"Since the assasination of Charlie Kirk, Trump asked the Attorney General to investigate individuals who protested him at dinner, instructing her to "look into that in terms of RICO." Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche backed him up, saying such protesters are "part of an organized effort to inflict harm and terror and damage to the United States," which justifies Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) investigations."
"It might be tempting to dismiss as more of Trump's bloviating, but the war on the home front seems like one of the few areas where the administration is moving with unified purpose and, unlike the empire's targets abroad, a foe against which they stand a chance. For all Trump's faults he knows weakness, and understands all our crumbling institutions can be bought or bullied. RICO is a useful tool against any holdouts, and there are recent examples of it being wielded successfully."
The administration issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum that seeks to crack down on a broad range of activities, explicitly including worker actions. ICE is being used as workforce engineering to remove workers and replace them with more exploitable labor. The administration is increasingly threatening to apply conspiracy statutes and RICO to people opposing its authoritarian capitalist agenda in the United States and Israel. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the president asked the Attorney General to investigate protesters under RICO, a request backed by the Deputy Attorney General. Senior aides have vowed to dismantle the radical left through RICO and conspiracy charges. RICO is viewed as an effective tool to suppress domestic opposition.
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