Six years of Trump tweets, rallies and coddling brought extremist groups together. He used his final stand Jan. 6 to strengthen their unity and purpose.
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
We are continuing now with another conversation about the challenges President-elect Biden and his administration will face. And we re going to talk now about something that s, frankly, been difficult to talk about until recently, and that is the threat of white nationalist extremism. We obviously saw this on display at the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, which was, by and large, conducted by white extremists. But even before then, despite President Trump s downplaying of it, government analysts raised alarms, including in an October report from the Department of Homeland Security that identified white supremacist extremists as the greatest domestic terror threat facing the United States.
Instead of rebuking the president for any role in inciting the riot, some Republicans drew comparisons between the Capitol siege and the Black Lives Matter protests.