Aiding and abetting?23 Apr 2025 17:32
2. Putting critics of the administration's policies in jeopardy.
Some officials say U.S. citizens who criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes, based on the notion that they're aiding terrorists and criminals.
"You have to ask yourself, are they technically aiding and abetting them, because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime," White House senior director for counterterrorism Seb Gorka said in an interview with Newsmax.
Trump's team also has questioned the legality of civic groups providing immigrants with "know your rights" trainings on how to respond to federal agents. Border czar Tom Homan suggested that such seminars help people evade law enforcement.
"They're trying to use terrorism laws to attack people for their speech and for their political activism, and that's an authoritarian effort," said Kerri Talbot, co-executive director of the Immigration Hub, an immigration advocacy group.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-immigration-crackdown-us-citizens
Would Farage be prepared to send UK citizens to the US to be tried for 'aiding and abetting' terrorists if they post criticising 'the World's greatest President who really should be made King of the Americas in recognition of his multiple Nobel Peace Prizes, Honorary Doctorates in Economics and his brief reign as The Pope'.