{"id":11492,"date":"2025-09-18T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:54:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:54:07","slug":"trump-announces-plan-to-designate-antifa-as-a-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harici.com.tr\/en\/trump-announces-plan-to-designate-antifa-as-a-terrorist-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces plan to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-spacing=\"double\">US President Donald Trump <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/18\/trump-says-he-plans-to-designate-antifa-a-major-terrorist-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">has announced<\/a><\/span> plans to designate the Antifa movement as a \u201cterrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">In a post on the Truth Social platform late Wednesday, Trump described the group as a \u201csick, dangerous, radical left disaster\u201d and a \u201cmajor terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">\u201cI will also strongly recommend that those who provide funding to Antifa be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">It is unclear exactly who or what the US president is targeting, as \u201cAntifa,\u201d short for \u201canti-fascists,\u201d is a loose group of activists opposed to right-wing ideology, with no distinct leader, structure, or membership list.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">Trump\u2019s statement regarding Antifa came after senior White House officials said they would dismantle a \u201cwidespread domestic terror movement\u201d on the occasion of the Charlie Kirk assassination, which they claim was instigated by leftist activists.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller stated that the Trump administration \u201cwill use all the outrage we feel about the organized campaign that led to this assassination to uproot and destroy these terrorist networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">Critics say the Trump administration is using Kirk\u2019s killing as a pretext to target political opponents in the US.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">Investigators have not yet disclosed the motive for Kirk\u2019s killing, which authorities allege was carried out by 22-year-old Tyler Robinson of Utah, but many on the right wing of the political divide blame leftist ideology for the assassination.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">Following Trump\u2019s announcement, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy said, \u201cAntifa has used the movement of legitimate grievances to promote violence and anarchy, and has worked against justice for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">Cassidy argued that by designating Antifa as \u201cdomestic terrorists,\u201d the President rightly acknowledges their \u201cdestructive role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">During his first term, Trump had threatened to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization in May 2020, following widespread protests across the US in response to the killing of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p data-spacing=\"double\">Trump sought to hold Antifa activists responsible for acts of \u201cdomestic terrorism,\u201d accusing them of instigating and leading the fiery and sometimes violent protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has announced plans to designate the Antifa movement as a \u201cterrorist organization.\u201d In a post on the Truth Social platform late Wednesday, Trump described the group as a \u201csick, dangerous, radical left disaster\u201d and a \u201cmajor terrorist organization.\u201d \u201cI will also strongly recommend that those who provide funding to Antifa be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[13265,13189,13261,13044,13188,319,13263,13264,3652,11168,4266,4341,13262,11842,2325],"class_list":["post-11492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","tag-anti-fascist","tag-antifa","tag-bill-cassidy","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-domestic-terrorism","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-floyd-protests","tag-radical-left","tag-republican","tag-stephen-miller","tag-terrorist-organization","tag-truth-social","tag-tyler-robinson","tag-us-politics","tag-white-house"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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