Threats to those after Trump attacks them

[Sixties Fan]

[ And this was before 1/6/21]


President Donald Trump has repeatedly distanced himself from acts of violencein communities across America, dismissing critics who point to his rhetoric as a potential source of inspiration or comfort for anyone acting on even long-held beliefs of bigotry and hate.

"I think my rhetoric brings people together," he said last year, four days after a 21-year-old allegedly posted an anti-immigrant screed online and then allegedly opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 and injuring dozens of others.

But a nationwide review conducted by ABC News has identified at least 54 criminal cases where Trump was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence or allegations of assault.

After a Latino gas station attendant in Gainesville, Florida, was suddenly punched in the head by a white man, the victim could be heard on surveillance camera recounting the attacker’s own words: “He said, ‘This is for Trump.'" Charges were filed but the victim stopped pursuing them.

When police questioned a Washington state man about his threats to kill a local Syrian-born man, the suspect told police he wanted the victim to "get out of my country," adding, "That’s why I like Trump."

Reviewing police reports and court records, ABC News found that in at least 12 cases perpetrators hailed Trump in the midst or immediate aftermath of physically assaulting innocent victims. In another 18 cases, perpetrators cheered or defended Trump while taunting or threatening others. And in another 10 cases, Trump and his rhetoric were cited in court to explain a defendant's violent or threatening behavior.

(full article online)

'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.

President Donald Trump insists he deserves no blame for divisions in America.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Remember when the J20 rioters set that Trump supporter's hair on fire?

A truly proud moment for Democrats everywhere.

As I said before, I am TOTALLY against threats and violence from any side.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

There are loons on both sides constantly threatening people.

So what?

But when you have the political leaders doing this, like Chuck Schumer threatening the lives of SCOTUS if they dare alter Roe vs Wade, something more is going on here.

When you have democrats give out the address of SCOTUS and the address of where their children go to school, something more is going on here

When you have someone then show up at the house of one of the justices on SCOTUS who admitted he was there to assassinated him, and when no leadership from the DNC condemns it, and flat out refuses to even acknowledge it, something more is going on here

When those in Congress seek to protect SCOTUS after the assassination attempt through legislation as the DNC tries to thwart it, you know something more is going on here.

And when Merrick Garland refuses to stop protesting after the assassination attempt at the homes of SCOTUS, which is against the law to being with, he refuses to stop it. You know we hare lowered ourselves to a new level beyond scum as a government.

Now the DNC leadership are the terrorists.

Yeah yeah. Well. Waddabout SWATTING political opponents? Huh huh.
Oh
Never mind

 

[Sixties Fan]

Remember when the J20 rioters set that Trump supporter's hair on fire?

A truly proud moment for Democrats everywhere.

[ Early in the Trump administration ]

WHEN TEXAS PHOTOJOURNALIST Alexei Wood goes to court in Washington, D.C., on November 15, he’ll be one of the first people to face charges stemming from protests around the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Wood and five others are being charged for their alleged involvement in what prosecutors are describing as a riot on the morning of January 20, hours before Trump was sworn in at on the Capitol steps. All nine defendants face up to 70 years in prison.

The case’s outcome could set a precedent that would affect all of the over 200 remaining defendants awaiting trial for the “J20″ protests who face the same strict maximum sentence.

“The government doesn’t like this kind of activity in its city,” said Wood’s lawyer, Brett Cohen.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia did not respond to requests for comment, but information gleaned from the April 27 indictment indicates the sort of tactics the government will use against the defendants, who will be tried in staggered groups of around eight beginning November 15.

By charging everyone together with conspiracy counts, the government seems intent on making an example of the J20 protesters. “They’re prosecuting us as a group,” Wood said.

The government may attempt to force members of the same defense into a situation in which their aims conflict with one another. “Defendants have to be careful, regardless of how they feel about particular parts of the indictments, that the prosecution’s case not hurt their fellow co-defendants,” said Sam Menefee-Libey, spokesperson for the Dead City Legal Posse, a support network for J20 arrestees that provides housing, court support, and other services to assist in their navigation of the capital’s judicial system.

The conflation of the protesters as a whole with the alleged violent acts of a few in the crowd is worrying to Menefee-Libby. It would be a “radical departure” from a basic understanding of the law, Menefee-Libby said, if the government prosecutes people solely for their proximity to criminality. “Individuals can only be held responsible for their own behavior,” said Menefee-Libby, describing a fundamental tenet of the U.S. justice system.

That the government’s case does not differentiate between actors and bystanders could be an indication of future clampdowns on protest. “Even if we take the government at their word, that members of the protest had unlawful goals,” said attorney Shana Knizhnik, of the American Civil Liberties Union’s D.C. chapter, “it’s undeniable they also had lawful goals.”

THE LAWFUL AIM of the January 20 protesters was to exercise their First Amendment right to express dissatisfaction with the incoming Trump administration. With Trump’s standing as the most unpopular incoming president in at least 40 years, it was unsurprising that the inauguration would be met with demonstrations.

Wood went to Washington to document that discontent, he told The Intercept. A full-time freelance photojournalist for the past three years, Wood’s work has a focus on resistance movements. He left his home in San Antonio, Texas, to travel to Washington and report on events around the inauguration. “I was there to document whatever happened,” Wood said, adding that he had no idea of any planned actions. Wood livestreamed the protests on his phone and recorded them on a separate video camera.

The situation quickly turned chaotic. Some members of the protest crowd adopted black bloc tactics, hiding their identities and taking part in minor property destruction. “There were windows breaking, chemicals in the air,” said Alex Stokes, another journalist who was arrested on the January 20, though the charges against him were later dropped. “The cops didn’t seem to have any control over the situation.”

The Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement it could not offer comment on the specifics of pending litigation, but noted that there were “individuals who chose to engage in criminal acts, destroying property and hurling projectiles, injuring at least six officers.” The police added, “As with any pending criminal or civil matter, we will continue to support and respect the formal legal process. Moreover, all instances of use of force by officers and allegations of misconduct will be fully investigated.”

On Inauguration Day, the march moved through the city “with no real coordination,” said Stokes until demonstrators arrived at the intersection of L and 12th streets. The police then used a tactic known as kettling to trap the protesters in advance of their arrest. “The cops blocked one end of the street and then followed us in from the other side,” said Stokes.

Stokes and Wood said hundreds of protesters — including journalists and legal observers — were caught in the kettle. “It was indiscriminate,” said Wood. A group of around 100 made a break for it and escaped, but the remaining group of over 230 were all arrested and locked up through the weekend. “Journalists, lawyers, the average protester: Those are the people they kettled, arrested, and charged with felony riot,” said Stokes. (Another journalist who faces charges, Aaron Cantú, has contributed to The Intercept, though he was not on assignment for the website on January 20.)

The felony charge came after 36 hours in lockup, said Wood. He added that, while detained, he heard that the government had a list of misdemeanors with which the protesters were going to be charged. While in custody, however, Wood was charged with a felony. Three months later, on April 27, a grand jury handed down a new indictment that added 13 additional counts.

(full article online)

Hundreds Face Conspiracy Charges For Actions Of A Few During Inauguration Day Protests

Journalists, lawyers, and demonstrators alike were charged with conspiracy felonies for the "J20" protest of Donald Trump's Inauguration Day.

theintercept.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Yeah yeah. Well. Waddabout SWATTING political opponents? Huh huh.
Oh
Never mind

That is part of lousy behavior on either side, I totally disagree with. It should not happen to anyone.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Freeman showed hundreds of threatening emails and text messages to police in Cobb County, where she lives, according to police reports reviewed by Reuters. She visited the Fulton County police station on Dec. 4, 2020, and told officers about the threats. While she was there, her phone buzzed nonstop with menacing calls, and an unidentified officer answered more than 20 of them, according to Freeman. In response to Freeman’s at-times panicked emergency calls to 911, Cobb County officers went to her home, according to a Reuters review of the call recordings. But police officials did not open investigations into the threats she faced, according to police records.

Among the uninvited visitors to Freeman’s home was a prominent Black supporter of Trump, Trevian Kutti, who said she came to offer help. A publicist for hip-hop artist and Trump supporter Kanye West, Kutti warned Freeman that she’d be arrested soon on voting fraud charges and sought to pressure her into confessing in exchange for help, Freeman said. (West has since changed his name to “Ye.”)

Freeman said she ended the conversation. The episode made her wonder who she could trust. She concluded: “Nobody.”

Parts of Freeman’s account of the meeting are corroborated by police recordings reviewed by Reuters. Kutti did not respond to requests for comment.

The family’s ordeal is an extreme example of a much broader paralysis in U.S. law enforcement as election workers faced an unprecedented wave of terroristic threats this year. In addition to the several hundred threats described by Moss and Freeman, Reuters has documented more than 850 threats and harassing messages to election administrators, including about 100 that legal experts say could be prosecuted under federal law. Almost no one has been held accountable.

“There has to be charges brought against those threatening and encouraging the threatening of election workers,” said Matt Masterson, a Republican who ran election security at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security between 2018 to 2020. “I don't see a way out of this without real accountability being brought to bear.”

A spokesperson for Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

Reuters reported on the mother and daughter’s experience last week through public records and interviews with their associates. The next day, the two women filed a defamation lawsuit against The Gateway Pundit, a far-right news site that published a series of false stories accusing them of election fraud. The Gateway Pundit declined to comment.

For this story, the two women agreed to be interviewed on the condition that the reporters not take photos, publish audio recordings of the meeting or disclose where it took place. Both Moss and Freeman have changed their appearances since their photographs were widely circulated after the election; Reuters agreed not to describe how they look now.

After the threats started last December, the women grew desperate for help. Freeman said she spoke with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). The bureau’s response was to show her how to make her Facebook page private, she said. The GBI told Reuters that Georgia law only allows the bureau to investigate if asked by police or another governing official, which it said none did in the case of Freeman and Moss.

Freeman also spoke with the FBI. On Jan. 5, an agent recommended she leave her home for her own safety, she said. The FBI also advised her to change her phone number. The FBI had been monitoring threats to election workers and contacted Freeman after discovering messages targeting her, a former federal official told Reuters.

At the time, far-right users on Parler, a social media platform, were calling for her execution. “She will go missing very soon,” one post said. Another said she would be “suicided with 2 bullets to the back of the head.” One urged fellow Trump supporters to “hunt her down.” Yet another said: “Time for Ruby to die for what she believed in.”

Parler did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

Making violent threats is a felony crime in Georgia when done with the “purpose of terrorizing another.” Federal law criminalizes threats explicit enough to put a reasonable person in fear of bodily harm or death.

(full article online )

Two election workers break silence after enduring Trump backers' threats

Reuters By Linda So and Jason Szep Death threats from angry Trump supporters forced Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman, a 62-year-old grandmother, to flee her home of 20 years. Some messages called for her hanging; one urged people to “hunt” her. Freeman showed hundreds of menacing messages...

www.klobuchar.senate.gov

 

[jc456]

I am not defending it. I do not accept any verbal and physical threats to anyone. But one party has been going totally out of its way to attempt to keep power in the WH, and many Democrats and Republicans as well, who have gone against Trump have had to retire because of those threats.

Change glasses.

holy fk I am laughing. your inability to unfilter is amazing. Two impeachments that spanned four years by demofks trying to keep the WH and you ignore it. Just amazing. Really, My fking brain hurts when I think about how you fkers accept bad behavior from demofks like you owe them something. WTF is all that I can pull out at that point. Simply hilarious you inability to unfilter yourself.

 

[jc456]

That is part of lousy behavior on either side, I totally disagree with. It should not happen to anyone.

oh fk you. You have your filter only set on republicans. You don't have the ability to see something from a demofk. blinded by the light, you are set up as a douche another roller in the night.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Nov 18, 2021

Democracy doesn’t work unless citizens make it work. This not only means showing up to vote but also helping operate and administer the key institutions in a democratic society — such as schools, polling places, and local health agencies.

Yet over the course of the past year and a half, the Americans who do this critical work — mostly anonymous individuals motivated by a sense of civic duty — have been subject to a wave of violent threats. Consider the following examples:

• In Vermont, a man menaced a group of election officials, warning them that “your days are fucking numbered.”
• In Missouri, a public health official was “physically assaulted, called racist slurs, and surrounded by an angry mob.”
• In Oregon, a school board member was told that a neighbor was out looking for him — and threatening to kill him.

These are not one-off incidents. Surveys have found that 17 percent of America’s local election officials and nearly 12 percent of its public health workforce have been threatened due to their jobs during the 2020 election cycle and Covid-19 pandemic. While none of the threats against public servants appear to have led to deadly violence yet, the volume has gotten severe enough that the Justice Department created two separate initiatives to help combat threats against election administrators and education workers(board members, teachers, administrators, and other school staff).

“It’s not even accurate to say [threatening election workers] was rare prior to 2020. It was so rare as to be virtually nonexistent,” said David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “This is beyond anything that we’ve ever seen.”

The new wave of threats is cresting on one side of the partisan divide. Generally, the individuals responsible seem to believe former President Donald Trump’s fraudulent claims about the 2020 election, oppose Covid-19 vaccines and masks, and claim schools are indoctrinating their kids with “critical race theory.”

This most likely reflects the way extreme polarization and Trumpian populism have convinced a segment of the population that their political opponents are not mere rivals but existential threats to American society. Political scientists, who have termed the spread of this us-versus-them mindset “pernicious polarization,” find that it has undermined the foundations of democracy in countries such as Hungary, Venezuela, and Turkey.

Threats against public servants show how such democratic erosion manifests in practice. Already, experts are warning of a retention crisis in public institutions, with election workers, school officials, and public health leaders so overwhelmed that they’re likelier to quit rather than continue to subject themselves and their families to abuse.

If a staffing crisis does emerge in these areas, it could do real damage to America’s core institutions. A democratic society needs civic-minded members to step up. In today’s America, the vicious political environment is dissuading people from participating in public life — a loss that could make us more vulnerable to the next pandemic, further damage our educational systems, and even contribute to a democratic crisis in the 2024 elections.

The growing evidence of a surge in threats​

Anecdotal media coverage and viral stories about threats against public officials certainly contribute to the impression of a surge. But is the trend real?

Unfortunately, deeper analysis suggests that it is — and that the people on the receiving end are genuinely frightened.

Start with election workers: For the past several months, Reuters reporters Linda So and Jason Szep have interviewed dozens of election administration officials across the country, compiled a database of more than 800 threats against them, and even unmasked some of the individuals responsible for the harassment. Their conclusion is unequivocal: The spate of threats is real, and a direct outgrowth of Trump’s campaign to undermine the 2020 election.


(full article online)

“We are going to make you beg for mercy”: America’s public servants face a wave of threats

The intimidation of poll workers, school administrators, and public health officials reveals a democracy rotting from within.

www.vox.com

 

[jc456]

Nov 18, 2021

Democracy doesn’t work unless citizens make it work. This not only means showing up to vote but also helping operate and administer the key institutions in a democratic society — such as schools, polling places, and local health agencies.

Yet over the course of the past year and a half, the Americans who do this critical work — mostly anonymous individuals motivated by a sense of civic duty — have been subject to a wave of violent threats. Consider the following examples:

• In Vermont, a man menaced a group of election officials, warning them that “your days are fucking numbered.”
• In Missouri, a public health official was “physically assaulted, called racist slurs, and surrounded by an angry mob.”
• In Oregon, a school board member was told that a neighbor was out looking for him — and threatening to kill him.

These are not one-off incidents. Surveys have found that 17 percent of America’s local election officials and nearly 12 percent of its public health workforce have been threatened due to their jobs during the 2020 election cycle and Covid-19 pandemic. While none of the threats against public servants appear to have led to deadly violence yet, the volume has gotten severe enough that the Justice Department created two separate initiatives to help combat threats against election administrators and education workers(board members, teachers, administrators, and other school staff).

“It’s not even accurate to say [threatening election workers] was rare prior to 2020. It was so rare as to be virtually nonexistent,” said David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “This is beyond anything that we’ve ever seen.”

The new wave of threats is cresting on one side of the partisan divide. Generally, the individuals responsible seem to believe former President Donald Trump’s fraudulent claims about the 2020 election, oppose Covid-19 vaccines and masks, and claim schools are indoctrinating their kids with “critical race theory.”

This most likely reflects the way extreme polarization and Trumpian populism have convinced a segment of the population that their political opponents are not mere rivals but existential threats to American society. Political scientists, who have termed the spread of this us-versus-them mindset “pernicious polarization,” find that it has undermined the foundations of democracy in countries such as Hungary, Venezuela, and Turkey.

Threats against public servants show how such democratic erosion manifests in practice. Already, experts are warning of a retention crisis in public institutions, with election workers, school officials, and public health leaders so overwhelmed that they’re likelier to quit rather than continue to subject themselves and their families to abuse.

If a staffing crisis does emerge in these areas, it could do real damage to America’s core institutions. A democratic society needs civic-minded members to step up. In today’s America, the vicious political environment is dissuading people from participating in public life — a loss that could make us more vulnerable to the next pandemic, further damage our educational systems, and even contribute to a democratic crisis in the 2024 elections.

The growing evidence of a surge in threats​

Anecdotal media coverage and viral stories about threats against public officials certainly contribute to the impression of a surge. But is the trend real?

Unfortunately, deeper analysis suggests that it is — and that the people on the receiving end are genuinely frightened.

Start with election workers: For the past several months, Reuters reporters Linda So and Jason Szep have interviewed dozens of election administration officials across the country, compiled a database of more than 800 threats against them, and even unmasked some of the individuals responsible for the harassment. Their conclusion is unequivocal: The spate of threats is real, and a direct outgrowth of Trump’s campaign to undermine the 2020 election.


(full article online)

“We are going to make you beg for mercy”: America’s public servants face a wave of threats

The intimidation of poll workers, school administrators, and public health officials reveals a democracy rotting from within.

www.vox.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

oh fk you. You have your filter only set on republicans. You don't have the ability to see something from a demofk. blinded by the light, you are set up as a douche another roller in the night.

Start a thread on any President of the US, Democrat or Republican, who before Trump created such a number of incidents.

Your gross analogies are nothing more than deflection of the facts one can find since Trump took office.

 

[jc456]

Start a thread on any President of the US, Democrat or Republican, who before Trump created such a number of incidents.

Your gross analogies are nothing more than deflection of the facts one can find since Trump took office.

All one has to do is pull your logs and see your filter. I made my point and you prove it with every post.

 

[Sixties Fan]

February 5, 2021

As his time in the White House came to a close, former president Donald Trump became obsessed with one office in downtown Atlanta and the workers there, making the Fulton County elections department a target of conspiracy theories and lies, which led to violent threats and intimidation.

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Fulton County employees, as well as election workers around the country, are still grappling with the emotional and psychological trauma they suffered as a result of Trump's disinformation campaign about the 2020 election, and it may have lasting consequences for recruiting and retention in the vital, but often under-appreciated field.

​

Online threats led to real world dangers. Law enforcement were posted outside the homes of some election officials. To feel safer, at least one official's family moved in with in-laws. In more disturbing cases, election workers heard strangers knocking at their front doors, and menacing voices on the other end of the phone who uttered racial slurs and promised hangings.

"We coming for you"

Trump falsely claimed victory in Georgia on election night, even though Fulton County alone had yet to count tens of thousands of mail-in ballots. Reporters and partisan observers flocked to the counting center.

With all the attention came conspiracies. Trump's sons, Eric and Donald Jr. retweeted a 30-second video of a temp election worker in Fulton named Lawrence Sloan. In the video, a narrator falsely claimed Sloan threw away a mail-in ballot, attracting at least five million views, along with racist comments, and calls for Sloan to be identified and arrested.

As Georgia's recount of the presidential votes wound down, Trump and his allies focused their attacks on the Fulton County elections department, where all the staff, except for the director, are Black.

Rudy Giuliani spun a conspiracy that targeted Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, who had helped out as a temp worker. He compared them to drug dealers.

"They should have been questioned already. Their places of work, their homes should have been searched," he said at a virtual hearing organized by Republican state lawmakers in Georgia.

Calls came in to Moss's old phone, which her son was using.

"He will answer it, and they'll just call him all kinds of racial slurs, and saying what they're going to do to him," Moss said.

Trump mentioned Freeman's name 18 times on a now infamous call leaked to reporters, during which he pushed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to illegally alter the election results. The call is cited in the article of impeachmentapproved by the U.S. House.

(full article online )

 

[Lastamender]

And you have said absolutely nothing. As usual.

What do you have? I see repeated lies from you day after day You have nothing but the word of the media who are proven liars. The smear campaign has failed. Trump's support is growing every time he is attacked.

 

[two_iron]

Actually, the more predictable outcome is that if Trump supports something, all the sheeple oppose it.

I'd hate to think what would happen if he ever said how much he loved dogs.

I've been hoping Trump would declare his undying admiration of oxygen. I'm ready to sell some plastic bags on Ebay. Free shipping, of course. The herd needs the weak parasites thinned out of it.

 

[Sixties Fan]

What do you have? I see repeated lies from you day after day You have nothing but the word of the media who are proven liars. The smear campaign has failed. Trump's support is growing every time he is attacked.

Fox News host Steve Doocy implored former President Trump to publicly call on his supporters to “tamp down the rhetoric” against federal law enforcement amid a flurry of threats to agents and officers following the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago one week ago.

“We just know there are a lot of very specific threats against very specific agents at the FBI and what not,” Doocy said. “It would be great if everybody would tamp down the rhetoric against the FBI, because the FBI was simply doing what the DOJ asked them to do.”

Not long after Doocy’s remarks, Trump put out a statement saying the temperature “has to be brought down” after the

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“The men and women of the FBI and the Justice Department are dedicated, patriotic public servants,” Garland said, adding he would not “stand by,” while such attacks are levied against the people in his department.

Doocy echoed this sentiment, saying the FBI agents who executed the search at Mar-a-Lago “were just doing their job.”

(full article online)

Fox’s Doocy: ‘It would be great’ if Trump called for end to threats against feds

Fox News host Steve Doocy implored former President Trump to publicly call on his supporters to “tamp down the rhetoric” against federal law enforcement amid a flurry of threats to agen…

thehill.com

 

[Lastamender]

Fox News host Steve Doocy implored former President Trump to publicly call on his supporters to “tamp down the rhetoric” against federal law enforcement amid a flurry of threats to agents and officers following the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago one week ago.

“We just know there are a lot of very specific threats against very specific agents at the FBI and what not,” Doocy said. “It would be great if everybody would tamp down the rhetoric against the FBI, because the FBI was simply doing what the DOJ asked them to do.”

Not long after Doocy’s remarks, Trump put out a statement saying the temperature “has to be brought down” after the

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“The men and women of the FBI and the Justice Department are dedicated, patriotic public servants,” Garland said, adding he would not “stand by,” while such attacks are levied against the people in his department.

Doocy echoed this sentiment, saying the FBI agents who executed the search at Mar-a-Lago “were just doing their job.”

(full article online)

Fox’s Doocy: ‘It would be great’ if Trump called for end to threats against feds

Fox News host Steve Doocy implored former President Trump to publicly call on his supporters to “tamp down the rhetoric” against federal law enforcement amid a flurry of threats to agen…

thehill.com

FOX toes the line. It means nothing.

 

[two_iron]

Fox News host Steve Doocy implored former President Trump to publicly call on his supporters to “tamp down the rhetoric” against federal law enforcement amid a flurry of threats to agents and officers following the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago one week ago.

“We just know there are a lot of very specific threats against very specific agents at the FBI and what not,” Doocy said. “It would be great if everybody would tamp down the rhetoric against the FBI, because the FBI was simply doing what the DOJ asked them to do.”

Not long after Doocy’s remarks, Trump put out a statement saying the temperature “has to be brought down” after the

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“The men and women of the FBI and the Justice Department are dedicated, patriotic public servants,” Garland said, adding he would not “stand by,” while such attacks are levied against the people in his department.

Doocy echoed this sentiment, saying the FBI agents who executed the search at Mar-a-Lago “were just doing their job.”

(full article online)

Fox’s Doocy: ‘It would be great’ if Trump called for end to threats against feds

Fox News host Steve Doocy implored former President Trump to publicly call on his supporters to “tamp down the rhetoric” against federal law enforcement amid a flurry of threats to agen…

thehill.com

Do you take the dishes out of the sink before you shit in it?

 

[Sixties Fan]

No distinction between Trump campaign and Fox stars​

"When we get power back, it's time to hold everyone accountable — the military leadership, the civilian leadership, the civil service, those in Congress who have abused their power — all of them have to be held accountable," said Fox's Laura Ingraham. "All of them."

No distinction there either between the "we" of the Trump campaign and Fox's biggest stars. Guests included Stephen Miller, Trump's former chief domestic policy adviser.

Just past midnight this morning, on the first news program handling the story, anchor Shannon Bream broke down the story with three legal analysts. One, University of California at Berkeley law professor John Yoo, was considered a firebrand conservative as a senior Justice Department official under then President George W. Bush. Another, Mike Davis, served Bush in the Justice Department and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. The third, John Iannarelli, is a former senior FBI agent who has spoken at conservative gatherings.

Fox's Baier calls the search "a political bombshell"​

That said, Bream herself noted, "This doesn't just happen overnight. Any DOJ or FBI, any administration is going to want to be exceptionally careful. This FBI has clearly made, and this attorney general has made, the calculation that they think they have enough [evidence] to move forward and risk the political optics of this."

And chief political anchor Bret Baier on Tuesday called the search a "political bombshell."

Even so, the network's media commentator, Joe Concha, told Fox & Friends viewers that the Justice Department should charge Trump with a crime now. "Otherwise, raids like this smell like... partisan BS," Concha said.

It fell to Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy, a Trump favorite, to point out that FBI Director Christopher Wray — who oversaw those agents — had been nominated by Trump in 2017.

The way Fox News frames such matters has deep implications for Republican party politics, the various strands of the fractured conservative political movement, and Trump's own camp. It also serves up potential talking points for millions of Trump supporters who are adrift, angry, and anticipating his return to power.

Loyalty to Trump — at least for now — has once more emerged as the paramount concern in right-wing media.

(full article online)

 

[Correll]

No distinction between Trump campaign and Fox stars​

"When we get power back, it's time to hold everyone accountable — the military leadership, the civilian leadership, the civil service, those in Congress who have abused their power — all of them have to be held accountable," said Fox's Laura Ingraham. "All of them."

No distinction there either between the "we" of the Trump campaign and Fox's biggest stars. Guests included Stephen Miller, Trump's former chief domestic policy adviser.
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Ok. Now, take a look at the liberal leadership and media and how they have encouraged and supported left wing violence from Antfia and BLM.

I strongly suspect you will see much more and much more direct, encouragement and support, before,during and after the violence, and much more violence.


We live in a time of increasing conflict and bitterness. Only pointing to one side, is just taking a side.


Pretending FALSELY, that that one side is the only side that is growing more angry and violent, is ENCOURAGING the violence and division.


Do you realize how divisive your actions and words are?