President Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on March 15 in Washington. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)Opinion writerLast year, the Center for Strategic and International Studies reported:The threat from right-wing terrorism in the United States—and Europe—appears to be rising. But the number of attacks from right-wing extremists since 2014 has been greater than attacks from Islamic extremists. When asked at the White House whether white nationalists were a growing threat around the world, Trump replied: “I don’t really. The only terrorism Trump wants to hear and talk about is the terrorism that whips his base into a frenzy, justifies his xenophobic and Islamophobic policies (the Muslim ban!

Source: Washington Post March 17, 2019 16:01 UTC