Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

[EarlG]

The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump’s spurious claims about a “terrorist organization” he accused his Democratic rivals of supporting.

An internal investigative report, made public this month by Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, details the findings of DHS lawyers concerning a previously undisclosed effort by Trump’s acting secretary of homeland security, Chad Wolf, to amass secret dossiers on Americans in Portland attending anti-racism protests in summer 2020 sparked by the police murder of Minneapolis father George Floyd.

The report describes the attempts of top intelligence officials to connect protesters to a fabricated anti-fascist terrorist plot in hopes of boosting Trump’s reelection odds, raising concerns about the ability of a sitting president to co-opt billions of dollars’ worth of domestic intelligence assets for their own political gain. DHS analysts recounted orders to create organizational charts that could be used to establish links between the arrested protesters; an effort that would seemingly legitimize President Trump’s erroneous tweets about “Antifa,” an organization DHS tried but failed to prove shared a central source of funding.

The DHS report offers a full accounting of the intelligence activities happening behind the scenes of officers’ protest containment; “twisted efforts,” Wyden said, of Trump administration officials promoting “baseless conspiracy theories” to manufacture of a domestic terrorist threat for the president’s “political gain.” The report describes the dossiers generated by DHS as having detailed the past whereabouts and the “friends and followers of the subjects, as well as their interests” — up to and including “First Amendment speech activity.” Intelligence analysts had internally raised concerns about the decision to accuse anyone caught in the streets by default of being an “anarchist extremist” specifically because “sufficient facts” were never found “to support such a characterization.”

https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-homeland-security-report-antifa-portland-1849718673

[ck4829]

1. Chilling.

[peppertree]

54. All the more so since the plot NO DOUBT included the staging of a false-flag incident

Cheeto himself once whined as to "what 9/11 did for Bush!"

Luckily, cooler heads prevailed - this time.

[Blue Owl]

72. Yet pathetic -- what a loser!

[BootinUp]

2. So shocking. *Cough*

Glad the details are being discovered and released. But I think we all knew this was happening and pretty much in real time.

[MagickMuffin]

3. To think our national security will play such a dangerous game like this

To appease a lunatic’s chances of maintaining power over our democracy. Hopefully a lot of these saboteurs are gone, but some are probably still there.

I also hope Sen. Wyden will launch a full investigation. Name names!

[Rebl2]

9. Not surprised really

Do hope they investigate this though.

[KPN]

34. With the totally vague and all encompassing agency name of

“Homeland Security”, I am not surprised at all. The term conjures up images of the anti-apartheid era in South Africa as well as early years of Nazi Germany. With a name like that, a “threat” can be defined as virtually anything the “rulers” want it to be.

[reACTIONary]

57. Not a good name. In other countries ...

... this security function is known as the department or ministry of the interior.

But here in the US that name was already taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior_minister

An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency management, supervision of regional and local governments, conduct of elections, public administration and immigration (including passport issuance) matters. This position is head of a department that is often called an interior ministry, a ministry of internal affairs or a ministry of home affairs.

[Ligyron]

61. Two departments that need to close down are DHS and DEA.

Both way overstepping their boundaries.

[IronLionZion]

44. Trump fired a lot of qualified people who did their jobs correctly

and put his loyal cronies in charge to do his bidding.

[malaise]

4. No words

Rec

[jaxexpat]

17. Short on words? Speechless? Let me help. How about, "great Caesar's ghost" or "drat, the scoundrel"?

[malaise]

24. The fascist dictator infected every institution he touched

It is time to indict this monster and his accomplices.
To quote a local song - Action not a bag of mouth - is what is needed urgently.

[JHB]

40. I expect the infection was already there at DHS. Trump gave it a free hand to be its worst.

[malaise]

46. Agree

[DBoon]

83. I can think of two words

"Reichstag Fire"

[Scrivener7]

5. It was pretty clear that was the goal. Wonder what the consequence will be.

Before my friends swarm me, I know there is a real Antifa in California that is anti-Liberal and violent. That is NOT what we are talking about here. We are talking about the nonexistent violent widespread Democratic organization that was MADE UP by republicans to scare people.

They need that imaginary Antifa - the dastardly violent Democrats - to justify their white supremacist militias, their hate rhetoric and their violence against our Democracy.

As someone here once said, their made up Antifa is like the Washington Generals are to the Harlem Globetrotters. A made up team that lets them get out on the field and play without any real danger of opposition.

[cynical_idealist]

62. when tfg said he knew more than the generals...

he was talking about the washington generals

[Demsrule86]

6. We have to keep them out of power...this is just awful...chilling really.

[COL Mustard]

15. Get out and vote!

That's the only way to do it. Get your friends and family to vote too.

[Hotler]

7. And the orange cocksucker still walks free.

[GoCubsGo]

8. I wish I could say I was surprised.

I won't be surprised when it comes out that it was worse than it's being reported, either. Because, we all know it is.

[underpants]

11. It really was a Kinglike operation with him

People did whatever he said mainly to avoid his wrath.

I read during his term that briefings were arranged to hide the worst options/course of actions do he’d be less likely to choose them. There we’re pretty-meetings to actually do that.

[Jerry2144]

10. There are a bunch of domestic terrorists

He just couldn’t find them because he had his flunkies looking on the wrong side of the political spectrum. It isn’t Antifa that’s the problem. It’s the Fa.

[KS Toronado]

12. So IQ4.5 was manufacturing fake domestic terrorists?

More projection from the right.

[grumpyduck]

13. And once more, the people who need to know about this

are the fucking assholes who will refuse to know it.

[StarryNite]

21. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

There were/are so many tentacles and they run so far and deep. It's really no wonder our country is on the brink of losing our democracy.

[KPN]

37. And if and when they "know it", they'll label it as

as a Democratic Party hoax to create fear and hatred and win elections for the communists who want a permanent one-party anti-Christian nation.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

85. 100% true and the reason we've come this close to a

fascist future for our nation. The RW propaganda machine has been shockingly successful.

[Jade Fox]

14. Jesus. It never ends.....

[DBoon]

16. so now thousands of nonviolent political activists have detailed dossiers ...

... at the Department of Homeland Security?

What happens to this information? What could be the future consequences?

[jaxexpat]

18. You'll have to ask the guy who took over Himmler's job.

[msfiddlestix]

26. ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t

[llashram]

19. no surprise here

especially after trump's bible ordeal walking to the steps of that church. I am sure he got some burns holding it. He literally hurt thousands of protestors doing the right thing.

[calimary]

35. When you are the fire, you burn and consume everything else around you.

And you just get bigger in the process.

That is trump.

[KPN]

38. Well put!

[yonder]

51. +1.

[sop]

82. Trump is the devil.

[llashram]

93. so true

[Genki Hikari]

86. Why would he get burns from holding it?

It supports much of what he does--monarchy, polygamy, hatred of the "other" (racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia), rape, slavery, torture, murder, mass murder--

It's like none of you have ever read it.

[LakeArenal]

20. Thank Democracy that our military does not support the Trump Regime.

Coups need the military.

[world wide wally]

22. But he's still alllowed to run for President again...

[Hekate]

23. KnR

[poli-junkie]

25. Remember during those George Floyd

protests in PNW there were unmarked vans abducting protesters off the streets? These kidnapped protesters later told they were “processed” then released. I think this was done in coordination with Bill Barr & DHS goons.

I remember seeing the footage of these vans kidnapping young protesters — freaked me out.

[Lasher]

49. I remember that.

[NCcoast]

69. Someone else posted this story, to which I replied...

Someone please refresh my memory

If I'm not conflating events (there have been so many) some uniformed arm of the Fed was abducing people off the streets in the northwest at that time, loading them into vans, and hauling them off to god knows where. The abductors were arm military or police but had no markings on their uniforms.

Did some people go missing all together? Wasn't there an Antifa 'leader' who died in custody? Could this thread lead to kidnapping or murder?

Help me out on the details please.

[dhol82]

78. Just want to say I remember those episodes

I have no information or ability to find any.
Just, yeah, I remember.

[NCcoast]

80. I remember guys in unmarked combat uniforms

They were pulling up to people in unmarked silver grey Dodge vans. They would grab someone and hustle them into the van. Other protestors were screaming that people were being adducted.

It's a dirty chapter in this countries history. Someone knows the story.

[JanMichael]

91. Didn't Il Douche use Bureau of Prisons Goons in the NW?

That's why they didn't wear identifying clothes.

[NCcoast]

94. Thank you

That might shine a little light on the subject.

[DBoon]

84. That was a trial run for "disappearing" political dissenters

[Mme. Defarge]

27. I said this at the time and I'm saying it now -

My city was attacked by a hostile domestic government. I believe that some of the trauma from that grotesque betrayal is still with us.

[AllaN01Bear]

28. tsa has gone from checking airline passengers bags to this . friend of mine said

wed regret signing the " patriot act" and it would come back to bite us.

[dhol82]

79. Agree.

[iluvtennis]

29. tfg was and is a criminal thug.

[msfiddlestix]

30. K&R... yes we knew this at the time, but it's important this report with details gets attention

and that it is now out there for public consumption, as it were.

[Faux pas]

31. EFFERS

[William769]

32. OMFG!

Will the insanity from that Administration never cease?

[Deuxcents]

33. Just a thought..we're all of the opinion that tfg isn't the brightest

Light on the porch so how was he able to manipulate n convince so many to go along w/ his plans to destroy our institutions? He doesn’t know how government works or the constitution..how long were these planners n plans in production n who are they? Will we ever get to the truth of this n hold em accountable or was all this a practice run?

[yonder]

58. Like moths to a flame....post #35 describes the flame well.

Those many-legged worms are all about us, doing particular damage, just waiting for that metamorphic call to transform and rise to their evil, orange beacon.

[calimary]

60. He could read a script effectively.

And he photographed well enough. He had this kindly old Uncle Dutch schtick, a harmless and amiable “thing” going for him and millions were taken in by it.

ALL OF IT surface-only. Salesmanship. That’s all it’s been. And it worked. And, unfortunately, still does. And still will work, unless WE can power through it.

[Peacetrain]

36. Good God... what did they not do to keep that lump Trump in office

[RANDYWILDMAN]

39. If TFG was smart he would have been the dictator

that is still a big IF, Damn thanks Senator Wyden, you are my man.

[MurrayDelph]

70. And I'm proud to have voted for him

again last week.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

74. I voted for him again as well !

I met him at Starbucks once and he is just a very likeable person.

He is such a lock in Oregon, I never saw an ad of anyone running against him !

[MurrayDelph]

77. I met and spoke to him many times, before the plague

He made a point of holding at least one town hall in each country every year.

He was the first Senator I could ever meet without carrying a small piece of paper containing the words "pay to the order of..."

I should point out that Jeff Merkley was the second.

[greatauntoftriplets]

41. And if these thugs are in power again

they'll just double down on despicable stuff like this. They may even use it as a reason to institute martial law.

[IronLionZion]

42. GOP also incited lots of real terrorists

there has been tons of MAGA violence against American citizens.

The only people worried about Antifa are fascist white supremacist hate groups.

TFG desperately wanted some sort of 9/11 type event to justify unspeakable atrocities. Even during the 2020 protests, the violence started when Trump's goons showed up and stopped when they left. It's almost as if these government storm troopers were the problem, not the protestors.

[Wicked Blue]

43. DHS needs to be dismantled nt

[scarletlib]

45. Can anyone tell me the name of any leader, member, or organizational website where all these

Antifa people meet, talk and plan?

[pandr32]

47. Our dollars funded this heinous myth making to help TFG

This is not what DHS is for.

[BlueIdaho]

48. Time to disband this fucked up cabal.

Their job was to stop terrorists not invent them!

[HubertHeaver]

56. That is the problem.

Once created the bureaucracy has to justify its existence.

[BlueIdaho]

67. This is beyond any justification

This is a conspiracy between TFG and the DHS. That should be prison time for the DHS leadership and all co-conspirators.

[bahboo]

50. will there be any consequences....that is the question...

[GoodRaisin]

87. No.

[Qutzupalotl]

52. Antifa is not an organization.

https://www.antifa.org/

[Voltaire2]

76. Well it is organized along left anarchists principles

It’s a decentralized organization operating under local autonomy. Shared goals, no rulers.

[lambchopp59]

53. Color me not surprised. Disgusted, but not surprised.

Fox News plays the paranoia game "Antifa gonna come gitcha" to a well armed, reactionary audience preparing to perpetrate terrorist actions.
Take the last 3 words of the OP's title this post, changing through context and meaning:
"Terrorists for Trump".
I've posted this experience here before:

Springtime after the 2016 elections, I took my Labrador to a dog park on a long journey. There were probably 20 doggies romping and enjoying the park, and approximately an equal number of humans.

Then a sudden change in mood was palpable throughout most everyone there as a beat up old pickup truck pulled into the park, backfiring and smoking. At the same time, numerous dog owners were gathering up their pets to leave, even some who had just arrived.

“Cowboy” got out of the beat up pickup, unloading his dogs. Full cowboy drag, complete with bilateral pistols. People leaving were giving this cowboy wide berth, and only one other non-local and myself remained there. The problem soon became apparent.

The “no smoking” signs around the park obviously meant nothing to “cowboy” as he lit up. He bow-legged his way to the picnic table area, and began his diatribe, I'll paraphrase:

Cowboy: “Ya know, there ain't nothin’ more worthless in the world than the godd—mn liberals. Right here in my pocket I keep two things, mah byble and uh copy of duh constitoootion. I swore in duh army to protect this nation from enemies, foreign and domestic. Trump… Jeebus… Saviour… Constitoootion…” on and on. His outward mood was declining, most likely because neither myself or the other visitor there were chiming in with his viewpoints. It was becoming very apparent he was becoming threatening.

This cowboy had managed to terrorize every dog owner out of the park and within a few minutes had it all to himself.

Now, I realize this was an extreme example, but cowboy's ilk is ever present, in loud, threatening tone T-shirts, often armed as though they're going to do cowboy reactionary “justice” on the spot in Walmart.

It's not just the screwy policy stances of simpleton “solutions” to complex issues that are disrespected. It's the terrorist attitude of the Trumpers! The ironic part is their anti-Muslim stance when many are emanating the exact profile of the well armed Muslim terrorists. There's no respecting those who demand your subservience to their beliefs at the point of a gun.

But here they are, threatening a violent civil war.

Trumpers simply have too many terrorists to be respectable.

[GoCubsGo]

55. Fake terrorists. Fake polls.

Fake Christians. Everything about the GOP is fake. Nothing but lies on top of lies.

[republianmushroom]

59. So much for "FAITH" in my govt.

[McKim]

63. Yes, and they are using this hurt Portland!

Yes, and the Right is still using these incidents to attack our beloved city, scare citizens, to destroy our downtown with constant bashing and fear mongering. Portland is recovering but there is a national Right Wing conspiracy to prevent the recovery. We go downtown all the time and help the restaurants and small businesses. Downtown is recovering. The real goal of the Right is to to get Republican Christine Drazan elected as governor and Rene Gonzalez elected to Portland City Council. These two candidates are wolves in sheep’s clothing!

[Solly Mack]

64. K&R

[Boomerproud]

65. Any word from MSM?

Many times it's not not what they cover, but what they don't.

[prodigitalson]

66. A second Trump term would make the first look like a Swiss Picnic

Revenge against his political opponents will be his only priority. And he will make sure there is nobody in any agency who will not carry out his most evil of whims.

[Layzeebeaver]

68. J Edgar Hoover's ghost still exists!

Grrr…

[Evolve Dammit]

71. This is what all agencies will look like with another term. And that doesn't even begin the other

shit with "dark" groups that will operate un-checked under a new "AG". These mid-terms are a watershed. Drag your neighbors and friends and relatives to the polls.

[mcar]

75. Hello, MSM?

Are you listening?

[dchill]

81. Homeland Security is a totalitarian-sounding name...

...for a Republican-conceived agency that acts as a right-wing rheostat on the very concept of what previously was known as national security. It is functioning as intended.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

88. They spent all that time and money chasing smoke, while at the same time

they deliberately ignored the ever growing threat of armed, violent fascist terrorists everywhere throughout our country.

Resulting in a deadly insurrection that came in the form of a fascist domestic terrorist attack on our democracy and nation's Capitol on J6.

[Baitball Blogger]

89. I mean, where do you go with this?

I don't even know how to process this. We always suspected that most of our government agencies were biased in favor of Republicans, but it's now in the open and on an issue that definitely violated Civil Rights.

It seems that Homeland Security should face consequences.

[Emile]

90. The way Trump handled top secret documents, this is just another example of

how the past administration cared about our national security!

[Kid Berwyn]

92. DHS really does go that extra kilometer for the Fuehrer.

Like the time Secret Service erased their J6 text messages — and even after telling them not to, the Inspector General didn’t mind one terabyte.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

95. A report is only useful if it leads to consequences. We need a way to pre-empt this shit.

Fascists, insurrectionists, seditious conspirators, and traitors should be purged from our government at all levels.