Ex-FBI official warns of unprecedented violence from Trump's 'hardcore' supporters
Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi cautioned that more than any time in recent history stopping far-right domestic terrorism has been incredibly challenging.
As the former assistant director for counterintelligence, Figliuzzi was among many of those who came together under former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was in charge of changing the FBI after Sept. 11, 2001.
"Donald Trump could be a guy who faces conviction on a number of charges in which a number of his followers, possibly a majority of his followers, maybe an overwhelming majority of them, think that these are unfair prosecutions... in one way or the other. What do you think about that because we, do, as a country need to think about that?" asked MSNBC's Ali Velshi.
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"It really makes the challenge of countering the threat of violence, the threat of domestic terrorism perhaps greater than we have seen in modern history because we have a candidate whose bread-and-butter approach is to attack institutions," explained the national security expert.
He cited some of Trump's language about not being from Washington or being an "outsider" who opposes bureaucrats and career civil servants.
"Now, lo and behold, Exhibit A, the very people I have been attacking and we don't trust anymore because I've told you not to trust them, they're going to put me in prison," Figliuzzi continued, characterizing Trump's thoughts.
It's why if Trump is put in jail for breaking the gag orders it will add "wind to his sails," he explained.
"It is going to convince his hard-core followers that he was right, that the institutions are wrong, and that we do need to break the mold," Figliuzzi closed. "Sadly, breaking the mold may be literally violence for some of those followers, and law enforcement's challenge is to get out ahead of this. And it is almost impossible to do every single time."
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