State senator warns of 'insurgency,' 'sedition' by Trump critics

RALEIGH, N.C. — At a Republican rally in support of President Donald Trump in Raleigh Saturday, state Sen. Ron Rabin, R-Harnett, painted a dark, threatening picture of Trump’s critics, suggesting that those who support "resistance" against the president may be guilty of treason.

The rally, organized by the North Carolina Republican Party, was one of many "March 4 Trump" rallies around the country Saturday. Rabin was one of about a dozen speakers scheduled.

Weaving a tapestry of conspiracy theory and the occasional debunked claim, Rabin claimed that the media, "except for one station," is in league with "the Hollywood elite" and "elite universities" in "a cabal of leftists and internationalists" that includes billionaire Democratic supporter George Soros.

"Ninety percent of the people in the media donated to Hillary Rodham Clinton," Rabin told the crowd. "They have become propagandists rather than reporters."

Soros "spends beaucoup dollars buying the little tin horns and drums for those guys," Rabin claimed, gesturing at a group of counter-protestors behind him. "He wants to destroy the United States."

"I am in violent disagreement with that group of cuckoo clocks," he added.

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