How Trump's Focus on Antifa Distracted Attention From the Far-Right Threat

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/us/politics/trump-right-wing-domestic-terrorism.html

WASHINGTON — As racial justice protests erupted nationwide last year, President Donald J. Trump, struggling to find a winning campaign theme, hit on a message that he stressed over and over: The real domestic threat to the United States emanated from the radical left, even though law enforcement authorities had long since concluded it came from the far right.

It was a message that was quickly embraced and amplified by his attorney general and his top homeland security officials, who translated it into a shift in criminal justice and national security priorities even as Mr. Trump was beginning to openly stoke the outrage that months later would culminate in the storming of the Capitol by right-wing extremists.

Mr. Trump’s efforts to focus his administration on the antifa movement and leftist groups did not stop the Justice Department and the F.B.I. from pursuing cases of right-wing extremism. They broke up a kidnapping plot, for example, targeting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, a Democrat.

But the effect of his direction was nonetheless substantial, according to interviews with current and former officials, diverting key portions of the federal law enforcement and domestic security agencies at a time when the threat from the far right was building ominously.

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[stillcool]

1. that was not a distraction, that was an intention

I wonder why they're publishing this now, as if it's news. They covered the protests. They saw what was happening, they have the video.

[Solly Mack]

2. That was done intentionally to defend right-wing extremists to advance a rallying cry of Liberals,

bad, Conservatives, good and Democratic Party, bad/Republican Party, good. Left, bad. Right, good. Racists, good. Social justice, bad.

His supporters are all - ALL - right-wing extremists. Whether they are the ones engaging in insurrection by storming the Capitol or the ones using their positions of power to do the same.

He protected them. He defended them. He held them up as good people. Told them he loved them.

He attacked everyone else. We became the enemy of America in his narrative - and theirs.

On purpose, with intent.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Looky over there