A top Biden administration official claims that white supremacists are America's top domestic threat.
According to The Huffington Post, the comments in question were made by Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorka at a recent hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee about the rise of domestic extremism.
Biden previously branded white supremacy as America's top domestic threat in this speech:Per HuffPost, Garland stated: "Domestic violent extremists pose an elevated threat in 2021, and in the FBI’s view, the top domestic violent extremist threat we face comes from racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race."
Garland continued: "We don’t care what the ideology is. Violations of law are pursued and are prosecuted.
"I think it’s fair to say that in my career as a judge, and in law enforcement, I have not seen a more dangerous threat to democracy than the invasion of the Capitol."
President Biden himself previously spoke about the dangers of white supremacy movements in the wake of the Capitol riots at a CNN town hall meeting held on February 16.
Biden stated: "It's complex, it's wide-ranging, and it's real.
"I would make sure that my Justice Department and the Civil Rights Division is focused heavily on those very folks, and I would make sure that we, in fact, focus on how to deal with the rise of white supremacy."
The POTUS added: "I got involved in politics, to begin with, because of civil rights and opposition to White supremacists.
"The Ku Klux Klan are the most dangerous people in America and they continue to exist. That is the greatest threat to terror in America - domestic terror."
President Biden also condemned white supremacy and other hate groups in his inaugural address made upon assuming office on January 20, addressing: "A rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.
"To overcome these challenges – to restore the soul and to secure the future of America – requires more than words. It requires that most elusive of things in a democracy: Unity. Unity."