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特朗普政府正处于一种内外皆恐惧的永久状态。
本月在明尼阿波利斯，联邦特工在两起独立事件中杀害了两人——[亚历克斯·普雷蒂]和[蕾妮·古德]，国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆和白宫高级助手斯蒂芬·米勒等人将他们均标记为“国内恐怖分子”。
两段杀人视频[使政府对事件的描述复杂化]。
但联邦政府官员将抗议视为国内恐怖主义的想法，贯穿于唐纳德·特朗普总统第二任期的始终。
“我们有一个很好的小数据库，现在你就被视为国内恐怖分子了，”在今年另一段由一名ICE观察员拍摄的视频中，一名蒙面特工对其说道，这段视频拍摄于[缅因州波特兰]。
国土安全部试图通过向CNN发表的声明纠正该特工的说法：“国土安全部没有一个针对国内恐怖分子的数据库。”
这又引出了另一个问题：是否有其他人运行着一个这样的数据库？
“激进左翼恐怖主义”
“恐怖主义”的表述略有不同，但去年9月特朗普宣布将派遣联邦资源前往俄勒冈州波特兰市时，传达的信息却完全一致——正如白宫官方声明所言，目的是“打击暴力激进左翼恐怖主义……”
这一举措引发了波特兰进一步的抗议，但法院最终驳回了特朗普向波特兰和其他城市部署国民警卫队的计划。
反特斯拉恐怖主义
在特朗普任期早期，是[故意破坏特斯拉经销商的人]被政府标记为国内恐怖分子。
在每一个案例中，特朗普或其助手都暗示“恐怖分子”背后有一个有组织的阴谋在支持，但他们从未提供证据。
毒品恐怖主义
政府在外交事务中也创造性地使用了“恐怖主义”一词。
所谓的贩毒船只被摧毁，这是特朗普“打击[毒品恐怖分子]”战争的一部分。对船上人员的法外处决试图将其国家安全职责与司法系统结合起来，许多专家怀疑这种做法是否合法。
美国特种部队绑架了前委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗，部分原因是为了将他带到美国司法系统中。据国务院称，他和他的妻子目前在纽约监狱等候审判，罪名包括涉嫌与贩毒集团进行[毒品恐怖主义阴谋]，国务院为此提供了5000万美元的赏金以捕获他。
然而，美国非但没有拒绝任何与马杜罗有联系的人，反而正在与他的前副总统德尔西·罗德里格斯合作。
如今无处不在的指控
新泽西州民主党参议员科里·布克周二在国会山上的听证会上告诉国务卿马尔科·卢比奥[期间]：“政府正在用‘恐怖主义’一词来失去可信度。”
“我不信任这个政府以及他们使用‘恐怖分子’这类词汇的方式，”布克说，“我见过他们称美国公民为‘国内恐怖分子’，而这些人只是在和平抗议。”
特朗普政府确实继续使用这个词，其方式对大多数美国人来说会感觉更常规。当特朗普在[圣诞节]下令空袭[尼日利亚]时，他称此举是为了保护该国的基督徒免受伊斯兰恐怖分子的伤害。
削弱“恐怖”一词的含义
前国土安全部官员、CNN高级国家安全分析师朱丽叶·凯姆表示，将“恐怖”一词随意套用在各处会削弱其含义。
“他们使用‘恐怖分子’一词基本上是为了定义任何批评他们的人群，”她这样评价特朗普政府。
美国法律中有一个[特定的定义]来界定恐怖主义，它包括那些危及生命、违反法律以“恐吓或胁迫”平民或政府的行为。
法律定义之外的社会和政治含义
特朗普政府司法部第二号官员托德·布兰奇甚至表示，这个法律术语似乎不适用于普雷蒂这样的人。
“我认为没有人会认为他们是在将周六发生的事情与国内恐怖主义的法律定义相比较，”布兰奇周一在福克斯新闻上说，“我们看到的是一场非常暴力的争执，我们——我不会预断事实。”
凯姆表示，除了法律定义外，这个词在社会和政治层面也很重要。
“这是一种将某种活动标记为不道德和非法的方式，而我们希望将这个词保留给真正的恐怖分子——那些以暴力或暴力威胁针对平民人口的人。”
如果任何不同意政府的人都被视为某种恐怖分子，这就公然违背了第一修正案，而第一修正案本应保护言论自由和和平集会的权利。
美国显然存在危险威胁
明尼苏达州众议院议长、民主党人梅丽莎·霍特曼去年与丈夫一起被枪手杀害。保守派活动家查理·柯克在犹他州一所大学校园被暗杀。这两起枪击事件均未被归咎于有组织团体，但两者都暗示了政治暴力的时代已经来临。
来自明尼阿波利斯地区的民主党众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔经常成为特朗普阴谋论和侮辱的目标——特朗普曾称她和其他索马里裔美国人是“垃圾”。周二晚上，在一次活动中，有人向她喷洒了现在被认为是[苹果醋]的物质，奥马尔在此次事件中未受伤。
在周二的活动中，奥马尔也对“恐怖”概念表示了认同——她提到了美国海关和边境保护局（ICE）特工在她所在城市的大量存在，并引发了暴力事件。[根据CNN的报道]，奥马尔谴责联邦移民代理的“恐吓”策略和“鲁莽且无法无天”的行为，她告诉与会者，特朗普政府在双城地区的移民打击行动与“我们所热爱的美国”背道而驰。
凯姆担心这一政治时代的遗产是，暴力威胁“成为政治分歧的延伸”。
在越来越罕见的议员在公共场合接受选民提问的市政厅会议上爆发的争吵中，这种恐惧似乎难以避免。
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Trump 2.0 sees terrorism all over the place
Published Jan 29, 2026, 4:00 AM ET / CNN Politics
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The Trump administration is living in a state of perpetual terror, both foreign and domestic.
[Alex Pretti] and [Renee Good], the two people killed by federal agents in separate incidents in Minneapolis this month, were both labeled “domestic terrorists” by the likes of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and top White House aide Stephen Miller.
Video of both killings has [complicated the administration’s version] of events.
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But the idea that federal government officials view protest as domestic terrorism pervades President Donald Trump’s second term.
“We have a nice little database, and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist,” a masked agent tells an ICE observer in another video from this year, this one filmed in [Portland, Maine].
DHS tried to correct the agent with a statement to CNN: “There is no database of domestic terrorists run by DHS.”
That raises another question: Is there a database run by someone else?
‘Radical Left Terrorism’
The “terrorism” language was slightly different, but the message was exactly the same last September when Trump announced he would be dispatching federal resources to Portland, Oregon, to, as the official White House statement said, “Crush Violent Radical Left Terrorism…”
The move invited further protests in Portland, but courts ultimately rejected Trump’s plan to deploy the National Guard to Portland and other cities.
Anti-Tesla terrorism
Earlier in Trump’s term, it was [vandals who targeted Tesla dealerships] who were branded as domestic terrorists by the administration.
In each case, either Trump or his aides have suggested the “terrorists” are underwritten by an organized cabal, but they have never provided evidence.
Narco-terrorism
The administration has creatively used the word “terrorism” in foreign affairs as well.
Alleged drug boats are destroyed as part of Trump’s war on “[narco-terrorists].” The extrajudicial killing of people on the boats seeks to blend his national security duties with the justice system in a way that many experts doubt is legal.
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was snatched by US Special Forces in part to bring him into the US justice system. He and his wife now sit in jail in New York awaiting trial for, among other things, allegedly engaging in a [narco-terrorist conspiracy] with drug cartels, according to the State Department, which had a $50 million bounty for his capture.
Far from rejecting anyone with ties to Maduro, however, the US is now working with his former vice president, Delcy Rodríguez.
A now-ubiquitous accusation
Sen. Cory Booker, the New Jersey Democrat, told Secretary of State Marco Rubio [during a hearing] on Capitol Hill Tuesday that the administration is losing its credibility with the word terrorism.
“I don’t trust this administration and the way they use terms like ‘terrorist,’” Booker said. “I’ve seen them calling American citizens ‘domestic terrorists,’ who are people trying to peacefully protest.”
The Trump administration does continue to use the word in a way that will feel more conventional to most Americans. When Trump ordered air strikes in [Nigeria on Christmas Day], he said it was to protect Christians in that country from Islamic terrorists.
Diluting the term
Applying the “terror” term all over the map weakens it, according to Juliette Kayyem, a former DHS official and CNN senior national security analyst.
“They are using the term terrorist to basically define any group of people who criticize them,” she said of Trump’s administration.
There is a [specific definition] of terrorism in US law. It includes things that endanger life violate laws in order to “intimidate or coerce” the civilian population or government.
A legal definition, but also a social one
Even Todd Blanche, the No. 2 official in Trump’s Department of Justice, said the legal term does not seem to apply to someone like Pretti.
“I don’t think anybody thinks that they were comparing what happened on Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism,” Blanche said Monday on Fox News. “What we saw was a very violent altercation, and we — I am not going to prejudge the facts.”
In addition to the legal definition, the word is important socially and politically, Kayyem said.
“It is a way to mark a certain activity as immoral and illegitimate, and we want to reserve that for people who are real terrorists, who target civilian populations for violence or the threat of violence.”
If anyone who disagrees with the administration becomes a terrorist of some kind, that flies in the face of the First Amendment, which is supposed to protect freedom of speech and peaceable assembly.
There are clearly dangerous threats in the US
The top lawmaker in the Minnesota House, Democrat Melissa Hortman, was killed alongside her husband by a gunman last year. The conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus in Utah. Neither shooting has been attributed to an organized group, but both suggest an era of political violence.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Minneapolis-area Democrat who is a frequent target of conspiracy theories and insults by Trump — who has said she and other Somali Americans are “garbage” — had what is now believed to be [apple cider vinegar] sprayed on her at an event Tuesday night. Omar was unhurt in the incident.
At the event Tuesday, she too nodded at the concept of terror — referencing ICE agents who have become a major presence and sparked violence in her city. [According to CNN’s report], Omar condemned federal immigration agents’ “terrorizing” tactics and “reckless and lawless” actions, as she told attendees that the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities is antithetical to “the America we love.”
Kayyem fears a legacy of this political era is that the threat of violence “becomes an extension of political disagreement.”
It’s hard not to see that fear taking hold in shouting matches that break out at town halls held by the increasingly rare lawmakers who take questions in public from constituents in public.
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