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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 06:53 PM Jun 2020

Leaked DHS document undercuts Trump's portrayal of antifa as a deadly nationwide menace

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/leaked-dhs-document-undercuts-trumps-portrayal-of-antifa-as-a-deadly-nationwide-menace/

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President Donald Trump has repeatedly cited antifa as a destructive menace responsible for all violence that’s taken place during anti-police brutality demonstrations across the United States.

However, an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent shows that there is no mention of antifa in the agency’s assessment of the biggest “protest-related” threats to law enforcement officials.
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Leaked DHS document undercuts Trump's portrayal of antifa as a deadly nationwide menace (Original Post) soothsayer Jun 2020 OP
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Jun 2020 #1
KR Me. Jun 2020 #2
Oh no, you mean tRUMP LIED?!?! Is water wet? abqtommy Jun 2020 #3
It's funny that I'm as anti-fascist as you could ask for and no one has tried to sign me up. brewens Jun 2020 #4
I've gotten liberal/progressive emails for probably 30 years Cirque du So-What Jun 2020 #7
the GREED OVER PEOPLE party is the DEADLY NATIONWIDE MENACE Skittles Jun 2020 #5
1st link in my sig... Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2020 #6
Trump creates boogeyman to create fear and boost sagging polls bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #8
Since when have actual facts ever entered into any of Dump's verbal enema dumps? n/t thenelm1 Jun 2020 #9
Hitler blamed Jews SoonerPride Jun 2020 #12
There's anything to undercut in anything coming from SHITLER?!1 UTUSN Jun 2020 #10
K & R IllinoisBirdWatcher Jun 2020 #11
"And that's the news from 1488 Pennsylvania Avenue, where all the Nazis are some fine people, struggle4progress Jun 2020 #13

brewens

(13,582 posts)
4. It's funny that I'm as anti-fascist as you could ask for and no one has tried to sign me up.
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 06:59 PM
Jun 2020

You'd think they would.

Cirque du So-What

(25,932 posts)
7. I've gotten liberal/progressive emails for probably 30 years
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 07:18 PM
Jun 2020

but I’ve never gotten any recruitment literature from AntiFa.

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
13. "And that's the news from 1488 Pennsylvania Avenue, where all the Nazis are some fine people,
Fri Jun 19, 2020, 08:29 PM
Jun 2020

all the Bibles smell like tear gas, and all the staples are geniuses"

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