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WASHINGTON — White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Monday that the Trump administration is working on an “organized strategy to go after left-wing organizations that are promoting violence” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Miller, a husband and father of three, said during a taping of “The Charlie Kirk Show” hosted by Vice President JD Vance that the murder of the 31-year-old conservative activist had filled him with both “incredible sadness” and “incredible anger.”
As a result, Miller vowed the White House is “going to channel all of the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks.”
“The organized doxing campaigns, the organized riots, the organized street violence, the organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting people’s addresses, combining that with messaging that is designed to trigger [or] incite violence and the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence,” Miller explained. “It is a vast domestic terror.”
“With God as my witness, we’re going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” he declared.
“You have the crazies on the far left who are saying, ‘Oh, Stephen Miller and JD Vance, they’re gonna go after constitutionally protected speech,’” the veep had said earlier in the conversation.
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“No, no, no, we’re gonna go after the NGO [non-governmental organization] network that foments, facilitates, and engages — that’s not OK,” Vance added. “Violence is not OK in our system, and we want to make it less likely that that happens.”
It was not immediately clear which groups would be targeted, though President Trump has expressed in the past a need to focus law enforcement efforts on left-wing groups accused of funding riots.
Kirk was fatally shot while debating with an attendee at his “American Comeback” speaking tour at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
Authorities later arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, and charged him with murdering the Turning Point USA founder after Robinson allegedly ditched the rifle used for the killing in a wooded area near the UVU campus.
FBI Director Kash Patel revealed Monday that DNA evidence from a towel wrapped around the imported .30-06-caliber Mauser bolt-action rifle and from a screwdriver found near the sniper’s nest were both positive “for the suspect in custody.”
Later in the episode, Vance also hinted that the Trump administration would be looking at the tax-exempt status of some left-wing groups and media outlets that have either justified or encouraged political violence.
The vice president lashed out at the George Soros-backed Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation for having “funded” a “disgusting article justifying Charlie’s death” in The Nation.
“They are literally subsidized by you and me, the American taxpayer, and how do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family over 250 years,” Vance thundered.
“I’m desperate for our country to be united in condemnation of the actions and the ideas that killed my friend,” he continued. “I want it so badly that I will tell you a difficult truth: We can only have it with people who acknowledge that political violence is unacceptable and when we work to dismantle the institutions that promote violence and terrorism in our own country.
“Now our government, you heard me talk to Stephen Miller about this, we’ll be working very hard to do exactly that in the months to come.”
The Ford Foundation called Kirk’s assassination “an appalling act of violence” in a statement to The Post.
“We extend our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Political violence is un-American and a threat to our way of life, and the perpetrator of this heinous crime must be held accountable. The rise in politically motivated violence is a significant crisis in our society that all Americans need to join together to address,” it said.
“The Ford Foundation has not provided any funding to The Nation since 2019.”
