White House rebuffed attempts by DHS to make combating domestic terrorism a higher priority

[SaysWho?]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/politics/white-house-domestic-terrorism/index.html

 

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"Homeland Security officials battled the White House for more than a year to get them to focus more on domestic terrorism," one senior source close to the Trump administration tells CNN. "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."

 

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Said a current senior Trump administration official, "DHS is surging resources to the [domestic terrorism] issue, but they're behind the curve because of lack of support from the White House. There's some legislative and appropriations work happening, but the reality is there won't be a FY20 budget for the department so they will have to make do."

 

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Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, another presidential candidate, who is from El Paso, tweeted, "Despite the evidence, despite the threat to our country that domestic terrorism poses, this president did nothing. He made us less safe."

 

[chakoo]

Fuck these people.

 

I hope Beto keeps up the fight and keeps it in the news. That will continue to irk blubber in chief.

[thewhyteboar]

It makes sense. Why would Trump want to piss off his biggest supporters?

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

41 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

It makes sense. Why would Trump want to piss off his biggest supporters?

"I've done more for white supremacists than any president in history! Lowest (BEST) unemployment rate!"

[TheGreatGamble]

Of course. It’s only terrorism if their skin is brown.

[outsida]

It’s only terrorism if they are threatening YOU. 

[skillzdadirecta]

7 hours ago, thewhyteboar said:

It makes sense. Why would Trump want to piss off his biggest supporters?

This is exactly right. There was a terrorism expert on CNN basically saying this.