"At a signing ceremony in the Oval Office, the memorandum was presented as aimed at establishing a comprehensive strategy to investigate, disrupt and dismantle all stages of organized political violence and domestic terrorism. It was said to be part of an administration-wide response that would include the FBI's joint terrorism taskforces, the Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury."
"But he was vague when asked which groups he meant or who the funders were. These are anarchists and agitators, professional anarchists and agitators, and they get hired by wealthy people, some of whom I know, I guess, probably know, he said. You wouldn't know at dinner with them. Everything's nice, and then you find out that they funded millions of dollars to these lunatics."
President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum directing a comprehensive strategy to investigate, disrupt and dismantle all stages of organized political violence and domestic terrorism. The strategy was presented as an administration-wide response involving the FBI's joint terrorism taskforces, the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury. Trump said the goal was to target funders of these groups and suggested wealthy philanthropists could be implicated, naming George Soros and Reid Hoffman as possible targets. The Open Society Foundations denied being targeted and criticized politically motivated attacks on civil society. Critics warned the memorandum could provoke legal challenges and be used to crack down on opponents.
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