When a reporter asked Trump "Do you see, today, white nationalism as a rising threat around the world?" the president replied:
"I don't really. I think it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems. I guess if you look at what happened in New Zealand, perhaps that's the case. I don't know enough about it yet. They're just learning about the person and the people involved. But it's certainly a terrible thing. Terrible thing."
That "small group of people" is also the "very fine people" Trump cited in a press conference after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. in August 2017 at which a white supremacist ran down civil rights protester, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, with his car.
Malcolm Nance, retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA) agent, counter-intelligence expert, and author of the books The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election and The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West, told MSNBC's Joy Reid:
"The president is pushing this. The president is their champion. And you know what, to be quite honest, he needs the sierra tango foxtrot uniform. And if he doesn't understand what that means, he needs to turn to the right, ask his defense attache or the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. He is stoking violence not just in United States but around the world."
A few weeks ago, neo-Nazi U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant, Christopher Paul Hasson, compiled a spreadsheet of targeted lawmakers Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Maxine Waters, and Sheila Jackson Lee; Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Tim Kaine, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; MSNBC anchors Joe Scarborough, Chris Hayes, and Ari Melber; CNN anchors Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, and Van Jones; former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke; African American activist and author Angela Davis; former Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta; and the Democratic Socialists of America.
Hasson, like Brenton Tarrant, was well-versed in Norwegian white nationalist Anders Breivik's ideology.
His online history shows him referring to a "liberalist/globalist ideology" destroying white Americans and conspiracies by "((((People))))," an internet styling the farright uses to refer to Jewish individuals.
Trump refers to his political opponents as "globalists" who "want the globe to do well, frankly, not caring about our country."
Those "globalists," according to Trump, support "caravans" of "unknown Middle Easterners" en route from Central America to wreak havoc on American sovereignty.
When it comes to elections, says Trump, the "globalists" depend on millions of non-American "illegals" showing up in droves to vote.
Trump suggested Barack Obama "founded" Isis.
He told "second amendment people" they might be able to take care of Hillary Clinton.
He extolled Montana Republican congressman Greg Gianforte for body-slamming Guardianpolitical reporter Ben Jacobs in May 2017 for asking a question Gianforte didn't appreciate.
There is even reason to believe adult film actress Stormy Daniels' arrest in Columbus, Ohio this summer was politically motivated due to Daniels' outspoken criticism of the president.
And although there may not be any connection between Trump and the gunman who opened fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue in October, killing 11 and wounding six, Andrew Gawthorpe writes in The Guardian:
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