Feb 2017 - White Supremacists removed from "violent extremist group" watchlist

[NewJeffCT]

Online neo-Nazi and white supremacist forums have been unmistakably jubilant lately, as web chatter moved from celebrating President Donald Trump’s electoral victory to celebrating individual cabinet appointments and policy proposals.

On Thursday, internet racists celebrated another perceived victory: Reports that President Trump will soon remove white nationalist groups from a federal effort to study and neutralize extremist radicalization, and rebrand the program to focus solely on groups associating themselves with Islam.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-is-setting-us-free-white-supremacists-celebrate-reports-that-trump-will-dial-down-scrutiny-136039e12fad/

I guess we're reaping what Trump has sown

[AlexSFCA]

1. they are trumps base

[Farmer-Rick]

13. White supremacist AND Putin hackers

Are his base.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. When in the hell is this Nation going to wake up to the fact

these Militia Groups are fostering the environment of killing people for sport.

[RandomAccess]

3. Disgusting, but not exactly

something that one couldn't have predicted if it happens.

And SOME of our elected leaders have the temerity to denounce calls for Trump's impeachment. What are they thinking?? I understand concern that that can be labeled as partisan, but they've GOT to get in gear to start LEADING with better framing of important topics. Too, if they leave everything until Mueller comes out with whatever he does -- if anything even gets made public -- it will be too big a shock for most non-politically-involved Americans

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Good Grief!

But then his statement after the carnage in Charlottesville revealed his bigotry and cluelessness, so this should come as no surprise.

[IluvPitties]

5. We need to make this a NATIONAL DEBATE

Why is Trump protecting white nationalists?

[heaven05]

6. because

He is a white nationalists racist.

[Raster]

8. Ding!

[uponit7771]

16. +1

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. perfect timing

I suppose TrumPutin will be mouthing about an Islamic terrorist doing the shooting in Florida.

Will there even be mid-term elections?

[stevenleser]

9. Note: This article is a year old. Do we know what has happened since?

Do we know if this has happened?

[spedtr90]

14. They got started on it in August

Maybe the worst info in this is that there's still a Gorka in the mix.

Trump aides, including Katharine Gorka, a controversial national security analyst known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric, were already working toward eliminating Life After Hate’s grant and to direct all funding toward fighting what the president has described as “radical Islamic terrorism.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/katharine-gorka-life-after-hate_us_59921356e4b09096429943b6

[NewJeffCT]

15. Yes - I noted that in my headline

that it was from February of 2017. Just a reminder because there is at least 1-2 atrocious and horrible things that Team Trump does every day and so many get forgotten about with the next crazy tweet or unhinged statement

[randr]

10. This home grown terrorist was nurtured and trained inside American shores by

our most feared terrorist organizations. The White Supremacist movement must be squashed like the jihadist bugs they are.

[Gothmog]

11. White supremacist groups are part of trump's base and so trump will protect them

[djacq]

12. And the Judicial Oversight Committee says what?

Jeff Sessions aka Keebler Elf, “I don’t know”, “I don’t remember”, “I can’t recall”.

[Gothmog]

17. Twice as many "homegrown" terrorists were prosecuted in federal court as "foreign" ones

Link to tweet

[heaven05]

19. this is a lie

Right? Well 66million plus voted for hairhitler2, so they will have the main stage until this administration ends it's reign of terror on all decent americans. How many like this Cruz are out there waiting to wreak havoc on innocents WITH the complicity and compliance of the ELECTED highest official of this country? AmeriKKKa is being guided by sessions, ryan, mcConnell, and in the hidden administration...Bannon, Gorka, and wouldn't be surprised if Jones and his toxic bullshit is filling hairhitlers ears with fear of those brown people who are no worse or better than the Caucasian population. This country is watching the chickens coming home to roost. And the start of them roosting in this 21st century was a fucking chicken...hawk in 2000.

How is it so many were/are so fearful of an AA running this 'melting pot' that these AMERIKKKANS could gain enough clout that we ALL end up with a POS like hairHitler as a ersatz potus? Oh sorry I know, our vaunted free press created this...all MSM are guilty of collusion with hair Hitler the winner of their pre-election fawning over this turd posing as potus. I will never understand the fear a lot have of a decent man and POTUS such as President Obama.

America WILL NEVER RECOVER from this attack by white nationalists racists IN POWER, I think.

[Initech]

18. Why aren't they called terrorists?