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President Donald Trump reacted to the assassination of Charlie Kirk last month by calling for a new “war on terror” against left-wing American activist groups – but not everyone in his inner circle was convinced, a new report claims.…..
According to Rolling Stone, top Trump administration officials responded to the tragedy by setting to work immediately drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for prospective executive orders, gaming likely scenarios and court challenges and drawing up lists of liberal organizations to clamp down on.
Their efforts, involving pulling all-nighters and moving at an “intense” pace, were overseen by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who reportedly declared that the administration was now “at war” with the left.
Miller brought his message to the national stage when he told Vice President JD Vance, guest host of Kirk’s podcast, on September 15: “The last message that Charlie sent me… was that we needed to have an organized strategy to go after the left-wing organizations that are promoting violence in this country.
“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, dismantle, and destroy these networks.”
Among the names singled out for targeting, Rolling Stone reports, were Antifa, George Soros, the liberal-donation processor ActBlue, the anti-Trump organizing group Indivisible, the ant-war CodePink group, and a number of pro-immigration and trans rights outfits.
But “something felt off” for several of Trump’s advisers, the magazine writes, with few “if any” believing that Kirk’s shooter was part of an organized radical left-wing domestic terror network and many dismissing the enemies identified as “a laundry list of nonprofits, liberal institutions, donors, and nonviolent groups that Trump apparatchiks like Miller had wanted to obliterate for years.”…….
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According to Rolling Stone, top Trump administration officials responded to the tragedy by setting to work immediately drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for prospective executive orders, gaming likely scenarios and court challenges and drawing up lists of liberal organizations to clamp down on.
Their efforts, involving pulling all-nighters and moving at an “intense” pace, were overseen by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who reportedly declared that the administration was now “at war” with the left.
Miller brought his message to the national stage when he told Vice President JD Vance, guest host of Kirk’s podcast, on September 15: “The last message that Charlie sent me… was that we needed to have an organized strategy to go after the left-wing organizations that are promoting violence in this country.
“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, dismantle, and destroy these networks.”
Among the names singled out for targeting, Rolling Stone reports, were Antifa, George Soros, the liberal-donation processor ActBlue, the anti-Trump organizing group Indivisible, the ant-war CodePink group, and a number of pro-immigration and trans rights outfits.
But “something felt off” for several of Trump’s advisers, the magazine writes, with few “if any” believing that Kirk’s shooter was part of an organized radical left-wing domestic terror network and many dismissing the enemies identified as “a laundry list of nonprofits, liberal institutions, donors, and nonviolent groups that Trump apparatchiks like Miller had wanted to obliterate for years.”…….
Inside Trump’s plan to launch ‘war on terror’ against left after Charlie Kirk killing
Members of president’s inner circle privately doubted that the Turning Point USA founder’s assassin really belonged to a radical left-wing terror network, according to new report
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Ah, yes. They love Israel (hurry up Endtimes) but they hate Jews.
So Turning Point has defamed a professor at Rutgers, causing so many death threats that he is taking his family (he has young children) out of country to Spain. I assume this is being directed by Kirk’s widow?
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It would almost be like if they would try to turn David Duke into the next MLK. But I expected nothing less from a president that pardoned the Jan 6th insurrectionists
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Trump honors Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would be his 32nd birthday
President Donald Trump has posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was fatally shot last month while speaking at Utah Valley University.
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US revokes visas from six foreign nationals for social media comments critical of Charlie Kirk – live
The move marks a stunning departure for the Trump administration, which came to power vowing to stop social-media censorship
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Trump makes Charlie Kirk’s Medal of Freedom speech all about himself
Trump calls Kirk ‘righteous and noble’ but repeatedly wanders into unrelated topics during speech memorializing slain MAGA activist
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prescient post
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Are Republicans going to demand that Trump be fired now for disrespecting Kirk? Is Kirk's widow going to publicly shame Trump for disrespecting her deceased husband? Nope.
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A prestigious Christian private school in Nashville, Tennessee, has been attacked for its handling of students’ efforts to mourn the late MAGA activist Charlie Kirk.
The Turning Point USA founder, 31, was shot dead by a rooftop sniper as he debated students on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, Utah, on September 10, sending shockwaves across the political divide……
While conservatives across the U.S. have been looking for ways to pay tribute to the influential activist, from erecting statues to renaming roads, Lipscomb Academy in Nashville comprehensively failed in honoring his memory, according to reality TV star turned conservative activist Savannah Chrisley, who appeared on Newsmax on Thursday to discuss the issue………
www.independent.co.uk
The Turning Point USA founder, 31, was shot dead by a rooftop sniper as he debated students on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, Utah, on September 10, sending shockwaves across the political divide……
While conservatives across the U.S. have been looking for ways to pay tribute to the influential activist, from erecting statues to renaming roads, Lipscomb Academy in Nashville comprehensively failed in honoring his memory, according to reality TV star turned conservative activist Savannah Chrisley, who appeared on Newsmax on Thursday to discuss the issue………
MAGA targets prestigious Christian private school over Charlie Kirk tributes
Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, attacked over response to Kirk memorial staged by students and accused of left-wing bias by reality TV star Savannah Chrisley
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MAGA targets prestigious Christian private school over Charlie Kirk tributes
Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, attacked over response to Kirk memorial staged by students and accused of left-wing bias by reality TV star Savannah Chrisley
My wife used to (unfortunately) watch that idiotic TV show.....the daughter back then was very pretty, she nows looks like the typical MAGA duck lady.....ugh.....I just don't understand it, her face looks like a mask.....
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his assassination was one of the biggest 24 7 style breaking news coverages in the right wing media history
as in for almost 2 weeks most of the right wing media talked about charlie kirk more times than when the left wing media talks about the pandemic
as in for almost 2 weeks most of the right wing media talked about charlie kirk more times than when the left wing media talks about the pandemic
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The left hasn’t said much about CoVid except when pointing out the stupidity of RFK, Jr. and Trump when the occasion warrants it. A good example is when various experts were removed from HHS or the CDC by RW stupidity.
As for Kirk? Yeah, the RWNJs got their Archduke Ferdinand moment. Kirk did not deserve to die. Beyond that he was a piece of excrement.
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i meant to say more times than when the left wing media talked about pandemic during the pandemic which was from 2020 to 2022
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Please don't feed the trolls.
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Republicans and conservatives are campaigning to quickly build statues and other memorials across the United States for the slain rightwing activist Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination at a college event in Utah last month.
Political leaders in states such as Florida, Michiganand Oklahoma have not only called for construction of memorials but in some cases also threatened to penalize colleges that refuse to publicly honor Kirk, who was killed on 10 September.
The heavy-handed push to honor Kirk, who held views that many see as racist and sexist, follows Donald Trump’s moves to restore monuments of Confederate leaders that were removed in recent years, which appear to be part of a broad effort to impose rightwing views on the country.
“The way in which you keep the culture war going – or the way that you win it – is to have religious icons like Charlie and use their face and their name and their likeness to further your cause,” said Matthew Boedy, an English professor at the University of North Georgia who has studied Christian nationalism.
Kirk, who co-founded the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was killed at Utah State University during one of his signature events in which he debated students.
Since then, Trump and others in his administration, such as Stephen Miller, have blamed the shooting – without producing any evidence – on a coordinated violent effort by the “radical left” and threatened to “identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy” the left’s “terrorism and terror networks”.
Kirk often criticized gay and transgender rights and made Islamaphobic statements and once suggested that the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “mistake”. However, at the state and local level, Republican lawmakers have described Kirk as a “modern civil rights leader” who stood for “allowing everybody to voice their opinion respectfully”.
Just a week after Kirk’s murder, Ohio Republican state senators Shane Jett and Dana Prieto introduced legislation that would require all of the state’s public universities to build a “Charlie Kirk memorial plaza” with a statue “that features the conservative leader sitting at a table with an empty seat across from him” or one of Kirk “and his wife standing and holding their children in their arms”.
A few weeks later, in Florida, state house representative Kevin Steele, a Republican, also proposed legislation that would require all of the state’s public universities to rename roads for Kirk.
“The Florida State University shall redesignate Chieftain Way as Charlie James Kirk Road,” the bill states. “Pasco-Hernando State College shall redesignate Mrs Prameela Musunuru Health and Wellness Trail as Charlie James Kirk Trail.”
In Florida, if the schools do not establish the memorials by stated deadline, the state would withhold funding from the institutions, and in Oklahoma, the state would fine the schools, according to the legislation.………
www.theguardian.com
Political leaders in states such as Florida, Michiganand Oklahoma have not only called for construction of memorials but in some cases also threatened to penalize colleges that refuse to publicly honor Kirk, who was killed on 10 September.
The heavy-handed push to honor Kirk, who held views that many see as racist and sexist, follows Donald Trump’s moves to restore monuments of Confederate leaders that were removed in recent years, which appear to be part of a broad effort to impose rightwing views on the country.
“The way in which you keep the culture war going – or the way that you win it – is to have religious icons like Charlie and use their face and their name and their likeness to further your cause,” said Matthew Boedy, an English professor at the University of North Georgia who has studied Christian nationalism.
Kirk, who co-founded the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was killed at Utah State University during one of his signature events in which he debated students.
Since then, Trump and others in his administration, such as Stephen Miller, have blamed the shooting – without producing any evidence – on a coordinated violent effort by the “radical left” and threatened to “identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy” the left’s “terrorism and terror networks”.
Kirk often criticized gay and transgender rights and made Islamaphobic statements and once suggested that the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “mistake”. However, at the state and local level, Republican lawmakers have described Kirk as a “modern civil rights leader” who stood for “allowing everybody to voice their opinion respectfully”.
Just a week after Kirk’s murder, Ohio Republican state senators Shane Jett and Dana Prieto introduced legislation that would require all of the state’s public universities to build a “Charlie Kirk memorial plaza” with a statue “that features the conservative leader sitting at a table with an empty seat across from him” or one of Kirk “and his wife standing and holding their children in their arms”.
A few weeks later, in Florida, state house representative Kevin Steele, a Republican, also proposed legislation that would require all of the state’s public universities to rename roads for Kirk.
“The Florida State University shall redesignate Chieftain Way as Charlie James Kirk Road,” the bill states. “Pasco-Hernando State College shall redesignate Mrs Prameela Musunuru Health and Wellness Trail as Charlie James Kirk Trail.”
In Florida, if the schools do not establish the memorials by stated deadline, the state would withhold funding from the institutions, and in Oklahoma, the state would fine the schools, according to the legislation.………
The right wants Charlie Kirk memorials across the US – but is it just an attempt to capitalize on his killing?
Critics say mandatory statues on college campuses and street renamings are a way to keep US culture wars going
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Bible sales see massive jump after Charlie Kirk’s assassination
Sales of the Christian holy book increased by 36 percent in September, compared with the same month last year
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