A CNN national security analyst went so far on Tuesday as to claim that President Donald Trump is the “leader of a terrorist organization,” calling for the “complete isolation” of him despite the fact that 74 million Americans voted for in this past election.
Juliette Kayyem, a lecturer at Harvard University and former member of Barack Obama’s Homeland Security Advisory Council, argued on CNN that Trump is the “spiritual” and “operational” leader of a “domestic terrorism effort.”
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“Trump is the spiritual, but I will also say operational leader of this domestic terrorism effort. He tells them where to go. He tells them what to do. He tells them why they’re angry,” she outrageously alleged.
"Trump is the spiritual leader for domestic terrorists and he is their operational leader. He tells them what to do. Now, total isolation. 25th A. Yes. Impeachment. Yes. Deplatforming. Yes. We are still in the tactical phase of a counterterrorism effort. Enough with unity." @cnn pic.twitter.com/8UkZBzS4ai
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) January 12, 2021
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Not stopping there, Kayyem claimed that the U.S. government must launch a counterterrorism effort against the Trump supporters who protested at the Capitol building last week.
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“And so we need to start at the top, like any counterterrorism effort, which is total isolation of the president of the United States. Impeachment, yes. 25th Amendment, yes. Deplatforming, yes. All of the above. No money. No access to campaign funds,” she said, going on to argue for the president’s “complete isolation” because Trump, “as the leader of a terrorist organization,” will have a more difficult time recruiting followers if he is “viewed as a loser.”
“He’s going to have his radical elements. We will arrest them, we will isolate them,” Kayvem added. “But what we have to make sure is that Donald Trump does not have a second act. I know I sound incredibly harsh right now calling the president this, but we are in the tactical response right now. Enough with the ‘let’s unity’ and stuff, this is a tactical effort right now to make sure that we protect American citizens and, of course, the next president of the United States.”
Kayyem doubled down on this in an article published on Tuesday by The Atlantic. In this article, she accused Trump of “rallying point for a coalition of theocrats, internet fantasists, white supremacists, and various other authoritarians who are in no way committed to peaceful transitions of power.”
“The way to unite this country is to isolate acts of violence—and a leader who incites it—from legitimate expression,” Kayyem wrote. “Trump was a north star for a certain kind of radical. Americans will be safer the more that star loses its shine.”
This piece was written by James Samson on January 12, 2021. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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These days the Dems' nasty extremists are competing for publicity.
Thats odd how can we trump supporters be terrorists when we are not members of the damocrat party.
Well said 44. We have morales and values unlike you. We don’t go around and lie about everything. I do believe you are talking about Obama and his thugs. Just look on Facebook and Twitter how these thugs communicated and did so again at the capital. You really need a different job when you condemn the good and praise the bad. Our President Trump is non conflict person, just look he made peace deals not a war. He has condemned everyone he should now let’s hear the truth about everything from you and your democratic swamp. He accomplished more in four years while fight the swamp then Obama, Clinton and both bushes did in over 20 years. So what is the point of any of you fake media outlets speaking at all.