The Evolution of All-American Terrorism (rebroadcast)
Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Long before the attempted coup by his supporters, Trump fanned the flames of white supremacy & domestic terrorism. This week on Reveal, we track the increase in right-wing domestic terrorist attacks since 2016—and ask whether law enforcement has taken these violent threats seriously enough.
This is a rebroadcast of a show that originally aired June 27, 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Al Etten. |
| 0:09.0 | The morning of January 6, before the storming of the halls of Congress, reporter David |
| 0:14.7 | Nyeward tweeted a prediction, today is likely to be a historically violent day in the nation's |
| 0:21.1 | capital. |
| 0:25.1 | It wasn't surprised that pro-Trump extremists did what they did. |
| 0:29.0 | In fact, he had linked to a video from the night before shot on the streets of DC, in |
| 0:34.2 | which a middle-aged white man in a Trump hat tells a young white nationalist live streamer. |
| 0:40.4 | In fact, tomorrow, I don't even like to say it because I'll be arrested. |
| 0:44.2 | We need, I'll say it. |
| 0:46.4 | We need to go in to the capital. |
| 0:49.4 | Let's go! |
| 0:50.4 | It certainly wasn't a surprise for any of the people who have been reporting on and researching |
| 0:57.4 | the radical right here in the United States in the past year because they've been pretty |
| 1:02.7 | upfront about it. |
| 1:04.3 | They were saying they were going to do this. |
| 1:06.4 | David has been following the radical right for decades. |
| 1:09.5 | In a few years back, he and the nonprofit newsroom type investigations teamed up with |
| 1:15.0 | Revealed to start tracking what looked to him like an uptick in far-right terrorism. |
| 1:21.1 | We put together a database of every single domestic terror event starting in 2008. |
| 1:27.7 | In 2017, that data showed that right-wing extremists had become the biggest threat, while |
| 1:33.6 | law enforcement under President Obama was focused on those acting in the name of Islam. |
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