Speaking to the network at Ground Zero in New York, Mayorkas said the “risk landscape” has evolved into “emerging risk, of course, in recent years [is] the domestic violent extremist. “
Mayorkas explained the new edition of the “extremist” risk as “an ideology of hatred, anti-government sentiment, false narratives propagated on online platforms, even grievances. “
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The Mayorkas Department itself was created in the wake of the 2001 attacks to protect itself from long-term threats, and then-Pennsylvania Republican Governor Tom Ridge appointed its first secretary.
Gutfeld said he was in a position to talk about the Democrats’ medium-term prospects, but surprised by Mayorkas’ appearance.
“I’m going to communicate about the polls, but I didn’t even see that, you know, it’s a government official laughing at September 11,” he said Monday on “The Five. “
“It has necessarily marginalized those people’s memories by equating them with a kind of political agenda. It’s certainly disgusting. “
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Host Dana Perino, who served with Ridge in the Bush administration, agreed, adding that Mayorkas wasn’t even invited to comment on the issue, but he raised it himself.
“He sought to clarify that point. Then he said ‘and then let me go up what the fear is about this, it was for domestic terrorists. ‘”She.
Perino predicted that through Biden and Mayorkas he will set a new trend for Democrats before the midterm elections, to mark their political opposition as terrorist and extremist.
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“In the meantime, you have terrorists, the real terrorists, they’re not on our calendar, they’re super patient. They have promised to destroy us and will regroup,” he warned.
“But I think he did a wonderful job, as a country in a bipartisan way, supporting the military and our intelligence to other people to keep al Qaeda on its back legs. It’s a bipartisan achievement and anything we can all agree on. “
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Perino noted that Mayorkas alluded to conservative Republicans on Sept. 11, across town at the US Open in Flushing Meadows, Queens, the Norwegian and Spanish contenders in that day’s game made sure to invoke the 2001 terrorist attacks in memory.
“It’s his instinct. And then you have someone like that, the Secretary of Homeland Security at Ground Zero, who says that, which is more than disappointing, but also not unexpected. “
Host Jesse Watters later concluded that Mayorkas made his comments about Trumpist Republicans because the Jan. 6, 2021, Democrats would be his Sept. 11, 2001, version.
“That’s what they were waiting for. It was the only war they were looking to fight,” he said.
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.