"DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The people there were a lot of people in the restaurant. I went there to show how safe, and it was safe. I mean, the woman is just a mouthpiece, or she was she was a paid she was a paid agitator, and you have a lot of them. And I've asked Pam to look into that in terms of RICO, bringing RICO cases against them criminal RICO, because they should be put in jail."
"As you know, RICO has been used to go after like al Qaeda, MS-13, the Gambino family. How would something like that protest fall under a RICO charge?"
"That's not what we use RICO for only. RICO is available to all kinds of organizations committing crimes and committing wrongful acts, not just organized crime or ISIS or terrorist organizations. And so, it depends. So is it, again, sheer happenstance that individuals show up at a restaurant, whe"
Protesters booed and confronted Donald Trump during a photo op at Joe's Seafood in Washington, D.C., with some chanting insults while he dined. Trump suggested pursuing RICO charges against the protesters, calling some paid agitators and asking officials to investigate. Kaitlan Collins pressed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on how RICO would apply to such protests, noting its historic use against organized crime and terrorist groups. Blanche said RICO can apply to a range of organizations committing crimes or wrongful acts and that applicability depends on whether individuals acted in coordinated, prosecutable criminal conduct.
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