By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday broadened a crackdown on what he has characterized since Charlie Kirk’s assassination as organized left-wing efforts to stoke political violence.

Trump signed a presidential memo that directs administration officials to “detect, prevent and protect” radical groups from performing acts of violence and shut off the groups’ funding.

Among other steps, Trump is pushing his attorney general to prioritize countering “organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder.”

He is also asking the tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service to weed out any philanthropic groups funding political violence.

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