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It’s the first counterterrorism proposal released by the president since 2018, reflecting many of his second-term priorities. Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s counterterrorism czar, told reporters that the administration would “use all the tools constitutionally available” to target various organizations, prioritizing “violent, secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American … or anarchist, such as antifa.”
“We will do the same with the state sponsors of such groups and those governments undertaking lethal plots on US soil or against Americans anywhere,” Gorka said.
The Trump administration formally declared antifa a terrorist organization in September, a unique designation for an ostensibly US-based operation — and one that lacks centralized leadership. Gorka said the counterterrorism plan would target “any group that espouses violence,” though he added that there has been “a resurgence of violent left-wing ideologies,” at one point mentioning the assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk last year.
Prosecutors argue that Kirk’s accused killer, Tyler Robinson, targeted him because of the conservative activist’s political views. Gorka said that any advocacy for violence or engaging of violence for “political purposes” could amount to terrorism.
“Whether you are right-wing-inspired or left-wing-inspired, the point at which you advocate for violence or use violence yourself for political purposes means you are actually undertaking terrorism, and we will not permit that to happen,” he said.
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