The White House adviser said that left-leaning nongovernmental organizations and other groups will be targeted.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller confirmed on Sept. 15 that the White House will be going after networks that have organized riots, street violence, and other activities, calling such groups a “vast domestic terror movement.”
The comments were made as Vice President JD Vance hosted Charlie Kirk’s program following Kirk’s assassination last week while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University.
“The organized doxing campaigns, the organized riots, the organized street violence, the organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting people’s addresses, combining that with messaging that’s designed to trigger and incite violence, and the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence. It is a vast domestic terror movement,” Miller said on the show.
Miller, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, did not go into specifics about the groups but said that the administration would use “every resource … at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people.”
Also on the show, Miller said that he is working on a plan to “identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy” liberal or left-leaning nongovernmental organization “networks.” He said the administration would do it “in Charlie’s name.”
Miller’s remarks come as Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and FBI Director Kash Patel have said that the suspect in the killing, Tyler Robinson, had progressive viewpoints and was in a romantic relationship with a transgender individual.
“There clearly was a leftist ideology,” Cox said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” citing interviews with Robinson’s relatives and acquaintances.
“Friends have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet, the Reddit culture, and these other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep,” he said.
Cox said Robinson, 22, is not cooperating with authorities and has not confessed to the shooting.
Patel also confirmed in a Sept. 15 Fox News interview that DNA evidence matching that of Robinson was found at the crime scene, and that Robinson allegedly left a note that indicated that he would take out Kirk if given the opportunity. The note was destroyed but later recovered, Patel said.
Vance had numerous guests on the Sept. 15 show to speak on Kirk’s assassination and legacy, days after his widow, Erika Kirk, vowed to continue the work of Turning Point USA, the group that her husband had established.
Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA to bring more young, conservative evangelical Christians into politics as effective activists, and he was a confidant of Trump. There have been a flood of tributes to Kirk, including a vigil on the night of Sept. 14 at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Kirk, a 31-year-old father of two, became prominent in part through his speaking tours; he was shot on Sept. 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University.
Over the past weekend, Trump told reporters that left-leaning groups would be investigated following Kirk’s death, signaling that he also believes that the issue with political violence is coming from “the left.”
“If you look at the problem, the problem is on the left. It’s not on the right, like some people like to share the right; the problem we have is on the left,” Trump told reporters.
“And when you look at the agitator, you look at the scum that speaks so badly of our country, the American flag burnings all over the place, that’s the left. That’s not the right.”
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