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DHS official told lawmakers there's concern about Trump August reinstatement conspiracy theory
The Hill ^ | 06/24/21 03:05 PM EDT | BY JOSEPH CHOI

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.


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To: Fury

Show me documentation that Trump never said it.


61 posted on 06/25/2021 7:12:55 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: RandFan

Trump yanks democrats chain screaming chimp sounds ensue.


62 posted on 06/25/2021 9:13:18 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: RandFan

Lots of SCOTUS opinions rulings that Churches have very wide latitude in how they run their Churches.

The last thing the Democrats should want is for Churches to get real active in politics. Even now, that restriction is illegal and never effectively enforced.


63 posted on 06/25/2021 11:37:01 AM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: Georgia Girl 2; DoodleDawg
Show me documentation that Trump never said it.

Uh. Time for you to get a refund for the logic class you took.

Doodle, the above is an example of, well, logic... by some.

64 posted on 06/25/2021 1:45:01 PM PDT by Fury
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To: RandFan

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6/24/2021, 10:01:04 AM · 44 of 75
cuz1961 to ChicagoConservative27
Marxi, girl,

you and your friends set down your
Nanzi&GrifftersCo.
specialty Marx flavoured
ice cream cups
and try and listen mmmK ?

...
.
.

We have zero interest
in eliminating our Constitutional Republic
via violence or insurrection.

( that’s your schtik )

Our Goal is
the preservation
of said. U.S. Government.

And that involves removing the infiltrated agents
of Domestic and Foreign C(CP)ommunists
from positions of U.S. authority and influence

through Constitutionally legal use of our
1st. amendment
protected free speech , rights of redress,
investigations,
trials , conviction , sentencing ,
in relation to a coordinated attack
upon the citizens and government
of our country
via bioweapons
and voter and election fraud.

In short, you have the situation bass akwards.

Quit useing your crime as an aliby
to hang your crimes on our necks.

Now, with that said, finish your ice cream cup,
ask to have your diaper changed
cuz I can smell your kaka corruption
and complicity through my internet connection.

mmmmmK ?

.


65 posted on 06/25/2021 1:54:23 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

Dear DHS

you and your friends set down your
Nanzi&GrifftersCo.
specialty Marx flavoured
ice cream cups
and try and listen mmmK ?

We have zero interest
in eliminating our Constitutional Republic
via violence or insurrection.

( that’s your schtik )

Our Goal is
the preservation
of said. U.S. Government.

And that involves removing the infiltrated agents
of Domestic and Foreign C(CP)ommunists
from positions of U.S. authority and influence

through Constitutionally legal use of our
1st. amendment
protected free speech , rights of redress,
investigations,
trials , conviction , sentencing ,
in relation to a coordinated attack
upon the citizens and government
of our country
via bioweapons
and voter and election fraud.

In short, you have the situation bass akwards.

Quit useing your crime as an aliby
to hang your crimes on our necks.

Now, with that said, finish your ice cream cup,
ask to have your diaper changed
cuz I can smell your kaka corruption
and complicity through my internet connection.

mmmmmK ?


66 posted on 06/25/2021 1:57:59 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Fury
Doodle, the above is an example of, well, logic... by some.

In Q land I suppose.

67 posted on 06/25/2021 2:04:16 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: RandFan

According to Politico’s sources, Cohen said that DHS...\\

Ahhh

The telephone game !

He said she said they said

Really?

Oh and I just saw a clip of some officer
bent out of shape about military officers
and non com’s

being grilled on their Marxist CRT witch hunt

and purge of our armed
services,,

Well ,,,cry me a river ,

the whole nation saw the pic of that
Academy graduate
at his Academy graduation,,

with the Che t shirt under his
dress blues

and

’ I am a Communist’

written inside his dress blue cover ( cap)

The cats out of the bag and it’s your own fault

Your current attempt to purge the military is enlightening.

and your pitiful indignation is a transparent disgrace.


68 posted on 06/25/2021 2:32:40 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

And if Patton was alive today

he’ bitch slap you back to bejing.


69 posted on 06/25/2021 2:34:09 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Fury

Waaa! Teacher she won’t stop saying Trump is going to be reinstated. Waaa!


70 posted on 06/25/2021 4:29:54 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

LOL!

Thank goodness President Trump is not the tyrant that some FReepers want him to be.


71 posted on 06/25/2021 5:01:59 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

Thank goodness most freepers think you’re a troll. 😆


72 posted on 06/25/2021 5:04:41 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Haha! The messages I get from FReepers that thank me for calling out disinformation from certain FReepers keep me going.

You go girl!


73 posted on 06/25/2021 5:39:44 PM PDT by Fury
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To: RandFan

“ though he did say the department was following online discussions in extremist communities”

What makes something an “extremist community” ? (asking for a friend).


74 posted on 06/25/2021 5:42:31 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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To: RandFan

“ a “glaring warning on the persistent acceptance of the stolen election narrative.”

Oderint dum metuant (let them hate as long as they fear).


75 posted on 06/25/2021 5:45:59 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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To: RandFan

Deep state/obiden adm. are doing everything they can to stop or slow down the election steal investigation. They may slow it but eventually the truth will out and Trump will be back.As to “when” no one knows.


76 posted on 06/25/2021 6:03:02 PM PDT by rodguy911 ((FreeRepublic home of the free because of the Brave---Where we go One))
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To: Deaf Smith

Answer the question TROLL.


77 posted on 06/25/2021 6:09:16 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative?)
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To: Georgia Girl 2; Fury
Waaa! Teacher she won’t stop saying Trump is going to be reinstated. Waaa!

Well...he won't be. Just like it wasn't true to say he still was President, Biden won't be sworn in, Biden isn't coming to Washington, Trump is in a bunker in Iceland, nowhere in the Constitution does it say a President's term ends on January 20th, that aliens provided a super computer to implement a quantum monetary system, and countless other nonsensical things "she" has said.

78 posted on 06/25/2021 6:38:16 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Yeah, a lot of zany stuff. Trolling and disinformation all in one package!


79 posted on 06/25/2021 6:50:04 PM PDT by Fury
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To: wgmalabama
When you have a Noob reinstating a message with out quotes, he is trying to reinforce the notion that a stolen election is fake news.

That is part of ROLCON...to put doubt in your mind.

Sad that you do not note this.

80 posted on 06/25/2021 7:03:52 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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