Donald Trump to 'crush and cripple' violent far-left and transgender groups with explosive new counter-terror plan

Donald Trump is set to "crush and cripple" violent political groups such as those who are radically transgender or anarchist in a new counter-terrorism plan.

White House counter-terror advisor Sebastian Gorka said the new legislation was signed by Mr Trump on Tuesday, with goals to neutralise cartels - then "violent, secular political groups".

The plan named three major types of terror groups which put the US at risk: narcoterrorists and transnational gangs, legacy Islamist gangs, and violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists.

Mr Gorka told GB News: "We're getting back to real threats, whether they are jihadists, whether they are cartels or whether they are violent left-wing anarchists, extremist groups like Antifa who target conservatives and killed my good friend Charlie Kirk."

Mr Trump's administration has waged a campaign of striking drug boats in the Caribbean, alongside the targeting of cartels in Ecuador in joint military operations.

And Operation Southern Spear resulted in the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, who has now faces court in New York.

After the death of Charlie Kirk, White House aides called for a coordinated effort to dismantle left-wing groups accused of promoting violence.

Mr Gorka said: "We will use all the tools ⁠constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organisations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent."

The Senior Director for Counterterrorism also accused former President Joe Biden, former speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and various members of Congress of normalising violence, which resulted in "transgender, nonbinary individuals" killing "innocent Americans, often at Catholic schools".

In 2016, Mr Biden said of Mr Trump: "If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym."

And on January 6, 2021, footage of Mrs Pelosi - whose husband was a victim of political violence - said she would "punch him out" if Mr Trump entered the Capitol.

On Friday, Mr Gorka and counterterrorism officials will meet with international partners, including those from the UK, to ask how allies can increase efforts to combat terrorist threats from Iran and in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Mr Gorka told The People's Channel he hoped allies would "return to the civilisational values that our republic is fighting for right now".

The plan states how the White House planned to handle threats in other regions, including the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Addressing the terrorism threat in Europe, the plan states: "It is unacceptable that wealthy Nato allies can serve as financial, logistical, and recruitment hubs for terrorists."

It adds that Europe must "significantly increase" counterterrorism efforts across the continent.

"The more these alien cultures grow, and the longer current European policies persist, the more terrorism is guaranteed.

"As the birthplace of Western culture and values, Europe must act now and halt its willful decline," the White House's counterterrorism plan reads.

Warning against antisemitism, Mr Gorka told GB News said it served as the "canary in the coal mine" of terrorism.

The counter-terrorism plan will seek to identify the cash flow of terrorism, with Mr Gorka adding that suspicion is raised when there are protesters not just chanting "from the river to the sea" but "have exactly the same placards" as they march.

He said: "Who funds those? Are there foreign actors? Are there foreign immigrations that are sending funds to incite violence inside our countries?"

Mr Gorka added: "When you permit individuals to chant from the river to the sea, which is a genocidal phrase calling for the obliteration of the Free State of Israel, sooner or later somebody will take up arms to make that a reality."