A former Trump administration official has called a recent presidential memo “one of the most alarming government documents” he has ever read.
Miles Taylor, who worked in the Department of Homeland Security as deputy chief of staff and chief of staff, highlighted Donald Trump’s national security memo from Sept. 25 titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” The implications of NSPM-7, Taylor argued, are dire.
In addition to allowing the White House and federal agencies to label “groups” domestic terrorist organizations, the memo—issued after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk—does the same for individual citizens over “minor legal infractions or none at all,” Taylor wrote on his Substack.
Being added to what’s called the terrorist watchlist i