Trump declares questions of triggering the “major terrorist organization” of Antifa

President Donald Trump’s statement that Antifa is a “major terrorist organization” has stimulated questions about this category and the repercussions they could face the application of laws.

Trump’s announcement, made in a social position on Truth on Wednesday, aims to punish Antifa, described by the president as a dangerous “radical disaster”. But some experts warn that antifa, stenography for “anti-fascism”, is a tote term that rope for laws that respects laws and that, unlike foreign terrorist organizations, there is no legal designation for domestic terrorist organizations.

Alex Nowrasteh, a vice-president of the Thinktank Cato Institute, said at the announcement of Fox News Digital Trump had little weight, but that the White House could develop an executive decree that transforms the President’s words into action.

“These are all vibrations on social networks, until there is an order of the president of a kind, and it will be the line of demarcation,” said Nowrasteh. “It will be what we really have to take a look.”

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The demonstrators of Antifa March in Washington, on August 12, 2018, on the one -year birthday of the Charlottesville rally “Unite The Right” 2017. (Jim Bourg / Reuters)

A White House official told Fox News Digital that the administration examines the means to commemorate the Trump’s appeal to action.

“The White House explores a wide variety of options to put the pen on paper to fight against leftist political violence and the network of organizations that feed and finance it,” said the official. “Details on what it looks like continues to be discussed.”

Trump also declared on Truth Social that those who provide funds to anti-apt-affiliate groups should be studied.

Trump’s announcement occurred less than a week after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a shooter who wrote anti -fascist messages inspired by players on sockets and accused Kirk of spreading hatred. The authorities are still working to develop a complete image of the reason for the suspect Tyler Robinson.

The former FBI director, Christopher Wray, described antifa as a decentralized “ideology”. The Congressal Research Center underlines Whether it is a broad term and its members have a variety of radical views closely aligned with anarchism, communism or socialism. The first group known to adopt the term antifa was pink antifa in Portland, Oregon in 2007. On occasion, violent criminals were cited before the court as an anti -fed affiliate.

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A demonstrator holds an anti -fascist banner during a demonstration during the 2020 presidential election in New York on November 5, 2020. (Stephanie Keith / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The former DHS interim secretary Chad Wolf said that Fox News Trump’s announcement could change in federal priorities for the law application. Wolf said that a repression against Antifa, whose members often dress in black and appear during political demonstrations, was long -awaited. The president first declared that Antifa was a terrorist organization in 2020 in the midst of destructive demonstrations and riots linked to the death of George Floyd.

“I am happy to see this. It had to happen,” said Wolf. “It had to happen in 2020, when not only I was in the middle of it, but I think most Americans saw what was going on not only in Portland but across the country, and we saw antifa be very violent.”

Wolf noted that Trump’s social media’s announcement alone could encourage the Ministry of Justice and the FBI to allocate resources to the alleged members of Antifa and to use their discretion of prosecution to prioritize them. Domestic terrorism on both sides of the political aisle has long been an objective for the application of federal laws.

All antifa targets facing criminal charges may see prosecutors recommend more severe sentences that include an improvement in terrorism. In addition, federal police could surveillance of alleged domestic terrorists or place them on the list of passing pass.

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Some have expressed their concerns that Trump’s announcement, and all the subsequent actions that the president undertakes, could lead to constitutional violations against people or non -violent groups on the left.

“I hope he can first define what antifa is because there is no antifa organization. He uses the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to pursue people with whom he does not agree,” said representative Dan Goldman, Dn.y.

Nowrasteh said that adhering it peacefully to a kind of anti -fascist ideology is “an absolutely protected discourse”.

“You can believe and say:” Hey, this terrorist organization. … I believe in what they do. Their goals are great. Their beliefs are great. “You could say that.

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The response of the American American Liberties Union to the announcement of Trump echoes similar constitutional concerns.

“President Trump seems to hell on the targeting of real political opponents or perceived according to their beliefs and their speeches protected by the Constitution, and we must all be very clear that he compromises the rights of the first amendment of everyone,” said Hina Shamsi of Aclu.