US Deputy Attorney General Warns About Right Wing Terror Threat Trump Ignores

[Initech]

Last week I reported on concerns among US law enforcement and security leaders about a rising threat of domestic right-wing terrorism. For some, those fears were exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s equivocating response to the deadly car attack earlier this month by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville, Virginia. As one high-level US official told me, Trump’s handling of the crisis “has been hard to view as anything other than a disaster. There are real concerns about where it leads the country.”

Trump also has a history of downplaying, if not downright ignoring right-wing terror attacks, as I’ve also documented. But in a speech at a national security conference in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein went where Trump takes pains not to go. After telling an audience of law enforcement professionals that fewer Americans in recent months have been seeking to join ISIS overseas, though still pose a danger at home, Rosenstein addressed the threat from the far right: “The Department of Justice also remains vigilant about the threat of domestic terrorism,” he said. “Violent domestic extremists have plotted attacks on government buildings, businesses, and houses of worship. They have planned and carried out assassinations of police officers, judges, doctors and civil rights leaders. They have acquired biological and chemical weapons, illegal firearms, and explosives. They have carried out killing sprees that terrorize local communities.”

Rosenstein specifically called out recent cases involving white supremacists and other far-right extremists that Trump has said little or nothing about—including the massacre of black church congregants in Charleston, South Carolina, the murder of two police officers in Las Vegas, and a plot to kill Somali immigrants living in Kansas:

Violent domestic extremists pose a particular danger to law enforcement officers — not just because you go into dangerous situations, but because some extremist groups target the police.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/us-deputy-attorney-general-warns-about-the-right-wing-terror-threat-trump-ignores/

And Jeff Sessions won't either. Why? They're Trump's base.

[mopinko]

1. and some are police.

[Initech]

2. Yup! Armed white supremacists with a license to shoot first and ask questions later.

And Trump wants to give them military grade equipment. Bad idea.

[inanna]

3. Rec!

Very important.

Thanks.

[colsohlibgal]

4. It Is Becoming Threat

I have donated enough to the SPLC so they sent me their intelligence report on far right White Nationalist activity and it was more than alarming and it is virtually everywhere...thirteen groups just here in Ohio. A report I just read in the Columbus Free Press described Nazi birthday cakes and the like in a fire station in SW Ohio.

It has been 72 years since the end of WWll, about the length of collective memory. So here we go again and we must stay active and alert to combat this noxious far right racist anti Semitic surge...they are emboldened by the jerk in the White House.

[Initech]

7. And that's the scary thing.

We have a president who not only is empowering the racist scumbags, he's practically giving them a pat on the back! I mean when the UN comes out and says that the hate in this country has got out of control, that's a pretty big fucking problem!

[sharedvalues]

5. Also read C Blow, "Trump raises an army"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029536888

[Hulk]

6. ...and perhaps involve some of the police.

I have no evidence, other than to say there are members of the police departments across this country who are also affiliated with right wing hate groups.
Their documented thuggery and murder of civilians is proof enough for me that there is a connection.