WHY DID TRUMP SLASH FUNDS FOR ORGANISATIONS FIGHTING EXTREME RIGHT WHEN THE EXTREME RIGHT ARE THE MOST VIOLENT?

Yesterday I posted this about Trump slashing funds for organisations fighting Nazism and white supremacists:

Trump slashed Obama funds for groups fighting white supremacists https://t.co/9V8pGiNtlz pic.twitter.com/noS2UUliQU

— The Hill (@thehill) 15 August 2017

But it turns out that the FBI and the DHS published a report 3 months ago which showed that Nazis and white supremacists have been the most violent groups in the USA for the last 16 years. The following comes from WSWS which, like TTS, has seen its traffic from Google slashed in the last 3 months:

The rampage through Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend by hundreds of neo-Nazis did not come as a surprise to the Trump White House. On the contrary, both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported the mounting threat of violence by white supremacist groups more than three months ago.

According to a document obtained and made public by Foreign Policy magazine on its web site Monday, the FBI and DHS issued a joint warning that white supremacists had already carried out more violent attacks than any other US-based groups over the past 16 years and “likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year.”

The eight-page intelligence bulletin was issued on May 10, 2017.

...The report, titled “White Supremacist Extremism Poses Persistent Threat of Lethal Violence,” found that US neo-Nazis “were responsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from 2000 to 2016...more than any other domestic extremist movement,” including Islamists inspired by ISIS or Al Qaeda.

The targets of the white supremacist extremists (WSE in FBI jargon) in 2016 alone included blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Muslims and Jews. They were stabbed, shot, beaten and in one case attacked with a hatchet. There was one death, numerous injuries, and one attempted mass casualty attack that was detected and disrupted by local police.

The perpetrators “included members of racist skinhead groups, Klan members, and individuals who lacked group affiliations.” Racist prison gangs and individuals recruited over the Internet were involved in some of the attacks.

[source : Mounting evidence of White House collusion with neo-Nazis, WSWS, http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/15/char-a15.html, 15th August 2017]

“likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year.”?

Lethal?

Well, what happened over the weekend?

Yep. A Nazi Trumper drove his car into a crowd of anti-Nazis and killed a woman.

QED.