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Miranda Devine: The Trump admin is going after violent leftists and their twisted ideology

Jihadis and cartels are targets of the new White House counterterrorism strategy, but so, too, are Antifa, Tran­tifa and other violent domestic left-wing anti-American groups.

It’s a sharp departure from the Biden administration’s sinister national strategy on counterterrorism that pretended groups like Antifa didn’t exist and instead targeted Catholics at traditional mass, parents questioning gender ideology at school-board meetings and Trump supporters who, Joe Biden told us repeatedly, were “ultra-MAGA,” “semi-fascist” domestic terrorists.

Hence, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by unarmed Trump supporters, most of whom committed no violence and many of whom did not even enter the Capitol, became the biggest investigation in FBI history under Biden, prompting one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American history.

Thankfully, President Trump’s White House counterterrorism director, Sebastian Gorka, has reoriented national security back toward violence, rather than vague “anti-government” or “anti-authority” sentiment, which can be easily — and was, under Biden — weaponized politically.

“We’re just basing our threat assessment on reality, whether you’re trying to kill journalists, whether you are creating disorder against the rule of law in our country, or do I have to mention the name of my friend Charlie Kirk?” Gorka told me on “Pod Force One.”

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“Do I have to talk about the multiple left-wing attempts to kill President Trump?”

“We’re not going to whistle past the graveyard. We’re not going to say that doesn’t exist.”

“We are going to use every legal tool in our 17 intelligence agencies, in our domestic law enforcement through the DOJ, to prevent the violent........

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