OPINION: The president continues to amp up racist sentiments as the clock ticks down to the election.

Last week, Joe BidenJoe BidenQuestions remain unanswered as White House casts upbeat outlook on Trump’s COVID-19 fightCNN anchor confronts senior Trump campaign adviser after motorcade: Trump’s ‘downplaying the virus’Biden again tests negative for COVID-19MORE broke new ground in presidential debates by openly saying President TrumpDonald John TrumpQuestions remain unanswered as White House casts upbeat outlook on Trump’s COVID-19 fightWhite House staffers get email saying to stay home if they experience coronavirus symptomsWhite House says ‘appropriate precautions’ were taken for Trump’s outing to see supportersMORE is a racist.
The next day, Bidens campaign co-chair, Rep. Cedric RichmondCedric Levon RichmondHillicon Valley: House panel says Intelligence Community not equipped to address Chinese threats | House approves bill to send cyber resources to state, local governmentsHouse approves legislation to send cybersecurity resources to state, local governmentsCindy McCain joins board of Biden’s presidential transition teamMORE (D- La.), told CNN that Trump is willing play the race card, because hes a racist.
Now take a look at what has happened since Biden called out Trump at the debate.
Do you see a pattern of racism?
First, it was revealed last week that Trump administration officials are being told to speak up for a 17-year-old Trump supporter charged with killing two people. The teen allegedly crossed state lines with a gun to oppose people protesting about the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha, Wis.
Department of Homeland Security officials are urged to say in defense of Kyle Rittenhouse that he took his rifle to the scene of the rioting to help defend small business owners, NBC News reported. Rittenhouse is charged with first-degree murder.
Second, the National Park Service suspended hundreds of diversity training programs, intended to help federal workers end sexual harassment, bias against disabled people and racial discrimination. The Department of Veterans Affairs similarly canceled a racial diversity training program.
Why?
According to a September memo from the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, Trump has directed him to stop federal agencies from funding training on the impact of white privilege because such teaching is divisive, un-American propaganda.
After the memo became public, Trump tweeted: Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you dont, theres nothing in it for you!
When Trumps demand to end the training sessions was raised as a topic at the debate, Biden responded by saying explicitly: Hes racist.
And theres more to this pattern of Trumps racist actions since the debate.
Heres a particularly sad example.
Only 15,000 refugees will be allowed into the U.S. next year, the lowest number since the 1980 Refugee Act took effect.
This absurdly low number is based on nothing more than xenophobic political pandering, and its no surprise that this all-time low comes during an election year, the head of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, Krish OMara Vignarajah, told The Washington Post.
Then Trump told a rally of his fans in Minnesota that Biden would inundate your state with a historic flood of refugees.
He whipped up the crowd by saying that Rep. Ilhan OmarIlhan Omar’The squad’ responds to Twitter warning for posts threatening bodily harmOnly the misinformed want to abolish ICEThe Hill’s Campaign Report: Team Trump on defense over president’s comments on white supremacyMORE (D-Minn.), a naturalized American born in Somalia, wants to tell us how to run our country can you believe it?
In response, Trumps fans roared: Lock her up!
Last year, Trump said Omar and the three other non-white Democratic congresswomen known as The Squad should go back to the crime infested places from which they came even though they are all American citizens, have all sworn allegiance to the Constitution and, with the exception of Omar, are all American-born.
When Trump was criticized for those comments last year he said he does not have a racist bone in my body.
But The Squads most famous member, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez’The squad’ responds to Twitter warning for posts threatening bodily harmOnly the misinformed want to abolish ICEBattleground voters are pragmatic on energy MORE (D-N.Y.), shot back on Twitter that Trump may not have racist bones but You have a racist mind in your head, and a racist heart in your chest.
Of course, since the debate, discussion about Trumps racism has focused on his initial refusal to condemn the Proud Boys, a far-right group.
Proud Boys, stand back and stand bySomebodys got to do something about antifa and the left, Trump said, adding that violence and disorder is not a right wing problem. This is a left-wing problem.
Trumps blindness to the danger of violent white supremacists requires him to ignore the FBI.
At a September hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, FBI director Christopher Wray said white supremacists make up the largest cohort of the most lethal of all domestic extremists since 2001.
White supremacist violence is the most persistent and lethal threat when we talk about domestic violent extremists, Chad WolfChad WolfPence ordered the closure of US borders against CDC’s wishes: reportHillicon Valley: Senate panel votes to subpoena Big Tech executives | Amazon says over 19,000 workers tested positive for COVID-19 | Democrats demand DHS release report warning of election interferenceDemocrats gear up for clash with DHS over whistleblower caseMORE, the acting Homeland Security director, told a Senate committee recently.
Beyond that, the presidents false equivalence about racially-motivated violence is factually wrong, according to his own administration officials.
When white supremacists act as terrorists, more people per incident are killed, testified Trumps own acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli at a Senate hearing in September.
The politics of Trumps racial rhetoric is often interpreted as a strategy to keep a firm hold on his base, which includes racists.
For example, the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer celebrated Trumps call to stand by, as a call to get ready for war.
That war is tied to Trumps effort to question the validity of the election if he loses.
For well over a year, figures ranging from Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiGOP lawmaker calls on Pelosi to apologize for response to Trump contracting coronavirus Pelosi: ‘We’re making progress’ on coronavirus relief bill What President Trump’s positive COVID test could mean for the marketsMORE (D-Calif.) to Trumps personal lawyer Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenTrump called evangelical pastors ‘hustlers’: reportThe Hill’s Morning Report – Sponsored by JobsOhio – Showdown: Trump-Biden debate likely to be nastyOn The Money: Five takeaways from NYT Trump taxes bombshell | Trump tax reveal roils presidential race | Households, businesses fall into financial holes as COVID-19 aid dries upMORE have openly worried about the possibility that Trump will try to invalidate the election and refuse to leave office.
Using racial division to push the United States towards a violent breaking point is a strategy. As Trumps former aide Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayBarr reverses, will quarantine for several days after potential coronavirus exposureWhite House gave New Jersey officials list of 206 people at Trump’s Thursday fundraiser eventsPence tests negative for COVID-19 for third time since Trump’s diagnosisMORE said, Trump benefits politically when violence reigns.
After last weeks debate, his use of race to divide the country is a pattern that cant be ignored. 
It is a clear and present danger. 
Juan Williams is an author, and a political analyst for Fox News Channel.