Trump Says He Wants to Designate Antifa, Other ‘Radical Groups’ as Domestic Terrorist Organizations: ‘They Got Away With Murder’
President Donald Trump revealed on Monday that he was considering designating Antifa and other far-left “radical groups” as domestic terror organizations following the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Asked, “Do you plan on designating Antifa finally a domestic terror organization?” the president responded, “Well, it’s something I would do, yeah. If I have support from the people back here– I think we’d start with Pam, I think. But I would– if you give me– I would do that 100%, and others also, by the way. But Antifa is terrible.”
Trump then added that there were “other groups” he would also consider designating as domestic terror organizations, remarking, “They have some pretty radical groups and they got away with murder.”
“Also, I’ve been speaking to the attorney general about bringing RICO against some of the people that you’ve been reading about that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation,” he concluded. “These aren’t protests, these are crimes what they’re doing.”
Trump received renewed calls to go after Antifa – which has a lengthy history of engaging in violence – following the assassination of Kirk at Utah Valley University last week.
While there is not yet any indication that the suspect in the shooting – Tyler Robinson – had ties to Antifa, he did etch several anti-fascist slogans onto his bullet casings, including, “Hey fascist! Catch!” along with the lyrics to the Italian anti-fascist song Bella Ciao.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox told the Wall Street Journal last week that Robinson had been “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology” before the shooting.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller vowed to “identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy” any “left-wing organizations that are promoting violence” and the “vast domestic terror movement” on Monday.
Vice President JD Vance also promised to “go after the NGO network that foments, facilitates, and engages in violence,” declaring, “Violence is not okay in our system, and we want to make it less likely it happens.”
Watch above via the White House.