Posted on 06/15/2020 5:34:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are requesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launch an investigation into reports of white supremacist groups interfering to instigate violence at peaceful protests.
The Democrats said the Trump administration is making baseless accusations that antifa is involved in an “effort to delegitimize” the peaceful protests and to “win cheap political points” while ignoring the involvement of white supremacist groups.
“The Trump Administration’s decision to ignore the involvement of white supremacist groups in these protests in favor of spreading wildly exaggerated rumors about Antifa has only served to encourage right-wing militias provoking violence, to delegitimize the grievances of peaceful protestors, and to add serious danger, intimidation, and fear to already emotionally charged situations,” Democrats wrote in letters Monday to Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray and to acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf.
The letters are signed by committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.).
The Democrats also requested a full briefing by June 30 to “explain what your agencies are doing to tackle” issues regarding white supremacists “instigating violence at peaceful protests.”
President Trump has repeatedly issued statements claiming antifa is involved in instances of violence at protests.
Barr backed Trump’s claims about antifa in a statement earlier this month in which he said the DOJ will work to identify "criminal organizers and instigators" amid demonstrations.
"The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly," Barr said.
The Democrats asked the DOJ to “share whatever evidence it has gathered to support” Barr’s allegations by June 25.
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> instigate violence at peaceful protests.
crackpot conspiracy theory
BLM is black supremacists.
Maybe they meant investigate them.
>>wildly exaggerated rumors about Antifa has only served to encourage right-wing militias provoking violence
Which rumors about Antifa were untrue?
And which was it? White Supremacists or right-wing militias?
Apart from a few property owners or their friends, I don’t recall many actual reports of people “picking fights” with the rioters.
Already rounded up 80 of em...
Dems arent too bright...
Yes ...lets investigate...
The Democrats asked the DOJ to “share whatever evidence it has gathered to support” Barr’s allegations by June 25.
They want to know who to throw under the peacetrain....
The white supremacists don’t appear to be white, Jim.
MLM - Monkey Lives
Matter. We’re all monkeys on this Prison Planet of the Apes. “I am just a monkey man and I’m glad you are a monkey woman too.”
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=o8uVSzVY8kQ&list=RDAMVMo8uVSzVY8kQ
(what a great intro...as were most of the Stone’s intros)
So lefty movie stars contributed en masse to a bail fund for white supremacist looters and arsonists? I’m really confused now.
Fanatical liberals pulling another smollett.
How is a cop going to identify a white supremacist?
Is there an actual legal definition?
Liberal prosecutors will have a field day.
Just more Fake news to draw the attention away from the democrat group called Antifa.
The militant arm of the democRAT party, ANTIFA.
Mostly Well To Do White kids.
They would be the focus, right?
Nope. If you want an investigation, do it yourself. You are not the DOJ bosses. That would be President Trump.
They are still trying to confuse anarchist Antifags with white supremacists.
Democrats are bad monkeys. They are not fit to survive on their own. Evolutionally speaking they should have been extinct long ago. We can vote them off the planet, as opposed to physically beating the subhuman monkeys. What a civilization human monkeys have built. C’mon November.
So... the Democrats are going to try to persuade us that all these liberal Soros-backed lawyers caught with firebombs and such are really white supremacists, even when some are black?
Funny they want Barr to prove Antifa is involved when Antifa makes no secret it is involved... meanwhile the same Dems provide no proof that white supremacists are involved... the closest thing they have are 3 idiots in Nevada.
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Odd, wasn’t it? (/smirk)
All the 2016 polls said Democrat supreme high power was just around the corner---------Hillary was to be coronated Queen of the Hill.
Yet, top Democats Boxer, Mikulski, Reid retired, headed for home sweet home.
What's up with that? They didn’t wanna stick around to see the “glory days” ahead.
Or did they know something we already knew?
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