Don’t know why this story didn’t gain more media attention because it CLEARLY shows how our government institutions were corrupted by Trump and CLEARLY shows how he would do it again if he somehow got back into power.
From Gizmodo:
An internal investigative report, made public this month by Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, details the findings of DHS lawyers concerning a previously undisclosed effort by Trump’s acting secretary of homeland security, Chad Wolf, to amass secret dossiers on Americans in Portland attending anti-racism protests in summer 2020 sparked by the police murder of Minneapolis father George Floyd.
The report describes attempts by top officials to link protesters to an imaginary terrorist plot in an apparent effort to boost Trump’s reelection odds, raising concerns now about the ability of a sitting president to co-opt billions of dollars’ worth of domestic intelligence assets for their own political gain. DHS analysts recounted orders to generate evidence of financial ties between protesters in custody; an effort that, had they not failed, would have seemingly served to legitimize President Trump’s false claims about “Antifa,” an “organization” that even his most loyal intelligence officers failed to drum up proof ever existed.
And surprise surprise. DHS officials found no evidence that these assertions were true, but of course that didn’t stop Trump from loudly proclaiming BLM and Antifa to be domestic terrorist organizations, which was of course loudly amplified by his propaganda outlets like Fox News and Newsmax.
The DHS report offers a full accounting of the intelligence activities happening behind the scenes of officers’ protest containment; “twisted efforts,” Wyden said, of Trump administration officials promoting “baseless conspiracy theories” to manufacture of a domestic terrorist threat for the president’s “political gain.” The report describes the dossiers generated by DHS as having detailed the past whereabouts and the “friends and followers of the subjects, as well as their interests” — up to and including “First Amendment speech activity.” Intelligence analysts had internally raised concerns about the decision to accuse anyone caught in the streets by default of being an “anarchist extremist” specifically because “sufficient facts” were never found “to support such a characterization.”
So make no mistake, if Trump EVER gets back into the White House he WILL weaponize our nation’s law enforcement agencies to go after every single one of us who opposes the MAGA fascist movement because that’s what fascist do when they gain power. And of course his very first act as President will be to suspend the Constitution and enact martial law in the name of “public safety” like the Dollar Store Dictator that he is.
Remember this when you vote tomorrow. Democracy is on the line, and that ain’t no malarkey. Also, when are we going to have a serious discussion in this country about the fascist leanings of DHS and CBP?