(CNN)"Trump or war. Today. That simple."
"If you don't know how to shoot: You need to learn. NOW."
we will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, kill federal employees and agents, and demand a recount."
In the weeks, days and hours ahead of Wednesday's siege on the Capitol by President Donald Trump's zealous supporters, the warning signs were clear: online posts from hate groups and right-wing provocateurs agitating for civil war, the deaths of top lawmakers and attacks on law enforcement.
..experts warn that the calls for violence have only intensified ahead of Inauguration Day..
"We are seeing ... chatter from these white supremacists, from these far-right extremists -- they feel emboldened in this moment,"
"We fully expect that this violence could actually get worse before it gets better."
"Trump WILL be sworn in for a second term on January 20th!!," said a commenter on thedonald.win, a pro-Trump online forum, on Thursday, the day after the siege.
"We must not let the communists win. Even if we have to burn DC to the ground. Tomorrow we take back DC and take back our country!!"
In the six days leading up to the event, for instance, there were 1,480 posts from QAnon-related accounts that referenced the event and contained terms of violence.
On Parler, the report said, multiple posts referenced war, including statements like "the war begins today."
.. "current rhetoric suggests that there will be attendees who have violent intent, including armed militia groups" between January 6 and Inauguration Day.
Security experts said they were puzzled by the flat-footed response of law enforcement.
The surprising part of it is why it was so much less aggressively policed," said Jonathan Wood, director of global risk analysis for London-based Control Risks.
"Many security analysts were surprised by the lack of security, and by the lack of a robust security response."
"There was no intelligence that suggested there would be a breach of the US Capitol," said DC Police Chief Robert Contee at a press conference Thursday.
"I don't know what y'all think about a revolution, but I'm all for it," she said. "Nobody actually wants war, nobody wants bloodshed, but the government works for us and unfortunately it appears that they have forgotten that, quite a lot, so if a revolution is what it takes then so be it."