According to Kirk Mord, Trump says that he describes Antifa as a “terrorist organization”
Washington, United State US President Donald Trump, said that he would describe “Antifa” short term for “anti-fascist”, with which diffuse left groups were described-as “a large terrorist organization”, a step that threatened during his first term.
For years, Trump has blamed Antifa for various injustice to block Joe Biden’s presidential election, from violence against the police to the US Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021.
“I will also strongly recommend that these financing -antifa are thoroughly examined in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices,” Trump wrote on Wednesday about the social truth and called Antifa “a sick, dangerous, radical disaster”. “
Antifa has no head or national organization and seems to consist of “independent, radical, like -minded groups and individuals”, an analysis of the congress research service found in 2020.
The White House did not immediately provide details about how the label could be used.
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While the federal law enforcement includes the combating of domestic terrorism within the framework of its area of responsibility, the United States does not have a list of the named “domestic terrorist organizations”.
US President Donald Trump speaks on September 15, 2025 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump threatened the move on Monday after the high -ranking official of the White House, Stephen Miller, had sworn that the government would reduce a suspected “huge domestic terrorist movement”, which he was connected with the murder of the right -wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Ideology, no movement
Critics of the Republican President warn that such a step could be used as an excuse to end dissent and to aim at political rivals.
While Kirk was a loud conservative, the United States has recorded violence against members of both political parties in recent years, which was a strong increase in polarization and simple access to firearms.
Antifa, whose name in Germany of the 1930s has roots in socialist groups, which against Hitler Ausprache-Hat a success story in confronting right-wing groups and dealing with civil disobedience.
Its members, who are often exclusively dressed in black, protest against racism, right -wing extremist values and what they regard as fascism and say that violent tactics are sometimes justified as self -defense.
While Trump’s first inauguration in January 2017, numerous black -clad, masked Antifa and other demonstrators of windows and burned windows and burned a car in Washington.
Protesting left wings, some connected to Antifa, organize a counter -protest against right -wing demonstrators who take part in a political rally in New York City on July 25, 2021. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images North America / Getty Images about AFP)
Antifa was later involved in counter -protests on racist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In June 2020, Trump said that he would officially call Antifa as “terrorists” at the same level as Al-Qaida and Islamic State.
In a hearing of the congress, however, the FBI director Chris Wray replied that Antifa was “a movement or an ideology” in contrast to a group.
Antifa is not one of the 95 “proven foreign terrorist organizations”, which are listed on Wednesday on the website of the Foreign Ministry.
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