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The Trump administration has set its sights on bringing Antifa agitators to justice, just weeks after the president signed an executive order designating the group as a domestic terrorist organization.
During a special roundtable at the White House on Wednesday, President Donald Trump was joined by key members of his cabinet, like Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
President Trump warned that there is a “very serious left-wing terror threat in our country.”
He said, “Radicals associated with the domestic group Antifa…and other far-left extremists have been carrying out a campaign of violence against ICE agents and other officials charged with enforcing federal law. In Chicago, anarchists have surveilled at least four local ICE facilities and posted diagrams of the buildings online… accompanied by photos of specific ICE agents that they’re targeting.”
President Trump described the wave of Antifa operations as an “epidemic of left-wing violence” and “terror.” He said that these agitators are paid disrupters.
He vowed, “We’re going to be far more threatening to them than they ever were with us – and that includes the people that fund them.”
AG Bondi said, until now, Antifa has felt “empowered because weak Democrats have turned a blind eye to their actions.”
“We’re not going to have it anymore,” she continued. “…We saw what’s happening in Portland and Chicago, you saw what happened in Dallas. This is not activism, it’s anarchy. We can’t and we will not let masked terrorists burn our buildings, attack our law enforcement, and intimidate our communities.”
Bondi said that there has been a “1000 percent increase” in violence against ICE agents since January 20, 2025.
“Under your leadership, President Trump, we’re deploying the full might of federal law enforcement to crack down on Antifa and other domestic terrorist organizations,” Bondi added.
Secretary Noem stated that Antifa’s goals went beyond threatening law-abiding citizens and journalists. “Their agenda is to destroy the American people and our way of life,” she said. “And this president is standing in their way. He is stopping them from bringing their death and this destruction to the individual citizens in this country that just want to raise their kids and their grandkids in peace and in safety.”
Finally, FBI Director Kash Patel said that his agency would “go after the criminals with a vengeance.”
He added, “We will not rest until we find every single seed – money, donor, organization, and funding mechanism.”