“The White House wanted to focus only on the jihadist threat which, while serious, ignored the reality that racial supremacist violence was rising fast here at home,” a CNN source said
In the report, a source told CNN, “Homeland Security officials battled the White House for more than a year to get them to focus more on domestic terrorism.”
But, seemingly, Trump’s administration saw no advantage in heeding such advice and decided to concentrate mostly on Islamic terrorism. “The White House wanted to focus only on the jihadist threat which, while serious, ignored the reality that racial supremacist violence was rising fast here at home. They had major ideological blinders on,” CNN’s source said.The report goes to say that the administration’s National Counterterrorism Strategy, from 2018, “minimized the threat of domestic terrorism” and what was added by the White House was “one paragraph about domestic terrorism as a throw-away line.
The seemingly purposeful denial or minimizing the existence of violence that comes from white supremacists is something that Trump has done sincethat he even knew who the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and prominent white supremacist David Duke was after Duke endorsed Trump for president in 2016. “I don’t know anything about David Duke,” Trump said then., Virginia, two years ago, placing blame “on both sides.
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