Before President Trump was interrupted during his Anti-AntiFa meeting to announce the signing of the peace deal between Hamas and Israel, he and his Attorney General were delivering incendiary speeches about AntiFa activists. The Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that the US government will hunt down AntiFa activists in the same way it pursues narco-traffickers at sea. The US government currently has a policy of killing members of narco-trafficking cartels out at sea. Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem said that AntiFa are as dangerous as Hezbollah and MS-13 gangsters.
The incendiary rhetoric against left-wing activists that the US President is describing as “AntiFa activists” is part of a wave of repression by the US government notably attacking free speech and political opponents. AntiFa has been designated as a terrorist organisation in the US but there is no formal and official organisation that claims ownership of the name. This new urge to clamp down on left-wing activists has been justified with the murder of Charlie Kirk, but there is no evidence that Charlie Kirk’s suspected murderer was a left-wing activist.
President Trump has also said that he agrees on naming AntiFa as an international and foreign terrorist organisation.
Stephen Miller, President Trump’s Deputy-Chief of staff has been a strong proponent for a government clamp-down against left-wing activists. Miller, who often makes incendiary speeches himself, is also a strong proponent of the current and ongoing government’s militirisation of law and order. US troops have currently been deployed in Chicago as part of President Trump’s law enforcement plans.
President Trump and his Attorney-General are also prosecuting previous individuals in the Justice system who were involved in investigating or prosecuting Donald Trump with some figures charged in Court so far including James Comey and New York Prosecutor Letitia James.
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