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CousinIT

(12,742 posts)
Sat Nov 20, 2021, 12:54 PM Nov 2021

Donald Trump Continues to Stoke a Domestic Terrorism Movement

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/trump-domestic-terrorism-january-6/

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Trump has made freshly evident, in other words, that he is serving as the inspirational leader for a domestic terrorism movement. His role as such was first openly described by a handful of leading national security experts in the season of his reelection defeat and tumultuous final months in office. Back then, the discussion centered on Trump using tactics of stochastic terrorism, a method of inciting violence veiled in plausible deniability that those experts (and this journalist) recognized from Trump in the run-up to January 6. Two conservative Republicans who left the Trump administration as whistleblowers in 2020, both counterterrorism experts, sounded the alarm, with one referring to Trump’s “coded support” for far-right extremist groups. (Numerous members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who heeded Trump’s call for supporters to descend on DC would soon face conspiracy charges stemming from the assault on Congress.) A third longtime Republican, a former senior national security official in the George W. Bush administration, described Trump as “an arsonist of radicalization.”

As the former president further seeks to rewrite January 6 and stoke incendiary far-right grievances, veiled tactics and plausible deniability are no longer in the equation, according to another expert among those last fall who called out Trump’s tactics. “So much commentary still seems uncomfortable or coy about stating what Trump is doing,” says Juliette Kayyem, who served as an assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security under President Obama and currently directs national security research at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. “He’s not hinting, whistling, or luring these extremists anymore. He’s providing an owner’s manual. I will never understand why we are being so polite about describing this.”

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Donald Trump Continues to Stoke a Domestic Terrorism Movement (Original Post) CousinIT Nov 2021 OP
Do the words "Foreign and DOMESTIC" still have any meaning at all? world wide wally Nov 2021 #1
Not any longer, since the Slobfather poisoned this country BlueJac Nov 2021 #2
I think the label "domestic" makes the crimes lose all meaning. Initech Nov 2021 #4
They will tell you Barry and the email lady are domestic enemies. They've researched it! Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #8
Yep. He sees opportunity, no doubt about it. BeckyDem Nov 2021 #3
He does so from the comfort of security paid for by tax payers... nt Progressive Jones Nov 2021 #5
Shut him up Shut him up Shut him up rickyhall Nov 2021 #6
A clear and present danger. dalton99a Nov 2021 #7
This line is spot on peggysue2 Nov 2021 #9

Initech

(109,260 posts)
4. I think the label "domestic" makes the crimes lose all meaning.
Sat Nov 20, 2021, 01:11 PM
Nov 2021

Terrorism is terrorism no matter which way you look at it.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
8. They will tell you Barry and the email lady are domestic enemies. They've researched it!
Sat Nov 20, 2021, 03:34 PM
Nov 2021

You can tell them that anybody comes at me with a needle and I'll kill them. I'll kill them all.
3 posted on 2021-11-18 by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us.
Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
(note the tag line)

“Brace” as in when BLACK Capitol Police-Murderers get a chance to
prepare to wait and murder white women vets?
yes, that is what they do, without accountability.

Guillotines for conservatives for FEMA and FIB. Bullets to the neck
and head for conservatives by BLACK OBAMA-controlled CAPITOL
POLICE-MURDERERS.

Graphene poisons MANDATED into children and pregnant women. HOW IS
THIS NOT A BIOCIVIL WAR 2 STARTED BY THE GOV’T???
36 posted on 2021-09-07 by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et
Obsequium Pauperum)

peggysue2

(12,587 posts)
9. This line is spot on
Sat Nov 20, 2021, 03:47 PM
Nov 2021
"I will never understand why we are being so polite about describing this.”

Really! We all the saw the evidence in real time. We've all been exposed to the reckless rhetoric and now the documents are being exposed on January 6th. Not a walk in the park or a typical tourist event but a very deliberate attempt to overturn a legitimate election, aka A Coup. The fact that it failed is beside the point. These players were serious and Trump did everything he could to inspire, incite and let the house burn.

The sedition continues.

There's nothing polite or genteel about a coup. There's no bothsiderism in the discussion.

Trump and his enablers and supporters are traitors.

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