Inside Trump's War on Dissent Following Charlie Kirk's Killing, they didnt waste a day

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Inside Trump’s War on Dissent Following Charlie Kirk's Killing

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-war-dissent-charlie-kirk-killing-1235440581/

They didn’t waste a day.
In the aftermath of conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Donald Trump’s government immediately got to work crafting its road map for cracking down on liberal groups and the president’s domestic foes. According to sources with direct knowledge of the matter, within 24 hours of the Kirk shooting, top Trump officials and administration lawyers — at the White House, Justice Department, and so forth — had already put pen to pad, drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for any number of possible executive actions, and prioritizing which liberal organizations and strongholds of the left needed targeting. 

At the top of these frantic intradepartmental efforts sat Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, who personally supplied several names for key targets, as he worked the phones with other government officials to stress to them that the administration was now “at war.”


. “For Charlie,” the officials would say to one another, as they worked after-hours, plotting the coming blitz, and gaming out scenarios, including likely court challenges to their actions.

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One progressive nonprofit leader tells Rolling Stone they hope organizations ignore Trump’s attacks: “Unless there’s a legal request, a lawful request, to do something or produce anything, why should we respond?” 


Trump and his ilk would like to see criminal charges, trials, and convictions. While some of his advisers concede that these cases may well fail, one benefit to their multi-pronged “war on terror”-style crusade is that the approach could force their enemies to lawyer up, bleed money or lose funding, and crouch in a defensive posture. “Regardless, they need to suffer,” says a senior Trump official involved with the planning of the blitz. 

The hope, Trump advisers say, is that the pervasive drumbeat of propaganda and fear has a vast, chilling effect — on their political enemies, on major institutions of American liberalism, on left-leaning speech — even if judges end up tossing out many of their cases.

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