A former DHS official said Trump is letting right-wing extremists 'start a race war'

[Nevilledog]

A former Department of Homeland Security official said Trump is letting right-wing extremists 'start a race war'

https://www.insider.com/dhs-trump-is-letting-right-wing-extremists-start-race-war-2020-8

Elizabeth Neumann, a former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security specializing in domestic terrorism, said the Trump administration is allowing right-wing extremists to "start a race war."

Neumann, who resigned in April 2020, appeared on an episode of Skullduggery, a Yahoo News podcast, on Friday to discuss her dissatisfaction with how the speakers at this week's Republican National Convention described Black Lives Matter protestors.

RNC speakers portrayed cities with ongoing protests in Democrat-run states as "lawless," brushing over instances of white supremacists escalating to violence during the demonstrations. Neumann called the portrayals "completely a sideshow to distract from the real threat."

"There are multiple arrests that the FBI has conducted in the last few months at these peaceful protests where you have right-wing extremists coming in trying to take advantage of the cover of the protests to carry out these violent acts and they are trying to start a race war," Neumann said.

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[still_one]

1. and I hate to say this, but because of right wing militia infiltration into these protests, that

plays right into their hands

If we cannot control that infiltration, they should really consider limiting the protests at least until after the election

[musette_sf]

2. K&R

[Sogo]

3. Indeed....

Gangs of Trump-inspired domestic terrorists maraud, mace, and murder protesters and pedestrians alike and are celebrated by right-wing media and Trump Supporters. Totally unregulated, gathering and planning on social media accounts, they disburse onto the streets of Kenosha, and Portland, and to your city perhaps next. Their mission of supremacy matches their hate, brutal racism, anger of noninclusive, and adoration for a "strongman."

This is Trump's America. He has sown the wind, and we reap the whirlwind for his purposes: "Elect me, or I will destroy you."

[magicarpet]

4. trDumpie will say,... Yes a race war,... started by BLM, Antifa,...

... anarchists, domestic terrorists, and black racist supremacists.

We need Law & Order and only trDumpie restore civility.

[Permanut]

5. So Trump has characteristics in common with Charles Manson.

Agreed.

[StrictlyRockers]

6. Posted about this yesterday

Link to tweet

The FBI has made multiple arrests in the last few months at peaceful protests where there are right-wing extremists coming in trying to take advantage of the cover of the protests to carry out violent acts, and they are trying to start a race war.

[empedocles]

7. trump 'letting' rw extremists . . .

[Liberal In Texas]

8. He thinks he needs violence in the streets to validate his "Law and Order"

meme and that he's going to solve it....which is odd because he's the president right now and he hasn't done anything to fix it. I don't know how people don't see that.