Here is a quote from an article in The Intercept:
The Trump administration’s new official counterterrorism strategy outlines in broad terms who it views as terrorist threats and priority targets, ranging from anti-fascist activists to ISIS and so-called narco-terrorists. The line "We will find you, and we will kill you" appears in the memo.
Please do click that link just provided, if you'd like to verify the claim. The "we will kill you" promise appears in an official document, immediately above the distinctive signature of our current president.
If you'd like to read the article in The Intercept, try clicking here.
According to The Intercept, this official promise, made on behalf of all of the citizens of the United States, actually puts U.S. citizens "at risk." I, personally, think that's probably true. When told by someone that he or she is planning to kill you, the temptation is to kill the person who said that first. Note that the statement by our current president does use the word "we," thus promising, on behalf of all of us, that "we" will kill the persons identified.
I do agree that this statement puts U.S. citizens "at risk," but I want to raise a related but slightly different objection to the statement made by our current president. Since the statement, potentially, affects every U.S. citizen, many of whom travel widely in the world, and who are thus exposed to those who might like to kill them, I believe that any such statement (or promise) should have been made, officially, by the United States Congress, and signed by the president only then.
The president's role in our government, of course, is to serve as our "Chief Executive," which means that our president is assigned the job of carrying out and "executing" the directives enacted by the elected representatives who must first debate what makes sense, before issuing the orders that the "Chief Executive" is then supposed to put into actual effect.
The failure of our current president to understand this basic principle (and the apparent failure of a majority of members of the U.S. Congress to understand it,) not only puts U.S. citizens "at risk," it threatens what most like to call our "democracy."
Everybody is aware of this, I think, but it never hurts to reiterate the point, especially when what our current chief executive is doing puts all of us "at risk" of being murdered by those who believe that American citizens, in general, have sworn to hunt them down and kill them first.
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https://theintercept.com/2026/05/15/podcast-trump-counterterrorism-strategy/
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