FBI agents are reluctant to pursue white nationalist extremists because they don't want to target Trump's base, former counter-terror officer says

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One ex-FBI agent thinks political controversies have muted its response.

FBI agents check vehicles outside the Cielo Vista Mall Wal-Mart where a shooting left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas, on August 4, 2019.that fear of being seen to target President Trump's own supporters is muting the agency's response to white nationalist violence.

The comments follow an attack by a gunman on a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday that is being treated as a domestic terror attack by the FBI. He said that Trump's repeated attacks on the FBI and the probe into allegations of Russian interference and collusion likely played a factor as well.

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