Trump Plans to Accuse Nonprofits of Having Terrorist Ties

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When in doubt, call them a terrorist. The White House is tapping into its standby strategy in its latest attempt to cripple nonprofits. Donald Trump is weighing an executive order that would brand some nonprofits as having terrorist ties, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. In doing so, the executive order would nix the organizations’ nonprofit status and fundamentally unravel their operations. Sources familiar with the matter told the Journal that the executive order has been in the works for months and is not yet finished. It remains to be seen if Trump signs the effort or scraps it…

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Raw Story Left Factuality: Mixed US 1 hour ago
Trump plots ‘very consequential’ power grab against hand-picked ‘domestic groups’: WSJ
President Donald Trump is quietly weighing an untested power to personally single out groups for punishment, according to a new report. Trump officials have spent months preparing an executive order that would declare certain nonprofits to have terrorist ties, a designation...

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New Republic Left Factuality: Mostly factual US 5 hours ago
Trump Plans to Accuse Nonprofits of Having Terrorist Ties
When in doubt, call them a terrorist. The White House is tapping into its standby strategy in its latest attempt to cripple nonprofits. Donald Trump is weighing an executive order that would brand some nonprofits as having terrorist ties, The Wall Street Journal reported...