Charged rhetoric swirls online and off as Trump's Miami court date looms

From the halls of Congress to the dark corners of the internet, charged and violent rhetoric is echoing among some Donald Trump sympathizers ahead of the former president's appearance in a Miami court on Tuesday

FBI special agents across the country assigned to domestic terrorism squads are actively working to identify any possible threats, four law enforcement sources told CNN, following Trump's second indictment.

So far, the FBI is aware of various groups like the Proud Boys discussing traveling to south Florida to publicly show support for Trump, sources said, but there is currently no indication of any specific and credible threat.

"We have now reached a war phase," Rep. Andy Biggs, an Arizona Republican and prominent supporter of Trump's election denialism, tweeted Friday. "Eye for an eye." Biggs' office later said his comment was a call for the GOP to "step up and use their procedural tools" to counter "the Left's weaponization of our federal law enforcement apparatus."

Speaking at a Republican event in Georgia on Friday night, Kari Lake, who unsuccessfully ran for governor of Arizona last year and is still spreading falsehoods about that election, said: "If you want to get to President Trump, you're going to have to go through me and 75 million Americans just like me."

"And I'm going to tell you, most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA," she said to applause, adding, "That's not a threat, that's a public service announcement."

On some pro-Trump forums, anonymous users were less circumspect. "MAGA will make Waco look like a tea party!" one user posted Friday in an apparent reference to the April 1993 Waco, Texas siege that left 76 people dead.