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October 9, 2025

Trump Holds Roundtable on Antifa, Claims to Go After Its "Funders"
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President Trump led a roundtable on antifa Wednesday, hosting far-right
activists posing as "independent journalists." Homeland Security
Secretary Kristi Noem compared antifa to MS-13, Hamas, Hezbollah and the
Islamic State. This follows President Trump's executive order last month
designating antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization." Here's Trump
on Wednesday claiming without evidence that antifa is paid and funded.

President Donald Trump: "The epidemic of left-wing violence and
antifa-inspired terror has been escalating for nearly a decade. At
universities, antifa has organized riotous mobs to attack campus
speakers. I see it all the time. And these are - these are agitators,
anarchists, and they're paid. … We're going to be very threatening to
them, far more threatening to them than they ever were with us. And that
includes the people that fund them."



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