Posted on 09/17/2025 1:43:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As President Donald Trump threatens legal action against his adversaries, particularly after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he’s repeatedly talked about using one federal law: the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.
Trump wants to bring racketeering charges against left-wing groups he’s accused of promoting violence. Some influential Republicans agree with him and have been pushing to include rioting as one of the crimes that falls under the racketeering statute, a decades-old law once aimed at cracking down on organized crime.
Kirk’s death and the resulting calls by influential conservatives to crack down on the left using the federal government’s official powers has called new attention to that push. Trump and his aides have said publicly they plan to channel the mounting conservative anger over Kirk’s killing into efforts to take on the president’s political rivals, including potentially pursuing RICO charges and seeking to designate some liberal groups as domestic terrorist organizations.
Trump this week said he was discussing with Attorney General Pam Bondi using RICO to bring racketeering charges against left-wing groups. Last month, the president also called for a RICO investigation of a specific person: liberal billionaire George Soros, one of the nation’s biggest funders of Democratic causes and candidates.
Trump has provided no specific evidence of wrongdoing by Soros and there’s no evidence liberal groups had anything to do with Kirk’s death. The president either has not addressed or has downplayed attacks on Democratic politicians, notably not lowering flags to half-staff when Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in June.
He also suggested RICO charges could be brought against people protesting his recent appearance at a restaurant to promote his crime crackdown in the nation’s capital. “They should be put in jail,” he said.
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Go for it, Donald!
The Left used RICO laws against a pro-abortion organization that drove them into bankruptcy. Turnaround is fair play.
They used RICO against pro-lifers in the 1990’s - why not Antifa, etc?
You mean pro-life
They are the mob...the terrorist mob.
LOL! You mean the same RICO laws Fanny was using on Trump?
RICO.......Suave!
Gotta love how CNN makes it sound like Trump is misusing an old law to unfairly persecute Soros. I didn’t see that same argument when Biden’s DOJ was coordinating with state AG offices to invent laws to persecute Trump.
This country was better off with the mob than this. No way we’re ever getting legendary movies and shows about these freaks.
Sure we will. And like the movies about the mob, it will all be fiction.
Hollyweird? Nah.
Decades old! Instead of centuries old!
,,, right now is good.
“decades-old law”
Hahahaha
The Mob had some ethics.
A federal RICO conviction carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years for the RICO violation itself, but can be life imprisonment if the underlying predicate crime (the “racketeering activity”) carries a life sentence. In addition to prison time, a RICO conviction also requires the forfeiture of all property, businesses, and money gained from the criminal activity, as well as significant fines.
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a federal law enacted in 1970 to combat organized crime by targeting criminal enterprises. It allows for the prosecution of individuals who engage in a “pattern of racketeering activity” within an enterprise, which involves committing at least two predicate offenses from a list of crimes within a 10-year period. These are a wide range of illegal activities, including bribery, extortion, money laundering, drug trafficking, arson, and murder. The act of bribery, extortion, arson, and murder are all acts that have been identified with groups and also rioters no matter what the political affiliation. And in some cases, no affiliation at all, just rioting like gangs and other entities that are detrimental to society. It’s just the law, not the intent of what the crime is. If the people at state level had done their job there would have been no need to federalize the crime.
wy69
RICO these mfers. The DNC has been an interstate criminal op for 40 years.
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