Trump Signs New Counterterrorism Strategy Targeting Western Hemisphere Cartels and Left-Wing Extremists
The 16-page plan elevates cartels, antifa and Islamist groups as top threats and calls for pre-emptive disruption before attacks occur.
- The Trump administration’s 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy marks a significant pivot in national security policy, elevating domestic political movements and transnational criminal groups to the same priority level as traditional foreign threats.
- The new directive shifts the primary domestic focus away from far-right extremism to prioritize the "identification and neutralization" of what the White House calls violent, secular political groups, specifically naming anarchists, anti-fascist organizations, and radical gender-identity activists.
- Federal agencies are instructed to treat designated domestic left-wing groups—such as Antifa—as equivalent to international terrorist organizations like ISIS or al-Qaeda, allowing for the use of enhanced law enforcement tools to map their memberships and dismantle their financial and logistical networks.
- The strategy explicitly links this policy shift to a perceived "resurgence of violent left-wing ideology," citing the 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a primary example of a domestic threat that the administration claims was previously overlooked.
- Beyond domestic concerns, the document broadens the definition of counterterrorism to include "narcoterrorists" and transnational gangs in the Western Hemisphere, while simultaneously criticizing European allies for maintaining policies that the administration claims have turned the continent into an incubator for global terrorism.
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News & RecordPresident signs new counterterrorism plan
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a new national counterterrorism strategy that focuses in part on the "neutralization" of hemispheric threats and incapacitating cartel operations, top White House adviser Sebastian Gorka said Wednesday.
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