Durham Report a Bombshell or Nothingburger?; Biden Says ‘White Nationalism’ the Greatest Threat

Special counsel John Durham on Monday released his long-awaited report on the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign back in 2016. FBI veteran and Epoch Times contributor Marc Ruskin discusses the significance of the findings.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden over the weekend warned that white supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat against the United States. He didn’t specify a group or detail who these individuals might be. So what was he referring to? We’ll take an in-depth look at this.

Also, Californians are now leaving the state in droves. This is being blamed on high taxes, rising crime, and a whittling away at the quality of life in the “golden state.” Yet what does this say about California politics, and what could this mean for the rest of us as those policies begin to spread? We’ll speak with Siyamak Khorrami, host of California Insider, about this and more.

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Good evening, and welcome to Crossroads!

There is a new threat against the United States. It’s a movement without a clear name, without a clear doctrine, and with few examples of violence in the modern world. Yet, according to President Joe Biden, this is now the greatest terrorist threat that the country now faces. Watch.
“We know that American history has not always been a fairy tale. From the start it’s been a constant push and pull, for more than 240 years, between the best of us, the American ideal that we’re all created equal, and the worst of us. A harsh reality that racism has long torn us apart. It’s a battle that’s never really over. But on the best days, enough of us have the guts and the hearts to stand up for the best in us. To choose love over hate, unity over disunion, progress over retreat. To stand up against the poison white supremacy as I did my inaugural address to single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy. I’m not saying this because I’m at a Black HPCU.”

As Biden notes, his speech at Howard University in Washington echoes something he’s been warning about since he took office. During his inaugural address, while listing the threats to the country, Biden said this:
“And now, a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront, and we will defeat.”
Critics were quick to point out that Biden wasn’t naming a specific group. When we think of terrorism, in the past we’d think of groups like al-Qaeda, or ISIS, or people who provide material aid, such as firearms, to groups like the Taliban.

So what is the embodiment of this new terrorist threat? Well, Biden hasn’t been too clear on this. But he has repeatedly tied it to what he calls “MAGA Republicans.” In other words, former President Donald Trump and his supporters. And why is it such a threat to the nation? Biden explained this in his “soul of the nation speech” In September, which was focused heavily on demonizing the MAGA movement. Let me show you:
“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. … And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election. … MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies.”

So apparently, the greatest threat to the nation are the political enemies of Joe Biden? And the greatest crimes they commit are apparently to hold conservative views on marriage and abortion, and to question the integrity of the 2020 election.

Is this really the “white supremacist” threat of terrorism that Biden refers to? Or is it something else? Do Trump supporters actually hold this? There wasn’t much suggesting this… well at least not until right after Biden’s recent speech.

Soon after Biden’s Howard University speech. Suddenly a group of white supremacists calling themselves “Patriot Front,” that supposedly support Trump, went parading around Washington holding American flags, and symbols for their own group. They had a police escort, they went unchallenged by typical counterprotesters like Antifa, and when they arrived at the Metro to end their march, police allegedly prevented the press from following them.
So do they represent Trump supporters. Are they representative of the MAGA movement, or of conservatives? Apparently not at all. There was a deluge of Twitter posts from conservatives, and news articles from conservative news outlets, with a relatively uniform opinion. Most people believe that Patriot Front are “feds.” In other words, the movement is viewed as a “fed op,” or federal agents dressing up as Trump supporters to make Trump supporters look bad.

Then who is Patriot Front? According to the Anti-Defamation League, it’s a Texas-based white supremacist group that split from another group called Vanguard America in August 2017.
The group is also loosely affiliated with another white supremecist group, the Rise Above Movement, which had been heavily monitored by the FBI going back to at least 2017, as was detailed in a criminal complaint from an FBI agent.
That group also had ties to Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, including for training. This was shown as well in a report from Radio Free Asia.
According to the Woke Societies Twitter account, it’s a terrible irony that American taxpayer money is potentially going to finance the white supremacist group’s training by extension. It says, “The United States has for years funded, trained, and armed the Ukrainian regime, while inadvertently, through the support of groups like the Azov Battalion, given indirect support to extremists both within the U.S. and abroad.”
Meanwhile, we also recently saw similar protests by an openly Neo Nazi organization, the Blood Tribe. The group was protesting a drag brunch in Ohio. The group was similarly condemned online by conservatives, who broadly called them “feds.”

So what’s the verdict? Well, it’s always possible the white nationalist groups have been infiltrated by federal agents. We don’t really know. And Trump supporters aren’t being overly paranoid for being suspicious.
The far-left community organizer Saul Alnisky, author of “Rules for Radicals,” infamously laid out a strategy for this. For example, Alinsky told far-left activists in the 1970s, that rather than directly protesting against George Bush, that they should instead dress like members of the Klu Klux Klan and pretend to support him. The anti-Trump organization Lincoln Project was also outed in 2021 for doing something similar. Its members disguised themselves as white nationalists from the Charlottesville riot, and appeared to support then-Republican Virginia gubernatorial frontrunner Glenn Youngkin as a form of veiled protest.
The reality is that there are real white supremacist groups. Many of them function like gangs. They tend to be small, and people on both sides of the political aisle tend to hate them. At least we can all agree on something.

At the same time, there are also real instances of groups dressing as white supremecists, and using fake support as a way to protest politicians they don’t like.
So how does Patriot Front fit into this? Well, certainly, they are serving the interests of the Biden administration, by making false connections of extremism to Trump. Meanwhile, Trump supporters, and conservatives overall, appear to overwhelmingly believe the group is a ruse.

And of course, there’s the biggest elephant in the room. The groups are Neo Nazis. The Nazis were national socialists who pushed race politics. The Fascists under Mussolini were collectivist socialists, with the slogan of “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”

Absolute state control isn’t exactly a winning talking point for conservatives. The Trump movement, for example, tended to support cutting government regulations, rather than broadening them. But regardless, vague labels and dubious movements are being used to falsely frame a large-swath of the nation. And to me at least, that does just seem a bit extreme.

Stick around after the break. The Durham Report has finally been released. We’ll have former FBI agent and assistant district attorney Mark Ruskin on to discuss.

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The Durham Report has finally been released. This is the investigation from Special Counsel John Durham who was appointed by Trump to investigate the Crossfire Hurricane scandal. Here to speak with us about this is Marc Ruskin, former FBI agent and assistant district attorney.

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Americans appear to be fleeing California. Close to 700,000 people left the state between 2020 and 2022, and despite some people moving there, the state’s population has dropped by about 500,000 people. This is being blamed on unaffordable housing, rising taxes, and rampant crime.
Yet is this really the case? Here to discuss what’s happening and what it could mean for the rest of the country is Siyamak Khorrami, host of California Insider, who recently did a documentary on this for The Epoch Times, which is “Leaving California: The Untold Story.”

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That’s all for tonight, folks. Thanks for joining us and as always, Stay informed, and stay free.