White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has vowed to “disrupt, dismantle, and destroy” left-wing groups that he claims are “promoting violence” in the wake of Charlie Kirk‘s death.
Miller revealed his broad plan for retribution against political opponents on an episode of Kirk’s namesake podcast. Speaking with Vice President JD Vance, who was hosting the show from his office in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Miller said that a “vast domestic terror movement” is behind the killing of the conservative influencer.
Miller swore to use the Department of Justice to take down left-wing groups the Trump administration believes are guilty of promoting political violence.
“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks,” Miller said.
“The organized doxing campaigns, the organized riots, the organized street violence, the organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting people’s addresses [must stop],” Miller said. “Combining that with messaging that’s designed to trigger, incite violence, and the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence. It is a vast domestic terror movement.”
Miller did not name any specific organizations or groups, but spoke of a broad “NGO network that foments, facilitates, and engages in violence.” His comments are the latest in a wave of conservative anger over Kirk’s assassination last week.
Vance said that the Trump administration does not plan to “go after constitutionally protected speech.” However, he urged listeners to “call [the] employer” of anyone who they see “celebrating Charlie’s murder.
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“We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there is no civility in the celebration of political assassination,” Vance said.
The suspect in Kirk’s killing, Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested several days after the shooting. Though Robinson is not known to be not affiliated with any political party, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox claimed that Robinson was influenced by leftist “ideology.”
