2020-06-10 00:00:00, By Editorial Board, Washington Post
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PRESIDENT TRUMP spread a deranged and dangerous conspiracy theory this week when he accused a 75-year-old man pushed to the ground by police in Buffalo of faking the force of his fall – as well as attempting to "scan" the cops.
The FBI's internal situation report on the May 31 protests in Washington says the field office "has no intelligence indicating Antifa involvement/presence"; Justice Department records show no links to antifa in relevant cases.
The White House, with the help of Attorney General William P. Barr, is inventing a domestic terror threat from whole cloth, blaming the loose, left-wing anti-fascist, or antifa, movement for the unrest roiling the country these past weeks.
Citizens of rural communities believe buses and even planes stuffed with antifa activists are coming to town, so they're gathering with baseball bats and guns to confront them.
Finally, it is certainly possible that individuals making mayhem at protests sympathize with antifa, or even consider themselves antifa affiliates.
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