President Trump signed an executive order designating the Antifa movement a "domestic terrorist organization" in the wake of Charlie Kirk's political assassination nearly two weeks ago.
The White House has signaled its intent to designate Antifa as a terror organization over the past week (read here & here), but now it's official as reported by The White House's Rapid Response X account:
Here is the text of the order:
Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.
Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists. Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members. Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech. This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.
Sec. 2. Designation as a Domestic Terrorist Organization.
Because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization." All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations --especially those involving terrorist actions -- conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa provided material support, including necessary investigatory and prosecutorial actions against those who fund such operations.
This is a move that is not merely symbolic but also puts other radical leftist groups, including dark-money-funded NGOs, on heightened alert. The federal government's new strategy aims to "disrupt and dismantle"the command-and-control nodes of radical leftist groups seeking to subvert the nation in an attempted Marxist takeover.
The designation doesn't create new criminal charges against Antifa, but it allows the FBI, DHS, and DOJ to ramp up investigations under terrorism statutes and potentially deploy Patriot Act surveillance against the decentralized terror org. As a result, Antifa, which relies on platforms like Signal and Discord, may be forced to reconfigure its communication networks when planning future attacks, given the increased federal monitoring.
What this designation also means is that if Antifa commits a violent crime that meets the federal definition of terrorism (using force to influence government or intimidate a population), prosecutors can apply longer sentencing. This will act as a deterrent for Antifa revolutionaries who have been able to get away with violent crimes for years. This designation will also shift more funding, surveillance tools, and inter-agency cooperation toward it, such as a much-needed NGO-busting task force to counter radical leftist groups (or the deep state).
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