Posted on 06/24/2021 7:24:10 PM PDT by RandFan
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told members of Congress on Wednesday that there is concern in the department regarding conspiracy theories that former President Trump will be reinstated in August, Politico reports.
Sources familiar with the exchange said top DHS counterterrorism official John Cohen shared these concerns while speaking in a members only briefing with the House Homeland Security Committee.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) reportedly asked Cohen how DHS is monitoring the spread of disinformation and conspiracy as well as how they fuel violence, specifically pointing to the Trump reinstatement conspiracy theory that has become popular among QAnon followers.
According to Politico's sources, Cohen said that DHS had not found anything linking violence to the conspiracy theory that Trump will be reinstated, though he did say the department was following online discussions in extremist communities.
Cohen said that DHS was highly concerned about the conspiracy theory, however, as it fuels the narrative that the election was rigged, which could in turn spark violence among extremists.
The Hill has reached out to DHS for comment.
A Hill-HarrisX poll released last week found that 30 percent of Republican voters believe Trump will be reinstated in August, though there is no legal or constitutional maneuver that could feasibly return the former U.S. president to office in the midst of President Biden's own term.
Trump himself has reportedly told acquaintances that he expects to be reinstated in August.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said earlier in June that the large number of Republicans who believe this conspiracy theory is a “glaring warning on the persistent acceptance of the stolen election narrative."
“They believe him when he just abjectly lies. It is a glaring warning that the Big Lie has created fertile ground for all sorts of insane conspiracy," he said on the Senate floor, referring to Trump's belief that the election was stolen from him.
“Of course, the idea of 'reinstatement' comes from disgraced former President Trump himself and is nothing more than the deluded ramblings of a defeated politician,” Schumer added.
Now why would execrable fraud PedoJoe bidet be worried, I wonder?
I do think the election was rigged.
I do not think Trump will be reinstated.
The Uniparty would never give up their steal.
Some trolled and were Zotted.
Some were outed and they slinked away.
Some were asked direct questions of allengence and went dark.
These liars and thieves stole an election from ‘we the people’, naturally they are on guard to protect their ill gotten gains.. Hail Mary pass the flesh and blood..
The Dept.of Homeland Security needs to follow the Dodo bird into extinction as soon as the Conservatives retake the House and Senate.
That agency has become a political tool of the communist left currently in charge of DC.
By the way. The only disinformation regarding the last Presidential election and the results that will be forthcoming from the reexamination of those results is coming from the Biden Administration and the Rat party.
Whether President Trump retakes the Office of the Presidency,The Office that was stolen from him by Joe Biden and his commie cabal remains to be seen.
I for one am looking foreword to it.
If the idea that the election was stolen and Trump may be reinstated is merely disinformation, fake news or unfounded, why is the government so concerned about it?
Yeah, anonymous sources said that they heard that someone told someone that was told by the gardner’s mistrress that...
“You can elect an outsider president like Trump but you can’t replace 300 members of Congress so easily.”
The Democrats have permanent bureaucratic control of the executive agencies. Until that changes nothing will change.
Washington D.C. is a Democrat hyper partisan voting entity, it will stay that way till these bloated bureaucracies are gutted and “put out of our misery.”
Its disgusting.
Good. Let all these Marxist asshats $hit their pants for a couple of months. Not that anyone will notice, what with all that effluent they’re already swimming in.
ROLCON!
I think you misunderstood that question. The question was why are they worried? Because of the fact that they may be guilty and it is possible? That was the question this “troll” asked and you may have knee jerked...
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So now all Freepers are at risk of being arrested?
Mike Lindell moved Trump being back in office to Sept.
And when the forensic audits are completed and the evidence is undeniable proving there was blatant fraud committed by partisan traitors, will Chuckie & Co eat crow and admit they were the ones who abjectly lied and were all in on the conspiracy to deny the will of the voters in favor of the puppet dementia patient they preferred? This has never happened before so OBVIOUSLY there needs to be a remedy to right this terrible wrong. I'd like to see President Trump back in office and the traitors in prison cells. How can America be the "shining city on a hill" of Democracy to the whole world when the cabal in high places can usurp their own citizens' right to elect their leaders and act like criminal banana republics do?
Does anyone seriously believe Joe Biden got more votes than anyone else in the history of America??? There is "persistent acceptance of the stolen election narrative" because people are not stupid! There WAS a stolen election and the truth will come out. For all their talk about protecting democracy, these despicable conspirators only care about their own POWER. They have forgotten that they serve the citizens - we don't serve them!
Hello boys. If you're expecting me to hurl myself at the nearest canon, you'll get very bored with the wait. I'm rocking away on the porch for my last years with a bowl of popcorn in my lap. You're always welcome to have a drink of my worst bourbon and a cheap ass Dutch Masters.
I want to ask one of these SOBs if they think that allowing a few states changing their election rules/laws outside of the US Constitution is OK with them?
So..its OK for those few states to disqualify the lawful states of their election outcome according to those in DC.
Because that is what happened.
And yes I would ask John Roberts that very question.
Secession. I would have NEVER said that before that bastard failed to take the TX and enjoining states lawsuit against PA, et al.
If there is no equal protection per the US Constitution, then there is NO DAM CONSTITUTION.
Step away from the mushrooms, more like. All that testosterone and low IQ is a bad mix.
Gray.
It’s not a conspiracy
He WILL be back
Waiting on ARIZONA
WHEN THOSE RESULTS COME FORTH
ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE
NOBODY WILL BE ABLE YO STOP What’s coming
Nobody
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