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By Isaac Stanley-Becker
February 21 at 12:11 PM
When federal agents searched the Maryland home of the U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant accused of plotting to kill politicians and journalists in a quest for a white homeland, they didnt find only guns and ammunition ...
According to court records, Christopher Paul Hasson found inspiration for beefing up elsewhere in a 1,500-page manifesto prepared by Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing Norwegian extremist who killed 77 people ...
... For the 49-year-old resident of Silver Spring, those reportedly included CNN and MSNBC personalities as well as lawmakers such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi .. and Sen. Elizabeth Warren .. whom Hasson identified as poca warren, abbreviating President Trumps Pocahontas epithet for her. Hasson was arrested Friday on weapons and drugs charges ...
... U.S. prosecutors detailed how the Coast Guard lieutenant had studied Breiviks delusional, hate-filled rantings. Starting in 2017, he regularly examined the manifesto, which led him to websites advertising firearms and tactical equipment, authorities said ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/21/they-hate-white-males-norwegian-mass-murderer-inspired-coast-guard-officer-plotting-terror-feds-say/?utm_term=.77b6bfbcadce
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(118,330 posts)https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fantasies-of-violence-motivated-coast-guard-officer-with-weapons-stockpile
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(118,330 posts)BY ABIGAIL TRACY
NOVEMBER 2, 2018 8:38 AM
... an attorney representing .. one of three men convicted of plotting to bomb Somali refugees, filed an explosive memo in U.S. District Court in Kansas. Stein, his lawyer argued, should receive a more lenient sentence because he was inspired by then-candidate Donald Trump. The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically mold-breaking, violent, awful, hateful, and contentious presidential elections in modern history, attorney Jim Pratt wrote, driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president ...
... Trump and his allies have argued that the president bears no responsibility for the acts of deranged individuals. But to many experts on hate groups and former Homeland Security, law enforcement, and counterterrorism officials, there is unquestionably a correlation. I think its laughable that people are trying to separate the two things in saying there is no relationship between what the president urges his supporters to do and what his supporters then do, Glenn Kirschner, a former federal homicide prosecutor, told me. A fourth-grader could see the connection. . . . Anybody who says there is no connection, I think is saying it for political or ideological reasons ...
... Even before Trump took office, his presidential transition team began drawing up plans to redirect national-security resources away from white supremacists to focus solely on Islamic terrorism. The main target of this effort was Countering Violent Extremism, an interagency task force created by Barack Obama in the wake of the Charleston Church shooting to help prevent acts of violence before they happen. In 2016, the Office of Community Partnerships, which housed C.V.E., boasted a full-time staff of 16, about 25 contractors, and a budget of $21 million. But the Trump White House was skeptical of the preventative approach. While the Anti-Defamation League estimates that white supremacists have committed 83 percent of extremist-related murders in the U.S. over the past decade, the administration wanted to keep the focus on radical Islamist groups. In 2018, the Office of Community Partnerships budget was slashed to less than $3 million and its headcount cut to eight. Effectively, it no longer exists, a former D.H.S. official told me, describing a shift away from a comprehensive approach to preventing radicalization and recruitment ...
Other sources I spoke with specifically identified Katharine Gorka, the wife of former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, as a driving figure behind efforts to de-prioritize white supremacist violence. Although Mr. Gorka was forced out of the White House in August 2017, Mrs. Gorka remains a full-time adviser for Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security, where she has reportedly played a critical role in shaping the administrations counterterrorism agenda, including drafting reports to Congress on terrorism recruitment ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/trump-administration-tree-of-life-shooting-domestic-terrorism
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(118,330 posts)By Tim Elfrink
February 19
Amid the sea of dark suits and red Make America Great Again gear behind President Trump at his televised speech in Miami on Monday, one man stood out. Appearing above the president in some live shots, he wore dark sunglasses, a black baseball cap and a black T-shirt with a message of support for Trumps longtime adviser now facing federal charges: Roger Stone Did Nothing Wrong! ...
The Proud Boys leaders prominent placement at Trumps speech could give new fuel to critics who say the president has failed to distance himself from the far right in the years since he claimed there were very fine people on both sides at the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which was organized by a man who once attended Proud Boys meetings. Tarrio also attended the rally ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/19/far-right-proud-boys-chairman-sat-behind-trump-his-latest-speech/?utm_term=.7c8137be5650
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(118,330 posts)BY TIM MARCIN ON 2/22/19 AT 4:19 PM
... NBC News reporter Hallie Jackson followed up: "Do you think you bear any responsibility for moderating your language when it comes to that?"
"No, I don't," Trump said. "I think my language is very nice" ...
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-terror-plot-coast-guard-language-very-nice-1341289
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(118,330 posts)By Mike Levine
Nov 5, 2018 6:13 AM ET
... a nationwide review conducted by ABC News has identified at least 17 criminal cases where Trump's name was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence or allegations of assault.
Nearly all -- 16 of 17 -- cases identified by ABC News are striking in that court documents and direct evidence reflect someone echoing presidential rhetoric, not protesting it. ABC News was unable to find any such case echoing presidential rhetoric when Barack Obama or George W. Bush were in the White House.
The perpetrators and suspects identified in the 17 cases are mostly white men, as young as teenagers and as old as 68, while the victims represent an array of minority groups -- African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims and gay men.
Federal law enforcement authorities have privately told ABC News they worry that -- even with Trump's public denunciations of violence -- Trump's style could inspire violence-prone individuals to take action against minorities or others they perceive to be against the president's agenda ...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blame-abc-news-finds-17-cases-invoking-trump/story?id=58912889
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(118,330 posts)By Meghan Keneally
Oct 19, 2018 10:55 AM ET
... In the latest instance, Trump referenced Rep. Greg Gianfortes 2017 attack on a reporter by saying that any guy who can do a body slam, he is my type! ...
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the day of the Iowa caucuses, .. he told audience members he would pay their legal fees if they engaged in violence against protesters ...
Three protesters who claim they were roughed up by Trump supporters at a .. rally in Louisville .. filed a federal suit against Trump ...His lawyers tried to get the case dismissed by saying .. he did not intend for his words to incite violence. But federal Judge David Hale.. said there was sufficient evidence that the protesters' injuries were a "direct and proximate result" of Trump's comments ...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/back-trump-comments-perceived-encouraging-violence/story?id=48415766
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(118,330 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,697 posts)mass murderers get endless coverage, and wannabes have wet dreams about improving on their numbers.
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(118,330 posts)Published on Oct 26, 2018
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(24,592 posts)Thanks for putting it together.