"The big picture: The Trump administration is unusually responsive to pressure from the MAGA ecosystem, with conspiracy-fueled narratives and personnel flowing freely between the movement and the government. As a result, theories about sprawling "leftist" networks, accomplices at the sceneof Kirk's slaying in Utah, or overseas involvement are being treated as live leads - even in the absence of hard evidence."
""You've got to get to the bottom of these groups, you've got to get to the bottom of antifa, you've got to see if there's any connections to Butler," said "War Room" host Steve Bannon, referring to the assassination attempt against President Trump in Pennsylvania last year. "We've got a whole lot of work to do, and no, I'm not buying the script that was in the text messages," he added. Driving the news: Trump signed an executive order Monday designating antifa as a "domestic terror organization," describing it as "a network of Radical Left terrorists that aim to overthrow the government through violence and agitation.""
The Trump administration is unusually responsive to pressure from the MAGA ecosystem, enabling the flow of conspiracy-fueled narratives and personnel between the movement and the government. Theories alleging sprawling "leftist" networks, accomplices at the scene of Kirk's slaying in Utah, or overseas involvement are being pursued as live leads despite a lack of hard evidence. MAGA influencers question the lone-actor theory about Tyler Robinson, alleging staged text messages and broader liberal networks financed or incited the shooting. Some senior Trump officials have endorsed those theories, while no evidence has emerged linking Robinson to antifa.
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