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Did Trump’s extremist ‘conspiracy-laden’ rhetoric make this man a domestic terrorist?
An alleged domestic terrorist appears to have been inspired by President Donald Trump’s rhetoric — including his the conspiracy theories he references.
The Intercept reported Saturday that people who know Michael Hari, a man who drove a getaway car after two other accomplices allegedly bombed a Minnesota mosque, say Trump’s rants changed him.
“I don’t think Trump’s rhetoric is getting people to commit violence,” a man from the same religious community as Hari told the website. “It’s not like he’s saying, ‘Go bomb a mosque!’ I think it’s subtler. I think he’s flipping the switch in certain people. And I think he flipped that switch in Michael Hari.”
The report noted that his story “shows how our increasingly divisive, conspiracy-laden culture is pushing troubled people toward extremism and violence.”
A member of the right-wing White Rabbit Three Percent Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters Militia, Hari wrote a manifesto that he sold on Amazon claiming he “wanted to return the United States to a simpler, less progressive era through bombings and armed resistance,” The Intercept noted.
Though his extremist Christian beliefs began as far back as 2001, he was reportedly at a low point in his life after repeated failed attempts at building a right-wing utopia when he encountered Trump’s message.
“If you go back to 2016, think about where he was in life. His farm idea had failed; he had taken a shot to his pride there,” the person who knows Hari told The Intercept. “And then here comes Donald Trump telling everyone, ‘Let’s make America great again.’ To Michael Hari, Trump was a righteous cause.”
He later picked up on the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy in which an alleged government insider known only by “Q” claims the president is working against nefarious forces within American politics bent on harming and destroying its people.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/trumps-extremist-conspiracy-laden-rhetoric-make-man-domestic-terrorist/
Donald Trump Jr gives interview to far-right conspiracy website known for antisemitic and racist articles
President's son says interview was not planned but does not fully denounce conspiracy site
The "citizen reporters" at TruNews typically pump out racist and antisemitic conspiracy-laden articles about reptile people plotting a government takeover and secret death squads that perpetrate mass shootings, all while counting down to "the second coming of Jesus Christ."
But on Thursday night, the right-wing fringe website scored one of its biggest stories yet: an interview with Donald Trump Jr.
Trump Jr – the president's eldest son, business heir and hype man – spoke to TruNews correspondent Kerry Kinsey at his father's Grand Rapids, Michigan, rally on Thursday.
"Look who we've got, Don Jr," Mr Kinsey says at the outset. "This is great."
In the five-minute interview that followed, Mr Trump Jr rehashed tried-and-tested talking points about fake news, the deep state and Hillary Clinton, as Mr Kinsey teed up milquetoast questions. As the conversation wrapped up, Mr Kinsey made a final request: "Would you tell your dad that TruNews loves your dad and we always give him a fair shake?"
"I'll do that, guys. Thank you so much. Have a great day," Mr Trump Jr responded.
Researchers at Right Wing Watch, a project from the nonprofit People for the American Way, have tracked TruNews for years and have described its founder, Rick Wiles, as a "crazed conspiracy theorist" obsessed with the end times.
"Wiles regularly promotes conspiracy theories about President [Barack] Obama, the federal government and secret powerful forces working to shape world events and lead to the end of days," his Right Wing Watch profile reads. "He also frequently criticises LGBT rights and immigration."
A spokesperson for Mr Trump Jr, who has his own history with conspiratorial thinking, said he had not planned to do the interview, nor had he and his representatives vetted the outlet.
"This was not a pre-planned interview and Don had never heard of TruNews or had any awareness of their views until this very moment," the spokesperson, Amanda Miller, said in the statement.
She said Mr Trump Jr was scheduled to talk with Fox News host Sean Hannity and, while he was waiting for that interview to begin, nearby reporters began asking him questions. He did interviews with several outlets, Ms Miller said.
"Unfortunately, he did not have an opportunity to run a full FBI background check on each and every one," she said.
The Trump campaign did not respond to questions about how TruNews gained access to the Michigan rally or whether the outlet was granted press credentials to cover it.
However, this was not the first time TruNews managed to get some face time with the Trump family. In September, at a news conference about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, the president himself took a question from a TruNews reporter, who asked Mr Trump for a preview of the "great deal" that would end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Observers, in turn, wondered how the reporter even gained admission to the briefing.
The White House did not respond to questions about TruNews and its access to news conferences. The outlet also did not respond to a request for comment late on Friday night.
The TruNews archive reads like a greatest hits collection of far-right conspiracy theories, a veritable potpourri of Nazi references and fear mongering about secret cabals.
In articles and broadcasts past, the site has claimed the Las Vegas shooting, which was the deadliest in modern US history, was carried out by a secret death squad from a "gay/lesbian Nazi regime" and asserted that white Americans are being pushed out of their country by a "brown invasion." Numerous articles on the site have declared Mr Obama a "demon from hell" – or worse. After Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston in 2017, TruNews declared the storm punishment for the city's "affinity for the sexual perversion movement."
Yet, TruNews is not the lone conspiracy platform that has found an audience in the White House.
Alex Jones, on his website InfoWars, long claimed that the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax. But that did not stop Mr Trump from appearing on Mr Jones' show during his presidential campaign.
"Your reputation is amazing," Mr Trump said then. "I will not let you down."
Just over three years later, Mr Kinsey, a representative from another fringe site, vied for the president's attention. At the end of the interview with Mr Trump Jr, Mr Kinsey turned back to the camera and signed off. It sounded like even he could not believe what had just happened.
"Kerry Kinsey here for TruNews in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with Donald Trump Jr," he said. "Wow, how 'bout that."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-jr-far-right-conspiracy-website-interview-trunews-a8846706.html
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Trump tries fresh approach with long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a new permission for TransCanada Corp to build the long-delayed Keystone pipeline for imports of Canadian oil, replacing his previous permits in a fresh attempt to get around the blocking of the $8 billion project by a court in Montana.
In granting the permission in an executive order, Trump revoked a previous permit for the pipeline issued in March 2017 and an executive order approving the project he issued two days after taking office in January that year.
It was not immediately clear whether under the new approval the pipeline, which would carry 800,000 barrels per day of crude from Canada’s oil sands to refineries along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, would have to undergo extensive new environmental reviews.
The Keystone XL pipeline has been pending for more than a decade after environmental reviews and after former President Barack Obama rejected the project saying it would do little to benefit U.S. motorists and would contribute to global warming.
Friday’s permission was the latest move in the Trump administration’s pursuit of what it calls “energy dominance,” or maximizing production of oil, gas and coal for domestic use and exports to allies and trading partners. The administration has rolled back environmental regulations on emissions from power plants and vehicles and opened up federal lands to drilling and mining.
Russ Girling, TransCanada’s president and chief executive officer, said in a release that Trump “has been clear that he wants to create jobs and advance U.S. energy security and the Keystone XL pipeline does both of those things.”
The pipeline faced numerous legal hurdles after several environmental groups sued the U.S. government over the 2017 presidential permit, and Keystone has been held up in the courts, most recently in Montana.
Judge Brian Morris of the U.S. District Court for Montana blocked construction of the pipeline in November last year.
Morris wrote in his ruling that a U.S. State Department environmental analysis “fell short of a ‘hard look’” at the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions and the impact on Native American land resources.
The head of the Sierra Club green group said Trump was trying to bypass “bedrock” environmental laws for the benefit of a foreign pipeline company. “We will continue to pursue every available avenue to ensure that this pipeline is never built,” said Michael Brune, the club’s executive director.
Analysts at ClearView Energy Partners said in a note that Trump’s new permit might end delays related to further environmental review called for by the court, but that the project still faces hurdles in states it goes through including multiple water quality permits in South Dakota.
https://www.kitv.com/story/40223218/trump-tries-fresh-approach-with-long-delayed-keystone-xl-pipeline