Elizabeth Warren ties guns, Trump and domestic terrorism together in her plan to fight white nationa

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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/19/elizabeth-warren-slams-trump-in-plan-to-fight-white-nationalism.html

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Warren, in her announcement of the plan, accused Trump of making racist comments and employing people she labels as white nationalists, specifically immigration hard-liner and top White House advisor Stephen Miller.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit activist organization that monitors hate groups, last week published hundreds of emails from Miller encouraging the right-wing news site Breitbart to push white nationalist talking points in articles during the 2016 presidential campaign. The SPLC said it reached out to the White House multiple times to get a comment from Miller, but didn’t get a reply.

Here are the Warren plan’s key points:

- Taking investigations out of the hands of state and local jurisdictions and shifting all hate crime referrals to the FBI.
- Directing federal prosecutors to seek tougher penalties for individuals who commit hate crimes “regardless of their race, ethnicity, or supposed ideology.”
- Expanding background checks for gun ownership and keeping firearms out of the hands of those already prone to violence.

Warren explained her plan in a Twitter thread, citing multiple shootings that occurred in religious buildings and were motivated by prejudice against specific groups of people. ...

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More at the link, including the Twitter thread referenced in the excerpt.