Today the Justice Department came up with another sham indictment of people on Trump’s enemies list. Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, was indicted for the non-crime of stating on a mortgage document that it was for a second home, then later renting the house out.
The only way this is a crime is if prosecutors can prove that James intended to rent the house at the time she signed the document, because obviously people rent out second homes all the time. Since James can’t be called by the prosecution as a witness, this is another instance of illegal selective prosecution by the Justice Department at the order of Trump, since the indictment basically is unwinnable.
James filed a fraud case against the Trump Corporation, which she won. That’s why Trump is seeking retribution, just as he did against two other Trump critics — James Comey and Adam Schiff — who also were named in the infamous public Truth Social post that Trump meant to be a private direct message to Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Comey and James have been indicted on trumped-up charges; Schiff awaits his indictment, which almost surely is coming.)
Since legal experts say that the Justice Department is extremely unlikely to win their cases against James and Comey, because there’s no real evidence supporting the indictments, I’m expecting that Trump will expand his retribution net to encompass a hugely larger population of the “radical left.” Apparently there’s no radical right in Trump’s increasingly feeble mind, even though right-wing political violence is much more common than left-wing political violence.
To learn how wide a net the Trump administration is casting, take a look at the September 25, 2025 Presidential Memorandum, Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence. If you can’t bring yourself to read the entire bizarre memo (I couldn’t), Ken Klippenstein has a summary in his Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs as Terrorism “Indicators.”
In NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” President Trump directs the Justice Department, the FBI, and other national security agencies and departments to fight his version of political violence in America, retooling a network of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to focus on “leftist” political violence in America. This vast counterterrorism army, made up of federal, state, and local agents would, as Trump aide Stephen Miller said, form “the central hub of that effort.”
NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.”
In other words, they’re targeting pre-crime, to reference Minority Report.
The Trump administration isn’t only targeting organizations or groups but even individuals and “entities” whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following “indicia” (indicators) of violence:
- anti-Americanism,
- anti-capitalism,
- anti-Christianity,
- support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
- extremism on migration,
- extremism on race,
- extremism on gender
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and
- hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.
“The United States requires a national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence so that law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before they result in violent political acts,” the directive states (emphasis mine).
I’m no terrorist, but I have an eight out of ten score on indicators of political violence, lacking only “anti-Americanism” and “support for the overthrow of the United States Government.”
I”m anti-capitalist in the sense that many European nations are: balancing capitalism with a strong social safety net funded in part by higher taxes on corporations than we have in the United States.
I’m anti-Christianity in the sense that I’m anti-every-religion, as I’ve been writing about on my Church of the Churchless blog since 2004.
I’m extreme on migration in the sense that while I believe in strong borders, I’m against deporting hard working migrants with no criminal history who have been in this country for a long time.
I’m extreme on race in the sense that I support targeted affirmative action to address the injustices Black people have suffered since they were brought here as slaves.
I’m extreme on gender in the sense that I support LGBTQ rights and believe that there are more than two genders, and gender identity can be fluid, not fixed.
I’m hostile toward those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality when those views interfere with the right of Americans to love who they choose, to marry who they choose, to have an abortion when they choose, and use recreational drugs as they choose (so long as that use doesn’t harm others).
President Trump has a big chore ahead of him if he seeks to rid the United States of those who hold the ten indicators of violence listed in his domestic terror memorandum. I’d guess that at least 80% of Americans, and probably an even higher percentage, hold one or more of those views. Here they are in narrative form, copied from the memorandum.
Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.
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