President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will designate Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization after a roundtable discussion on the far-left extremist group with independent journalists Jack Posobiec, Nick Sortor and others who have provided excellent on-the-ground reporting on Antifa.
While answering questions from members of the media group observing the roundtable, a reporter asked Trump if he would designate Antifa, which he called a domestic terrorist group, as a foreign terrorist group.
“Well, has it been done? Pretty close, right? Would you like to see it done,” Trump asked, to which Posibeic immediately responded, “Yes, Mr. President.”
“They have foreign ties throughout Western Europe and the Middle East,” Posoibec added.
Trump added that he would like to take such steps, telling Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “We will take care of it.”
When Trump spoke with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Miller signed off.
“Yes, that’s true. There are a lot of foreign connections, and I think that would be a very worthwhile step to take,” Miller said.
Trump invited Sortor, who Portland police arrested last week while covering Antifa at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest, and Posobiec to speak at the roundtable.
Sortor brought an American flag that he had saved from radicals who set it on fire on the street in Portland and displayed it before the Cabinet officials and reporters in the room.
After Sortor told Trump he could identify the man who burned the flag, Trump asked him to give the information to Attorney General Pam Bondi to “initiate prosecution.”
Posobiec zoomed in on the century-old existence of Antifa, the bullet casing posts of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, and the appalling left-wing celebration that followed Kirk’s murder.
“Thanks for mentioning that one of the bullet casings said, “Hey Fascist! “Catch!’ on it. One of the other bullet casings right next to it had ‘Bella Ciao’ written on it. Today, ‘Bella Ciao’ is a song known in Antifa circles as the international Antifa anthem,” he said.
“And Mr. President, I think it’s getting worse. When you look at people like Luigi Mangione in his 20s, Thomas Matthew Crooks, of course, who shot you, the ICE shooter in Dallas, and now this Tyler Robinson, we’re starting to see a pattern of increasingly deadly violence,” he added.
Posobiec has spent the last month in Arizona with Kirk’s family and Turning Point USA since the heinous killing, and stressed that “we’re not going to give up.”
“Turning Point USA is continuing Charlie’s tour. We had 6,000 people when we went back to Utah. We had 5,000 people last night in Montana, if you can believe it, we’re still organizing on campus,” he said.
“More and more people are coming forward in the face of this threat, knowing what happened to Charlie,” he added.
While emphasizing the resilience of those at the roundtable, Posobiec expressed concern that someone at the table could be the radical left’s next target.
“Mr. President, we have to do something about this because I fear the next person who could be killed is sitting at this table right now, and we are not going to stop, but they have to stop, and they are not going to stop until they are stopped,” he said.
