{"id":2486868,"date":"2025-09-15T19:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-open-to-designating-antifa-domestic-terrorist-organization\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:05:29","slug":"trump-open-to-designating-antifa-domestic-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-open-to-designating-antifa-domestic-terrorist-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump open to designating Antifa domestic terrorist organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-open-to-designating-antifa-domestic-terrorist-organization%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2486868&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that former President Donald Trump expressed support for designating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-outlets-that-gave-a-pass-to-black-lives-matter-and-antifa-violence\/\" title=\"The Media Outlets That Gave A Pass To Black Lives Matter And ... Violence\">anti-fascist movement<\/a>, Antifa, as a domestic terrorist organization. This stance comes amid rising concerns about political violence, particularly following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Trump indicated he is discussing the use of RICO (racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) charges against individuals he claims are funding agitation efforts. He reiterated similar support for this designation during his previous administration, especially in response to protests after george Floyd&#8217;s death. Trump also commented on Kirk&#8217;s alleged killer, suggesting the individual was &#8220;radicalized on the internet,&#8221; and revealed plans to possibly speak at Kirk&#8217;s upcoming funeral.Additionally, Trump mentioned upcoming discussions with chinese President Xi Jinping regarding a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >significant trade deal<\/a> and TikTok&#8217;s ownership stake. These remarks were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-calls-for-grand-jury-on-covid-vaccines\/\" title=\"DeSantis Calls For Grand Jury On COVID Vaccines\">made alongside<\/a> a presidential proclamation to form a task force aimed at combating crime in memphis, with potential expansion to other cities like Chicago and St. Louis. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump open to designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization: &lsquo;Something I would do&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2231748\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> is supportive of designating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antifa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">antifa<\/a> a domestic terrorist organization as he and his aides consider how to respond to an increase in political violence, a concern pushed into the spotlight after last week&rsquo;s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s something I would do, yeah,&rdquo; Trump told reporters on Monday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a> in response to a question. &ldquo;Also, I&rsquo;ve been speaking to the attorney general about bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RICO<\/a> against some of the people &hellip; that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3808454\/charlie-kirk-shooter-republican-democrat-poll\/\">More people think Kirk shooter was Republican than Democrat, poll shows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3808675\/nancy-mace-moves-censure-ilhan-omar-charlie-kirk-remarks\/\">Nancy Mace moves to censure Ilhan Omar over Charlie Kirk remarks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3808370\/adam-schiff-trump-posters-tax-money-federal-buildings-propaganda\/\">Schiff report details thousands spent on Trump posters hanging from federal buildings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORTER: Do you plan on designating Antifa a domestic terror organization?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s something I would do, yeah&hellip; and also, I&#8217;ve been speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGPamBondi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AGPamBondi<\/a> about bringing RICO against some of the people&hellip; that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eAuK3nXKVh\">pic.twitter.com\/eAuK3nXKVh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1967700861314011378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump previously supported designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization during his first administration amid protests in reaction to the death of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/george-floyd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> George Floyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&ldquo;I would do that 100%,&rdquo; Trump says on the possibility of designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>Notably he said this in 2020, though there were questions at the time about implementation: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qFGNi7d2cu\">pic.twitter.com\/qFGNi7d2cu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShelbyTalcott\/status\/1967700445054603478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump himself was charged under Georgia&rsquo;s state Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act over allegations he tried to overturn Georgia&rsquo;s election results in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>During an informal press conference with reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump indicated he would likely speak at Kirk&rsquo;s funeral next Sunday at Phoenix&rsquo;s 63,000-person State Farm Stadium in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Of the Kirk&rsquo;s alleged killer, Trump said Tyler Robinson appeared to have been &ldquo;radicalized on the internet,&rdquo; before repeating that that was merely his opinion. <\/p>\n<p>Denying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Israel<\/a>&lsquo;s claim that they advised the president of their strike last week against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/qatar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Qatar<\/a>, Trump also previewed a call with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinese<\/a> President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Xi Jinping<\/a> on Friday regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, though he did not confirm whether China would retain a stake in the social media platform, and &ldquo;more importantly, a big deal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s important, and it can maybe even bring us closer to China,&rdquo; he said of the prospect of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trade<\/a> deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3499558\/antifa-inc-left-wing-movement-ideology-criminal-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ANTIFA INC: HOW AN IDEOLOGY BECAME AN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL NETWORK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump made the comments after signing a presidential proclamation forming a task force to counter crime in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/memphis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Memphis<\/a> at the request of Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN), the first Republican governor to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chicago<\/a> is going to be next, and we&rsquo;ll get to St. Louis also, and New Orleans we want to get to too,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump considers labeling antifa a domestic terror group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2486869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25258793979109.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3802,21009,63403,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2486868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-antifa","tag-designation","tag-domestic-terrorist","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25258793979109.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486872,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486868\/revisions\/2486872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}