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Editor's note: Again we are seeing the FBI creating diversionary tactics, wasting resources and causing problems where there are no problems. Note the words and expressions this Newsweek article uses to describe Americans who think Donald Trump will be a good president. Newsweek describes MAGA followers as an "army." "Anti-government" is Bolshevik terminology. It was the same Bolshevik sloganeering used in the Soviet Union to shut down political dissent. The FBI was clearly behind the events of January 6th of 2020 with evidence to show this for anyone who is honest enough to look. The FBI continues to politically go after Americans on any pretext. The FBI are the "head bashers" for oligarchs. The people Newsweek refers to have made a career out of terrorism. It's an entirely new phenomenon and business model used to justify vast budgets in a "war on terrorism." There was no terrorism for example until the creation of the state of Israel. The fact is, the vast majority of MAGA supporters are decent hard working American citizens. The historical record does not conform to the FBI's definition of "terrorism" when applied to MAGA supporters. They have thrown concerned dissenting Americans in with a terrorist who detonates a bomb at a train station killing scores of people. The FBI is more concerned about hypothetical politically motivated violence to justify its multi billion dollar budget than they are about the frightening increase in black-on-white murder (interracial murder). What the FBI is really concerned about is getting defunded and its corporate charter revoked if Donald Trump becomes president in 2024.
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Source: Newsweek

Exclusive: Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears

By Willaim A. Arkin | October 4, 2023

The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump's army of MAGA followers.

The challenge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary federal agency charged with law enforcement, is to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political parties or affiliations—even though the vast majority of its current "anti-government" investigations are of Trump supporters, according to classified data obtained by Newsweek.

"The FBI is in an almost impossible position," says a current FBI official, who requested anonymity to discuss highly sensitive internal matters. The official said that the FBI is intent on stopping domestic terrorism and any repeat of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. But the Bureau must also preserve the Constitutional right of all Americans to campaign, speak freely and protest the government. By focusing on former president Trump and his MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters, the official said, the Bureau runs the risk of provoking the very anti-government activists that the terrorism agencies hope to counter.

"Especially at a time when the White House is facing Congressional Republican opposition claiming that the Biden administration has 'weaponized' the Bureau against the right wing, it has to tread very carefully," says the official.

Newsweek spoke to over a dozen current or former government officials who specialize in terrorism in a three-month investigation to understand the current domestic-security landscape and to evaluate what President Joe Biden's administration is doing about what it calls domestic terrorism. Most requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly, were reluctant to stray into partisan politics or feared the repercussions of speaking frankly.

Newsweek has also reviewed secret FBI and Department of Homeland Security data that track incidents, threats, investigations and cases to try to build a better picture. While experts agree that the current partisan environment is charged and uniquely dangerous (with the threat not only of violence but, in the most extreme scenarios, possibly civil war), many also question whether "terrorism" is the most effective way to describe the problem, or that the methods of counterterrorism developed over the past decade in response to Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups constitute the most fruitful way to craft domestic solutions.

"The current political environment is not something that the FBI is necessarily responsible for, nor should it be," says Brian Michael Jenkins, one of the world's leading terrorism experts and senior adviser to the president of the RAND Corporation.

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