back in power at any moment. by the way, when he posted on truth social this week that he wants a new election, he wants to be declared the winner again, and it s august 2022, that s what they re talking about. the qanon people think that he ll be back into power, literally, any minute now. that statement is absolutely ludicrous. let me ask you real quick, we have a ballpark number on the, i guess, amount of people that would fall into this qanon following following donald trump? any idea how many were talking about? there s this great diffusion of qanon after january six. they realized it wasn t happening. a lot of people got picked up by militia movements. most of those movements were actively recruiting qanon people in q forums. after january six. a lot of them believe the general premise, there s a deep state, with the deep state does depends on how much you believe in satan, i guess. some of them believe
i would hope so, i think with the larger militia movements, like the proud boys or pariot front, there s some way to get in bed with those people, stay in their tracks. the real worry is, in 2018, there was a guy so worried about the caravan, so upset that the jews were doing something with the caravan, that they went and shot people at a synagogue in pittsburgh. you can t track every single individual people who makes a threat on the internet. you can do a good job of tracking those big groups, coordinating something big, but those individual, you don t want to call them lone wolves because they all believe the same thing. would it help if somebody like donald trump came out and said, hey, listen, violence is not the answer? of course it would.
communications that showed involvement in the attempted coup on january 6th last year. he had his first court appearance today in plano, texas and will stay in custody until his detention hearing scheduled for january 20th, fittingly, one year to the day after president biden and vice president kamala harris were inaugurated. joining me is maya wiley and frank, former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence and frank, i want to go to you. because i am sort of in a long time worm hole about where these kind of militia movements that seem to peak if you listen to the southern poverty law center every time a democrat is president, you have the bombings and militia movement and a spurt when the fear that hillary clinton would become president and the first black president, president obama comes in. you ve got these movements that keep spiking each time and then you have this bundy ranch thing that happens.
nbc news has learned that january 6 committee investigators are zeroing in events attended by domestic violent extremist groups throughout 2020. half a dozen sources say investigators are trying to determine if the groups coordinated with other militia movements, rally organizers, and government officials in the weeks before that. and whether events like covid lockdown rallies, counter protests to racial justice demonstrations, protests at capital builds were proving grounds, opportunities, to network or encourage each other to cross red lines into future violence. investigators are also working to find out how so many different groups arrived at the same goal of storming the capitol with a white nationalist conspiracy theory serving as at least one unifying factor among them. it comes just as federal law enforcement agencies warn about
well, let me just say, i think it s a big mistake to frame this race as a contest between a george w. bush faction and a donald trump faction. that debate is over. lock, stock, and barrel, donald trump controls the republican party, and that republican party and all of the evidence is in on this, is a party that is no longer faithful to american democracy, number one. it is an autocratic party, number two. it is a coalition that includes extremist elements, among them white supremacists, militia movements and other extremist groups. wyoming, the 44th state admitted to the union, was the first to give women the right to vote and the genius of our system is sometimes great questions are settled in small states. this is the most sparsely populated state in the country. it s the cowboy state. and in this state, there s going