T hey didn’t waste a day.
In the aftermath of conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk ’s assassination, Donald Trump ’s government immediately got to work crafting its road map for cracking down on liberal groups and the president’s domestic foes. According to sources with direct knowledge of the matter, within 24 hours of the Kirk shooting, top Trump officials and administration lawyers — at the White House, Justice Department, and so forth — had already put pen to pad, drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for any number of possible executive actions, and prioritizing which liberal organizations and strongholds of the left needed targeting.
At the top of these frantic intradepartmental efforts sat Stephen Miller , the White House deputy chief of staff, who personally supplied se