New Memorandum Is a Wildly unAmerican Attack on Free Speech
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President Trump signed a new presidential memorandum targeting left-leaning organizations and their donors.
Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response to the news:
“The Trump-announced presidential memo is an “all of government” witch hunt against Trump’s political adversaries. While the details remain to be disclosed, it threatens criminal and civil investigations against nonprofits based on their point of view.
“What is really happening is this: The administration is conjuring vast, imaginary conspiracies as a thinly veiled ruse to crack down on its political opponents, based on their viewpoints.
“As the work of the just-announced, so-called “joint terrorism task force” unfolds, civil society organizations will band together and not permit the administration to pick off individual groups.
“The Trump project is dangerous, utterly askew from constitutional values and profoundly unAmerican.
“Trump aims to intimidate and silence his political opponents. But the majority of Americans oppose Trump’s authoritarianism and we will not be intimidated.”