I recommend reading this whole article. The relationship between, on the one hand, conspiracy theorists and these kinds of militia groups and, on the other hand, "the government," including when it's headed by Trump, is a little bit complicated. Still, this passage is a decent summary of the whole thing:
Although national media attention has moved on from the hurricane, VOP [Veterans on Patrol] appears to have adopted the belief that it was a military attack on domestic targets into their belief systems, and this may have intensified their anti-government posture, with Donald Trump and Republicans being portrayed as complicit in the events.
The day after Trump was re-elected, the main account posted that “the US Military is currently poisoning the skies of Western North Carolina after it has already destroyed this area with Weather Weapon Helene”.
The account claimed that “American children are dying from fentanyl pouring across the border, bioweapons jabbed in their arms, and the poisons being absorbed that come straight from the US military”, with the referenced “bioweapon” being the Covid-19 vaccine.
The account has repeatedly pointed to Trump’s role in producing the Covid-19 vaccine as a reason that he cannot be trusted.
Members of the group have now melded their claims about the hurricane – and plans to strike equipment they believe to be used for controlling the weather – with long-held beliefs that “directed energy weapons” and “stratospheric aerosol injections” or chemtrails are being wielded by the government against the American people.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/far-right-militia-targets-military-weather-manipulation
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