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Another very tragic day, in Trump’s america …
FBI director to Congress: Most domestic terror cases are driven by "white supremacist violence"
Despite Trump's denials, FBI Director Christopher Wray says right-wing racist terrorism is a major threat
by Igor Derysh, salon.com — July 24, 2019
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Tuesday that the agency has seen an increase in the number of domestic terror arrests this fiscal year, a majority of which have been motivated by white supremacy.
Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI has recorded about 100 domestic terrorism arrests in the last nine months. “A majority of the domestic terrorism cases we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence,” he told the panel.
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Wray’s testimony followed a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in May, where FBI counterterrorism chief Michael McGarrity testified that the bureau was investigating 850 potential domestic terrorism cases. McGarrity said that nearly half of the cases involved racially motivated extremists, most of whom were white supremacists.
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[FBI Director Wray] he believes homegrown violent terrorism was the single biggest threat to the country.
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FBI Director: White-Supremacist Violence Accounts for Majority of Domestic-Terrorism Arrests Since Last October
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“We the FBI don’t investigate the ideology, no matter how repugnant. We investigate violence. And any extremist ideology, when it turns to violence, we’re all over it,” Wray said. “We take domestic terrorism or hate crime — regardless of ideology — extremely seriously, I can assure you, and we are aggressively pursuing it using both counterterrorism resources and criminal investigative resources and partnering closely with our state and local partners.”
President Trump has repeatedly come under fire for using rhetoric that his opponents say encourages violent, racist tendencies. Critics have warned that violence resulting from white-supremacist ideologies has been on the rise since Trump took office.
“I don’t, really,” Trump said in March when asked if he thinks white nationalism is a growing threat. “I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.”
There are indications that the El Paso terrorist was a follower of “anons” as indicated by this disturbing deep dive into his social media content [warning disturbing images and language documented in the link.]
The Poway Synagogue shooter attempted to copy Tarrant [the Chirstchurch N.Z. terrorist] in both these tactics, posting a musical playlist along with his shooting. At this point it is unknown as to whether or not the El Paso shooter attempted to livestream his massacre, but posts like this on 8chan suggest that anons tried to claim the shooter as “ourguy” and tried to brigade live chats of news coverage of the event (the YouTube link was for live coverage of the shooting).
[Image of a cartoonish videogame shooter, with a caption “beatmyscore.png”]
This problem is SERIOUS.
The president of the United States is NOT serious.
Trump stokes these flames of hatred and violence, with his unchecked racial invective.
Trump is unfit for the office he holds.
Trump is undeserving of a Nation built of immigrants.
It is way more than “a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.”
It is their rhetorical leader who nods and winks at this domestic terror, who is the root problem.
One only needs look at the cages he jams-full with people of color, to understand the depth of his humanity. Trump has no humanity.
The shooters (and bombers) his rhetoric is inspiring have none either. They make quite the team.
One very dangerous violent threat — that is on the rise in America, according to the FBI Director’s testimony before Congress.
But not according to Trump. Whose ICE and Border policies (and racist Tweets) demonstrate his CONTEMPT writ large, for the entire world to see.
Even the followers of Q and anons.
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