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DEEP DIVE: In Wake Of Trump Attack, How To Stop the Violence?

Former CIA officers weigh in on strategies for countering violent extremism

DEEP DIVE: In Wake Of Trump Attack, How To Stop the Violence?

BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA - July 13: Secret service agents cover former president Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Butler Farm Show Inc. on Saturday, July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pa.
(Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — Almost from the moment the shots were fired in Butler, Pennsylvania Saturday, terrorism experts and ordinary Americans shared a common fear: that extremists on the fringes of the country’s deep political and cultural divides were now only more likely to turn to violence. 

“The lethality of the anti-government, anti-authority movement has really increased on both sides,” former FBI Executive Assistant Director Jill Sanborn told The Cipher Brief, “and I think that is showing in this attack.”

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