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Far-right MAGA-supporting pastor Greg Locke said on Wednesday that his house and truck were riddled with bullets overnight.

Locke, who previously denied that he suggested people in wheelchairs are disabled because of insufficient faith in God, posted on Facebook at 2:00am that his "home has been a full blown crime scene."

"According to the security cam footage, we pulled into our driveway exactly ONE MINUTE after a madman unloaded an entire magazine of bullets from an automatic weapon into our house, garage and my truck," the pastor said on social media. "The sound on the video is truly horrific." ...

Former President Donald Trump’s tweet on Dec. 19, 2020 — it summoned his supporters to “be there” for Congress’ Jan. 6 certification of the electoral vote and promised that it would be “wild” — electrified far-right militants.

One person who answered the call was Joseph Pavlik, a 65-year-old retired firefighter from Chicago.

Pavlik’s social media posts in November and December 2020 reflected a mounting sense of desperation about what America would look like with Trump forced to leave the White House. His Facebook posts manifested a logical response to the existential choice — Donald Trump or dystopian collapse — that the United States’ 45th president first defined during his 2016 campaign....