Who poses the greatest danger to the United States and its citizens? Donald Trump wants you to believe that it is muslim extremists and antifa (anti-fascists). He is wrong. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has just released a report -- and they name white supremacists as the "most persistent and lethal threat to the homeland".
I understand why Trump doesn't want Americans to know that. Those violent white supremacists are rabid supporters of Trump, and Trump is loathe to call out any of his voters -- no matter how dangerous they are to the nation. He called them good people after Charlottesville, and again refused to condemn them in the first presidential debate. And he tried to keep the Department of Homeland Security from issuing its report. Fortunately, the report was released anyway.
Here is how The New York Times is reporting the release of the DHS report:
The Department of Homeland Security warned on Tuesday that violent white supremacy was the “most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland” in an annual assessment that a former intelligence chief had accused the agency of withholding in deference to President Trump.
The intelligence chief-turned-whistle-blower last month accused the department of blocking the report and directing analysts to play down the threat of violent white racism as well as Russian election interference to align the agency’s message with the president’s. But the final report appeared to do no such thing.
The threat assessment highlighted white supremacists as the most deadly among domestic terrorists in recent years and Russia as the primary threat to spreading disinformation.
“I am particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent, targeted attacks in recent years,” Chad F. Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, wrote in the foreward to the assessment. The threat report also stated that “Russia is the likely primary covert influence actor and purveyor of disinformation and misinformation within the homeland.”
