The plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan is only the latest in a growing list of election-related threats. Some experts say the president is emboldening extremists.
As Trump’s Language Grows More Heated, Fears Rise of Political Violence- @tripgabriel, @ktbenner & @KannoYoungs report Donald is triggering in his staunchest supporters fears for the election's outcome & emboldening them to disrupt the voting process.
The International Crisis Group, whose mission is to sound an alarm ahead of deadly conflicts in hot spots around the globe, last month turned its attention for the first time to possible election-related violence in the U.S.
U.S. elections are usually nonevents for law enforcement, a peaceful pageant of democracy. But not this year.
A look at voters' fears of violence stoked by POTUS & law enforcement on alert W/@KannoYoungs@ktbenner
2/ for, in his words, an “army” at the polls to “watch all the thieving and stealing and robbing they do,” Ms. Nessel, a Democrat (MI AG), warned that anyone crossing the line from permitted activities to voter harassment would be charged with a felony.'