Trump designates Antifa as a 'MAJOR' terrorist organization — and can likely make the label stick this time

Antifa is a decentralized anarcho-communist militant group that has long threatened lives and property in the United States as well as in Europe. It inherited its name, violent reflexes, and much of its symbology from Antifaschistische Aktion, the paramilitary wing of the Communist Party of Germany in the 1930s.

Amid the Black Lives Matter riots and just 20 days prior to a Trump supporter's murder by an Antifa thug, former Attorney General Bill Barr told Blaze Media co-founder Mark Levin that Antifa is "a revolutionary group that is interested in some form of socialism, communism. They're essentially Bolsheviks. Their tactics are fascistic."

'Expect a lot of liberal and left-wing media propaganda the next few days about Antifa.'

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination by a coward whose ammunition was reportedly engraved with Antifa slogans, President Donald Trump signaled a renewed desire to bring the weight of the American republic down on the violent leftist group.

Trump went the distance on Wednesday evening, announcing that he is 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," added Trump. "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

The FBI has in recent years declined to designate Antifa or any other organization a "domestic terrorist organization," partly in fear of infringing on First Amendment-protected speech. This unwillingness on the part of the FBI helped frustrate Trump's effort to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization during his first term.

There is, however, more than one way to skin a cat.

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While various Republican lawmakers have unsuccessfully attempted in recent years to create an official domestic terrorism organization list and put Antifa on it, Secretary of State Marco Rubio can, with relative ease, designate the group as a foreign terrorist organization under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Kyle Shideler, a senior analyst at the Center for Security Policy, told "Blaze News: The Mandate" on Monday that an optimal approach would be to identify a number of foreign Antifa groups, tie them back to an international Antifa network such as the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund, "then you go after U.S.-based groups that are also tied to that international network, and so you build a series of designations that way."

"Now you could argue, and I think it would be legitimate, for a single terrorism designation against Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization," said Shideler. "If you try to designate Antifa just as a single movement, what I suspect you'll find is that the bureaucrats will say, 'We don't know what that is. That's not a thing that exists.'"

Andy Ngo, the journalist who was savagely attacked by Antifa thugs at a Portland, Oregon, protest in May 2019, noted after Trump made his announcement on Wednesday, "Expect a lot of liberal and left-wing media propaganda the next few days about Antifa. They will say the movement doesn't organize into groups and that those groups are peaceful, racial justice activists simply opposed to fascism.

"Don't let them get away with lying," added Ngo.

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Trump ready again to label Antifa as terrorists: 'I would do that 100%'

President Donald Trump signaled on Monday that Antifa militants might soon find themselves designated as domestic terrorists.

When asked about such a designation in the wake of his friend Charlie Kirk's assassination by a coward whose ammunition was reportedly engraved with Antifa slogans, the president said, "It's something I would do, yeah."

"I would do that 100% — and others also, by the way," continued Trump. "But Antifa is terrible."

Trump indicated that Attorney General Pam Bondi would likely need to get the ball rolling on the designation and noted that they have been discussing possibly bringing racketeering charges against liberal groups that back similar stripes of leftist extremists.

Blaze News has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller made clear in his Monday conversation with Vice President JD Vance on "The Charlie Kirk Show" that "we are going to channel all of the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks."

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"We are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people," added Miller.

'You fight them with guns so you don’t have to fight them with tanks.'

While Democrats have downplayed Antifa violence and in some cases even denied the group's existence, the president has long understood the real threat posed by the largely decentralized yet deadly revolutionary anarcho-communist group.

After all, they haven't exactly hidden themselves or their intentions.

A Baltimore Antifa militant provided a good insight into the radicals' thinking when he told historian Mark Bray, the author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," that when it comes to fighting so-called fascists, which appears to be a catch-all term for individuals standing in communists' way, "You fight them by writing letters and making phone calls so you don’t have to fight them with fists. You fight them with fists so you don’t have to fight them with knives. You fight them with knives so you don’t have to fight them with guns. You fight them with guns so you don’t have to fight them with tanks."

Evidently, Antifa militants have decided to skip letters and phone calls.

Amid the bloody 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, which inflicted billions of dollars in damage, left thousands of police injured, and claimed the lives of at least 25 Americans, Trump stated, "The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization."

'Now you could argue, and I think it would legitimate, for a single terrorism designation against Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization.'

Then-Attorney General Bill Barr noted, "The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly."

While the State Department has been granted the authority under the law to designate foreign groups as terrorist organizations, America does not similarly have an overarching domestic terrorism statute. As a result, the government tends to investigate and prosecute acts of domestic terrorism on an individual basis.

Various Republican lawmakers have unsuccessfully attempted in recent years to create an official domestic terrorism organization list — and to put Antifa on it.

Kyle Shideler, a senior analyst at the Center for Security Policy, told "Blaze News: The Mandate" on Monday that the Trump administration should instead "induct a number of designations against Antifa-linked groups, primarily in Europe but across the world."

"Now you could argue, and I think it would be legitimate, for a single terrorism designation against Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization," continued Shideler. "If you try to designate Antifa just as a single movement, what I suspect you'll find is that the bureaucrats will say, 'We don't know what that is. That's not a thing that exists.'"

Shideler suggested an optimal approach would be to find a number of foreign Antifa groups, tie them back to an international Antifa network such as the the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund, "then you go after U.S.-based groups that are also tied to that international network, and so you build a series of designations that way."

The Trump White House appears keen on making sure that Antifa militants are held accountable this time around.

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Who is funding Zohran Mamdani?

If government-funded grocery stores didn’t tip you off that something was off about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, some recent findings about his past should do the trick.

Mamdani is currently in a very comfortable lead and according to the polls will likely win NYC’s mayoral race, but a recent report claimed that the beloved socialist is tied to the man who funded and staged the anti-ICE riots.

“The anti-ICE riots that weren’t organic. They weren’t grassroots. They weren’t by accident. They weren’t a coalition of outraged individuals who all gathered together to voice their grievances against the government. No, no. They were paid. They were staged. They were orchestrated,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler explains.

The man in question behind these anti-ICE riots is Neville Roy Singham, a billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

“Now remember, American citizens don’t get to just live in China the way that we in America allow foreigners to live in our country. In order to live more than a visit to China, that requires special permission from the Chinese Communist Party, which evidently was obtained by Roy Singham, who lives there with his wife,” Wheeler says.

His wife, Jodie Evans, is the founder of the anti-war organization Code Pink.

“You know those angry naked feminists that march around? That’s Jodie Evans’ organization,” she says. “Roy Singham is the man behind the violent riots that we have seen in recent years in the United States of America. Roy Singham funds pro-Hamas groups on college campuses.”

When Zohran Mamdani was in college, he started a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which Wheeler says “in and of itself is association with Roy Singham,” but it “just touches the surface.”

On July 12, 2025, the New York Post published an exclusive report on a woman associated with Mamdani’s campaign.

“This report received a fraction of the attention it deserved given what a bombshell revelation it includes,” Wheeler says.

The report claims that the niece of Roy Singham spearheaded the Jews for Zohran Mamdani campaign in order to give the “Israel-bashing candidate” cover from anti-Semitism accusations and win Jewish voters.

Jews for Zohran Mamdani is also working with city comptroller Brad Lander and Rep. Jerry Nadler to persuade more Jews, such as Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Dan Goldman, to back Mamdani for mayor.

“Zohran Mamdani is not just the front-runner, he’s the presumptive winner,” Wheeler says. “He might soon be mayor of the biggest city in the United States, but his rise to prominence was not organic, wasn’t grassroots.”

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China's new digital ID system is for your own privacy and safety

China's state-run digital identification system will protect internet users from online companies, fraudsters, and criminals that wish to access their information. Instead, it will give it all to the government.

China has already implemented a "real-name registration" system for the better part of a decade that allows companies to know exactly who is shopping, playing video games, or commenting on their platforms.

Now, the communist government is looking to completely invert that system and is claiming it wants to give the power of privacy back to the citizen.

'Truly feel "security is within reach" while enjoying convenience.'

The National Online Identity Authentication app is to "protect the information security of citizens," the government says, and what better way to do that than hand over all of one's data to the CCP in one convenient place.

In order to apply for the unique internet identification number — essentially a username made up of letters and numbers — Chinese nationals will need to provide a trove of documents.

According to the Library of Congress, this includes resident ID cards, passport (if residing overseas), travel passes, and/or permanent resident ID cards for foreigners. The Washington Post reported that registration also includes a face scan.

In exchange, the users will get their own login credentials and a "network identity authentication certificate that carries the network number and non-clear-text identity information of a natural person."

Chinese companies will be forced to comply too.

The Chinese government explained that while the new online ID remains voluntary, any internet service provider or website may not request real user information (unless required by law) from those using the government-issued credentials.

Service providers must also ensure that users who use the authentication method have the same level of access to services as those who use their real names.

Therefore, when shopping online or visiting social media sites, companies will simply see a digital ID, making the user effectively anonymous to the online world, except for government assets.

China's state-run news agency, Xinhua, described the new program as a "protective shield" that allows the masses to "truly feel 'security is within reach' while enjoying convenience."

The Cyberspace Administration of China added that the ID system helps to "support the healthy and orderly development of the digital economy."

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China's "Great Firewall" already filters internet traffic coming into the country while simultaneously blocking certain content — such as Western social media sites, for example — from its populace.

According to Newsweek, a 2017 cybersecurity law required Chinese internet users to use their real names in order to access certain digital services, like e-commerce sites and video sharing platforms.

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LEFTIST HYPOCRISY: Media is OBSESSED with Sergio Gor’s birth country and NOT Mamdani's

In a blatant show of hypocrisy, the left-leaning media has launched a vicious smear campaign against loyal Trump adviser Sergio Gor.

The media is questioning his security clearance with unverified claims about his Soviet Uzbekistan roots and has falsely branded him a “Russian spy.”

Meanwhile, the same media outlets shield extremist Zohran Mamdani, who was born in Kampala, Uganda, from criticism — despite the destruction his radical socialist policies could bring to New York and the rest of the country.

“There’s no allegation that [Gor] has Marxist or communist tendencies or beliefs, or that he pushes pro-Russia policy, or any of that. It’s just a Soviet smear of this guy,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” says, adding that it's not just the media’s protection of Zohran Mamdani that reveals the hypocrisy.

“The same people who had zero problems with a member of Congress sleeping with a Chinese spy for two years,” he says. “They had no problem electing a man who attended a church where the pastor condemned America every week.”

“They couldn’t care less about the lead candidate for mayor of New York City, who’s an avowed socialist and Islamist,” he continues.

“None of that matters. But this guy who advises Donald Trump, he was born in Uzbekistan,” he adds.

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Denaturalize And Deport Zohran Mamdani For Immigration Fraud

Any serious nation with an interest in self-preservation would immediately denaturalize and deport Mamdani.

Vindicated? Patel's FBI uncovers apparent Chinese communist plot to rig 2020 mail-in vote for Biden

In a New York Times magazine interview published on June 1, 2020, then-Attorney General Bill Barr acknowledged that the Department of Justice was concerned that "there are a number of foreign countries that could easily make counterfeit ballots, put names on them, send them in."

Weeks later, President Donald Trump tweeted: "RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!"

Election officials, Democrats, and the liberal media were quick to suggest that such claims weren't just "unfounded" — they were "preposterous."

Like the American liberal establishment, these strategic dismissals have not aged well.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced Monday that the bureau located intelligence reports from August 2020 that detail "alarming allegations" regarding an apparent Chinese communist plot to interfere in the presidential election for the benefit of then-candidate Joe Biden.

Nearly as damning as the allegations was their alleged cover-up by elements of the intelligence community ahead of the election.

Patel told Just the News that the newly declassified documents "include allegations of plans from the [Chinese Communist Party] to manufacture fake driver's licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots — allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public."

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on July 27, 2020, that between Jan. 1 and June 30 of that election year, CBP officers at the International Mail Facility at Chicago O'Hare International Airport had seized 1,513 shipments containing fraudulent documents, including 19,888 counterfeit U.S. drivers' licenses.

"The majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong, with other seized shipments arriving from Great Britain and South Korea," noted CBP.

The licenses were mostly intended for college-age students across various states. In many cases, the barcode attached to the licenses actually worked. It's unclear whether some of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students at universities across the country or some of the nearly 400,000 Chinese illegal aliens were the intended recipients.

"These fraudulent identity documents can lead to identity theft, worksite enforcement, critical infrastructure protection, fraud linked to immigration-related crimes such as human smuggling and human trafficking, and these documents can be used by those individuals associated with terrorism to minimize scrutiny from travel screening measures," added CBP.

Officials who have seen the newly declassified documents told Just the News that a confidential source provided the FBI with information in summer 2020 indicating that the Chinese communist regime was mass-producing fake American drivers' licenses in order to create voter identities for Chinese nationals so that they could vote with fake mail-in ballots.

The goal was apparently to help Biden beat Trump.

An intelligence official indicated that despite the gravity of the allegations, the intel report was recalled after just a few weeks and the allegations never fully explored.

'It was a deliberate effort by the Intelligence Community to hide these facts from the public.'

The reason given was that the confidential source needed to be re-interviewed. However, it appears politics may have informed the decision.

The intelligence community's then-analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf indicated in a report on a number of election security intelligence issues that "China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference. These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the [Trump] Administration's policies, saying in effect, 'I don't want our intelligence used to support those policies.'"

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In a Jan. 7, 2021, memo, then-DNI and current CIA Director John Ratcliffe directed the attention of senators on the Select Committee on Intelligence to how the ombudsman found that "CIA Management took actions 'pressuring [analysts] to withdraw their support' from the alternative viewpoint on China 'in an attempt to suppress it. This was seen by National Intelligence Officers as politicization,’ and I agree.”

Ratcliffe went on to defend Christopher Porter — the former national intelligence officer for cyber at the National Intelligence Council, who led the U.S. intelligence community's analysis of threats to American elections — for refusing to back down from flagging the threat of Chinese election interference. Contrary to the supposed majority view, Porter apparently maintained that “China took at least some steps to undermine former President Trump’s reelection chances.”

Porter, who expressed his gratitude on Tuesday that Patel "is standing up for the truth senior Intelligence Community leaders conspired to hide,” claimed that the CIA and senior leadership at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence harassed him and drove him out of the building when he said that China had interfered in 2020.

"Just remember, this wasn’t an oversight: it was a deliberate effort by the Intelligence Community to hide these facts from the public so President Trump couldn’t defend his campaign for reelection," added Porter.

The ombudsman took pains to explain that "due to varying collection and insight into hostile state actors’ leadership intentions and domestic election influence campaigns, the definitional use of the terms 'influence' and 'interference' and associated confidence levels are applied differently by the China and Russia analytic communities.”

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Zulauf suggested further that the difference in application of these analytic terms led to "differences in the volume, frequency, and confidence levels of the intelligence coming from the China and Russia analytic communities," though they were "very similar in their potential effects."

In his report, Zulauf found that "there were attempts to politicize intelligence."

Zulauf referred to several examples, "the most egregious" of which was delivered by National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director Bill Evanina on March 10, 2020. Evanina delivered remarks that were construed as the opinion of the IC, yet analysts called the introductory statement and talking points a “gross misinterpretation” of the IC’s views.

The ombudsman also highlighted “what appears to be politically motivated editing” of a May 2020 National Intelligence Council Memo in what he described as one example of “the overall pattern of perceived politicization.”

Then-National Intelligence Chair Christopher Kojm, who later ended up on Biden’s presidential transition Agency Review Team, “crafted the language” of the memo, which reportedly “led with intelligence gaps and ‘buried the lead’ regarding what the IC does know about election security threats.”

“The result was a final product whose delayed publication meant it diverged sharply from the up-to-date IC view communicated in other product lines,” wrote Zulauf. “I have e-mail exchanges to document this delay, allusions to political repercussions, and frustration from intelligence professionals with the delay.”

“NIC officials pointed to ODNI senior officials as intervening in the changes to conclusions, saying that they were overly sensitive to political customers who saw the dissonance between China and Russia reporting and the inconsistent application of definitions,” added Zulauf.

The alleged cover-up of the Chinese election fraud plot appears to be par for the course within what the ombudsman referred to as this “hyper partisan state” of play.

It appears this narrative curation ultimately proved successful.

In March 2021, the National Intelligence Council released an assessment report stating with high confidence that “China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US Presidential election.”

'They should be investigating and getting this ready for prosecution.'

The report noted further that the intelligence community had “no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.”

Patel told Just the News he declassified the intel documents pertaining to the August 2020 intel report and provided them to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for further review.

The news of the documents’ location and declassification was well received by a number of Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Ana Paulina Luna (Fla.), who stated, “America needs to wake up. Trump is NOT the enemy, it’s the CCP.”

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, suggested to Blaze News that “a limited disclosure to Congress is not sufficient.”

“They’re the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” continued Howell. “They should be investigating and getting this ready for prosecution.”

Blaze News reached out to the ODNI and the White House but did not immediately receive responses. When pressed for comment, the FBI referred Blaze News to Patel's post on X.

Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.

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