rumitoid

The arrest of more than a dozen right-wing extremists who are accused of targeting the governors of Michigan and Virginia is only the latest example of threats of violence, in some cases egged on by President Donald Trump, that loom over the final weeks of a historically d******e race.

In rural Iowa, Laura Hubka, the Democratic chair of Howard County, recently took out a concealed-carry gun permit after signs for Democratic candidates in her region were vandalized with bullet holes and she was personally threatened, she said.

In central Wisconsin, Tom Stepanek’s wife sat him down last month at the kitchen table and warned him that the president might not accept a peaceful t******r of p***r if he lost in November. “Are you sure you want to be doing this?” she asked her husband, who is the chair of the Waushara County Democrats and had also been threatened. “You’re going to be a target here,” she told him.

In Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Burdick, a Trump supporter who owns a gun store with her husband in red-hued Mercer County, said, “Sales have been crazy.”

“People are afraid,” she said. “They’re afraid of what’s going to happen” after the e******n if Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, wins.

With polls showing the president behind Biden nationally and in key states, Trump has descended into rants about perceived enemies, both inside and outside his administration, triggering in his staunchest supporters such fears for the outcome — possibly a “stolen” e******n, maybe a c**p by the far left — that he is emboldening them to disrupt the v****g process, according to national security experts and law enforcement officials.

National security experts said that American e******ns were usually nonevents for law enforcement, and that t***sitions from one president to the next were typically a peaceful pageant of democracy.

“But not this year,” said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, who said that multiple police chiefs were extending patrol shifts in the weeks before E******n Day. “This year is unlike any year.”

In a report released this month describing threats to the United States, analysts at the Department of Homeland Security warned of potential plots that mirror the schemes in Michigan and Virginia thwarted by the FBI.

The International Crisis Group, whose mission is to sound an alarm ahead of deadly conflicts in hot spots around the globe, last month turned its attention for the first time to possible e******n-related violence in the United States.

Warning that far-right m*****as could take matters into their own hands in key states if b****ts are contested, Robert Malley, the president of the group, said, “We would never predict civil war, but isolated incidents of violence could be quite serious.”

The months of anti-police protests this summer sometimes turned to l**ting and arson, and Malley said there were some armed extremists on the left. But he emphasized that the real concern came from the right, where violent messaging had already produced deadly results, including the shooting death of two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Malley said that in assessing the potential for further violence, “the balance very clearly tilts toward the responsibility of President Trump.”

The president has called on supporters to “go into the polls and watch very carefully,” a phrase that some security experts interpret as a call to take up arms and patrol polling stations. During the first p**********l debate, he alerted the P***d B**s, a group associated with w***e s*******y, to “stand by.”

“It’s so concerning the president just doesn’t seem to have any kind of guard rails between what he thinks at the spur of the moment and what he says or writes,” said Janet Napolitano, the former secretary of homeland security. “We’ve seen it in the rise of these right-wing m*****a groups and it’s almost as if implicitly he’s giving them permission to take wh**ever action they want up to and including kidnapping a sitting governor.”
https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-language-grows-more-heated-121741070.html

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

Political violence? Do you have a definition? Btw that was a rogue m*****a in Michigan, Trump said"Stand down and stand by" remember?

Liberty Tree

Of course you believe all this about alleged possible right wing violence and completely ignore leftwing violence that has been going on for months.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

woodguru

Do you know what stand by means? Stay ready for the time or the call.

Trump is going to claim the e******n is being stolen somehow (zero evidence) while the e******n is being counted or recounted.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

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Sicilianthing

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What kind of Political Violence and by whom ?

rumitoid

Exactly.

rumitoid

Far Right and violent suppression against the Left.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Oh???? And I suppose there's no such thing as Far Left and violent suppression against the Right ???? Pppplleeeaseee!!!

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Anytime the left has their feelings hurt, that's the violent suppression.

Kellett3745

Yes
Plus the leader of the m*****a is anti government and
Doesn't like Trump. His own words. Look it up.
They are not right wing m*****a

Joseph Delano

Be serious Skippy, it is the vile and despicable LEFT that is doing all the r**ting and inciting.... don't believe me?
Check this "Call To Arms" check out this link: https://www.shutdowndc.org/e******n2020

After Trump wins again and these cretins hit the streets i'm afraid the pencil necked geeks and misfits are gonna be shocked and dismayed to find US confronting them.

Shouldn't last long.........won't be much of a fight.

AmericanEagle Loc: Indiana

Spot on! Trump will step in and end it quickly. It’s time to stop These left wing radicals I just want to destroy America. Of course this is always in democratic run cities and do you hear Democrats really speaking out against it? Crickets!
Silent majority will speak loudly at the polls! Trump in a landslide again.....Crooked mail in b****ting won’t matter.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Prove they're right wing.