Washington Post
Trump campaign prepares for ‘new normal’: Running under indictment
The former president’s team is pressuring other Republicans to show support, basking in favorable coverage from right-wing media and collecting checks. But advisers privately acknowledge many potential risks.]
By Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer and Hannah Knowles
March 21, 2023 at 9:16 p.m. EDT
"Many of the world's most notorious days in history, from the day Adolf Hitler was born to the Oklahoma City Bombing, happen to fall on April 19 or the days surrounding it.
If domestic terrorism had a name, it might be April 19 – the date that notorious events linked to violent extremism like the Waco siege of 1993 or the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 have in common. And that’s no coincidence.
‘Right around this time, we focus on April 19 and April 20,’ Associate Director Joanna Mendelson, of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, told Inside Edition Digital. ‘These dates do have symbolic purpose. This is part of the subculture of right-wing extremists and in particular anti-governmental extremists and white supremacists, who glorify really horrific acts, who glorify extremist killers and elevate them on a pedestal.”
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This Is Why Extremists Glorify and Plan for Violent Acts to Occur on April 19
By JOHANNA LI
Updated: 9:15 AM PDT, April 19, 2021
First Published: 12:49 PM PDT, April 16, 2021
It's almost like the corporate press is playing an imagined MATRIX game set in 1980 politics. They leave out this part:
"The description of Trump as a terrorist leader is neither metaphor nor hyperbole—it is the assessment of veteran national security experts. Trump, those experts say, adopted a method known as stochastic terrorism, a process of incitement where the instigator provokes extremist violence under the guise of plausible deniability." MOTHER JONES
The big story:
Trump is the Republican Party's Osama Bin Laden preparing to call out his terrorists, again. They're armed & make bombs.
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President Donald Trump insists he deserves no blame for divisions in America.
May 30, 2020, 8:20 AM
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Some may say Trump will do anything to stay out of prison, possibly calling on help from domestic terrorists to frighten prosecutors & juries.
A 'dog whistle' or a 'train whistle?'
"Former President Donald Trump – launching his bid to return to the White House even as he rallies supporters to protest against an arrest he claims is impending – chose an auspicious location for one of his earliest rallies for the 2024 election: the city of Waco, Texas.
The rally, planned for Saturday, will fall during the 30th anniversary of the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. Federal agents, aiming to arrest cult leader David Koresh, surrounded his walled compound in an armed standoff that lasted more than a month. It ended in a botched raid that left 76 people, including 25 children, dead...
Megan Squire, deputy director for data analytics at the Southern Poverty Law Center, scoffed at the idea that Trump would be holding a rally in Waco for anything other than the city's symbolic resonance among the far right.
"Give me a break! There's no reason to go to Waco, Texas, other than one thing – in April," Squire said. "I can't even fathom what's what that's about other than just a complete dog whistle – actually forget dog whistle, that is just a train whistle to the folks who still remember that event and are still mad about it.."
Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, cautioned it may be too early to conclude Trump chose Waco to begin his campaign because of its significance to the far right.
Pitcavage pointed out that Texas is an important state for the Republican primaries, and noted that of the major cities in Texas, almost all lean Democratic – except Waco and Forth Worth. The choice of the central Texas city of 140,000 residents could be simply a safe bet for the Trump campaign to ensure a large, enthusiastic pro-Trump crowd, he said.
The only way to know for sure that Trump chose Waco for its symbolism will be if the former president refers to the events of 1993 in his comments at the rally, Pitcavage said.
'Like, for example, comparing federal government misdeeds or persecution of the Davidians to what's going on in his cases today," Pitcavage said. Without an explicit reference to the Waco siege, he said, "I would not automatically assume that that was a likely reason (for the rally) – not compared to some of the other much more current reasons why it might be the case.'
But Pitcavage's colleague, Segal, said regardless of the reasoning behind choosing Waco, a certain proportion of Trump supporters will read an anti-government message into the choice.
'Clearly, in the current context, that is going to be understood by some extremists as a dog whistle,' Segal said. 'If Trump is promoting this idea of government overreach – of targeting him —– it's kind of the perfect place to send a message, and will be understood that way whether he intends it or not."
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Trump holding his next rally in Waco, Texas, sends a message to the far right, experts say
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