The Administration is gathering plans to take measures against the left groups that President Donald Trump and his allies accuse of promoting political violence, according to three people familiar with the discussions about the federal response to the murder of September 10 to the conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah. One of the sources said the movements could come as soon as the end of the month.
The White House is “trying to move quickly as long as the person added.
Actions are expected to be formulated, including investigations on the tax exempt from certain liberal organizations, said the same source. They were first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
“The White House is exploring a wide variety of options to address the political violence of the left wing and the network of organizations that feed and finance it,” said an administration official. “The emphasis and approach are in criminal actions,” added the official, “not the political discourse.”
Trump told “Fox & Friends” last week that he wanted to launch an extortion investigation of groups financed by billionaire George Soros, a 95 -year -old New York headquarters. Later, the president told NBC News that Soros “should be imprisoned.”
As the guest host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” on Monday, Vice President JD Vance said the administration would analyze the open foundations of Soros and the Ford Foundation.
“Do you know that they benefit from a generous treatment? They are literally subsidized by you and I, the American taxpayer,” Vance said. “And how do they reward us? When setting fire to the house built by the American family for 250 years.”
The Federal Law prohibits the president and the vice president ordering investigations on the fiscal state of the groups, and neither Trump nor Vance have presented evidence that links these groups with the death of Kirk. But the Administration argues that it resulted from what the White House cabinet deputy director Stephen Miller called “a vast network of national terrorists” funded by liberal philanthropos.
“We are going to use all the resources we have in the Department of Justice, National Security,” Miller said in an interview with Vance in the Kirk program.
Utah County Prosecutor Jeffrey Gray presented seven criminal charges, including aggravated murder, against Tyler Robinson at a press conference on Tuesday, and detailed the evidence against him in a 10 -page court presentation. There were no indication on Tuesday that the suspect was a member of a group. The investigation is ongoing.
The administration official said that federal authorities can explore groups that have allegedly stimulated disturbances and attacks on law agents, groups that participate in illegal Doxxing campaigns, where personal information becomes public, and any person responsible for “points of fall by weapons and material.”
That work is in the early phase of planning and is not expected to be put into operation immediately, two of the sources familiar with the matter said.
The desire to respond to Kirk’s death with policies that dismantle parts of the political left, driven by a mixture of pain, fear and anger among conservatives, is palpable within Trump’s Maga Movement.
“There are many groups working on how our state -level response will be seen and then at the federal level,” said Rachel Bovard, vice president of programs of the Institute of Conservative Association and an ally of the Trump Administration, in a telephone interview. “It’s almost all right. I don’t think people realize how deep pain is the right.”
He described a stick about conservatives and a feeling of urgency.
“This is not like ‘How can we write down political points?'” He said. “It feels existential, and it seems that there is a goal in all of us at this time.”
A set of more than 100 progressive philanthropic organizations wrote an open letter on Wednesday that denounced political violence, including the recent murders of Kirk and the former president of the Chamber of Minnesota, Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and retreating Trump’s repression has promised.
“We reject attempts to exploit political violence to erroneously characterize our good work or restrict our fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of expression and freedom to give,” the groups wrote, which include the foundations of open society and the Ford Foundation. “Attempts to silence discourse, criminalize opposite points and misrepresent and limit charitable donations undermine our democracy and harm all Americans.”
Some on the right are also asking for the implementation of more extreme measures to restrict the financing and activities of liberal groups.
Steve Bannon, presenter of the “War Room” podcast and a high -level White House assistant in Trump’s first mandate, told NBC News in a text message that believes that the administration should “designate Antifa and the terrorist organizations of others” to close them. “The designation gives you a complete toolbox.”
Trump said in Truth Social on Wednesday night that he is designating Antifa as an “important terrorist organization,” and added that “he will also recommend that those antifa funds be thoroughly investigated according to the highest legal and practical standards.”
There are numerous federal laws that criminalize national terrorist activity, but only foreign groups can be designated as “terrorist organizations”, a label that makes it illegal to provide support. The Trump administration has designated several posters and foreign drug gangs as terrorist organizations this year in its effort to combat traffic. But apply the designation to groups based in the USA. UU. It may require a change in federal law.
There are signs that Trump administration officials are sensitive to concerns that Kirk’s death response could relax freedom of expression, concerns that have been expressed by liberals and conservatives equally.
During a speech in Michigan on Wednesday, Vance seemed to try to achieve a balance.
“I want to let you know that if you are a Democrat or Republican, whatever your belief, I will fight for your right to say what you think,” he said. “We reject political violence, and reject the radical crazy lefts who kill our friend Charlie Kirk. Let’s talk to each other and let’s not try to shoot each other for disagreeing.”
Utah officials are looking for the death penalty against Robinson if he is convicted. Robinson has not yet been appointed lawyer to represent him.
