Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting The Muslim Brotherhood

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order laying the groundwork for his administration to designate chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. The executive order directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to begin preparing to designate chapters of the organization in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt as Foreign ...

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President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order laying the groundwork for his administration to designate chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations.

The executive order directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to begin preparing to designate chapters of the organization in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Rubio and Bessent now have 30 days to submit a report on the designation of any Muslim Brotherhood chapters and 45 days to officially designate the chapters as terrorist organizations.

The Muslim Brotherhood, a group founded in Egypt in 1928, has been linked to violent groups across the Middle East, including Hamas.

“Its chapters in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt engage in or facilitate and support violence and destabilization campaigns that harm their own regions, United States citizens, and United States interests,” Trump wrote in the executive order. “A senior leader of the Egyptian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood, on October 7, 2023, called for violent attacks against United States partners and interests, and Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood leaders have long provided material support to the militant wing of Hamas.”

The executive order also noted that the Muslim Brotherhood’s military wing in Lebanon joined Hamas and Hezbollah in launching rockets into Israel in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks.

“Such activities threaten the security of American civilians in the Levant and other parts of the Middle East, as well as the safety and stability of our regional partners,” Trump wrote.

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According to the White House, the order’s “ultimate aim is to eliminate the designated chapters’ capabilities and operations, deprive them of resources, and end any threat such chapters pose to U.S. nationals and the national security of the United States.”

Trump previewed the executive order on Sunday, telling Just the News that the final documents were being drawn up and that the action “will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms.”

Republicans in the House and Senate have long pushed for the Muslim Brotherhood to be designated as a terrorist organization. Last week, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood, alongside the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as foreign terrorist organizations.