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Eugene

(66,418 posts) Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:18 PM Thursday

Trump orders crackdown on 'domestic terrorists' - George Soros and Reid Hoffman named as possible targets

Trump orders crackdown on 'domestic terrorists' in escalation of a campaign against political rivals (Associated Press)

President Donald Trump on Thursday directed his administration to crack down on backers of what it described as “left-wing terrorism,” naming two top Democratic donors as he alleged without evidence a vast conspiracy to finance violent protests against the government.

Trump’s executive order put the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Taskforce in the lead and said the effort would span agencies across the administration, including the Treasury Department, “to identify and disrupt financial networks that fund domestic terrorism and political violence.”

The pursuit of what the president said were the funders of "agitators and anarchists” is the latest instance of Donald Trump using the power of his office to persecute his political rivals. When pressed by a reporter to name any possible targets, he suggested two of the Democratic Party’s top donors — billionaires George Soros and Reid Hoffman.

“If they are funding these things, they're going to have some problems,” Trump said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-orders-crackdown-left-wing-223307943.html

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Trump orders crackdown on 'domestic terrorists' - George Soros and Reid Hoffman named as possible targets (Original Post) Eugene Thursday OP

The vast majority of 'domestic terrorists' are RIGHT-WING, as noted in the report Jack Valentino Thursday #1

Yup, FelonTraitorTrump aka The Terrorist In Chief Miami Blue Thursday #2

When is Eloon going to be investigated? newdeal2 Thursday #3

Pretty sure this is the ballgame Diraven Friday #4

Kennedy's brain worm must have spawned Bayard Friday #5

What's next? Little king pedofelon 1 to designate the Democratic Justice matters. Friday #6

MaddowBlog-Trump's DOJ reportedly pushes prosecutors to go after George Soros' foundation LetMyPeopleVote Friday #7

Jack Valentino

(3,385 posts)

1. The vast majority of 'domestic terrorists' are RIGHT-WING, as noted in the report

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:24 PM

Thursday

which was recently erased from government websites.....

and the only alleged political party which is a domestic criminal and terrorist organization in the U.S. is
The Republican Party (sic)

Miami Blue

(340 posts)

2. Yup, FelonTraitorTrump aka The Terrorist In Chief

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:49 PM

Thursday

Is a delusional schizophrenic / Mafioso who dispatched thousands of his Kkkultists to the US Capitol to destroy it on January 6, 2021, aka
A Second Day which will live in Infamy.

Go away
TraitorTrump
🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

newdeal2

(4,227 posts)

3. When is Eloon going to be investigated?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:51 PM

Thursday

Or those guys who bribed Clarence?

Diraven

(1,614 posts)

4. Pretty sure this is the ballgame

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 12:37 AM

Friday

At a minimum they'll use this to criminalize all funding to organizations supporting Democrats and progressive causes. And then probably even outlaw the entire Democratic Party altogether by designating it a terrorist organization. I don't see any way this can be stopped. We could try to fight this in court but the Supreme Court has pretty much decided that Trump is allowed to do whatever he wants. Most Americans won't even care because it doesn't affect them directly.

Bayard

(27,150 posts)

5. Kennedy's brain worm must have spawned

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 12:54 AM

Friday

trump is trying to totally defund Dems. We keep saying, this can't go on, or how is he getting by with this crap. NO ONE is stopping him. He thinks he can do anything his tiny little heart desires, and get away with it. Everyone just wrings their hands at the horror.

I want to see blueprints! I want to see access tunnels! (Alien reference. Seems appropriate.)

Justice matters.

(8,926 posts)

6. What's next? Little king pedofelon 1 to designate the Democratic

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Fri Sep 26, 2025, 02:22 AM

Friday

Party a "terrorist" organization??

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,303 posts)

7. MaddowBlog-Trump's DOJ reportedly pushes prosecutors to go after George Soros' foundation

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:37 PM

Friday

When Main Justice directs U.S. attorney’s offices to launch what amounts to a fishing expedition against a presidential foe, it’s political corruption.

Maddow Blog | Trumpâ€™s DOJ reportedly pushes prosecutors to go after George Sorosâ€™ foundation www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-doj-reportedly-pushes-prosecutors-go-george-soros-foundation-rcna233737

If Donald Trump’s public comments are any indication, the president has been preoccupied with George Soros lately, repeatedly referencing the Hungarian American philanthropist in multiple Fox News appearances.....

The baseless accusations were ridiculous — there’s no evidence whatsoever to suggest the Soros family or the Open Society Foundations have financed “violent protests” — but the remarks were also largely overlooked as pointless presidential palaver. As I noted in a post, Trump’s weird rants against Soros are easy to shrug off unless the Justice Department starts acting on them.

So it’s significant that The New York Times reported a senior Justice Department official has “instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorneys’ offices to draft plans to investigate” a Soros-backed group. From the article:

The official’s directive, a copy of which was viewed by The New York Times, goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism. The memo suggests department leaders are following orders from the president that specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation — a major break from decades of past practice meant to insulate the Justice Department from political interference. The move is the latest instance of the Justice Department moving against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies.

.....When Main Justice directs at least seven U.S. attorney’s offices to launch what amounts to a fishing expedition, that’s not law enforcement, it’s political corruption.

This is obviously an outrageous abuse, but it’s also a familiar one. Indeed, it dovetails to an unsettling degree with Trump and his team’s revenge campaign against former FBI Director James Comey. And New York Attorney General Letitia James. And Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California. And former CIA Director John Brennan. And even former President Joe Biden.

The unsubtle and retaliatory weaponization of federal law enforcement is corrupt, brazen and dangerous in equal measure, and the problem is only getting worse.

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