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.
We left the Constitution behind when they swore in The Kenyan from Indonesia.
Most people still have no idea just how bad that was/is/ will be that no one would uphold the natural born citizen clause.
Obama in office was fatal for the Republic and was exactly what the founders tried to prevent by excluding the children of foreigners.
That was only the first step.
It started way back before that even.
This was the final step.
It started before the Kenyon.
That idiot playing the saxophone (Bill Clinton) had 8 years to stock a bunch of anti-Americans throughout the Federal bureaucracy.
Yet the assistant Democrats did nothing about it. Had to grow the bureaucracy and kill ragheads, instead of focusing on domestic issues.
That’s...peculiar.
Haven’t we been told for ages and ages, by all the best people, that
“one man’s terrorist is another man’s Freedom Fighter” ?
Overly pessimistic, try July 4...
He not only lives rent-free in their heads, they serve him breakfast in bed, chauffeur him to his appointments, make sure the lobster is properly prepared for dinner, and stand guard through the night lest a stray noise disturb his sleep.
About as likely as UFO’s buzzing a US Navy Carrier... Oh, wait....
I wonder who they consider that to be?
If I were them I would be.
Got anything to say to them? :)
Excuse me, noob, but they have been watching us since Clinton was President. That is actually a reported fact. FReepers have had the Secret Service knock on their doors for questionable words printed here.
I DEMAND to be upgraded to the WHITE SUPREMACIST EXTREMIST COMMUNITY OF REDNECK GUN OWNERS!!!!
yeah, yeah; I know that not everybody on FR is white (be real boring if we were), but I thought according to the MASTURBATING MEDIA that only WHITE PEOPLE could be ANTI-GOVERNMENT EXTREMISTS.
Just out of curiosity; is there just an ORDINARY EXTREMIST CLUB I could join?
F#CK’EM ALL, and their MOTHERS and SISTERS?
YOU and ME, KIDDO!
As a pretext for action against it.
And DHS is “protecting” us. I’d rather have the Keystone Cops doing that then DHS, the thoroughly corrupt FBI (re leadership, and Congress.
Nothing wrong with those benign Q threads.
Chattering be those complaining and investigating.
Ok, let’s compromise and agree to July. 🦁
How did the Egyptian people cast off the Islamic Brotherhood?
That’s what the Rats are deathly afraid of.
I’m concerned about DHS having way to much influence?
Of course they’re concerned about it. The big steal is going to be rolled back.
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