Hatch Act violation?
President Trump and his top advisers threatened on Monday to unleash the power of the federal government to punish what they alleged was a left-wing network that funds and incites violence, seizing on Charlie Kirk’s killing to make broad and unsubstantiated claims about their political opponents.
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Trump and his top allies suggested that the suspect was part of a coordinated movement that was fomenting violence against conservatives, without presenting evidence that such a network existed.
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Trump, who has downplayed violence from right-wing or other supporters, said that he would like to designate a range of groups, including the loosely affiliated group of far-left anti-fascism activists, known as “antifa,” as domestic terrorists and bring racketeering cases against people funding protests.
“We have some pretty radical groups and they got away with murder,” Mr. Trump said, without naming additional groups. He added that he was talking to the attorney general, Pam Bondi, about bringing charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act against “some of the people that you’ve been reading about that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation.”
He did not specify who or what he was talking about.
NYT
Because he doesn't know. It's bullshit.
Democrats have warned that the Trump White House could be using Mr. Kirk’s killing as a pretense to go after political dissent, not just hate speech or violence.
“Pay attention. Something dark might be coming,” Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut wrote on social media on Sunday. “The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.”
Rep. Greg Casar, Democrat of Texas, said on Monday that while the killing of Mr. Kirk was “heinous,” so were the killings of Melissa Hortman, a Democratic state lawmaker in Minnesota, and her husband, who were on a hit list of dozens of left-wing figures; the hammer assault on the husband of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi; and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
“He cannot be allowed to use the horrible murder of Charlie Kirk as pretext to go after peaceful political opposition,” Mr. Casar said in a statement.
Wanna bet?
Two senior administration officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal planning, said that cabinet secretaries and federal department heads were working to identify organizations that funded or supported violence against conservatives.
Only conservatives.
One tactic has been to target the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that are critical of Mr. Trump or conservatives.
An administration official said officials would be investigating people behind the recent burning of Teslas in apparent protest of Elon Musk and assaults against immigration agents, and would be looking to draw links between those episodes and organized liberal groups.
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They used Mr. Kirk’s podcast, with Mr. Vance as guest host, to announce that they would be cracking down on what they called leftist nongovernmental organizations, and that they would use every available lever of the federal government to do so.
“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, eliminate and destroy this network and make America safe again for the American people,” said Stephen Miller, the president’s top policy adviser.
And by "American" he means MAGA people.
From his office at the White House, Mr. Vance invited other senior members of the administration to praise Mr. Kirk and decry the “far left.” The show was broadcast on the television screens in the White House briefing room and in several West Wing offices.
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“We can thank God that most Democrats don’t share these attitudes, and I do, while acknowledging that something has gone very wrong with a lunatic fringe, a minority, but a growing and powerful minority on the far left,” he said.
Everry accusation is a confession.
Mr. Vance said the administration would not go after “constitutionally protected speech” but rather what he described as a network of nonprofit nongovernmental organizations that “foments, facilitates and engages in violence.”
ICE?
Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin, who blamed the media and Democrats for Mr. Kirk’s shooting even before a suspect had been identified, has essentially turned his X account into a bulletin board for reports of private citizens who have criticized Mr. Kirk’s remarks or seemed to celebrate his death. He has shared posts that have called for the firing of teachers, an airline pilot and a paralegal.
And it's happening. This is how Germany under Hitler and Russia under Stalin operated.
And Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, a Republican who has drifted further to the right during her time in Washington, pressed the Education Department in a letter on Friday to withhold federal funding from any school that did not “take immediate administrative action” against employees who had celebrated or made light of Mr. Kirk’s death.
"Minority Report" in real life.
What next? Thought police?
Alina Habba complained on social media about state buildings in NY and NJ flying their flags normally instead of at half-staff to honor Kirk: “Flags were ordered to be lowered by the President of the United States. Lower. Your. Flags.”
The president only has authority over flags on federal property.
Meidas Touch
We're not talking about the Epstein files now. So they should be thanking the killer.
A memorial service for Kirk was held at the Kennedy Center last night. Kari Lake speaking at the event: “How does a 22-year-old become so filled with hate? Five years earlier I was told he was a Trump supporter and we send our kids off to college and they brainwashed them. I am making a plea to mothers. Do not send your children into these indoctrination camps. Do not do it.”
Just a reminder that Robinson spent the last 3 years at a trade school in Utah learning to be an electrician for his radical left woke marxist indoctrination.
Karoline Leavitt also spoke: "When so many influential voices in our society are brainwashing young people to abandon our faith, to stay single, not to have children and to bash our country, Charlie Kirk offered us an alternative path."
RFK Jr started out with this story: “I met Charlie for the first time in July of 2001 when I went on his podcast.”
Charlie was 8 years old in 2001.
Trump skipped the event to remain at his Bedminster golf club for the weekend.
Meidas Touch
And Stephen Miller is more concerned with using the murder for his evil political ends.
“We are going to channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks. The organized doxxing campaigns. The organized riots. The organized street violence. The organized of dehumanization. Vilification. Posting people’s addresses. Combining that with messaging designed to trigger and incite violence and the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence. It is a vast domestic terror movement.”
“With God and as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, DHS, and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks, and make America safe again for the American people. It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”
And, speaking of Derrick Van Orden...
Van Orden has called Dems domestic terrorists, agreed with the conspiracy that Dems tried to assassinate Trump in PA, said that George Soros should be investigated and charged with being complicit in Kirk’s murder, and called for civil war.
UPDATE 10:37 am: Mehdi always has the receipts.
