Is Trump Inciting Far Right Terror In the U.S.?
Deconstructed
The Intercept
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🗓️ 29 October 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When Trump said he was a nationalist, I think that that was the biggest boon for recruitment for a white supremacy that we've seen since the film The Birth of a Nation came out in the early 1900s and caused 4 million people to join the clan. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Maddie Hussin, welcome to this special episode of Deconstructed. |
| 0:24.0 | 11 Dead in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. |
| 0:27.0 | Deadliest attack on Jews in American history. |
| 0:30.0 | The nation's top Democrats targeted with pipe bombs in the mail. |
| 0:33.0 | The portrait emerging of 56-year-old Cesar Sajak Jr. revealing a man obsessed with his support for President Trump. |
| 0:39.0 | Two black people executed at a grocery store in Kentucky. |
| 0:43.0 | The deadly shooting is being investigated as a possible hate crime. |
| 0:46.0 | It turns out that all those terrorists that Donald Trump warned us about weren't coming here from the Middle East or from Mexico. |
| 0:52.0 | They weren't hiding in a caravan from Honduras. |
| 0:54.0 | They were here all along. Some of them even attended his rallies. |
| 0:58.0 | White Nationalists, neo-Nazis, domestic terrorists, call them what you want. |
| 1:03.0 | Personally, I think we should call them the real base of the Donald Trump movement. |
| 1:07.0 | And on today's show, I want to get to the bottom of what's behind this part of his movement, this explosion of white nationalist violence. |
| 1:14.0 | With my guests, former Department of Homeland Security senior domestic terrorism, analyst Darryl Johnson, who tried to warn us all about the threat posed by white nationalists, |
| 1:23.0 | almost a decade ago, and Christian Picholini, a former neo-Nazi who left the movement and has devoted his life to peace advocacy and de-radicalization. |
| 1:32.0 | This administration has the opportunity to finally kind of quell this heightened state of activity on the part of these white naturals, |
| 1:40.0 | and rather than doing that, he's pouring fuel on the fire. |
| 1:43.0 | So today, on Deconstructed, is Donald Trump inciting far-right terrorism in the United States? |
| 1:54.0 | There have been some deeply insensitive and frankly insane statements from the President of the United States over the past few days, |
| 2:01.0 | in the wake of this horrific wave of domestic terrorism. |
| 2:04.0 | On Friday afternoon, he led his followers in a chant of lock him up in reference to Jewish billionaire and Democratic donor George Soros. |
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