Amid protests, Trump says he will designate Antifa as terrorist organization

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President Donald Trump said the U.S. government will designate Antifa as a terrorist organization, a move that legal experts say would be hard to execute

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“The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly,” Barr said in a statement on Sunday following the president’s tweet. Trump’s tweet Sunday is not the first time the president has described Antifa as a terrorist group. Other conservative politicians, such as Texas Senator Ted Cruz, have made similar statements.

 

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And then he scurried back to his hidey hole

In fact, the terrorist was Donald Trump

Of course, the fascist in the White House and those in corporate and financial power in the US would want to classify anti-fascists as terrorists in order to protect themselves and their totalitarian hold on power and control of the populace.

The United States dropped two bombs on Japan in the name of anti-fascism. If anti-fascism is terrorism, our country is culpable.

Trump need to label himself a Terrorist!!!

🤦‍♂️

What the f is artifacts?

More nonsense from the idiot in the WH. Time to remove him

More proof against ANTIFA than for it.

I am anti-fascist

Who exactly is Antifa. It’s not like they have a membership list.

Legal experts my ass

Maybe all this wouldn’t happen if we didn’t kill black people? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Says you

Typical response avoid the subject and distract through total bullshit at everything

it should be the MAGA cos it's 100% kkk white supremacist headed br donald j trump

The White House is now gone to the Black House

This mentality 😢

What an ugly government, totally trampling on people's freedom, democracy and life

realDonaldTrump SolomonYue benedictrogers HawleyMO marcorubio lukedepulford MarshaBlackburn as seems CCPChina is backing AntifaTerrorist, does it mean that US also designate CCPChina as terrorists as well?

Hmm,Is that the US government nazi?

so if anti-fascist is terrorism, then fascist is...

He is looser all around

45 and his entire administration should be designated as a terrorist organization. Enough

Nobody knows terrorist organization than Trump 👐🏼👐🏼👐🏼

The Antifa has weapons of mass destruction. Just like Gop did in Iraq.

Looser

A ridiculous move that will legitimize, in their minds, the extremists; undermine the 1st Amendment rights of moderates and increase authoritarianism in the US. There are enough laws on the books to prosecute AntiFa extremists who commit violence as the common thugs they are.

25th Amendment execute now.

FEDERALIZE THE NATIONAL GUARD.

This CriminalinChief, NutJobInChief, aspires to be a fascist despot. WeNeedAPresident. DumpTrumpDayNov3 or sooner.

Great diversion, right? trump 🖕🏾antifa

As ridiculous as his wig and orange makeup, he and the Republican Party are the biggest terrorists in this world.

Human rights organization should step in, investigate and strongly criticize this anti-humanity move.

That ok, we've already labeled his cult an ignorant organization

Except he won't.

They are Stalinism, pure devil

Proceeding against 'Antifa' King Don the John could declare Twikker to be nothing but an Antifa front and therefore a terrorist corporation. Wheeeeee! Think this sounds unlikely?

Especially since there is no organization as such. Makes it super hard.

Mission Impossible✌️

Any action against a government or a country can be defined as terrorism. “The systematic use of terror... the use of violent acts to frighten the people... to achieve a political goal...”(google)

Finally, long overdue Trump 2020🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

He won’t do it legally. He just said that so his followers would see them as terrorists

Very overdue but I see why he waited. A significant minority of the public is brainwashed into thinking beating your political opponents in the street for not thinking like them is opposing fascism.

This is off topic tactics: Can Trump try to stay on the main topic, Minneapolis PoliceBrutality and GeorgeFloydMurder protests rather than wander away from the topic, designating Antifa as terrorist organization?

A full scale effort has to be made to bring the instigators of violence and destruction to justice. These events have exposed the weakness of many governors and local officials who have failed to control their regions, especially the Democrats. November can't come soon enough.

Is he tweeting from the basement again ? Can someone cut off his internet...

I’ve always said that the best way to deal with internal unrest is to declare them terrorists. Unless they’re carrying AR-15 rifles & chanting the presidents name... Your terrorist status depends very much on your Trump status protests2020

Queen ANTIFA calls for UNITY

This matter may lead to great injustice to the opponents because they will be taken as they are from that organization that nothing to prove to its members that they are from this Organization other than demonstrations

Someone should tell Trump that the KKK isn't yet listed as a terrorist organization even though they've killed thousands of Americans while Antifa has killed exactly noone. I'm sure when he learns of this he will get right on that because he's so not a racist.

The real terrorist lives in the WH! TrumIsAnIdiot

' TRUTH ALWAYS COMES TO LIGHT '.....SAID LORD SWAMI VIVEKANANDA JI

The problem is from a legal and practical point of view at the same time because there is no organization with a headquarters called antifa but it appears during the demonstrations only and disappears years and returns again

His new name. Antifa

No mention of declaring white supremacists groups as terrorists. Folks can see through this. Your trying to use this tragedy to take out an enemy of the right. Your not being just. The reason for these protests are actions like this one.

Do same for kkk! And other white nationalist GRPs!!!

No surprise that the Moron-in-Chief is too stupid to know that 'antifa' is not an organization. It's a belief. There's nothing to classify. And, anyway, only a fascist would label anti-fascists enemies of the state. Also no surprise.

That's the left defending their own

Hey realDonaldTrump, if you're anti-anti-fascist, what does the make you?

His whole presidency has been hard.... sit back and watch! Assholes!

Legal experts..... don’t have to enforce it. Just the DOJ and FBI with full support from the USA. They are not protesting. They have an agenda. Burn it down. Antifa is dangerous.

It’s because he’s scarred of them.

Not at all.

Antifa is just another attempt by Trump to change the conversation. He’s unable to speak about what’s actually happening in the country.

Translation: Encouraging Violence !! To the great American people as they struggle and affirm their historical struggle extending against discrimination and making the world more free and rights .. You are the beloved of God and blessed are you

Won't it be the same as designating a certain group as a gang?

Then anyone he considers an enemy will be deemed antifa

Doesn’t matter. They’ll treat them as the domestic terrorists they are

Can't wait till Biden locks up Trump.

As if that’s the biggest problem we have now. 🙄 This guy is so out of touch as a leader.

A fascist declaring an anti-fascist group terrorists, makes sense

Outlaw anti fascists. Does that mean the federal government are fascist?

Nazis supremacists and kkk Write the script for trump to say A puppet for scapegoating, we've seen this before A hitler in the White House Shatters our core Unite the right equals unite the white The boogie man is here It’s name is MAGA and it doesn’t care

Will he also be doing this for the KKK and white supremacist groups?

ANTIFA isn't an organization. ANTIFA has NEVER killed a single person. ANTIFA simply means 'anti-fascism,' it's a fairly small, highly decentralized movement. What Trump is trying to do is label anyone who speaks out against him a terrorist, which is what all dictators do.

Hard to execute. Exactly...now he can call Joe Bidden antifa, any dem, the dog in the street...already seeing it used as label for 'anti-trump' online. This ain't funny. Propaganda move just like that of any other tin-horn dictator thug in history. Yes, Germany in the 30s.

The biggest issue with this is that it doesn't tackle the actual problem...

Everyone should be against fascism

And yet white supremacists aren't.....says it all

Hopefully it goes through, they’re actual fascists. The irony in that group of morons is unreal.

Poor choice of words; “difficult to enforce”

KKK is it a terroristic organization ?

will someone please take the bleach cabinet key away from him.. he's more embarrassing than ours BorisJohnson and that's a toughy!

He is following the footsteps of his favorite dictator.

Not hard; not possible. Because there is no Antifa. So, if I, a normal person stand against Facism, like my grandparents did in WW2, I'm part of a Terrorist organization. You see what he's trying to do? Where are you Republicans? This isn't about power.

Because they are.

Soros backed agenda

What does it stand for anyone?

Not possible. Has to be a foreign group. He’s just a moron that doesn’t understand the law.

More asinine dog whistling from the racist in the cellar. VoteHimOut

He will have to leave his hiding hole to get it done. No snacks in the bunker mr president.

So basically anyone who protests against this fascist government is a 'member of ANTIFA' (which is a movement, not a group) and could be charged with terrorism? I see Bill Barr behind this one.

Hope he gets it done, they are the worst

are you joking?

When trump comes out of hiding he will do what he always does Blame everyone else, but probably Obama and play the victim... ad infinitum Führerbunker TrumpisaCoward

Trump = 🤡

realDonaldTrump how about the KKK and various other White Supremacy groups as well?

Declaring Anti Fashist as a terrorist organisation makes him a fashist right?

Posprzątane to amerykańskie łajdactwo

Will he sign the document in the bunker or does he have the courage to come upstairs? :)

this headline needs work.

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