Shocking report reveals that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is targeting supporters of former President Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
According to Newsweek, the FBI has been ordered to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism, even without direct political affiliation. Bureau data, however, shows that a vast majority of its current “anti-government” investigations are of Trump supporters.
“The FBI is in an almost impossible position,” said a current FBI official. “Especially at a time when the White House is facing Congressional Republican opposition claiming that the Biden administration has ‘weaponized’ the Bureau against the right wing, it has to tread very carefully.”
Newsweek has also reviewed classified FBI and Department of Homeland Security data that tracks incidents, threats, investigations, and cases in an effort to paint a clearer picture.
Many experts agree that the bureau’s definition of “terrorism” is the most effective way to describe the problem or that the counterterrorism strategies developed over the past decade in response to Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups constitute the most fruitful way to develop domestic solutions.
“The current political environment is not something that the FBI is necessarily responsible for, nor should it be,” said Brian Michael Jenkins, one of the world’s leading terrorism experts and senior adviser to the RAND Corporation.
The Biden administration has presented Trump and MAGA supporters as an existential threat to American democracy and reiterated the risk of domestic terrorism and violence associated with the 2024 election campaign.
“Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country,” President Joe Biden wrote on the social media platform X last month. “MAGA Republicans aim to question not only the legitimacy of past elections but elections being held now and into the future.”
Despite the opposition’s efforts, Trump has a chance to beat Biden, as he is still the leading pick as the Republican presidential candidate, according to a recent poll. The Economist and YouGov asked around 1,500 U.S. adult citizens between August 26 and 29 who they would vote for if “the Republican presidential primary in your state were held today.”
Results show that 51 percent are in favor of Trump, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis comes in second with 14 percent.
