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Quote:Four days after a homemade bomb blew through the window of a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017, Sebastian Gorka, then a national security aide to President Donald Trump, commented about the attack. Though the culprits were still unknown, Gorka suggested that the bombing may have been a “fake hate crime” ginned up by leftists. He also scoffed at journalists who had raised questions about right-wing domestic terrorism: “It’s this constant, ‘Oh, it’s the white man. It’s the white supremacists. That’s the problem.’ No, it isn’t.”
Seven months later, federal prosecutors charged three suspects in the bombing. The accused, all white men who belonged to a militia group called the White Rabbit 3 Percent Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters, allegedly hoped to “scare [Muslims] out of the country” by telling them, “You’re not welcome here—get the fuck out.” (The three were also charged for a failed bombing at an Illinois abortion provider.) About four months prior to the mosque attack, the alleged ringleader, a 47-year-old contractor named Michael Hari, had submitted a proposal to help build Trump’s border wall. Hari’s company pitched a “culturally significant” design that would “protect our way of life” and defend America’s “Anglo-Saxon heritage, Western culture, and English language.”
The United States has seen a spate of violent far-right extremism since the 2016 election. Trump’s response has been dismissive at best. Just six days after the Minnesota mosque bombing, white supremacists gathered for a torchlight march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Even after a Nazi sympathizer drove into a crowd of counterdemonstrators, killing one and injuring 20, Trump said the press had treated the marchers “absolutely unfairly” and famously declared some of them “very fine people.”.”
Trump Says White Supremacist Terror Is Fake News. These Chilling Cases Prove Otherwise. – Mother Jones
The article lists a number of crimes committed by right-wing extremists and white supremacists, and Trump's dismissive attitude..
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Quote:If you’re lucky enough not to be familiar with Jack Posobiec, here’s a brief rundown of his glittering career. Posobiec is a noted pro-Trump troll, famous for spreading the utterly implausible conspiracy theory that a D.C. pizza parlor was actually a front for a Santanic child sex ring. His far-right antics got him banned from the dating app Bumble. In other words, in our current political moment, he’s the ideal candidate to cover the Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
The president has spent a good portion of his European tour lambasting journalists as “fake news” and “enemies of the people”. On Friday during a press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May, Trump outright refused to answer questions from CNN. In Helsinki, an op-ed reporter with The Nationmagazine was forcibly removed after holding up a sign that read “Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.” But despite this clampdown on journalists — and Posobiec’s own checkered history — Posobiec was still able to get a press pass in Helsinki as part of One America News Network (OAN).
The president has previously lauded OAN’s coverage, which has aggressively pursued a pro-Trump agenda. According to insiders who spoke with the Washington Post, the network president directed the channel to minimize coverage of potential Russian interference in the 2016 election, to ignore news about police shootings, and to encourage more anti-abortion stories.
In April the network also “investigated” a chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and proceeded to parrot the claims of the Syrian Army, Russia, and Iran. Despite the fact that British, French, and U.S. forces all launched targeted airstrikes in response to the attack — which killed at least 70 — OAN claimed the entire thing was fake, supplying no concrete evidence to support their claims other than the reporting they did during a visit arranged by Syrian government forces.
A Pizzagate truther is covering the Trump-Putin summit because that’s the world we live in now – ThinkProgress
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It's not just rhetoric, real policies are changed:
Quote:What’s undeniable is that his administration has hobbled the infrastructure designed to prevent such murders. In the waning days of Barack Obama’s administration, the Department of Homeland Security awarded a set of grants to organizations working to counter violent extremism, including among white supremacists. One of the grantees was Life After Hate, which The Hill has called “one of the only programs in the U.S. devoted to helping people leave neo-Nazi and other white supremacy groups.” Another grant went to researchers at the University of North Carolina who were helping young people develop media campaigns aimed at preventing their peers from embracing white supremacy and other violent ideologies. But soon after Trump took office, his administration canceled both of these grants. In its first budget, it requested no funding for any grants in this field. It’s part of a pattern of neglect.
Trump Shut the Countering-Violent-Extremism Program - The Atlantic
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Quote:The "citizen reporters" at TruNews typically pump out racist and antisemitic conspiracy-laden articles about reptile people plotting a government takeover and secret death squads that perpetrate mass shootings, all while counting down to "the second coming of Jesus Christ." But on Thursday night, the right-wing fringe website scored one of its biggest stories yet: an interview with Donald Trump Jr. Trump Jr – the president's eldest son, business heir and hype man – spoke to TruNews correspondent Kerry Kinsey at his father's Grand Rapids, Michigan, rally on Thursday. "Look who we've got, Don Jr," Mr Kinsey says at the outset. "This is great."
Donald Trump Jr gives interview to far-right conspiracy website known for antisemitic and racist articles | The Independent
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Quote:President Donald Trump seemed to spend a lot of time Saturday morning on Twitter, retweeting Islamophobic content, as well as sharing tweets defending far-right activists recently banned from Facebook. The president retweeted a video from Deep State Exposed, an alt-right account that contains numerous Islamophobic tweets and conspiracy theories, including some linked to QAnon. The account’s author, Jeremy Stone, mentions in his Twitter bio that the president has retweeted him nine times...
In the tweet retweeted by the president Saturday, Stone falsely claimed, “The ‘elite’ proclaim America must submit to Islam or else.” This isn’t the first time Trump has shared Islamophobic content. In 2017, he retweeted three anti-Muslim propaganda videos that had been originally posted by Jayda Fransen, a leader of a far-right British political party called Britain First. More recently, the president posted an edited video to Twitter that tried to link Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to the 9/11 attacks. Omar reportedly received death threats as the video went viral. Trump’s other retweets defended members of the far-right who have either seen their social media accounts suspended or who have been outright banned in recent days.
Facebook bans: Trump weighs in with retweets and tweets his thoughts - Vox
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Quote:More than 80 members of Congress, 55 civil rights groups, three Democratic presidential candidates and one conservative columnist are among those demanding that the White House senior adviser Stephen Miller resign, or be fired, in the wake of a leaked email scandal. The communications had revealed the top aide’s obsessive focus on injecting white nationalist-style talking points on immigration, race and crime into the far-right website Breitbart, both during and after Donald Trump’s successful bid for the White House. In the past week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released multiple reports showing Miller promoted racist fears, disseminated conspiracy theories and injected a white nationalist agenda into the website Breitbart News.
‘His beliefs are appalling’: email scandal sparks calls for Stephen Miller to resign | US news | The Guardian
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Quote:Donald Trump and Fox News are said to have one of the strongest marriages in political showbusiness. But there is a young rival hoping to outfox Fox and catch the US president’s wandering media eye. The obscure One America News Network (OAN) makes up for its lack of clout or viewers by covering every Trump utterance, recycling conspiracy theories, downplaying Russian threats, bashing the mainstream media and championing the “Make America Great Again” agenda. Most Americans have not noticed, but the most powerful one has. The president rewards OAN with shout-outs and access wildly out of sync with its reach, leading some observers to suspect that he is playing OAN and Fox News off one another to ensure their undying affection.
Trump has a new favourite news network - and it's more right-wing than FOX | Television & radio | The Guardian
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Quote:In October, Eduardo Bolsonaro made a shocking statement. The son of Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right authoritarian president of Brazil, suggested in an interview that his country may need to return to the tactics employed by its former military dictatorship to help crush his father’s enemies on the left. He asserted without evidence that Cuba was behind recent protests in Latin America and Argentina’s election of a moderate Peronist was part of a conspiracy to bring about a new leftist “revolution” in Latin America. “If the left radicalizes to this extent [in Brazil] we will need to respond, and that response could come via a new AI-5,” he said, referring to the notorious Institutional Act Number Five, a notorious 1968 edict issued by the military government that indefinitely outlawed freedom of expression and assembly and shuttered the National Congress. The act began an era of intense political repression and media censorship. Hundreds of dissidents were tortured, killed and disappeared during the dictatorship, which ended in 1985. Elected officials in the country quickly denounced Bolsonaro’s comments as “repugnant” and a “serious attack on democracy.” American conservatives, on the other hand, invited Bolsonaro to take the stage at one of DC’s biggest political events of the year, this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
American Conservatives Have Fallen in Love With the Right-Wing Son of Brazil’s President – Mother Jones
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