The Intelligence Review | volume 2 | issue 4 |

here?”, referring to developing countries such as Haiti and countries in Africa.
President Trump then reportedly went on to say, “Why do we need more Haitians?
Take them out” (Phillip and Watkins 2018). It is comments such as these that
arguably give the American far-right the perception that the President of the
United States supports elements of their ideologies.
In the past year, there have been three attacks in the US, perpetrated by supporters
of the far-right, resulting in casualties. The first was the death of Timothy Coughman,
who was stabbed with a sword by James Jackson in March 2017. Police later
confirmed that Jackson traveled from Maryland to New York with the intent of
killing black men in order to stop interracial relationships between white women
and black men (Southall 2017). The second attack occurred in May 2017. Jeremy
Christian stabbed and killed two people and injured two more, when he was
confronted for uttering racial slurs aimed at two teenage girls (Becker and Parker
2017). The third violent incident occurred in August 2017. James Fields allegedly
drove his car into a group of counter-protestors at the Unite the Right rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia, which was organized by far-right groups, killing one and
injuring nineteen others (Heim 2017).
In addition to these violent events, there have been several non-violent events. In
early October 2017, Spencer led another march in Charlottesville that only lasted
about 20 minutes due to a large counter-protest that was held in the same area
(Chaitin 2017). The White Lives Matter rally occurred later that month in
Tennessee, but was also cut short. One violent incident was reported after the
event, at a pub, where several White Lives Matter protestors harassed a white
woman for sitting with a black man that ended in a physical altercation between
a protestor and the woman (Liebelson 2017). According to Ian Allen, editor at
IntelNews, far-right activist Taylor Wilson attempted to derail a passenger train in
Nebraska on October 22, 2017. The FBI reported that Wilson entered the engine
room and activated the emergency brakes, bringing the train to a complete halt.
No one was reported injured or killed. Allen also refers to an FBI indictment that
states: “Wilson traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, in August of last year to attend
the ‘Unite the Right’ rally, which was organized by various white supremacist,
white nationalist, neo-Nazi and militia groups.” There have also been reports of
Wilson being a member of the NSM (Allen 2018).
Information was recently uncovered by the investigative website ProPublica
regarding today’s far-right groups and their organizational capabilities. According
to the website, far-right groups are sharing information and documents via online
chatrooms about manufacturing and using bombs, grenades, mines and other
explosive devices. These documents contain information ranging from instructions
on how to detonate dynamite, to US military-issue manuals for making
improvised explosives and booby traps (Thompson and Winston 2017).
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