President Donald Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) to investigate and dismantle organizations promoting political violence and domestic terrorism.
Trump’s memorandum notes that acts of political violence in the country have “dramatically increased in recent years.”
“Even in the aftermath of the horrifying assassination of Charlie Kirk, some individuals who adhered to the alleged shooter’s ideology embraced and cheered this evil murder while actively encouraging more political violence. This was preceded by the 2024 assassination of a senior healthcare executive and the 2022 assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh,” the memo describes. “Two separate assassination attempts against my own life in less than 3 months took place during the 2024 Presidential election cycle. Riots in Los Angeles and Portland reflect a more than 1,000 percent increase in attacks on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers since January 21, 2025, compared to the same period last year.”
Common ideas among groups promoting these actions include “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality,” the memo reads.
The memo directs the National Joint Terrorism Task Force to investigate organizations and funders of organizations that “are responsible for, sponsor, or otherwise aid and abet the principal actors engaging in the criminal conduct.”
Upon signing the memorandum, President Trump called out George Soros and Democrat donor Reid Hoffman.
“Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing,” Trump said. “I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people.” He added that if “they are funding these things, they’re going to have some problems because they’re agitators and they’re anarchists.”
