Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security labeled Antifa’s activities as ‘domestic terrorist violence’

  When Donald Trump condemned the violence on both sides in the wake of the Charlottesville riot he came under intense fire from the Democrats, the mainstream media, and some Republicans for trying to put the blame on both sides while not strongly enough denouncing white nationalists and the KKK.

  This eventually led to all Trump supporters being labeled as white supremacists and Nazis. All the while the violent actions of Antifa have been ignored; Antifa was engaged in violent activities before Charlottesville and it has continued since but it came to a head last week when Antifa attacked a wheelchair bound veteran. This was so egregious that even Nancy Pelosi, in an effort to distance the Democratic Party from the violent hate group, actually came out and condemned them.

  Now, according to this story, a new report is out which exonerates Donald Trump. It turns out that back in April of 2016 Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security was so concerned about Antifa that the department warned that the group was engaged in “domestic terrorist violence.”

  From the left-leaning Politico:

Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as “domestic terrorist violence,” according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by POLITICO.

Previously unreported documents disclose that by April 2016, authorities believed that “anarchist extremists” were the primary instigators of violence at public rallies against a range of targets. They were blamed by authorities for attacks on the police, government and political institutions, along with symbols of “the capitalist system,” racism, social injustice and fascism, according to a confidential 2016 joint intelligence assessment by DHS and the FBI.

Those reports appear to bolster Trump’s insistence that extremists on the left bore some blame for the clashes in Charlottesville and represent a “problem” nationally. 

  Of course this is from Politico so naturally the website had to put some of the blame for Antifa’s violence on Donald Trump even though the violence began before anyone thought he even had a slight chance at becoming President. I would argue Antifa’s violence has increased because they have what they consider to be a political enemy in the White House. It is not as if Antifa needed an excuse to become even more violent but now they have one and the media’s refusal to cover Antifa is partly to blame for this.

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