Dems are investigating whether the suppression of DHS intelligence about violent white supremacy and right wing extremism -- done to bolster Trump's campaign agitprop -- may have helped exacerbate the insurrection at the Capitol, @RepAdamSchiff tells me: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/02/schiff-trump-insurrection-intelligence/
The post-Trump fumigation will have to be epic.

We need a full reckoning with Trump's use of large swaths of the government to manufacture a left-wing terror threat and downplay violent right wing extremism, and the ways all this led to the insurrection:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/02/schiff-trump-insurrection-intelligence/
A great NYT report revealed how hyping of Antifa distracted from right wing violence.

As @adamgoldmanNYT and team noted, this came when the far right threat "was building ominously.”

I asked @RepAdamSchiff about this. Dems are examining related things:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/02/schiff-trump-insurrection-intelligence/
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