{"id":17400,"date":"2025-09-18T19:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17400"},"modified":"2025-09-18T20:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:58:15","slug":"trump-designates-antifa-a-major-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17400","title":{"rendered":"Trump Designates Antifa a \u2018Major Terrorist Organization\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/trump-designates-antifa-a-major-terrorist-organization-2\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/trump-designates-antifa-a-major-terrorist-organization-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/trump-case-dismissed.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Frederick Walls Trump Holds Cash Special Counsel Jack Smith Iowa Victory for Trump Remove Trump From Primary Ballot\" title=\"Underly\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump is designating Antifa a \u201cmajor terrorist organization,\u201d he announced in a social media post Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_c0765f8b-68d0-4ac0-9f13-3f24d7d83379.html\">The Center Square asked the president Monday<\/a> afternoon if he would be designating the left-wing group a domestic error group following a spate of political violence against conservatives and Republicans, including the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices,\u201d the president posted.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the president told The Center Square that he \u201c100%\u201d supported designating the group a domestic terror organization.<\/p>\n<p>Consistent with his latest social media post, the president said he would consider designating other groups, but wouldn\u2019t indicate others by name. He said he&#8217;s talked with Attorney General Pam Bondi about bringing federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) charges against some of these organizations and their donors.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2020, the Department of Justice \u201cformally labeled Antifa violence as domestic terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly,\u201d according to a DOJ statement.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/trump-designates-antifa-a-major-terrorist-organization-2\/ President Donald Trump is designating Antifa a \u201cmajor terrorist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17402,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400\/revisions\/17402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}