US to investigate Antifa funding
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The FBI is still investigating whether anyone else knew of 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson’s alleged plans to kill Kirk, but based on interviews with Robinson’s mother, the alleged murderer had increasingly adopted leftist political positions and endorsed the transgender movement—even apparently carrying out the attack for his boyfriend, who identifies as female. His bullet casings reportedly included anti-fascist messaging resonant of Antifa.
Trump announced Wednesday night that he would be designating Antifa a terrorist organization.
“Left-wing organizations have fueled violent riots, organized attacks against law enforcement officers, coordinated illegal doxing campaigns, arranged drop points for weapons and riot materials, and more,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.
“The Trump administration will get to the bottom of this vast network inciting violence in American communities,” she added. “This effort will target those committing criminal acts and hold them accountable.”
“The key point the president has been making is somebody is paying for all of this,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said this week. “This is not happening for free, and so out of the president’s direction, the attorney general is going to find out who is paying for it, and they will now be criminally liable for paying for violence.”
Leftist agitators often refer to themselves as Antifa, short for “anti-fascist,” branding their opponents as akin to Nazis. These agitators form a loose, largely disconnected street movement, and they have reportedly joined more mainstream protests, only to leave the crowd and engage in violence, then return to the safety of the crowd.
While Antifa agitators engaged in violence in conjunction with Black Lives Matter protests before 2020, the riots that followed protests in the name of George Floyd that summer set a horrifying record for violent destruction.
Property Claim Services reported in 2021 that the protests between May 28 and June 8, 2020, resulted in more than $2 billion in insurance payouts, the largest “riot and civil disorder catastrophe” on record. At least 26 Americans lost their lives in the riots, notably including black people like 77-year-old retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn.
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, struck the right note in July when he explained his Stop Financial Underwriting of Nefarious Demonstrators and Extremist Riots Act, or the Stop FUNDERS Act. The bill adds rioting, as defined by the federal anti-riot statute, to the list of racketeering predicate offenses.
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Those responsible for the riots should be made to reimburse those damaged by the riots. They or the insurance companies should be allowed to sue those who funded the riots.
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