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riversedge

(82,547 posts)
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:02 AM 11 hrs ago

Rubio expands plans for high-level meeting focused on 'far-left terrorism'

Source: abc news



Officials will lay the groundwork for "coordinated action," documents say.


By Shannon K. Kingston July 14, 2026, 4:33 AM


Secretary of State Marco Rubio is preparing to host delegations from more than 70 countries this week for a gathering focused on addressing what the Trump administration describes as the overlooked threat posed by "the resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism," according to a State Department official and internal documents reviewed exclusively by ABC News.

"For too long this threat has remained a blind spot in the international community's counterterrorism focus, underestimated and under-resourced, despite the danger it poses," a note shared with foreign governments describing the concept of the meeting reads.

It goes on to assert that law enforcement and counterterrorism experts have revealed a "clear trend" of "globally networked, politically-motivated terrorists -- particularly far-left terrorists" increasingly turning to "organized, deadly violence to advance their political objectives."


The meeting, which will take place in Washington on Thursday, will lay the foundation for "coordinated action" to counter international organizations that are "seeking to implement an extreme political vision through intimidation and coordinated campaigns of terror," the document states.



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Read more: https://abcnews.com/Politics/rubio-expands-plans-high-level-meeting-focused-left/story?id=134730067



Rubio is Trumps run to guy for everything it seems!!



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Rubio expands plans for high-level meeting focused on 'far-left terrorism' (Original Post) riversedge 11 hrs ago OP
He didn't do shit to fix right-wing terrorism so I guess he just gave up on that one. mdbl 11 hrs ago #1
This is such absolute horseshit. johnnyfins 11 hrs ago #2
Here's a Pro-tip for Marco: FakeNoose 11 hrs ago #3
Anything to divert our attention Puppyjive 11 hrs ago #4
Not only destroy careers, RazorbackExpat 10 hrs ago #8
How long do we think it will be until they try to claim being liberal/leftist is an act of terrorism? nt bbernardini 11 hrs ago #5
It's backfiring.................... Lovie777 10 hrs ago #6
Damn....he's gone full trump-cuck purr-rat beauty 10 hrs ago #7
Anyone know who is showing up to this farce? Ray Bruns 10 hrs ago #9
far left ? Nigrum Cattus 10 hrs ago #10
A Reichstag fire without the flames. hadEnuf 10 hrs ago #11
Don't they realize that antifa stands for anti-fascist? Guess they're pro-fascist. Vinca 10 hrs ago #12
Republican playbook 101 CapnSteve 10 hrs ago #13
WHAT 'far-left terrorism' ?? Must be invisible.... or they mean Jack Valentino 9 hrs ago #14
Lets be clear, he's not being "brainwashed by billionaires" or "turned into" a fatass pawn. THIS IS WHOI HE IS Cheezoholic 9 hrs ago #15
Good grief! ananda 9 hrs ago #16
That'll be received as well as the lectures on closing borders and restricting immigration that Trump admin tried to ChicagoTeamster 8 hrs ago #17
The people with vast amounts of money know their time to affect change slightlv 7 hrs ago #18
Republicans so badly want to believe there's a left-wing equivalent for all of the insanity in their party that it's Karasu 4 hrs ago #19
WHERE ARE THESE FAR-LEFT TERRIES? maxsolomon 1 hr ago #20

mdbl

(9,152 posts)
1. He didn't do shit to fix right-wing terrorism so I guess he just gave up on that one.
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:04 AM
11 hrs ago

Let's make up a boogey man to gaslight everyone with.

johnnyfins

(4,220 posts)
2. This is such absolute horseshit.
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:09 AM
11 hrs ago

Guess what Marco? You will be held accountable by the law for what you have done and what you have helped to do. Trying to create a giant "left" boogeyman, isn't going to help you. You have gone as far as you can go politically. You should have stayed a Senator. I'm sure you have said that to yourself many times over the last couple years.

FakeNoose

(43,409 posts)
3. Here's a Pro-tip for Marco:
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:13 AM
11 hrs ago

Hey Marco... there IS NO far-left terrorism.

Also there's no such thing as "anti-fa," unless you're referring to the entire Democratic Party because we're ALL against fascism of any kind. Most Americans fit that description, whether they vote or not.

Puppyjive

(1,025 posts)
4. Anything to divert our attention
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:15 AM
11 hrs ago

Trump will do whatever he can to divert our attention from the Epstein files and his relationship with Vladimir Putin. He will spend millions of taxpayer dollars to do this, and destroy careers along the way.

bbernardini

(10,031 posts)
5. How long do we think it will be until they try to claim being liberal/leftist is an act of terrorism? nt
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:16 AM
11 hrs ago

Lovie777

(24,754 posts)
6. It's backfiring....................
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:28 AM
10 hrs ago

the actual terrorists are the ones who blame others.

We the People see through that, Marco.

purr-rat beauty

(1,780 posts)
7. Damn....he's gone full trump-cuck
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:42 AM
10 hrs ago

So either he made some bank under the table to behave like this or the kompromat is too heavy for him not to acquiesce

Nigrum Cattus

(1,373 posts)
10. far left ?
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:48 AM
10 hrs ago

the billionaires have brain washed him
they don't want anyone to organize against A.I.
another scheme to "monitor" people who don't agree with them

hadEnuf

(3,701 posts)
11. A Reichstag fire without the flames.
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:54 AM
10 hrs ago

Setting up regular Americans to be persecuted. This is Hitleresque.

Vinca

(54,653 posts)
12. Don't they realize that antifa stands for anti-fascist? Guess they're pro-fascist.
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:07 AM
10 hrs ago

Let me guess. A main focus will be on implanting algae in public water displays and using mysterious methods to damage them without being seen.

CapnSteve

(452 posts)
13. Republican playbook 101
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:07 AM
10 hrs ago

1) Find a non-existent problem. (voter fraud, leftist terrorists, trans athletes,etc).

2) Attack that problem.

3) Distract from their own criminality, corruption, and incompetence.

Repeat.

Jack Valentino

(5,421 posts)
14. WHAT 'far-left terrorism' ?? Must be invisible.... or they mean
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:29 AM
9 hrs ago

the people protesting in the US because ICE is murdering people in the streets!

Cheezoholic

(4,232 posts)
15. Lets be clear, he's not being "brainwashed by billionaires" or "turned into" a fatass pawn. THIS IS WHOI HE IS
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:37 AM
9 hrs ago

Its who he has always been. Anything that is beyond his left ear is communism. He's nuts and a fascist. This is the closest he's going to get to real power and we're seeing who he really is come out. Imagine him as President, especially now knowing what he can get away with! No, he hasn't turned to the Dark Side, he's always lived there.

ananda

(35,973 posts)
16. Good grief!
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 11:44 AM
9 hrs ago

He and his party are so far right, that everything
else looks far left.

What an eejit.

ChicagoTeamster

(1,593 posts)
17. That'll be received as well as the lectures on closing borders and restricting immigration that Trump admin tried to
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 01:00 PM
8 hrs ago

push on Europe in their recent "diplomatic" visits. Has any country confirmed participants and dates yet?

Who would show up to such a meeting? Israel? BelaRus?

slightlv

(8,320 posts)
18. The people with vast amounts of money know their time to affect change
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 01:53 PM
7 hrs ago

to their advantage (now and into the future), is coming near to closing. The public, for the most part, has "wised up"... the far fringe Maga will always be theirs... I don't believe there's any hope for those people. There's something mentally, physically, or emotionally missing or deformed in them. But normal, everyday people, have seen the billionaire tech boys for what they are... monsters robbing them of money, air, water, and power in all it's forms.

These people had the grand idea of being the new Masters of the Universe. They were going to rule the world, and everyone would have to bow to them or die. There'd be no other choice. I think of Hitler with even grander visions of megalomania. Trump and Putin were their entry cards into the world of Dominion. But both of those men are dying (albeit too slowly for me!). When the change comes, the pendulum is going to swing just wildly to the left as it did to the right; and they know it. That's why some of them are running for parts known and unknown. It seems like the world always flirts with the idea of evil being supreme; but so far, it's always come back to its senses. I dearly hope it does so once again. Let them go back to their idea of a city floating on the seas, beholding to no country or no man. Didn't work for them the first time... maybe they could make it work a second time around? Or how 'bout that colony of Mars that Musk wants to set up? Let them go be the guides to the "better world" they believe they offer humanity. Humanity has already rejected large parts of it. They're just too obstinate to see it...

Karasu

(2,481 posts)
19. Republicans so badly want to believe there's a left-wing equivalent for all of the insanity in their party that it's
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 05:00 PM
4 hrs ago

pathetic.

Hell, the reason they're going "transnational" with this bullshit is because they know damn well there's no real domestic far-left terrorism in a country where the Overton window skews so stupidly far to the right, and also because the regime has long been attempting to push fascism internationally and interfere with EU politics.

This is their petulant, childish payback for all the investigations into right-wing terrorism under past administrations, because THAT is actually a major, common, pervasive threat both in the US and around the world.

maxsolomon

(39,577 posts)
20. WHERE ARE THESE FAR-LEFT TERRIES?
Tue Jul 14, 2026, 07:36 PM
1 hr ago

The "Antifa" idiots in Texas who just got put in prison for the rest of their lives?

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