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CV NEWS FEED // In a video clip that has gone viral on X (formerly Twitter), President-elect Donald Trump vowed to make ending the targeting of parents who express dissenting views at school board meetings a priority of his incoming second administration.
“They called us domestic terrorists, President Trump, for speaking out at school board meetings defending our children,” Moms for Liberty co-foundress Tiffany Justice told the president-elect in the video. She was referring to the outgoing Biden-Harris administration.
Trump replied: “Well, we’ll fix that on the first day, I promise you.”
Following a period of prolonged raucous applause, Trump added, “You are not a domestic terrorist, or a terrorist.”
“We do have terrorists coming in and they’re coming in by the thousands but you’re not one, Tiffany,” he told Justice. “We’ll get that changed.”
On Saturday night, Justice wrote on X: “We will do anything we can to help [Trump] execute on this promise. Parents and strong families are the bedrock on which we must rebuild this nation.”
Earlier in the video clip, Trump stated that he is “for parental rights all the way” and does not “even understand the concept of not being” supportive of parents’ rights.
Trump stressed that some school boards “have become like dictatorships, and the parents are screaming for the life of their child, a lot having to do with ‘transgender.’”
“The parents truly love the kids, okay,” Trump said. “Some of the people on the boards, I think they don’t like the kids very much what they’re doing.”
He indicated that with the Biden-Harris administration, “it’s like the FBI goes after the people, that it’s like some kind of an insurrection.”
>> TRUMP WINS PARENT VOTE BY A WIDE MARGIN <<
Back in October 2021, CatholicVote reported that Biden-Harris Attorney General Merrick Garland “refused to rescind his controversial memo calling on the FBI and DOJ to investigate concerned parents who attend school board meetings.”
CatholicVote added that, during the previous month,
the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the attorney general’s office complaining about the groundswell of parental concern about controversial public school policies. The letter suggested that the recent activities of parents could be classified as a form of “domestic terrorism,” and asked for the government to take action against them under the Patriot Act.
Readers can find CatholicVote’s exclusive LOOPcast interview with Justice from earlier this year here.
