The Trump admin is going after violent leftists – Latest News
Jihadis and cartels are targets of the new White House counterterrorism strategy, however so, too, are Antifa, Trantifa and different violent home left-wing anti-American teams.
It’s a sharp departure from the Biden administration’s sinister national strategy on counterterrorism that pretended teams like Antifa didn’t exist and as an alternative focused Catholics at conventional mass, mother and father questioning gender ideology at school-board conferences and Trump supporters who, Joe Biden informed us repeatedly, had been “ultra-MAGA,” “semi-fascist” home terrorists.
Hence, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by unarmed Trump supporters, most of whom dedicated no violence and lots of of whom didn’t even enter the Capitol, grew to become the largest investigation in FBI historical past below Biden, prompting one of the best miscarriages of justice in American historical past.
Protesters react as they set fire to the doorway of a police station as demonstrations proceed within the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., May 28, 2020. REUTERS
Thankfully, President Trump’s White House counterterrorism director, Sebastian Gorka, has reoriented national security back towards violence, moderately than obscure “anti-government” or “anti-authority” sentiment, which might be simply — and was, below Biden — weaponized politically.
“We’re just basing our threat assessment on reality, whether you’re trying to kill journalists, whether you are creating disorder against the rule of law in our country, or do I have to mention the name of my friend Charlie Kirk?” Gorka informed me on “Pod Force One.”
“Do I have to talk about the multiple left-wing attempts to kill President Trump?”
“We’re not going to whistle past the graveyard. We’re not going to say that doesn’t exist.”
“We are going to use every legal tool in our 17 intelligence agencies, in our domestic law enforcement through the DOJ, to prevent the violent left-wing lunacy from taking another life, whether it’s a journalist, whether it’s a president, or whether it’s a brave patriot like Charlie Kirk simply engaging in civilized debate on a college campus. We will not allow people to use force against those they politically disagree with.”
It’s welcome information to the bulk of Americans who’ve felt trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare since 2020’s “Summer of Love,” when organized left-wing militias and well-funded Antifa-style terrorists hijacked Black Lives Matter protests and tried to show them into a violent overthrow of Donald Trump.
They received their want, and half of Trump’s 2020 defeat — or his incapacity to win enough votes to beat the Democrats’ sly election rigging — must be attributed to the final sense of chaos and unrest created by his ideological opponents.
Justifying violence
The similar tactic has spiraled into the current day, with evolving causes hijacked to justify the violence.
It began with racism and so-called white supremacy, defunding the police, abortion, transgender ideology, anti-ICE and anti-Israel, which has morphed this week into masked terrorists looking Jews on the streets of New York and assaulting youngsters exterior synagogues.
And, as Gorka explicitly says in his new counterterrorism strategy, this onslaught of left-wing violence finally introduced us to focused assassinations, together with conservative activist Kirk, healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.
Yet the institution media, and Democrat leaders and their administrative stooges, have downplayed the violence, pretended it didn’t exist, or tacitly condoned it, whereas exaggerating right-wing violence, regardless of information, together with from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, displaying document highs in left-wing violence.
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The consequence is a permission construction to normalize the political violence of the “Luigi left,” as quite a few latest polls have proven.
For occasion, a YouGov ballot final September discovered 25% of “very liberal” Americans say violence might be justified to attain political targets in contrast with 3% of “very conservative” Americans.
Gorka’s blunt 16-page strategy memo launched Wednesday pledges to “prioritize figuring out and neutralizing violent secular political teams whose ideology is anti-American, radically professional transgender and anarchist . . .
“As real threats were ignored or underplayed, Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left-wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk [in September 2025] by a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies.”
Schools and church buildings
Transgender shooters like Robin Westman, who slaughtered two youngsters at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis in August 2025, have focused faculties and church buildings, whereas the mainstream media has blurred their gender, suppressed key particulars, and downplayed an rising sample of transgender violence, presumably out of some misplaced worry that people in an already weak neighborhood might be tarred with the identical brush.
But Americans are sensible enough to know that, simply as not each younger loner turns into a Thomas Crooks, it is a minor subset of transgender people who flip violent.
In any case, the Trump administration’s reality-based new focus is welcomed by Andrew Kolvet, who was Kirk’s right-hand man at Turning Point USA and has taken over internet hosting “The Charlie Kirk Show.”
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“This is a huge topic for us, obviously, because Charlie was assassinated by somebody that had a romantic relationship with a trans-identifying person in Utah,” Kolvet says, pointing to the final message Kirk despatched to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller the day earlier than Charlie was murdered.
Miller quoted from the message in a particular episode of the “Charlie Kirk Show” the day after Kirk was murdered: “The last message that Charlie sent me was . . . that we need to have an organized strategy to go after the left-wing organizations that are promoting violence in this country. And I will write those words onto my heart and I will carry them out.”
“People ask me, what emotions I’m feeling right now . . . There’s incredible sadness, but there’s incredible anger. And the thing about anger is that unfocused anger or blind rage is not a productive emotion. But focused anger, righteous anger, directed for a just cause, is one of the most important agents of change in human history.”
But it’s one factor to vow to crack down on left-wing radicals, however they’re swimming in an ideological soup that is not too totally different from Democrat speaking factors — see alleged gunman Cole Allen’s manifesto after the newest assassination attempt on Trump.
How does Gorka plan to focus on a diffuse ideology?
“We do everything in the bounds of the Constitution and upholding freedom of speech. [But] freedom of speech does not extend to inciting violence . . . We are going to map out these individuals, we are going to identify them, we’re going to find [their sources of funding]. The money trail is the most important thing.”
As per typical, the left-wing media’s response to the new counterterrorism strategy was alarmist hyperbole in protection of their pet revolutionaries.
The Guardian dismissed the memo as a “bizarre” and “unhinged” assault on “the president’s enemies, the Biden administration, transgender people and some Islamist groups.”
Mother Jones’s headline was even more dishonest: “Counterterrorism Now Officially Means Targeting Trans People.”
The left must wake up and disown the menace it has been coddling.
