[Lurker]

“When was any American charged with terrorism?”

Does the name McVeigh ring Amy bells?

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[BlackbirdSST]

Does the name McVeigh ring Amy bells?

When was the last time Amy got her bells rung?

[tsomer]

...Ellingsen and Daniels determined: “The data Trump cited ... simply don’t support his claims that a ‘vast majority’ of individuals on the list came from outside the United States
—unless, that is, you include individuals who were forcibly brought to the United States in order to be prosecuted and exclude all domestic terrorism cases."

There's a lot of technical wrangling here. Wouldn't terrorists 'forcibly brought" to the US more likely be foreign born? Could domestic terrorist acts be instigated and aided from outside the country? Could domestic terror be committed by foreign-born citizens or residents? How do you decided whether terrorist acts are domestic or international? Indeed, what makes a crime terrorism in the first place? For example, is a high school bomb threat a terrorist act or a prank?

[NTHockey]

Going back that far, you’d have to count the 18 hijackers in 2001 and the WTC bombers in 1993. Obviously, the author didn’t go back as far as McVeigh. Nor did she count the Arab bombers. Seems like a cherry-picked dataset to justify a pre-determined conclusion.

So the question remains, where are the Americans IN THE DATASET that are Americans.