President Trump Says He'll Consider Designating Antifa a Terrorist Organization. What Took Him So Long?

President Donald Trump said he would consider designating Antifa a 
terrorist organization after the radicalization of Charlie Kirk's 
assassin, who had references to "Bella Ciao," transgender identity, and 
"furry" culture written on his ammo. He made the comment in response to a 
reporter's question in the Oval Office on Monday evening. 

If the millions of young adults who have followed Kirk and his Turning 
Point USA efforts weren't transformed by his message before, they were 
positively red-pilled when they learned that Kirk's assassin was well-
versed in the Antifa canon—a mix of Marxist, nihilist, and cultural 
deconstructionist godless anarchism. 

President Trump, who has watched Antifa's antics since 2016, said in 
response to a question about designating Antifa a terrorist organization, 
"Well, yeah, it's something I would do. If I have support from the people 
back here [his cabinet] — I think we'd start with Pam, I think. ...But I 
would do that 100%."  Trump meant Pam Bondi, the attorney general, who 
would determine if there was legal predicate to go after Antifa. 


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?? BREAKING: President Trump SUPPORTS designating Antifa as a domestic 
terror organization

"I would do that 100%. Antifa is terrible. We have radical groups that got 
away with MURDER!"

Trump also says he has been talking to AG Bondi about bringing RICO 
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Oh, yeah, there's legal predicate in the court of public opinion, anyway.

Anyone who's spent any time looking into Antifa knows that the involvement 
of the trans communit and the reference to "Bella Ciao" are nods to 
Trantifa, Antifa, and communist adherents at large. 

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I've seen lots of chat by the left and bots online — now that China, 
Russia, and whatever other malefactors have entered the chat — that the 
1930s Italian communist song is somehow an homage to the political right. 
I'll need to take a break to laugh before I starting writing again.

The last time we saw "Bella Ciao" mentioned in public by Antifa was by one 
of the Pacific Northwest Antifa OGs, Willem van Spronsen, who invoked the 
song in the last Antifa operation of his life in 2019. He tried to bomb 
the Tacoma, Wash. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters. 
Security personnel at the facility responded with gunfire since even they 
didn't want their staff and inmates awaiting deportation to be evaporated 
into flames by van Spronsen's bomb. 

Van Spronsen wrote in his suicide wrote he left to his "comrades":  

I regret that I will miss the rest of the revolution.

Thank you for the honor of having me in your midst.

Giving me space to be useful, to feel that I was fulfilling my ideals, has 
been the spiritual pinnacle of my life.

Doing what I can to help defend my precious and wondrous people is an 
experience too rich to describe.

My trans comrades have transformed me, solidifying my conviction that we 
will be guided to a dreamed-of future by those most marginalized among us 
today. I have dreamed it so clearly that I have no regret for not seeing 
how it turns out. Thank you for bringing me so far along.

I am antifa. I stand with comrades around the world who act from the love 
of life in every permutation. Comrades who understand that freedom means 
real freedom for all and a life worth living.

Keep the faith!

All power to the people!

Bella ciao.

This isn't hard, folks. 

There's been an acceleration of violence by the left since at least 2014 
in Ferguson, which was supercharged by the Benjamin Crump and Reverend Al 
response to the 2012 self-defense death of Trayvon Martin. 

The Black Lives Matter corporation, breathed into life in 2012, was given 
additional oxygen in 2014, when Michael Brown's partner-in-crime, Dorian 
Johnson, lied about his friend's death at the hands of police officer 
Darren Wilson. 

After the "hands up, don't shoot" libel flame was lit, the organized left 
was flown in to to train and equip rioters, and Ferguson, Missouri, was 
torched. 

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the Very Moment He Was Shot?

Lisa Fithian doesn't work for free, you know. You've seen her work across 
the country—from Occupy and Ferguson to Portland, and especially during 
the torching of the President's Church in Washington, D.C. That was the 
three-day siege of the White House. You remember that one: President Trump 
and his family was forced into the White House bomb shelter in case Antifa 
and friends sacked the White House.

She was on the planning call before the January 6, 2021 "insurrection." It 
takes a village to create a riot. The movie "Capitol Punishment" features 
undercover video of Fithian involved on a secret call about prepping for 
January 6. 

After the rally, Searcy and Burgard began to see footage of police 
admitting rally-goers and protesters into the Capitol Building, video of 
Antifa provocateurs changing clothes between black bloc and MAGA clothes, 
and video of a notorious Leftist militant who trains activists in violent 
tactics and who worked with government workers to take over D.C. buildings 
beginning on Election Day. 

In the documentary, Searcy shows an organizing Zoom call in which 
professional protest provocateur, Lisa Fithian, urges her co-conspirators 
during a Zoom call to shut down the Capitol. She told them, “we are going 
to be in crisis but we want it to be one that we’re creating. Whoever’s 
got the guns can win. Let’s take over the buildings.” Her tactics look an 
awful lot like what happened on Jan. 6.

Before this, in 2016, my friend Michael Strickland, a citizen journalist 
who was consistently harassed by Antifa at the protest marches and events 
he covered, was rushed by a group of Antifa provocateurs in Portland. It 
was their second attempt to rush him on that July day at a BLM-related 
protest march. He pulled a gun to back them off, never firing a shot, but 
his defensive move spared him from physical harm. 

Later, he would be jailed for pulling his legal and licensed concealed 
carry gun. 

In 2019, Andy Ngo, a citizen journalist, was attacked in Portland by 
Antifa thugs who sent him to the hospital with brain damage. 

In 2020, Aaron Danielson, a part of the Portland area group "Patriot 
Prayer," a group that often held free speech events to draw out Antifa to 
prove they were totalitarian bigots (Mission Accomplished), was 
assassinated on the streets of Portland during Antifa's "Summer of Love." 

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Read that again: assassinated on the streets of Portland. 

And now another assassination—Charlie Kirk's— in the name of Antifa. 

Oh, yes, Antifa violence has increased. 

No one should be surprised. 

And Antifa shouldn't be surprised when we want them destroyed. 

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