a “big protest” on Jan. 6, tweeting, “Be there, will be wild!” Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol that day, busting through windows and violently clashing with officers in an ultimately failed effort to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.\n\nSince then, about 1,000 participants have been arrested, many racking up steep legal bills and expressing regret and contrition in court for their actions. Some have complained of feeling abandoned by Trump. And conspiracy theories that the riot was fueled or even set up by undercover law enforcement informants in the crowd have continued to flourish online, with Trump supporters citing that angst as a basis for steering clear of a new large-scale protest.\n\nAdvertisement\n\n“How many Feds\/Fed assets are in place to turn to protest against the political arrest of Pres Trump into violence?” tweeted Rep. Marjorie-Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican also invoked a conspiracy theory that an FBI informant had instigated the Jan. 6 riot.\n\n“Has Ray Epps booked his flight to NY yet?” she tweeted on Sunday.\n\nEpps, an Arizona man, was filmed encouraging others to enter the Capitol. Conspiracy theorists believe Epps was an FBI informant because he was removed from a Jan. 6 “wanted” list without being charged. In January, the House committee that investigated the Capitol attack said the claims about Epps were “unsupported.”\n\nJohn Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab who has tracked the “Stop the Steal” movement online, said anxiety over being entrapped by so-called agent provocateurs feeds a “paranoia that if they go and do violence, they may get caught and there may be consequences.”\n\n“It seems to reduce a lot of people’s willingness to make big statements about being willing to go out” and engage in violence, he said.\n\nA grand jury is investigating hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump. Prosecutors have not said when their work might conclude or when charges could come. House Republicans on Monday wrote to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seeking documents related to his inquiry, which they called “an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.”\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThe conflicted feelings over how far to support Trump in his fight against prosecution extends into the political realm, including among fellow Republicans seen as likely opponents in the 2024 race.\n\n[![Trump Legal Troubles Protests](https:\/\/vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net\/w2pcms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/Trump_Legal_Troubles_Protests__70682-1-300x200.jpg)](https:\/\/vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net\/w2pcms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/Trump_Legal_Troubles_Protests__70682-1.jpg)\n\nFormer President Donald Trump has called for protests in anticipation of his possible criminal indictment in New York.  *Sue Ogrocki\/Associated Press*\n\nHis vice president, Mike Pence, who’s expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination, castigated Trump in an ABC News interview this weekend as “reckless” for his actions on Jan. 6 and said history would hold him accountable – even as he echoed the former president’s rhetoric that an indictment would be a “politically charged prosecution.”\n\n“I do not doubt that President Trump knows how to take care of himself. And he will. But that doesn’t make it right to have a politically charged prosecution of a former president of the United States of America,” Pence said.\n\nFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an expected GOP presidential candidate, criticized the Trump investigation on Monday as politically motivated but also threw one of his first jabs at the former president in a move likely to intensify their simmering political rivalry.\n\n“I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some kind of alleged affair. I can’t speak to that,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Panama City.\n\nBut, he added, “what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. And I think that’s fundamentally wrong.”\n\n*Kunzelman reported from Silver Spring, Md. Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo in Washington, Farnoush Amiri in Orlando, Fla., Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Fla., and Larry Neumeister in New York contributed to this report.*\n\nCopy the Story Link\n\nTagged: [Donald Trump](https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/), [republican party](https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/tag\/republican-party\/)\n\n## Post navigation\n[Previous New fire truck push-in ceremony takes place Sunday](https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2023\/03\/20\/new-fire-truck-push-in-ceremony-takes-place-sunday\/)\n\n[Next Motivational speaker visits Falmouth Middle School](https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2023\/03\/20\/motivational-speaker-visits-falmouth-middle-school\/)\n\nComments are no longer available on this story\n\n- 1. 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Be sure to check heading and document order.\n\nYou've blocked notifications","attrs_readable_markdown":"WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, with even some of his most ardent loyalists dismissing the idea as a waste of time or a law enforcement trap.\n\nThe ambivalence raises questions about whether Trump, though a leading Republican contender in the 2024 presidential race who retains a devoted following, still has the power to mobilize far-right supporters the way he did more than two years ago before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It also suggests that the hundreds of arrests that followed the Capitol riot, not to mention the convictions and long prison sentences, may have dampened the desire for repeat mass unrest.\n\nStill, law enforcement in New York is continuing to closely monitor online chatter warning of protests and violence if Trump is arrested, with threats varying in specificity and credibility, four officials told the Associated Press. Mainly posted online and in chat groups, the messages have included calls for armed protesters to block law enforcement officers and attempt to stop any potential arrest, the officials said.\n\nAround the time the Manhattan courthouse complex opened Monday morning, a New York Police Department truck began dropping off dozens of portable metal barricades that could be used to block off streets or sidewalks.\n\nThe New York Young Republican Club has announced plans for a protest at an undisclosed location in Manhattan on Monday, and incendiary but isolated posts surfaced on fringe social media platforms from supporters calling for an armed confrontation with law enforcement at Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.\n\nBut nearly two days after Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday and exhorted followers to protest, there were few signs his appeal had inspired his supporters to organize and rally around an event like the Jan. 6 gathering. A prominent organizer of rallies that preceded the Capitol riot posted on Twitter that he intended to remain on the sidelines.\n\nAli Alexander, who as an organizer of the “Stop the Steal” movement staged rallies to promote Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election from him, warned Trump supporters that they would be “jailed or worse” if they protested in New York City.\n\n“You have no liberty or rights there,” he tweeted.\n\n[![Media After Jones ](https:\/\/vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net\/w2pcms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Media_After_Jones__20788-300x234.jpg)](https:\/\/vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net\/w2pcms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Media_After_Jones__20788.jpg)\n\nInfowars founder Alex Jones, shown during his defamation trial in September 2022, is not expected to get involved in any plan to stage protests around the possible indictment of Donald Trump. *Tyler Sizemore\/Hearst Connecticut Media\/Pool via Associated Press*\n\nOne of Alexander’s allies in the “Stop the Steal” campaign was conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who amplified the election fraud claims on his Infowars show. Alexander posted that he had spoken to Jones and said that neither of them would be protesting this time around.\n\n“We’ve both got enough going on fighting the government,” Alexander wrote. “No billionaire is covering our bills.”\n\nThat stands in contrast to the days before the Capitol riot when Trump stoked up supporters when he invited them to Washington for a “big protest” on Jan. 6, tweeting, “Be there, will be wild!” Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol that day, busting through windows and violently clashing with officers in an ultimately failed effort to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.\n\nSince then, about 1,000 participants have been arrested, many racking up steep legal bills and expressing regret and contrition in court for their actions. Some have complained of feeling abandoned by Trump. And conspiracy theories that the riot was fueled or even set up by undercover law enforcement informants in the crowd have continued to flourish online, with Trump supporters citing that angst as a basis for steering clear of a new large-scale protest.\n\n“How many Feds\/Fed assets are in place to turn to protest against the political arrest of Pres Trump into violence?” tweeted Rep. Marjorie-Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican also invoked a conspiracy theory that an FBI informant had instigated the Jan. 6 riot.\n\n“Has Ray Epps booked his flight to NY yet?” she tweeted on Sunday.\n\nEpps, an Arizona man, was filmed encouraging others to enter the Capitol. Conspiracy theorists believe Epps was an FBI informant because he was removed from a Jan. 6 “wanted” list without being charged. In January, the House committee that investigated the Capitol attack said the claims about Epps were “unsupported.”\n\nJohn Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab who has tracked the “Stop the Steal” movement online, said anxiety over being entrapped by so-called agent provocateurs feeds a “paranoia that if they go and do violence, they may get caught and there may be consequences.”\n\n“It seems to reduce a lot of people’s willingness to make big statements about being willing to go out” and engage in violence, he said.\n\nA grand jury is investigating hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump. Prosecutors have not said when their work might conclude or when charges could come. House Republicans on Monday wrote to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seeking documents related to his inquiry, which they called “an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.”\n\nThe conflicted feelings over how far to support Trump in his fight against prosecution extends into the political realm, including among fellow Republicans seen as likely opponents in the 2024 race.\n\n[![Trump Legal Troubles Protests](https:\/\/vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net\/w2pcms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/Trump_Legal_Troubles_Protests__70682-1-300x200.jpg)](https:\/\/vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net\/w2pcms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/03\/Trump_Legal_Troubles_Protests__70682-1.jpg)\n\nFormer President Donald Trump has called for protests in anticipation of his possible criminal indictment in New York.  *Sue Ogrocki\/Associated Press*\n\nHis vice president, Mike Pence, who’s expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination, castigated Trump in an ABC News interview this weekend as “reckless” for his actions on Jan. 6 and said history would hold him accountable – even as he echoed the former president’s rhetoric that an indictment would be a “politically charged prosecution.”\n\n“I do not doubt that President Trump knows how to take care of himself. And he will. But that doesn’t make it right to have a politically charged prosecution of a former president of the United States of America,” Pence said.\n\nFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an expected GOP presidential candidate, criticized the Trump investigation on Monday as politically motivated but also threw one of his first jabs at the former president in a move likely to intensify their simmering political rivalry.\n\n“I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some kind of alleged affair. I can’t speak to that,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Panama City.\n\nBut, he added, “what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. And I think that’s fundamentally wrong.”\n\n*Kunzelman reported from Silver Spring, Md. Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo in Washington, Farnoush Amiri in Orlando, Fla., Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Fla., and Larry Neumeister in New York contributed to this report.*","meta_canonical":null}

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Meta Title	Trump calls for protests, but even some ardent supporters dismiss the idea
Meta Description	The hundreds of arrests that followed the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, not to mention the convictions and long prison sentences, may have dampened the desire for repeat mass unrest and violence.
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Boilerpipe Text	WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, with even some of his most ardent loyalists dismissing the idea as a waste of time or a law enforcement trap. The ambivalence raises questions about whether Trump, though a leading Republican contender in the 2024 presidential race who retains a devoted following, still has the power to mobilize far-right supporters the way he did more than two years ago before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It also suggests that the hundreds of arrests that followed the Capitol riot, not to mention the convictions and long prison sentences, may have dampened the desire for repeat mass unrest. Still, law enforcement in New York is continuing to closely monitor online chatter warning of protests and violence if Trump is arrested, with threats varying in specificity and credibility, four officials told the Associated Press. Mainly posted online and in chat groups, the messages have included calls for armed protesters to block law enforcement officers and attempt to stop any potential arrest, the officials said. Around the time the Manhattan courthouse complex opened Monday morning, a New York Police Department truck began dropping off dozens of portable metal barricades that could be used to block off streets or sidewalks. The New York Young Republican Club has announced plans for a protest at an undisclosed location in Manhattan on Monday, and incendiary but isolated posts surfaced on fringe social media platforms from supporters calling for an armed confrontation with law enforcement at Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. But nearly two days after Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday and exhorted followers to protest, there were few signs his appeal had inspired his supporters to organize and rally around an event like the Jan. 6 gathering. A prominent organizer of rallies that preceded the Capitol riot posted on Twitter that he intended to remain on the sidelines. Ali Alexander, who as an organizer of the “Stop the Steal” movement staged rallies to promote Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election from him, warned Trump supporters that they would be “jailed or worse” if they protested in New York City. “You have no liberty or rights there,” he tweeted. Infowars founder Alex Jones, shown during his defamation trial in September 2022, is not expected to get involved in any plan to stage protests around the possible indictment of Donald Trump. Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media/Pool via Associated Press One of Alexander’s allies in the “Stop the Steal” campaign was conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who amplified the election fraud claims on his Infowars show. Alexander posted that he had spoken to Jones and said that neither of them would be protesting this time around. “We’ve both got enough going on fighting the government,” Alexander wrote. “No billionaire is covering our bills.” That stands in contrast to the days before the Capitol riot when Trump stoked up supporters when he invited them to Washington for a “big protest” on Jan. 6, tweeting, “Be there, will be wild!” Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol that day, busting through windows and violently clashing with officers in an ultimately failed effort to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. Since then, about 1,000 participants have been arrested, many racking up steep legal bills and expressing regret and contrition in court for their actions. Some have complained of feeling abandoned by Trump. And conspiracy theories that the riot was fueled or even set up by undercover law enforcement informants in the crowd have continued to flourish online, with Trump supporters citing that angst as a basis for steering clear of a new large-scale protest. “How many Feds/Fed assets are in place to turn to protest against the political arrest of Pres Trump into violence?” tweeted Rep. Marjorie-Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican also invoked a conspiracy theory that an FBI informant had instigated the Jan. 6 riot. “Has Ray Epps booked his flight to NY yet?” she tweeted on Sunday. Epps, an Arizona man, was filmed encouraging others to enter the Capitol. Conspiracy theorists believe Epps was an FBI informant because he was removed from a Jan. 6 “wanted” list without being charged. In January, the House committee that investigated the Capitol attack said the claims about Epps were “unsupported.” John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab who has tracked the “Stop the Steal” movement online, said anxiety over being entrapped by so-called agent provocateurs feeds a “paranoia that if they go and do violence, they may get caught and there may be consequences.” “It seems to reduce a lot of people’s willingness to make big statements about being willing to go out” and engage in violence, he said. A grand jury is investigating hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump. Prosecutors have not said when their work might conclude or when charges could come. House Republicans on Monday wrote to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seeking documents related to his inquiry, which they called “an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.” The conflicted feelings over how far to support Trump in his fight against prosecution extends into the political realm, including among fellow Republicans seen as likely opponents in the 2024 race. Former President Donald Trump has called for protests in anticipation of his possible criminal indictment in New York. Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press His vice president, Mike Pence, who’s expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination, castigated Trump in an ABC News interview this weekend as “reckless” for his actions on Jan. 6 and said history would hold him accountable – even as he echoed the former president’s rhetoric that an indictment would be a “politically charged prosecution.” “I do not doubt that President Trump knows how to take care of himself. And he will. But that doesn’t make it right to have a politically charged prosecution of a former president of the United States of America,” Pence said. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an expected GOP presidential candidate, criticized the Trump investigation on Monday as politically motivated but also threw one of his first jabs at the former president in a move likely to intensify their simmering political rivalry. “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some kind of alleged affair. I can’t speak to that,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Panama City. But, he added, “what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. And I think that’s fundamentally wrong.” Kunzelman reported from Silver Spring, Md. Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo in Washington, Farnoush Amiri in Orlando, Fla., Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Fla., and Larry Neumeister in New York contributed to this report.
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The ambivalence raises questions about whether Trump, though a leading Republican contender in the 2024 presidential race who retains a devoted following, still has the power to mobilize far-right supporters the way he did more than two years ago before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It also suggests that the hundreds of arrests that followed the Capitol riot, not to mention the convictions and long prison sentences, may have dampened the desire for repeat mass unrest. Still, law enforcement in New York is continuing to closely monitor online chatter warning of protests and violence if Trump is arrested, with threats varying in specificity and credibility, four officials told the Associated Press. Mainly posted online and in chat groups, the messages have included calls for armed protesters to block law enforcement officers and attempt to stop any potential arrest, the officials said. Around the time the Manhattan courthouse complex opened Monday morning, a New York Police Department truck began dropping off dozens of portable metal barricades that could be used to block off streets or sidewalks. ## Related [House speaker McCarthy tells Trump supporters not to protest if ex-president is indicted](https://www.pressherald.com/2023/03/20/mccarthy-tells-trump-supporters-not-to-protest-if-ex-president-is-indicted/) The New York Young Republican Club has announced plans for a protest at an undisclosed location in Manhattan on Monday, and incendiary but isolated posts surfaced on fringe social media platforms from supporters calling for an armed confrontation with law enforcement at Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. But nearly two days after Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday and exhorted followers to protest, there were few signs his appeal had inspired his supporters to organize and rally around an event like the Jan. 6 gathering. A prominent organizer of rallies that preceded the Capitol riot posted on Twitter that he intended to remain on the sidelines. Advertisement Ali Alexander, who as an organizer of the “Stop the Steal” movement staged rallies to promote Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election from him, warned Trump supporters that they would be “jailed or worse” if they protested in New York City. “You have no liberty or rights there,” he tweeted. [![Media After Jones ](https://vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net/w2pcms/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Media_After_Jones__20788-300x234.jpg)](https://vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net/w2pcms/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Media_After_Jones__20788.jpg) Infowars founder Alex Jones, shown during his defamation trial in September 2022, is not expected to get involved in any plan to stage protests around the possible indictment of Donald Trump. Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media/Pool via Associated Press One of Alexander’s allies in the “Stop the Steal” campaign was conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who amplified the election fraud claims on his Infowars show. Alexander posted that he had spoken to Jones and said that neither of them would be protesting this time around. “We’ve both got enough going on fighting the government,” Alexander wrote. “No billionaire is covering our bills.” That stands in contrast to the days before the Capitol riot when Trump stoked up supporters when he invited them to Washington for a “big protest” on Jan. 6, tweeting, “Be there, will be wild!” Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol that day, busting through windows and violently clashing with officers in an ultimately failed effort to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. Since then, about 1,000 participants have been arrested, many racking up steep legal bills and expressing regret and contrition in court for their actions. Some have complained of feeling abandoned by Trump. And conspiracy theories that the riot was fueled or even set up by undercover law enforcement informants in the crowd have continued to flourish online, with Trump supporters citing that angst as a basis for steering clear of a new large-scale protest. Advertisement “How many Feds/Fed assets are in place to turn to protest against the political arrest of Pres Trump into violence?” tweeted Rep. Marjorie-Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican also invoked a conspiracy theory that an FBI informant had instigated the Jan. 6 riot. “Has Ray Epps booked his flight to NY yet?” she tweeted on Sunday. Epps, an Arizona man, was filmed encouraging others to enter the Capitol. Conspiracy theorists believe Epps was an FBI informant because he was removed from a Jan. 6 “wanted” list without being charged. In January, the House committee that investigated the Capitol attack said the claims about Epps were “unsupported.” John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab who has tracked the “Stop the Steal” movement online, said anxiety over being entrapped by so-called agent provocateurs feeds a “paranoia that if they go and do violence, they may get caught and there may be consequences.” “It seems to reduce a lot of people’s willingness to make big statements about being willing to go out” and engage in violence, he said. A grand jury is investigating hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump. Prosecutors have not said when their work might conclude or when charges could come. House Republicans on Monday wrote to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seeking documents related to his inquiry, which they called “an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.” Advertisement The conflicted feelings over how far to support Trump in his fight against prosecution extends into the political realm, including among fellow Republicans seen as likely opponents in the 2024 race. [![Trump Legal Troubles Protests](https://vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net/w2pcms/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Trump_Legal_Troubles_Protests__70682-1-300x200.jpg)](https://vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net/w2pcms/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Trump_Legal_Troubles_Protests__70682-1.jpg) Former President Donald Trump has called for protests in anticipation of his possible criminal indictment in New York. Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press His vice president, Mike Pence, who’s expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination, castigated Trump in an ABC News interview this weekend as “reckless” for his actions on Jan. 6 and said history would hold him accountable – even as he echoed the former president’s rhetoric that an indictment would be a “politically charged prosecution.” “I do not doubt that President Trump knows how to take care of himself. And he will. But that doesn’t make it right to have a politically charged prosecution of a former president of the United States of America,” Pence said. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an expected GOP presidential candidate, criticized the Trump investigation on Monday as politically motivated but also threw one of his first jabs at the former president in a move likely to intensify their simmering political rivalry. “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some kind of alleged affair. I can’t speak to that,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Panama City. But, he added, “what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. And I think that’s fundamentally wrong.” Kunzelman reported from Silver Spring, Md. Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo in Washington, Farnoush Amiri in Orlando, Fla., Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Fla., and Larry Neumeister in New York contributed to this report. 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Readable Markdown	WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, with even some of his most ardent loyalists dismissing the idea as a waste of time or a law enforcement trap. The ambivalence raises questions about whether Trump, though a leading Republican contender in the 2024 presidential race who retains a devoted following, still has the power to mobilize far-right supporters the way he did more than two years ago before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It also suggests that the hundreds of arrests that followed the Capitol riot, not to mention the convictions and long prison sentences, may have dampened the desire for repeat mass unrest. Still, law enforcement in New York is continuing to closely monitor online chatter warning of protests and violence if Trump is arrested, with threats varying in specificity and credibility, four officials told the Associated Press. Mainly posted online and in chat groups, the messages have included calls for armed protesters to block law enforcement officers and attempt to stop any potential arrest, the officials said. Around the time the Manhattan courthouse complex opened Monday morning, a New York Police Department truck began dropping off dozens of portable metal barricades that could be used to block off streets or sidewalks. The New York Young Republican Club has announced plans for a protest at an undisclosed location in Manhattan on Monday, and incendiary but isolated posts surfaced on fringe social media platforms from supporters calling for an armed confrontation with law enforcement at Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. But nearly two days after Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday and exhorted followers to protest, there were few signs his appeal had inspired his supporters to organize and rally around an event like the Jan. 6 gathering. A prominent organizer of rallies that preceded the Capitol riot posted on Twitter that he intended to remain on the sidelines. Ali Alexander, who as an organizer of the “Stop the Steal” movement staged rallies to promote Trump’s baseless claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election from him, warned Trump supporters that they would be “jailed or worse” if they protested in New York City. “You have no liberty or rights there,” he tweeted. [![Media After Jones ](https://vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net/w2pcms/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Media_After_Jones__20788-300x234.jpg)](https://vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net/w2pcms/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Media_After_Jones__20788.jpg) Infowars founder Alex Jones, shown during his defamation trial in September 2022, is not expected to get involved in any plan to stage protests around the possible indictment of Donald Trump. Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media/Pool via Associated Press One of Alexander’s allies in the “Stop the Steal” campaign was conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who amplified the election fraud claims on his Infowars show. Alexander posted that he had spoken to Jones and said that neither of them would be protesting this time around. “We’ve both got enough going on fighting the government,” Alexander wrote. “No billionaire is covering our bills.” That stands in contrast to the days before the Capitol riot when Trump stoked up supporters when he invited them to Washington for a “big protest” on Jan. 6, tweeting, “Be there, will be wild!” Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol that day, busting through windows and violently clashing with officers in an ultimately failed effort to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. Since then, about 1,000 participants have been arrested, many racking up steep legal bills and expressing regret and contrition in court for their actions. Some have complained of feeling abandoned by Trump. And conspiracy theories that the riot was fueled or even set up by undercover law enforcement informants in the crowd have continued to flourish online, with Trump supporters citing that angst as a basis for steering clear of a new large-scale protest. “How many Feds/Fed assets are in place to turn to protest against the political arrest of Pres Trump into violence?” tweeted Rep. Marjorie-Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican also invoked a conspiracy theory that an FBI informant had instigated the Jan. 6 riot. “Has Ray Epps booked his flight to NY yet?” she tweeted on Sunday. Epps, an Arizona man, was filmed encouraging others to enter the Capitol. Conspiracy theorists believe Epps was an FBI informant because he was removed from a Jan. 6 “wanted” list without being charged. In January, the House committee that investigated the Capitol attack said the claims about Epps were “unsupported.” John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab who has tracked the “Stop the Steal” movement online, said anxiety over being entrapped by so-called agent provocateurs feeds a “paranoia that if they go and do violence, they may get caught and there may be consequences.” “It seems to reduce a lot of people’s willingness to make big statements about being willing to go out” and engage in violence, he said. A grand jury is investigating hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump. Prosecutors have not said when their work might conclude or when charges could come. House Republicans on Monday wrote to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seeking documents related to his inquiry, which they called “an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.” The conflicted feelings over how far to support Trump in his fight against prosecution extends into the political realm, including among fellow Republicans seen as likely opponents in the 2024 race. [![Trump Legal Troubles Protests](https://vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net/w2pcms/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Trump_Legal_Troubles_Protests__70682-1-300x200.jpg)](https://vip-masthead-me-newspack.go-vip.net/w2pcms/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Trump_Legal_Troubles_Protests__70682-1.jpg) Former President Donald Trump has called for protests in anticipation of his possible criminal indictment in New York. Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press His vice president, Mike Pence, who’s expected to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination, castigated Trump in an ABC News interview this weekend as “reckless” for his actions on Jan. 6 and said history would hold him accountable – even as he echoed the former president’s rhetoric that an indictment would be a “politically charged prosecution.” “I do not doubt that President Trump knows how to take care of himself. And he will. But that doesn’t make it right to have a politically charged prosecution of a former president of the United States of America,” Pence said. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an expected GOP presidential candidate, criticized the Trump investigation on Monday as politically motivated but also threw one of his first jabs at the former president in a move likely to intensify their simmering political rivalry. “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some kind of alleged affair. I can’t speak to that,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Panama City. But, he added, “what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. And I think that’s fundamentally wrong.” Kunzelman reported from Silver Spring, Md. Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo in Washington, Farnoush Amiri in Orlando, Fla., Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Fla., and Larry Neumeister in New York contributed to this report.
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