“Right-wing attacks and plots account for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994, and the total number of right-wing attacks and plots has grown significantly during the past six years,” the Center for Strategic & International Studies concluded after examining terror plots in the United States from 1994 to May of this year. I covered the Portland protests and was duly tear-gassed by the federal agents dispatched by Trump to create violent street scenes. Sure, Portland had a genuine problem with protest violence, but it was inflamed by Trump — and those leftists who did throw rocks or set fires played into the hands of Trump, even as they damaged their own city. Kate Brown of Oregon what she thought of Trump turning the state into a punching bag. “He has to scare the bejesus out of people.”“This is all about distraction from his appalling failure to provide a national response” to Covid-19, she added.

Source: International New York Times August 29, 2020 18:33 UTC