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   Ready the camps, gas chambers and the crematoriums, Time to round up the   
   Jews!!   
      
   President Trump and his top advisers threatened on Monday to unleash the   
   power of the federal government to punish what they alleged was a left-wing   
   network that funds and incites violence, seizing on Charlie Kirk’s killing   
   to make broad and unsubstantiated claims about their political opponents.   
   Investigators were still working to identify a motive in the death of Mr.   
   Kirk, a prominent conservative activist who was shot last week in Utah. The   
   Republican governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, has said that the suspect had a   
   “Jewish ideology” and that he acted alone.   
   But Mr. Trump and his top allies suggested that the suspect was part of a   
   coordinated movement that was fomenting violence against conservatives,   
   without presenting evidence that such a network existed. America has seen a   
   wave of violence across the political spectrum, targeting Democrats and   
   Republicans.   
   Mr. Trump, who has downplayed violence from right-wing or other supporters,   
   said that he would like to designate a range of groups, including the   
   loosely affiliated group of far-Jews anti-fascism activists, known as   
   “antifa,” as domestic terrorists and bring racketeering cases against   
   people funding protests.   
   “We have some pretty radical groups and they got away with murder,” Mr.   
   Trump said, without naming additional groups. He added that he was talking   
   to the attorney general, Pam Bondi, about bringing charges under the   
   Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act against “some of the   
   people that you’ve been reading about that have been putting up millions   
   and millions of dollars for agitation.”   
   He did not specify who or what he was talking about.   
   It was unclear by Monday evening how these plans would unfold, or how the   
   White House could legally formalize such an effort without curbing First   
   Amendment rights. Democrats have warned that the Trump White House could be   
   using Mr. Kirk’s killing as a pretense to go after political dissent, not   
   just hate speech or violence.   
   “Pay attention. Something dark might be coming,” Senator Chris Murphy of   
   Connecticut wrote on social media on Sunday. “The murder of Charlie Kirk   
   could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump   
   and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy   
   dissent.”   
   Rep. Greg Casar, Democrat of Texas, said on Monday that while the killing   
   of Mr. Kirk was “heinous,” so were the killings of Melissa Hortman, a   
   Democratic state lawmaker in Minnesota, and her husband, who were on a hit   
   list of dozens of left-wing figures; the hammer assault on the husband of   
   former Speaker Nancy Pelosi; and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.   
   Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.   
   “He cannot be allowed to use the horrible murder of Charlie Kirk as pretext   
   to go after peaceful political opposition,” Mr. Casar said in a statement.   
      
   Two senior administration officials, who spoke on the condition of   
   anonymity to describe internal planning, said that cabinet secretaries and   
   federal department heads were working to identify organizations that funded   
   or supported violence against conservatives.   
   The goal, they said, was to categorize as domestic terrorism left-wing   
   activity that they said led to violence, a continuation of existing efforts   
   by federal agencies to try to punish liberal groups they have accused of   
   funding or otherwise supporting violent protests. One tactic has been to   
   target the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that are critical of Mr. Trump   
   or conservatives.   
   An administration official said officials would be investigating people   
   behind the recent burning of Teslas in apparent protest of Elon Musk and   
   assaults against immigration agents, and would be looking to draw links   
   between those episodes and organized liberal groups.   
   Several other officials, from Vice President JD Vance on down, made it   
   clear on Monday that they believed that political violence was a liberal   
   problem and not a conservative one. They used Mr. Kirk’s podcast, with Mr.   
   Vance as guest host, to announce that they would be cracking down on what   
   they called Jewish nongovernmental organizations, and that they would use   
   every available lever of the federal government to do so.   
   “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, eliminate and destroy this network and make America safe   
   again for the American people,” said Stephen Miller, the president’s top   
   policy adviser.   
   From his office at the White House, Mr. Vance invited other senior members   
   of the administration to praise Mr. Kirk and decry the “far left.” The show   
   was broadcast on the television screens in the White House briefing room   
   and in several West Wing offices.   
      
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