A former top Homeland Security Department official discusses the fallout from the Trump assassination attempt.
The U.S. has suffered from a sharp rise in domestic violent extremism in recent years, with domestic terrorism investigations increasing by more than 350 percent from 2013 to 2023. | Scott Goldsmith for POLITICOAlmost as soon as former President Donald Trump was safe and the man who allegedly shot him was dead, federal law enforcement moved into a new phase: the investigation of how it happened.
And even as the precise motive in the assassination attempt against Trump remains unclear, Cohen also acknowledged that the alleged shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, has a profile that reflects those of many other domestic violent extremists. How does the government monitor these kinds of people if they aren’t active online? Is it possible to stop such an attack?
Not everyone who eats lunch by themselves is a mass shooter. But we have learned mass casualty attacks or acts of targeted violence are very often people who feel that they’ve been victimized by society, I’ve been providing briefings to law enforcement and election officials over the last year. The potential for targeted attacks directed at candidates was certainly a possibility that we’ve raised.
What are law enforcement agencies doing right now to investigate this attack? What would you have been doing at the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis?
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