President Trump announced on Wednesday night that he is officially designating Antifa as a “major terrorist organization.”
He penned, “I 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,” the 47th president added.
The announcement followed Trump’s earlier comments this week signaling his intent to move forward with the designation. “It’s something I would do, yeah.”
“I would do that 100 percent. Antifa is terrible. Also, I’ve been speaking to the attorney general about bringing RICO against some of the people…who have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation.”
“These aren’t protests, these are crimes what they’re doing,” he stated, as previously covered by Resist the Mainstream.
The declaration comes in the wake of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was killed on Sept. 10.
Authorities said Tyler Robinson, 22, from Utah, carried out the killing and now faces capital murder charges.
President Trump directly tied the killing to radical left-wing extremism, saying Robinson appeared to have been “radicalized on the internet,” which may have