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Deconstructed

Is Trump Inciting Far Right Terror In the U.S.?

Deconstructed

The Intercept

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4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few days, 11 people were massacred in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, the country’s top Democrats have been targeted with pipe bombs, and two black people were executed in a grocery store in Kentucky. Contrary to Donald Trump’s warnings, terrorists weren’t coming from Mexico or Syria; they were here in America, and some of them attended his rallies. Trump, of all people, shouldn’t be shocked by the rise of white nationalism and antisemitism in America: he has repeatedly retweeted white supremacist Twitter accounts and praised neo Nazis in Charlottesville as “very fine people.” On this special episode of Deconstructed, Mehdi Hasan is joined by former Department of Homeland Security senior domestic terrorism analyst Daryl Johnson and Christian Picciolini, a former neo Nazi who left the movement and devoted his life to peace advocacy and deradicalization, to discuss America’s descent into far right terror.

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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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