Former FBI Assistant Director: Large-Scale Program Needed to ‘De-Radicalize Trump’s Political Cult Members’Joshua Klein 9 Feb 2021
In a recent Salon interview, former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi calls for a large-scale “de-radicalization approach†to “Trump’s political cult members†who have been radicalized “for the last four years,†while stating the need to “deprogram†those who believe that Joe Biden did not win the recent presidential election.
The interview, published on Monday, begins with Salon politics staff writer Chauncey DeVega declaring that “today’s Republican Party is a political crime syndicate, and Trump is its leader†before asking how to “de-radicalize†Trump supporters.
“What, if anything, can be done to de-radicalize Trump’s political cult members and others being recruited into right-wing extremism and terrorism?†he asks.
In response, Figliuzzi, a former FBI special agent who rose to the rank of assistant director when he led the bureau’s counterintelligence division, compares the radicalization of American citizens to international terrorism.
“What we also saw with the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was a function of radicalization, which is true of international terrorism as well,†he says.
Figliuzzi then proposes that not enough is done to combat homegrown radicalization because of the appearance of those radicalized.
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