Isolated cases of people traveling for protests, but no indication of Trump's 'thugs' on a plane
Federal law enforcement officials say they have gathered intelligence of isolated instances of people who traveled to participate in protests in recent months and in some cases carry out rioting, but nothing that appears to match the claims by President Donald Trump of black-clad "thugs" on a plane traveling for the purposes of violence.
Attorney General William Barr, in a CNN interview Wednesday, offered some support to Trump's claim saying he had seen evidence of outsiders traveling to carry out violence in cities that have suffered rioting.
"They are flying around the country. We know people who are flying around the country. We know where they're going. We see some of the purchases they're making before the riots of weapons to use in those riots. So we are following it," Barr said. He later added that he didn't know what Trump was referring to in his comments, which he made earlier this week in an interview on Fox News.
While federal authorities have often received raw intelligence raising concerns of rioters traveling to carry out violence, the vast majority of arrests are of local residents in cities where disturbances have occurred, law enforcement officials say. Many of the raw intelligence reports don't pan out, officials say.
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Maybe Barr was thinking about Airforce One.
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