Attorney General Pam Bondi Says Antifa ‘No Different Than MS-13 or Any Gang’
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday that Antifa was “no different than MS-13 or any gang out there,” weeks after the far-left group was designated a domestic terrorist organization.
“They’re organized and someone is funding it,” said Bondi during a discussion about Antifa on Fox News’ Hannity. “We’re going to get to the funding of Antifa, we’re going to get to the root of Antifa, and we are going to find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country. Talk to all the influencers who have been threatened and beat up and their lives threatened from Antifa members. It’s going to stop under Donald Trump.”
She continued, “It’s organized crime. They are completely organized. They’re at all of these events, they’re encouraging violence, they’re calling everyone fascist, but it’s more than that. It’s hurting the American people. They’re no different than MS-13 or any gang out there.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization last month, just weeks after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University.
“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,” wrote Trump in his executive order:
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.
This month, journalist Katie Daviscourt appeared on Fox News with a black eye after she was attacked in Portland by a masked assailant she described as an “Antifa-affiliated protester.”
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