Given everything you know about the Trump regime, and especially its obscenely dishonest and corrupt Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, would it surprise you to learn that the Trumpenreich trotted out DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin to deny these enemies lists even existed? I thought not, nor do I expect you to be surprised to learn that she was, as usual, just bald-faced lying to the American people.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/secret-watchlists-of-americans

‘She’s Lying’: Journalist Exposes Secret Watch Lists That Trump Official Says Don’t Exist

"Despite denials from a senior Trump administration official, secret watchlists of Americans are being used by federal agencies to track and categorize US citizens—especially protesters, activists, and critics of law enforcement—as “domestic terrorists,” investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein reported Wednesday.

Klippenstein said that two senior national security officials speaking on condition of anonymity told him that there are over a dozen “secret and obscure” watchlists that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI are using to track anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and pro-Palestine protesters, antifa-affiliated individuals, and “others who are promiscuously labeled ‘domestic terrorists.’”

Of course, a smarter nazi than the likes of Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, or McLaughlin probably would have realized it's not a great idea to publicly call the NatSec journalist who clearly has sources inside your own department a liar, but it's safe to say the Trumpenreich isn't composed of the best and the brightest this nation has to offer the species, so I'm not surprised they tried it. Through those sources, Klippenstein was able to confirm that DHS and the FBI were maintaining a whole bunch of different watchlists that appear to be targeting Americans the Trumpenreich doesn't like; to fight "terrorism."

As this article notes however, the reality is that at the very same time McLaughlin was setting the regime up for a spectacular own goal, ICE Gestapo goons in the street and Trumpenreich "Border Czar" Tom Homan were publicly talking about the existence of a "domestic terrorism database" expressly targeting people exercising their civil rights to protest ICE's ongoing and illegal ethnic cleansing project. In other words, one part of the Trump administration was denying the existence of these enemies lists, while another part of the Trump administration was intentionally threatening to put protestors on an enemies list that legally shouldn't even exist. This would be fucking hilarious if these people weren't trying to install a fascist dictatorship that will pile corpses so high it will blot out the sun if we don't come together as a society and stop them.

And why exactly does the US government think Trump's anti-terrorism apparatus has the right to go full McCarthyism on everyday Americans who don't want a fascist dictatorship or ethnic cleansing? Yes, that's correct - because of NSPM-7, and Bondi's ensuing Justice Department memo.

Okay, so they're caught red-handed; through leaks, and by Homan's own admission, the regime is keeping enemies lists. Furthermore, while corporate US media coverage of these events was still dismal, by now the opposition Democratic Party had locked on to NSPM-7 and the enemies lists Bondi's memo instructed the FBI to make, as a genuine threat to American democracy. Surely in February, once Democrats on the Oversight Committee had Pam Bondi under oath, she'd have to let the cat out of the bag, right? Absolutely not. Bondi stonewalled - even though, we literally have a leaked copy of her order to compile those enemies lists because of Ken Klippenstein's reporting.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bondi-nspm

Bondi Stonewalls Congress on the ‘Enemies List’ She Directed DOJ to Compile

"When the congresswoman asked Bondi to confirm whether the list she called for in her December memo has been compiled, the attorney general said she was “not going to answer yes or no” before saying that “an antifa member” was arrested earlier this month in Minneapolis for “cyberstalking.”

Scanlon later asked Bondi if she would commit to providing the committee with the list of entities that the DOJ believes should be “designated as domestic terrorist organizations.”

“I’m not going to commit to anything to you because you won’t let me answer questions,” the attorney general replied.

Scanlon responded, “We understand your current position is that you have a secret list of people or groups who you are accusing of domestic terrorism, but you won’t share it with Congress.”

So you got that right? The AG who instructed the FBI to start making political enemies lists, refuses to confirm or deny that those lists now exist, but is also pretty sure "antifa is a part of that" - where that is enemies lists that don't exist. Kafka fucking wept.

#Trump #Fascism #NSPM7 #PamBondi #PoliceState #COINTELPRO #FBI #DoJ #DHS #TriciaMcLaughlin #EnemiesList #TomHoman #ICE

"In Trump 1.0 she was chief of staff of the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, and during the Biden years she worked for Mike DeWine’s failed reelection campaign, then Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign. ...

McLaughlin may be from Ohio, but she’s the spittin’ image of a Southern Belle of the pre-emancipation South. Ornamentation on top, active and eager complicity below. Just Donald Trump’s type."

#TriciaMcLaughlin #Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #lies #disinformation
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"What … is going on in Ohio that McLaughlin turned out like this? Her grandfather Powell McHenry was director of the Republican Club of Hamilton County, so there’s a clue, and she got a job as spokesperson for the Ohio Republican party out of college."

~ Marcie Jones

#TriciaMcLaughlin #Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #lies #disinformation
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/kristi-noems-aryan-mini-me-quitting

"In its own odd way, it’s just the typical cycling through of staff at the one-year mark of a new administration — but with the twist of Trump bringing the prerogatives of reality TV casting to bear. Someone else — probably young, blonde, female, and snarling — will emerge as Trump’s favorite bombastic spokesperson, dodging tough questions from the press with pro-wrestling bluster and playground taunts. Rinse and repeat."

#TriciaMcLaughlin #Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #lies #disinformation
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