They tried to get Trump to care about right-wing terrorism. He ignored them.
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security waged a yearslong internal struggle to get the White House to pay attention to the threat of violent domestic extremists. Frustrated, they gave up on the Trump administration.
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security waged a yearslong internal struggle to get the White House to pay attention to the threat of violent domestic extremists. Frustrated, they gave up on the Trump administration.
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“At least in this administration,” Neumann said, “there’s not going to be anything substantive done on domestic terrorism.”
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Trump’s infamous response to the weekend: “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”
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Trump often expressed irritation when he saw the DHS secretary anywhere other than the border. Miles Taylor, who was Nielsen’s chief of staff, told POLITICO Trump used to lambaste her if she didn’t physically spend enough of her time there.
“Verbatim the president said, ‘Get your ass to the border, why are you not down there?’” Taylor said.
“At DHS, your budget is always in competition for [border] wall money,” Neumann said. “So it’s not insignificant to have gotten that support.”