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.”
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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

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.”
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The degenerates that are out there smashing windows, destroying businesses, and starting fires aren’t Republicans or Democrats. They aren’t there for any political reason. They are there because this is how they get their kicks. They aren’t there as a part of a right wing m*****a or Black L***s M****r protestors. Have you ever see the destruction that happens after some sporting event championships. Are these vandals in any way associated with the sports team? Obviously no. They are unhappy frustrated people who want to take out their anger on anybody and anything they can when an opportunity arises. I would be willing to bet most of these losers don’t even v**e.