quote: The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump's army of MAGA followers.
The challenge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary federal agency charged with law enforcement, is to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political parties or affiliations—even though the vast majority of its current "anti-government" investigations are of Trump supporters, according to classified data obtained by Newsweek.
"The FBI is in an almost impossible position," says a current FBI official, who requested anonymity to discuss highly sensitive internal matters. The official said that the FBI is intent on stopping domestic terrorism and any repeat of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. But the Bureau must also preserve the Constitutional right of all Americans to campaign, speak freely and protest the government. By focusing on former president Trump and his MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters, the official said, the Bureau runs the risk of provoking the very anti-government activists that the terrorism agencies hope to counter.
"Especially at a time when the White House is facing Congressional Republican opposition claiming that the Biden administration has 'weaponized' the Bureau against the right wing, it has to tread very carefully," says the official.
quote: The challenge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary federal agency charged with law enforcement, is to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political parties or affiliations—even though the vast majority of its current "anti-government" investigations are of Trump supporters, according to classified data obtained by Newsweek.
Jokes on them. Most MAGA folks realize this country is dead and gone and there is nothing left to fight for. We're just living our lives with our family and waiting for the rough landing of the financial collapse.
The FBI and CIA are the two biggest domestic threats to the Republic of the United States. Both are criminal organizations that ignore the constitution!
Didn't goons in Portland try to burn down the federal court for several months? Or what about 50 Secret Service agents hurt outside of the White House in 2020? Was that domestic terror?
"All the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds, who typically commit most such killings each year but only occasionally are responsible for all (the last time this occurred was 2012). Left-wing extremists engage in violence ranging from assaults to fire-bombings and arsons, but since the late 1980s have not often targeted people with deadly violence." LINK
Oh that's right... because they're out of controls animals. God bless our Federal Agents protecting us from them
Every poster on this site has been no doubt cataloged and identified, and then put on a list some huge group in a 3 letter federal agency is maintaining.
I've never lead any calls to action, nor answered any calls to action, that would threaten to cause any violence or destruction ever. Prior to 2020, I'd have thought that would be enough to keep me in bounds as far as whom the government would want to silence.
I no longer think that anymore. Even posting that you're a Trump supporter here on TD is likely enough to make you a target in the age we now live in. Maybe you're safe for now. But in the next 5-10 years, who knows? People who merely walked into the Capitol building 2 years are serving 12.. 16... 18 year sentences while a guy in Baltimore who's been convicted of rape and attempted murder is able to freely walk the streets and then rape and murder the CEO of a tech company.