Trumps FBI Attacks Are Helping Accused Terrorists Defend Themselves In Court
Source: Huffington Post
03/28/2018 03:30 pm ET Updated 0 minutes ago
Jurors in the Kansas militia trial have been primed to believe the FBI is biased against conservatives.
By Ryan J. Reilly
WICHITA, Kan. ― Three anti-Muslim militia members, on trial for plotting to slaughter Somali refugees in southwest Kansas, have adopted a defense strategy that could’ve been culled directly from President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed: suggesting that a biased FBI conspired against them in the lead-up to the 2016 election due to their political beliefs.
Curtis Allen, Patrick Stein and Gavin Wright are on trial in connection with their arrest in a FBI domestic terrorism sting just weeks before the 2016 election. Their defense attorneys, in turn, are putting the FBI on trial ― accusing the nation’s premier law enforcement agency of improperly targeting the three men due to their conservative ideology.
It’s common for defense attorneys to suggest their clients were wrongfully singled out by biased law enforcement officials. And to be sure, there’s nothing wrong with healthy skepticism about law enforcement and the FBI.
But the situation here is striking: A U.S. president has taken pains to undermine the FBI (declaring that the bureau’s reputation is “in Tatters—worst in History!”), and defense attorneys for accused terrorists are seeking to capitalize on that reality. This is happening as the president is trying to neuter a special counsel probe that’s already resulted in multiple charges against and guilty pleas from a variety of his associates. The government, meanwhile, will have to deal with jurors primed to believe a conspiracy theory fundamentally at odds with the facts ― namely, that the FBI is a hotbed of liberalism that worked behind the scenes to somehow try to stop Trump’s election.
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They're white. And hasn't our "president" already weighed in on that matter, that there are "good people" in these racist, white supremacist organizations? 
If these three assclowns are really going to say that the FBI conspired against them because they're conservatives, I would ask them to prove it! It's not the prosecutions job to prove that the FBI didn't conspire, it's up to the terrorist assclowns to prove that they did conspire. Prove it, assholes!
