FBI Readies New War on Trans People
“We’re looking at the entire spider web”
Ken Klippenstein
The Trump administration is preparing to designate transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, two national security officials tell me.
“We're looking at the entire spider web for any of these attacks,” FBI director Kash Patel told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, when asked about shootings by trans individuals.
“They,” Attorney General Pam Bondi 
said after the Kirk murder, are “putting this crazy ideology in our schools,” echoing the growing view of many in Trump’s inner circle that a “cult of gender ideology” is behind an explosion of violence by some as yet unidentified “radical left.”
Two days before Kirk was killed, Donald Trump 
condemned “transgender insanity.” Then in an 
interview about the shooting, he blamed “the radicals on the left,” saying: “they want transgender for everyone.”
“They are cynically targeting trans people because the shooter’s lover was trans,” one senior intelligence official tells me. “The administration has convinced itself that .....
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