Posted on 10/10/2025 8:38:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump may soon designate Antifa a foreign terrorist organization, upgrading it from a domestic terrorist organization, which would provide a vast array of additional resources, funding and enforcement mechanisms.
"A whole panoply of tools, a whole toolbox opens up with the FTO (foreign terrorist organization) designation for terrorist organizations — tools that sit under [Treasury Secretary] Scott Bessent's control at Treasury and under Marco [Rubio], dual-hatted as the Secretary of State," Dr. Sebastian Gorka told Just The News.
Trump hinted at the designation change on Wednesday at the White House during a townhall discussion with journalists who have extensively covered Antifa's riots and destruction. Responding to a member of the White House pool about whether he would upgrade Antifa's designation to FTO, Trump answered, "Well, has that been done? Pretty close, right?" Trump emphasized the change, telling Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “We’ll take care of it.”
Speaking about the gravity of such a galvanic change in the handling of Antifa by Trump, Gorka said, "It's an incredible explosion of statecraft tools that is provided with the FTO designation. So whether it's al Qaeda or Antifa, it provides us a lot of additional tools, and that's why the president's decision is so very, very important.
Gorka, who serves as Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council, said the government has the power "not just to sanction individual organizations, to go after them, but it's also individuals or those who assist the terrorists, to give them succor, aid, training, financing."
The FTO designation effectively serves as a ban on the organization, making it unlawful for anyone in the United States to knowingly supply material support or resources to the designated entity.
Antifa has operated on U.S. soil for at least a half-century, with...
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Good!
Antifa expert at Rutgers University flees US amid death threats
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5549577-antifa-rutgers-professor-trump/
Anyone have an idea where the money is? Who are the top dogs?
Can we bring in close air support during their riots?
A turn of the screw. Keep going.
Follow the Money:
Jimmy Kimmel Says ‘There Is No Antifa’ in Same Week Proof of Antifa Funding Revealed by GAI Research (Oct 10, 2025)
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/10/10/watch-jimmy-kimmel-says-there-is-no-antifa-in-same-week-proof-of-antifa-funding-revealed-by-gai-research/
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Liberals have lately taken to claiming that “there is no Antifa” because there is no central organization?
Central organization? GAI testified “Follow the Money”
Seamus Bruner @seamusbruner (Oct 8, 2025)
https://x.com/seamusbruner/status/1976047416278208715
🚨My Full Statement to @POTUS and @WhiteHouse Roundtable on Antifa.🚨
And by all means indict Soros and throw him into a J6 cell.
Antifa communists front people but don’t want people to know it.
BLM leaders rase fist in there million dollar homes.
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