Experts are warning some right-wing extremists may appear at rallies in Washington, D.C., on Saturday in support of President Donald Trump, though it's unclear how many people will attend.
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Multiple events with names including Million MAGA March, Stop the Steal and March for Trump are set to occur at Freedom Plaza around noon Saturday, according to several social media posts. As of Tuesday, there were at least 24 Facebook events using one or both terms, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
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Where’s the sound?
Stolen by the left….
Sometimes his worshippers like to praise their deity in silence.
Usa today is marxist leftist. They cant let you hear truth
Peter, it Called SILENCED and CENSORSHIP by the LEFT and MSM. Communist Country’s do this all the time to their people. This is just the beginning if Biden WINS. We WILL NEVER hear or be able to hear the TRUTH Again if he wins. They Already Started and he is NOT Even President Elect.
CNN MUST OF CUT THE SOUND
What is happned with sound ?!!!
@Vera Wallace Love how you think so fairly. Smart. Thats why America is divided. For comments and thinking just like that.
@Christopher Trott or that
Censorship by MSM and Big Tech
@Under Your Skin We will not rest until Biden is prosecuted for treason along with all his minions
@Althea McNabb Based on the crowd alone, I’m not so sure it’s as “divided” as they want us to think! 😄
Is this just me or what? All the “mainstream media” reporting of this event have no audio
Its censorship
Yes it’s censorship! When the reporter asked where are you getting your information that there’s false voting he said most of the people said it was on social media. I’m calling bullshit it’s been on Newsmax and other honest news stations all the fake media including Facebook and Twitter are claiming Biden as president but he is not president and is the biggest case of voter fraud in the history of our great America! TRUMP 2020!
@Live2see MC check on Newsmax!
@Sir Bumblefahk Thats exactly what it is your a fart smeller
blind and deaf media
That’s beautiful!
duhaibetahiks yes a covid super spreader event haaaaaaaaa
All losers😂😂😂
@Stephen Jaramillo what about the Biden rallies???
@zzMichaelzz we had our fun in 2016, and we will again in 2024 😉
Do not mute. And you need to turn the camera to where thousands of people are gathered peacefully. You need to hear the national anthem and hymns they singing and speaking love
RSB network did a great job of live streaming for over 4 hours today. U can see it on u tube before they take it down.
Absolutely. Trump 2020! MAGA! from Del Mar, CA.
The election is over. Fascism lost. Rip
Who are your experts that are expecting right-wing extremists, USA TODAY? Pelosi and Schumer?
March with loser and suckers!
Same morons who think there is no evidence of voter fraud
Obama
Up your aZZ
why don’t experts warn about riotous racist arsonist looters
@April Davidson 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Nate Only because that’s what the lame stream media told you for 4+ years. The race baiters are the true racists.
@maximusextreme yeah, not the ones marching on state capitals with guns because they don’t like the rules. The ones making “citizen arrests” and making up false conspiracies. Try again.
DHS Report Says White Supremacist Groups Are Deadliest US Terror Threat
By Spectrum News Staff & Associated Press Washington, D.C.
PUBLISHED 3:10 PM ET Oct. 07, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its first-ever “Homeland Threat Assessment” released on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security named white supremacist groups as the single most dangerous domestic extremist threat to the nation.
What You Need To Know
White supremacist groups pose the largest threat out of any domestic extremist group in the US, according to a new DHS report
Since 2018, white supremacist groups have been responsible for more deaths than any other domestic extremist group, report says
The DHS warns that foreign actors also pose a threat to election infrastructure and policy
Russian actors are specifically targeting Joe Biden’s campaign in the leadup to the presidential elections
The report states that “ideologically motivated lone offenders” and small groups of extremists pose the greatest terror threat to the country, with what the department refers to as “Domestic Violent Extremists” presenting the most “persistent and lethal threat.”
“As Secretary, I am concerned about any form of violent extremism. That is why we design our programs to be threat agnostic – ensuring that we can combat a broad range of domestic threats,” acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf said in a written statement. “However, I am particularly concerned about white supremacistviolent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent, targeted attacks in recent years.”
Among these domestic groups, racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists – in particular, white supremacist extremists – are those who pose the greatest national threat, the report notes.
Since 2018, white supremacist groups have been responsible for more deaths than any other domestic extremist group, the report adds.
The department’s assessment comes amid rising racial tensions as the deaths of multiple Black Americans at the hands of various police officers draw attention nationwide.
Indeed, the report does mention protests that broke out in cities like Portland, Kenosha, and New York City over the summer – but attributes this violence to “anti-government/anti-authority violent extremism” as opposed to specific white nationalist groups.
“These violent extremists, sometimes influenced by anarchist ideology, have been associated with multiple plots and attacks, which included a significant uptick in violence against law enforcement and government symbols in 2020,” the report states.
“Operational reporting shows that DHS law enforcement officers suffered over 300 separate injuries while they were present during months of nightly unrest in Portland, Oregon,” the report adds. “This is but one example among many across the country, including in Brooklyn, New York, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, where law enforcement officers have been injured or killed. These increasingly pervasive incidents highlight the threat of anarchist violence that has accelerated in our cities in recent months.”
The specification of anarchist groups as a domestic threat coincides with the Trump administration’s recent claims that far-left extremists, or antifa members, are responsible for protest violence, although they have offered little evidence to support this theory.
President Donald Trump has said the federal government would designate antifa as a “terrorist organization” and has blamed it for violence at protests against racial injustice and police brutality. Attorney General William Barr has claimed groups using “antifa-like tactics” fueled violent clashes in Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes.
However, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a congressional panel in late September that antifa is more of an ideology or a movement than an organization.
While the FBI has had domestic terrorism investigations of “violent anarchist extremists, any number of whom self identify with the antifa movement,” Wray noted that extremists driven by white supremacist or anti-government ideologies have been responsible for most deadly attacks in the U.S. over the past few years.
Beyond the domestic threats to American security, the DHS warns that foreign actors also pose a threat to election infrastructure and policy – particularly amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Russian and Chinese actors are the most likely culprits behind such attacks, the department says.
“Russian online influence actors have claimed that the U.S. President is incapable of managing the COVID-19 crisis and sought to exacerbate public concerns by amplifying content critical of the U.S. response to the public health crisis and the economic downturn,” the report states in part. “In contrast, the actors highlighted China’s and Russia’s alleged success against the COVID-19 outbreak and praised President Putin’s COVID-19 plan and Russia’s ample supply of tests.”
Russian actors are particularly targeting one candidate in the upcoming election: “Russia uses divisive measures to disrupt the electoral process – including denigrating former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia ‘establishment’ – as part of a broader effort to divide and destabilize America,” the report states.
While the report did not name specific individuals or groups, it has been widely reported Russia has long sought to undermine Biden’s candidacy for president.
In September, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker with ties to Rudy Giuliani, for being an “active Russian agent” and attempting to interfere in the upcoming presidential election, the department said in a statement at the time.
Derkach was accused of releasing edited audio tapes of presidential candidate Joe Biden as recently as July. The tapes concerned Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, who at the time was a board member for Ukraine-based energy company Burisma Holdings.
In one, Derkach alleged that Biden promised former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in 2015-16, when both were still in office, $1 billion in loan guarantees in exchange for “keeping Burisma’s schemes and international corruption in place” by ousting then-Prosecutor General Victor Shokin to prevent him from investigating the company.
But on the tape Derkach released, the two men introduced as “Vice President Biden” and “President Poroshenko” discuss replacing Shokin as a condition for the loan guarantees, but make no mention of Burisma.
Biden says the loan was linked to the removal of Shokin as part of an anti-corruption effort backed by the U.S. government, EU and international lenders.
During his testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee in September, FBI director Wray told lawmakers point-blank that Russian operatives are targeting Joe Biden in an attempt to sway the 2020 presidential election.
“The intelligence community’s assessment is that Russia continues to try to influence our election primarily through what we call malign foreign influence,” Wray testified, adding the efforts aim “primarily to denigrate vice president Biden and what the Russians see as kind of an anti-Russian establishment.”
Wray noted that intelligence officials have not seen foreign efforts to target election infrastructure this year, a tactic widely used by Russian operatives during the 2016 presidential elections.
“We have not seen that second part yet this year or this cycle, but we certainly have seen very active, very active efforts by the Russians to influence our election in 2020,” Wray said of cyber security attacks similar to those in 2016.
Instead, Russian operatives are employing proxies and social media campaigns to “sow divisiveness and discord” amid the presidential elections, Wray said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
@Nate You forgot the ones rioting and looting saying that it’s “reparations.” Interesting that the particular event you mentioned had no gun violence, however, when the looting and rioting took place there were several murders.
“Experts are warning some right-wing extremists may appear at rallies in Washington, D.C.” Warning that they might walk around peacefully and do nothing harmful? Who are the “experts” and what is the warning?
@LeAnn Short Ok. This makes no sense. Why is it that when news about Trump is negative it’s “fake news.” But when news about him is positive it’s real? I could literally use this logic and say that Trump’s 72 million votes are fake news.
@susan Frazer What about the speech Biden gave after he was declared president elect? There were probably 100,000 people there. What about the millions who celebrated his win in multiple cities?
@Tom Ogden Ikr 😂😂😂
@Clan Joshua – the truth sounds like propaganda to idiots.
Biden WINS cry babys lol REPUBLICAN TEARS!
Who was the guest speaker…? uhh…errr…no one….?
I noticed you commented two just trying to get a argument started. You’re such a sad little person. How about you go there and say that to all these people to their faces and make all the antifa come out from hiding like little wimps while you’re at it.
Judgement day is here!
I still can’t figure out the purpose of this march. The caption says that it’s “taking place.” That doesn’t communicate much.
We will not concede
@Wayne Caviness Not really up to you, is it? lol
It’s just a chance for them all to have a whinge before Trump slinks off to the sideline.
Remember happiness? Meditate on that! And then you will remember God!
Is this fake news? I see people supporting trump?? That seems fake to me.
What other dictator had flags at mass rally’s and spewed hate ?? Anybody remember that guy ADOLF HITLER
The Difference Between a March To Defend The Country’s Democracy and a Protest Organized to do Harm! Like Some BLM Protesters do!
Ahhhhh….look at all the snowflakes…..plotting to commit treason against the USA
That description is textbook “poisoning the well.”
This is not a Covid19 super-spreader. It is a HYPER-SPREADER.
They are peacefully looting democracy.
There’s Millions more of us who wished we could be there
Millions? Doubtful. Dozens is closer to the truth.
Yes, I know many !
Well there was only about 10,000 people at most, the rest of you sheep must be home sick with COVID
Supposed to be a Million March, but only a few thousand…..