Turns out today’s FBI field office attacker was a January 6th participant as well
After the DOJ had the FBI carry out a fully proper search and seizure warrant at Donald Trump’s home this week, Trump and a number of his Republican and right wing media allies began dishonestly attacking the FBI over it. Some of them even called for political retaliation.
When an individual entered an FBI field office today and tried to carry out a violent attack, it raised questions about whether this might have been a result of the rhetoric that Trump and his allies have spent days dishonestly hurling at the FBI.
Now NBC News is reporting that today’s FBI attacker was in fact present at the United States Capitol on January 6th. This all but confirms that today’s attacker was indeed a Trump supporter – and it raises questions about whether the over the top rhetoric against the FBI from Trump and his allies spurred this individual’s actions today.
In any case today’s FBI attacker is now reportedly dead, so we won’t be getting any answers out of him. But more details will surely surface about him and his motives, and we’ll see if a straight line can be drawn from Trump world’s anti-FBI rhetoric over the past three days and today’s attack.
It’s important to point out that there were no huge pro-Trump protests this week, no rioting in the streets, no hint of the “civil war” that Trump’s supporters hyperbolically promised. Trump supporters are right wingers, which means they’re loud cowards. They thought they’d get away with January 6th because Trump controlled federal law enforcement at the time. But now most of them are surely too afraid to pick a violent fight with the federal government.
That said, today’s attack – even if isolated – raises serious questions about how far the United States government will need to go in tracking those who even so much as showed up at the Capitol on January 6th, and whether they all need to be placed on domestic terrorist watch lists. At the least, the nation should be having this kind of debate. Trump outed himself as a violent domestic terrorist quite awhile ago. Anyone who’s still supporting him has to at the least be classified, by definition, as a terrorist sympathizer.
