Attorney General Pam Bondi boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Thursday. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Within hours of Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week, President Donald Trump signaled a rather curious crackdown.

“My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity, and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it,” he said.

There was no evidence last week that the shooter was anything other than a lone wolf actor, and there still isn’t. But Trump said his response would broadly target lots of supposed culprits of political violence.

It wasn’t difficult to see how such a thing could get out of hand. And the administration has done little in the days since to disabuse anybody of th

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