DISINFO: US Democrats persecute ideas they don't back and label Trump supporters as terrorists
SUMMARY
One of the outcomes of the assault on the US Capitol is the imposition of a single speech and that anyone defending other ideas than those backed by the Democrats, who feel omnipotent now, could be targeted for persecution, censorship, silence. We are in face of some sort of purge. Journalists in some media are already living through this. We will have to wait very little to see how ‘dissidents’ will be denounced. Among the Democratic Party, there are even talks of reprogramming those who have been supporting Trump or that have a different idea than those preached by the Democratic Party.
The way that security forces see and talk about Donald Trump’s supporters is exactly the same that we see and talk about Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, said John Hudak of the Brookings Institution. Therefore, if you support Trump, you are a terrorist. It seems that whoever supported or voted for Trump, as we heard from the representative of this think tank, will be marked.
The system called terrorists those that took over the Capitol, though some videos show how practically they were given a red carpet to enter some areas of the building. A different matter is that they were hotheads, vandals and radicals, something to be denounced, but it should be noted that there were elements from both sides: white supremacists, but also Antifas.
RESPONSE
This is part of a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign to discredit Joe Biden’s electoral victory, undermine the faith on the US electoral system and promote Donald Trump.
The affirmation about the imposition of a single speech and the targeting of anyone defending other ideas than those backed by the Democratic Party is not based on any evidence. The US rank 45th among 180 countries on the 2020 World Press Freedom Index.
The claim that if you support Trump you will be considered a terrorist is a deliberate distortion of the original interview that John Hudak of the Brookings Institution gave to Associated Press on January 15th, one week after the assault of the US Capitol. In the original clip, it is clear that Husak is talking about violent individuals among Donald Trump’s supporters who endorsed extremist views and are engaging in terrorist plots and are therefore a threat for US national security. Contrary to the claim, he doesn’t hint or affirm that all Trump’s supporters will be considered terrorists.
Apart from that, footage of riots at the US Capitol on 6, January, 2021 show, that police were easily overwhelmed and ceded their position without fighting. Most of the officials in charge of security resisted the assault, which led to the death of some of them. Therefore, there is no basis to say that “they were given a red carpet to enter some areas of the building”. Though claim that left-wing activists also took part in the assault were refuted by the FBI.
See other examples of these pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that the US system is not democratic because the Deep State makes the big decisions; that the attack on the Capitol was a planned provocation; that the Democratic Party has become a fascist party; that there was electoral fraud in the US because the Deep State didn’t want Trump reelected; that the cybercracy, the Deep State and the Pentagon subdued Trump; or that the assault on the Capitol was the new 9/11.