President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he would be signing a new executive order to dismantle Antifa networks in the United States.
“We have already declared ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization, and I will be signing an Executive Order this week to dismantle these Domestic Terrorism Networks,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, referencing an executive order he signed earlier this week to declare the loosely organized left-wing group a domestic terrorist organization.
Antifa, standing for “anti-fascist,” is a left-wing group that acts through decentralized cells and doesn’t have a formal organizational or leadership structure. Members affiliated with the group have been spotted engaging in violence during protests, particularly those related to Black Lives Matter or opposing Trump. They generally subscribed to extreme political views that are communist or anarchist….