ANTIFA Strategy
2017
2017-08-15 Trump called Unite the Right activists “very fine people”. David Duke submitted a social media post thanking Trump for his kind words about the protesters at the Unite the Right rally. Duke wrote, “Thank you President Trump for your honesty and courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa”.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/politics/donald-trump-david-duke-charlottesville
2018
2018-02-05 During a speech Trump accused Democrats of treason.
LINK REMOVED? https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-tax-reform-4/
2021
2021-01-06 After January 6, Republican figures and right-wing influencers falsely blamed Antifa, amplifying “false flag” and “Ray Epps” theories.
2024 October
2024-10-07 Pro Israel groups including Canary Mission peddled conspiracies on social media that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil helped plan Hamas attacks. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also alleged Khalil distributed fliers with a Hamas logo. On March 8 2025 the Trump administration arrested him and shipped him to Louisiana.
2025 March
2025-03-07 Trump revised student loan forgiveness to exclude anyone they (the Trump administration) deem “anti-American” or “activists”.
2025 August
2025-08-25 During an interview with Sean Hannity, Stephen Miller claimed that Democrats are a domestic extremist group.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377384186112
2025 September
2025-09-23 Karoline Leavitt announced plans to designate “Antifa” a domestic terrorist organization, citing a White House report linking various incidents of violence to left-wing activism. The September 22 2025 press release begins “President Donald J. Trump is right: the violence problem is on the Left”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced5gqn0p6jo
2025-09-25 Trump signed NSPM-7, which included references to anti-Christian beliefs among terrorism indicators.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs
2025-09-27 Trump alleged Portland ICE facilities were under siege by Antifa, posting on social media that Portland was “war ravaged” and that he planned to authorize “full force”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115276694936263266
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/29/timeline-donald-trump-pressure-portland/
2025-09-29 Fox News used viral riot footage from 2020 to report on current protests in Portland.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/05/trump-portland-video-protests
https://x.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1963819280249807236
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/oregon-trump-national-guard-troops-portland
2025 October
2025-10-08 Trump claimed protesters were paid organizers, “…when you see the signs and they’re all made out of beautiful paper…with beautiful wood handles…these are not people that write out their signs…these are paid anarchists”.
2025-10-08 Senator Roger Marshall claimed the upcoming No Kings protest would be organized by paid agitators and suggested National Guard deployment might be necessary. Speaker Mike Johnson called it a “Hate America Rally.”
2025-10-10 Mike Johnson again criticized the No Kings protest, calling it a “Hate America rally”.
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1976631367858258002
2025-10-13 Glenn Beck posted on X that the FBI showed up to his house to discuss the so-called “Antifa” network and its funding.
https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1977804534232514781
2025-10-25 Portland resident Chandler Patey was labeled “Antifa” and his home an “Antifa safe house” after helping protesters affected by pepper spray.
2025 December
2025-12-04 The Justice Department issued a broad domestic-terrorism directive focused on alleged Antifa-related activity. Remember: this administration accused Alexi Pretti of terrorism, and they shot him in the back 10 times.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-bondi-memo-s-quiet-rewriting-of-domestic-terrorism-rules
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/pam-bondi-antifa-tax-crimes
2026 January
2026-01-09 Laura Ingraham peddled claims that anti-ICE protesters were being paid rather than acting independently.
2026-01-12 Leavitt defended ICE after the Renee Nicole Good murder, “This administration will continue to stand wholeheartedly by the brave men and women of ICE, including that officer in Minneapolis who was absolutely justified in using self-defense against a lunatic who was part of a group – an organized group – to interject and to impede on law enforcement operations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khfNzAKC8Wg
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/karoline-leavitt-takes-shocking-swipe-200459362.html
SUB WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/trump-shooting-renee-good-ice.html
2026 February
2026-02-02 Former Army Ranger Ian Austin was arrested at a protest and charged with terrorism-related offenses.
TIMESTAMP 3:30 INTERVIEW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogFdQx4H98g&list=WL&index=1&t=261s
2026 June
2026-06-24 Eight protesters received decades-long sentences and declared terrorists for demonstrating outside detention centers, with former Marine reserivst Benjaimin Song receiving a 100-year sentence for participating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IYVyPLd17Y&list=WL&index=4&t=74s
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/25/prairieland_nine
2026 July
2026-07-02 Seven more people were arrested and given harsh sentences and convicted of terrorism for protesting the year prior. One person received a 50 year sentence.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/01/protest-shooting-texas-detention-center