Mail-in ballots set on fire in Washington, Oregon and Arizona : NPR

Federal officials have been warning that in recent months, some social media users have been encouraging sabotage of ballot drop boxes. "It's a direct attack on democracy," said one local official...

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168404/oregon-washington-arizona-ballots-drop-boxes-fires

Minnesota Trump Fan Admits to Staging Antifa-Inspired Arson Attack

Denis Molla painted "Biden 2020," "BLM" and an Antifa symbol on his camper, and lit it on fire, pretending to be targeted for his Trump 2020 flag...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/minnesota-trump-fan-dennis-molla-pleads-guilty-after-staging-antifa-inspired-arson-attack

John Malcolm Bareswill charged with threatening to burn New Hope Baptist Church - The Washington Post

Phone call to church allegedly tracked to man who searched online for African American churches. https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/06/12/white-nc-man-accused-threatening-burn-black-va-beach-church/

Surprise! Surprise! Don Jr. Just Told an Outrageous Lie About Australia’s Wildfires – Mother Jones

Donald Trump Jr.Albin Lohr-Jones/ZUMA On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter to fan conspiratorial flames on the origins of the devastating Australian wildfires, which have grown to encompass an area the size of Scotland. Sharing a story from the Rupert Murdoch-owned, conservative Australian, Trump blamed the fires not on climate change—but arsonists. ...
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/01/surprise-surprise-don-jr-just-told-an-outrageous-lie-about-australias-wildfires/

Pardoned Oregon Rancher to Focus on Putting God in Public Schools – Mother Jones

Last year, Western land activists and other conservatives had been lobbying President Donald Trump to pardon rancher Cliven Bundy, who in 2014 had engaged in an armed standoff with federal officials trying to confiscate his cattle that were trespassing on public property. But earlier this year, a federal judge dropped all the charges against Bundy thanks to misconduct by prosecutors, and there was no longer any need for Trump to pardon him. So Trump last week did the next best thing: He pardoned Oregon rancher Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son Steven, whose 2012 convictions for arson on federal land had inspired Bundy’s son Ammon to lead the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016.....

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/pardoned-oregon-rancher-to-focus-on-putting-god-in-public-schools/

The hypocrisy at the heart of Trump's rancher pardon - CNN

The Hammond pardon showcases the double standard of justice the United States still clings to, one that is dependent upon the skin color of armed insurrectionists, says Peniel Joseph. ....
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/10/opinions/trump-hammond-pardon-race-and-justice-joseph-opinion/index.html

Black church in Mississippi burned and vandalized with ‘Vote Trump’ graffiti

Late Tuesday night, the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi caught fire. When fire crews arrived to put out the blaze, they found that the words "Vote Trump" had been spray-painted on the side of the historic black church.

Officials consider the fire, which significantly damaged the church's sanctuary, to be of "suspicious" origin. During a press conference Wednesday morning, Greenville Mayor Errick D. Simmons said that “heinous, hateful, and cowardly act” is being investigated as a hate crime....
https://thinkprogress.org/mississippi-black-church-burned-vote-trump-8e0e87a063bb#.3p7qizptw