White House Working to Designate Antifa as Foreign Terrorist Organization

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to designate far-left extremist group Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “That process is most definitely taking place. I don’t have any announcements for you on that today, but I can certainly assure you the administration is working on it,” Leavitt said during a Nov. 4 press briefing. Leavitt’s comment was in response to a question by a journalist who attended a roundtable discussion last month concerning Antifa violence and its overseas ties.  ​During that October discussion, Trump appeared in favor of applying the foreign terror designation....