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Newsmax: “Would you like to see it done? You think it would help?” Trump asked of the FTO designation. “I’d be glad to do it. I think it’s the kind of thing I’d like to do. Does everybody agree? If you agree, I agree. Let’s get it done, OK? Let’s get it done. Marco, we’ll take care of it … Sounds good to me.”
“The epidemic of left-wing violence and Antifa-inspired terror has been escalating for nearly a decade,” the president said earlier in the roundtable. “We’re going to be far more threatening to them than they ever were with us — and that includes the people that fund them.”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other officials at the roundtable also likened Antifa to recognized terror or criminal outfits.
“Their agenda is to destroy the American people and our way of life, and this president is standing in their way,” Noem said.
Any move to place Antifa on the Foreign Terrorist Organization list would have to come from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. As of Wednesday, Antifa still does not appear under the FTO roster, though it is listed as a domestic terror organization in the Federal Register.
