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THE ENEMY WITHIN

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAYS WHITE SUPREMACIST TERRORISM IS FAKE NEWS. BUT THE THREAT IS REAL.
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FOUR DAYS AFTER a homemade bomb blew through the window of a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017, Sebastian Gorka, then a national security aide to President Donald Trump, spoke about the attack. Though the culprits were still unknown, Gorka suggested the bombing may have been a “fake hate crime” ginned up by leftists. He also scoffed at journalists who had raised questions about right-wing domestic terrorism: “It’s this constant, ‘Oh,

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