{"id":42359,"date":"2019-08-01T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42359"},"modified":"2019-08-01T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:17:30","slug":"trumps-base-fbi-cites-right-wing-conspiracy-groups-like-qanon-as-domestic-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42359","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Base: FBI Cites Right-Wing Conspiracy Groups Like QAnon as Domestic Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incidence of racial hatred and violence has done nothing but increase during the administration of Donald Trump. In fact, the relationship between hate crimes and Trump is so tightly correlated that one study shows an increase in violence of 226 percent<\/a><\/strong> just in the counties where Trump has held a recent rally. And his ramping up of racist remarks aimed at congressional women of color<\/a><\/strong> surely isn’t helping.<\/p>\n

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Not surprisingly, the response to this flagrant bigotry from Trump’s Deplorables has been an outpouring of support. Polls show that Republican approval for Trump actually went up<\/a><\/strong> after his racist tirades. But within his own FBI, a new report<\/a><\/strong> is placing the blame for violence instigated by hate groups where it truly belongs:<\/p>\n

“The FBI for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat […] It lists a number of arrests, including some that haven\u2019t been publicized, related to violent incidents motivated by fringe beliefs.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other non-partisan organizations have found similar evidence of this sort of violent activity, but this is the first time that it has been affirmed by the FBI with specific citations of the bad actors:<\/p>\n

“The document specifically mentions QAnon, a shadowy network that believes in a deep state conspiracy against President Trump, and Pizzagate, the theory that a pedophile ring including Clinton associates was being run out of the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant (which didn\u2019t actually have a basement).”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The report forecasts that “conspiracy theory-driven extremists are likely to increase during the 2020 presidential election cycle.”<\/em> And FBI Director Christopher Wray (a Trump appointee) warned that \u201ca majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

What the report leaves out is the link between these violent groups and Donald Trump. QAnon is built around a clandestine cabal of cultists who believe that Trump is heading up a secret society whose mission is to expose a child sex trafficking ring masterminded by Hillary Clinton. No really! And Trump has also been closely affiliated with conspiracy crackpots like Glenn Beck and Alex Jones of Infowars. However, the ability of law enforcement to reign in these organizations was greatly curtailed when, according to the Department of Homeland Security, \u201cnearly all, if not all, the intelligence analysts focusing on domestic extremist groups\u201d<\/em> were eliminated under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The publication of this report at this particular time has its own set of peculiarities. Most notable is the fact that Trump himself addressed the matter of domestic terrorism just last week, but from the completely opposite direction:<\/p>\n

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Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others). Would make it easier for police to do their job!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n