Report: FBI Targeting Trump Supporters Leading Up to 2024 Election

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Report: FBI Targeting Trump Supporters Leading Up to 2024 Election

In a Newsweek exclusive, it reported that the federal government has categorized Donald Trump's MAGA followers as a potential threat leading up to the 2024 election. Newsweek says the FBI is challenged to balance counterterrorism efforts with preserving constitutional rights. However, secret FBI and DHS data show increased investigations related to Trump supporters, with 60% linked to anti-government extremism. What could have made them “anti-government” we are left wondering.

More from Newsweek:

Newsweek spoke to over a dozen current or former government officials who specialize in terrorism in a three-month investigation to understand the current domestic-security landscape and to evaluate what President Joe Biden's administration is doing about what it calls domestic terrorism. Most requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly, were reluctant to stray into partisan politics or feared the repercussions of speaking frankly.

Newsweek has also reviewed secret FBI and Department of Homeland Security data that track incidents, threats, investigations and cases to try to build a better picture. While experts agree that the current partisan environment is charged and uniquely dangerous (with the threat not only of violence but, in the most extreme scenarios, possibly civil war), many also question whether "terrorism" is the most effective way to describe the problem, or that the methods of counterterrorism developed over the past decade in response to Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups constitute the most fruitful way to craft domestic solutions.

In classified data seen by Newsweek, they noted that even though the FBI might be correct in their claim that “domestic terrorism” incidents have increased, “a significant part of the increases in 2020 and 2021 were related to protests after the murder of George Floyd and during COVID as well the elections and January 6. That said, the data show clearly that the main targets of the investigations and cases open were of Trump supporters.”

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