As part of his crackdown on left-wing terrorism, President Trump is directing the Justice Department to investigate liberal nonprofits that fund political violence, with Trump naming megadonor George Soros as a potential culprit.

“We’re going to get out there, and we’re going to do a pretty big number on those people,” Trump said from the Oval Office.

The push comes after the September 10 assassination of Charlie Kirk by a left-wing shooter, which was followed by a targeted attack this week at an ICE facility by a suspect with apparent anti-ICE views.

Targeting the left

In the days since Kirk's murder, Trump has designated the far-left group Antifa as a domestic terror organization, while his administration scrutinizes liberal donor networks suspected of funding violent actors.

A memo that Trump signed Thursday directs officials to target "domestic terrorism and organized political violence being perpetrated by radical, politically motivated groups."

Trump named Soros and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as possible targets for prosecutors.

"Could be a lot of people," he said. "If they are funding these things they're going to have some problems, because they're agitators and they're anarchists."

Soros has long been on the radar of the global right, owing to his role in bankrolling left-wing causes. In the U.S., he has been a prolific backer of Democratic politicians, including local prosecutors with woke, soft-on-crime agendas.

Soros under scrutiny

The New York Times reports that the DOJ is probing Soros' Open Society Foundations for crimes like arson, wire fraud, racketeering or material support for terrorism.

The DOJ's directive cited a report from the Capital Research Center, a conservative watchdog, which found that Soros has contributed over $80 million to groups engaged in "terrorism or extremist violence” since 2016.

Soros' Open Society Foundations has dismissed Trump's claims.

“Our activities are peaceful and lawful, and our grantees are expected to abide by human rights principles and comply with the law," the group said. "These accusations are politically motivated attacks on civil society, meant to silence speech the administration disagrees with and undermine the First Amendment right to free speech. When power is abused to take away the rights of some people, it puts the rights of all people at risk."

While political violence occurs on both sides, left-wing terrorism has outpaced violence on the right, according to a recent study from the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a bi-partisan think tank.

Even The Atlantic, a liberal, anti-Trump magazine, ran a headline recently that acknowledged left-wing terrorism is a growing problem.