{"id":165193,"date":"2025-09-21T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-fears-president-will-seize-on-kirks-murder-for-campaign-of-vengeance-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:35:01","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-fears-president-will-seize-on-kirks-murder-for-campaign-of-vengeance-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-fears-president-will-seize-on-kirks-murder-for-campaign-of-vengeance-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: fears president will seize on Kirk\u2019s murder for campaign of vengeance – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Critics worry Donald Trump will use memorial service for Charlie Kirk to turn collective grief into revenge campaign against \u2018radical left\u2019 \u2013 key US politics stories from 20 September 2025 at a glance
On Sunday the late rightwing activist Charlie Kirk<\/a> is set to be hailed by Donald Trump as a martyr of the Make America Great Again (Maga) movement.
But Kirk\u2019s memorial service at a football stadium in Arizona could, critics fear, be exploited by the US president to turn collective grief into a campaign of vengeance against his political opponents.
Trump has spent the past 10 days escalating threats against what he calls the \u201cradical left\u201d after the fatal shooting<\/a> of Kirk, 31, on a university campus in Utah.
The White House is considering classifying some groups as domestic terrorists and revoking tax-exempt status for certain non-profits, even though there is no evidence linking these groups to the killing.
Trump and his allies have sought to undermine the legitimacy of the Democratic party, branding it an extremist organisation despite it having roundly condemned the attack on Charlie Kirk.
Officials insist their focus is preventing violence, but critics see an extension of Trump\u2019s campaign of retribution against his political foes and an erosion of free speech. They warn his administration is trying to harness outrage over Kirk\u2019s killing to crush dissent.
\u201cPolitical violence is very often used as a pretext to crack down on civil liberties and on opponents \u2013 this is page one of the autocrats\u2019 playbook,\u201d said Steven Levitsky<\/a>, a political scientist at Harvard University.
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Donald Trump\u2019s reported pause on US$400m in weapons aid to Taiwan has fuelled fears he is using US support of the island to negotiate with China.
Trump\u2019s pause on weapons provisions, if confirmed, included orders for lethal munitions and autonomous drones, but could still be reversed, the Washington Post reported<\/a> on Friday.
It came amid US efforts to negotiate a trade deal with China and before Trump and China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, spoke on the phone on Friday<\/a>. Trump said they had made \u201cproductive\u201d progress on a range of issues. But analysts said respective readouts of the call did not mention Taiwan<\/a>.
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Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, did not inform the White House that her office was revoking the security clearances of 37 people<\/a> \u2013 including top deputies to the CIA director, John Ratcliffe \u2013 before it happened last month, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The move meant the White House did not having an opportunity to closely vet the list before it became public and there appeared to be no paper trail from the president directing the effort, the people said.
Officials only realized after the fact that Gabbard had managed to pull the security clearances of career CIA officials. Several of Trump\u2019s top advisers view the episode as a serious blunder that comes as Trump is sceptical of the intelligence community.
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Since ABC made the decision to indefinitely suspend comedian Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> from his late-night talkshow after on-air remarks about the killing of Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump has encouraged further action against other late-night hosts.
Most presidents have accepted the relentless punchlines on the Tonight Show as part of the job since the show became hugely popular in the 1960s under comedian Johnny Carson.
But Trump is a different political animal. He has singled out Kimmel, who has kept the Maga movement in his crosshairs since candidate Trump backed out of a scheduled 2015 appearance at the last minute<\/a>.
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A man armed with a gun and a knife was arrested on Saturday <\/a>after he allegedly pretended to be a member of law enforcement outside State Farm Stadium near Phoenix a day before Charlie Kirk<\/a>\u2019s planned memorial service at that venue.
The FBI reportedly recorded Donald Trump\u2019s border tsar Tom Homan accepting<\/a> $50,000 in cash from undercover agents posing as business contractors last year.
The US military has issued new media restrictions demanding that journalists <\/a>pledge not to gather any information that has not been authorized for release or else risk revocation of their press passes.
Immigrant advocacy organizations and activists are bracing for a crackdown <\/a>from the federal government after threats from the Trump administration to root out and criminally prosecute non-profit groups it believes are sympathetic to \u201cleftwing\u201d politics.
California will be the first state to ban most law enforcement officers<\/a>, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill signed by the state\u2019s governor, Gavin Newsom<\/a>.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 19 September 2025<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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