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Speaking of ISIS, "We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet and we
have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people
that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in
certain areas closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'oh,
freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people… we've got to
maybe do something with the Internet because they (ISIS) are recruiting by the
thousands, they are leaving our country and then when they come back, we take
them back."
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/subjects/terrorism/ -- 2015 --
Back to top June 16: [Trump On terrorism]:“Islamic terrorism is eating large portions
of the Mideast. They’ve become rich. I’m in competition with them.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/donald-trump-2016-announcement-10-best-lines-119066
September 27: Donald Trump wrong again about
NATO increasing terrorism efforts 'largely' because of him
During the first presidential debate at Hofstra University, Donald Trump
repeated a claim that he had succeeded in pushing NATO -- the military
alliance that includes the United States and Europe -- to increase its efforts
on counter-terrorism.
February 20: "We've got
to keep our country safe," [Trump] said. "You look at what's happening in
Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would
believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They're having problems like
they never thought possible. ... [Trump's] comments appeared to refer to recent
terror attacks in Germany and elsewhere, but no such attack has occurred in
Sweden.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/19/politics/trump-rally-sweden/
June 7:Unraveling the Qatar crisis:
Sunni, Shia, Saudi, Iranian -- and Trump ... Qatar
is home to 11,000 US troops and the Al Udeid Air Base, the main regional center
for air operations against [ISIS]. "... Qatar remains critical for coalition air
operations in the fight against ISIS and around the region."
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/07/middleeast/qatar-crisis-analysis/index.html
June 10: Saudi Arabia and the UAE on
Saturday welcomed US President Donald Trump’s warning to Qatar to stop funding
terrorism. Trump’s comments came as Washington joined intensifying international
efforts to heal the worsening rift between the key Western Gulf allies, which
escalated into the region’s worst diplomatic crisis in years, the Gulf News
reported. The US President accused Qatar of being a “funder of terrorism at a
very high level” at a White House news conference with Romanian President Klaus
Iohannis ...
http://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/saudi-arabia-uae-welcome-donald-trumps-warning-to-qatar/711698/
June 9: Trump seems to undercut Tillerson’s
remarks on Qatar
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on a Saudi Arabia-led bloc of Arab
nations Friday to immediately ease their blockade of Qatar and urged all
involved in the week-long Persian Gulf dispute to quickly resolve their
differences, remarks that President Trump seemed to undercut less than an hour
later.
June 10: Qatar's ambassador to the United
States, Meshal Hamad AlThani, tweeted
that " Qatar's principles and foreign policy reject the false ideology of
terrorism." Qatar has been working with the US on combating terrorism for years,
he said.
August 14: President Trump touted his
signing of legislation that provides for the construction of a memorial to U.S.
service members who have fought in the so-called war on terrorism.
The bill authorizes a nonprofit called the Global War on Terrorism Memorial
Foundation to oversee the creation of the monument, planned for the National
Mall in Washington.
August 17: A van
plowed into crowds of pedestrians in Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas
district on Thursday, leaving bloodied people sprawled on the sidewalk and
sending others fleeing an attack claimed by the militant group Islamic State.
At
least 12 people were killed and 80 injured, the president of Spain's Catalonia
region, Carles Puigdemont, said.
August 21: The risk of being killed in a
terrorist attack on U.S. soil is small. The chance of being murdered in a
non-terrorist homicide from 1992 through 2017 was about 1 in 17,000 a year,
which is about 133 times as great as being killed by a terrorist [about 1 in
2,261,000].
October 31: A terrorist in a rental truck
sped for nearly a mile down a popular, bike-only path in lower Manhattan on
Tuesday — killing eight people in the shadow of the World Trade Center and then
shouting: “Allahu Akbar.”
“In NYC, looks like another attack by a very sick and deranged person. Law
enforcement is following this closely. NOT IN THE U.S.A.!” he wrote.
November 1: Trump: Suspect Entered
U.S. in ‘Diversity Visa Lottery,’ Blames Schumer ...
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Uzbek immigrant suspected of
killing eight people in New York City with a rental truck entered the U.S.
through the "Diversity Visa Lottery Program," and the president accused Sen.
Chuck Schumer and other Democrats of having loosened the nation's borders.
Trump did not provide any supporting evidence for the claim about the visa
program, which was being discussed on the morning TV program "Fox and Friends"
that the president indicated in his tweets he was watching.
November 1: Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and
David Perdue have introduced a bill, endorsed by Trump, that would eliminate the
diversity lottery and certain categories of family-based green cards, and then
would transform the remaining employment-based visas into a point system that
favors heavily highly skilled, highly educated, English-speaking immigrants.
The Cotton-Perdue bill would roughly halve the number of green cards overall per
year, a point of contention for many Democrats and Republicans alike, and
wouldn't easily allow for low skilled immigrants to come to the US permanently,
another sticking point for many.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/politics/donald-trump-chuck-schumer-nyc-attack/index.html
November 1: Trump blames Democrats,
immigration policies for NYC terror attack
Schumer was a key shaper of the 1990 legislation that created the program, but
also played a lead part in the 2013 Gang of Eight bill that that passed the
Senate on a wide bipartisan basis and included removing the diversity
lottery program. The bill moved those visas elsewhere in the system and
introduced a merit system that took into account multiple factors like family
and work skills.
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/trump-blames-democrats-immigration-policies-for-nyc-terror-attack?page=2
November 1: Democrats slammed Trump on
Wednesday for quickly turning to immigration after the terror attack.
November 1:
President Donald Trump called for
"quick" and "strong" justice for terror suspects in the wake of the deadly New
York City attack, saying that it is not surprising terror attacks happen because
the way the United States punishes terrorists is "a laughing stock."
Trump's comments, made during a White House Cabinet meeting Wednesday, malign
the justice system for a lack of toughness. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the
head of the so-called 'laughing stock' justice system, was in the room for this
comment -- sitting across from Trump.
Trump's call to get tougher on terrorism fall in line with the same rhetoric he
used during the campaign trail, where he called the Geneva Convention -- a
1949 agreement that dictates international rules on torture and humanitarian
treatment of prisoners -- a problem that the United States had to move past.
In
his first public remarks after the terrorist attack in New York City on Tuesday
night, President Donald Trump simultaneously managed to both insult the US
criminal justice system and propose something that sounded scarily like a
crackdown on basic civil liberties — all within the span of just a few minutes.
The president called the legal system’s method for handling terrorism
prosecutions “a joke” and “a laughing stock,” arguing its insufficiently harsh
punishments made future attacks more likely. He called for replacing it with an
unspecified “far quicker and far greater” new system that would inflict greater
pain on “these animals."
There is no evidence that US courts are unable to prosecute terrorism suspects
in a timely fashion. The opposite: Since 9/11, more than 620 individuals have
been convicted on terrorism charges in 63 separate federal courts, according to
a May 2017 count by
Human Rights First. None of these terrorists have broken out of prison, and
none of the courts have suffered retaliatory attacks.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/11/1/16593138/trump-new-york-city-attack-courts
November 13:Raqqa’s dirty little secret
The BBC has uncovered details of a secret deal that let hundreds of IS fighters
and their families escape from Raqqa, under the gaze of the US and British-led
coalition and Kurdish-led forces who control the city.
President Donald Trump’s frequent visits to South Florida make the area a
high-risk target for terrorism, one that justifies more money from the federal
government, Palm Beach County’s top law enforcement agency says.
June 19: Trump's act of state terrorism
against children. State terrorism comes in many forms, but one of its most cruel and
revolting expressions is when it is aimed at children.
October 22: For days, as migrants have
traveled thousands of miles toward the US-Mexico border, President Donald Trump
has warned of the dangerous people who make up their pack.
He's tweeted that "[c]riminals and unknown Middle Easterners" are "mixed" in
with the caravan, and, on Monday afternoon, doubled down on his claims, telling
reporters on the South Lawn of the White House to "go into the middle" of the
caravan and "search. You're gonna find MS-13. You're gonna find Middle Eastern."
October 24: The Bombs Sent to Democrats Are
an Act of Terror. Why Won’t Trump Say It?
The president has always been quick to tweet about acts of Islamic terrorism,
but it took hours for him to comment on Wednesday’s bombs—and he still won’t
call it terrorism.
November 1: Trump will not renew Obama-era
program to fight domestic terrorism
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to end a grant program under the
Department of Homeland Security that provides grants to organizations that fight
domestic terrorism.
November 1: Trump administration decides to
stop funding efforts to counter far-right extremism
Just a few days after the nation was rocked by a Trump supporter’s attempted
bombing spree and an anti-Semitic shooter
killing 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, the Trump administration has
reportedly decided to end an Obama-era program dedicated to countering domestic
terror.
Launched in 2016 and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the
initiative was the first of its kind: a federal grant program dedicated solely
to combating the right-wing extremist groups and ideologies that have grown in
prominence over the past few years.
All told, the program was allocated $10 million to disburse, with recipients
ranging from police departments to former white supremacists. More than two
dozen organizations received funds.
November 2: “We Are at a Turning Point”:
Counterterrorism Experts Say Trump Is Inspiring a Terrifying New Era of
Right-Wing Violence
On Monday, an attorney representing Patrick Eugene Stein, one
of three men convicted of plotting to bomb Somali refugees, filed an explosive
memo in U.S. District Court in Kansas. Stein, his lawyer argued, should receive
a more lenient sentence because he was inspired by then-candidate
Donald Trump. “The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of
the most rhetorically mold-breaking, violent, awful, hateful, and contentious
presidential election in modern history,” attorney Jim Pratt
wrote, “driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our
president.”
The filing
made national news in part because Pratt was willing to argue publicly what
many in Washington are saying in private. In the past weeks, the United States
has been rocked by a series of vicious hate crimes, including a mail-bombing
spree targeting Democrats and Trump critics; the racially inspired killing of
two black patrons at a Kentucky grocery store; and, most recently, the massacre
of 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue believed to be the work of an avowed
neo-Nazi. Trump and his allies have argued that the president bears no
responsibility for the acts of deranged individuals. But to many experts on hate
groups and former Homeland Security, law enforcement, and counterterrorism
officials, there is unquestionably a correlation.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/trump-administration-tree-of-life-shooting-domestic-terrorism
December 13: Trump’s 10 ‘terrorists’: Where
are they?
For some time now, President Donald Trump has been encouraging people to think
of
Mexico as a portal for international terrorists who “pour” into the U.S.
Except, he says, for 10 who were recently caught by the U.S.: “These are very
serious people.”
These 10 do not exist, except as a federal statistic that Trump and his vice
president put through a rhetorical grinder in service of describing emigrants
from Mexico as a menace.
