WHO FUNDS ANTIFA?
JohnHinderaker,PowerlineBlog
Antifa is a fascist, terrorist organization that has conspired to commit countless crimes across the United States. Democrats assert, absurdly, that Antifa doesn’t really exist–it is just an idea! But ideas don’t organize riots, every night for three months or more. Ideas don’t compensate the people who participate in those riots, or bail them out of jail, or pay for their signs or their plane tickets. There is a great deal of money behind the American Left, and some of it is flowing to Antifa, the militant arm of the Democratic Party, much as the Ku Klux Klan was the militant arm of the Democratic Party during the latter decades of the 19th century.
The Trump administration should be putting a high priority on investigating the funding of domestic terrorism, including, above all, the funding of Antifa. Happily, it appears to be doing so:
FBI Director Kash Patel tells Just the News that the bureau is “on the verge” of unmasking the command structure and financing for anarchist groups like Antifa that have unleashed unrest around America and has also identified potential new criminal activity related to the abuse of federal law enforcement and intelligence. *** Patel said one area where the FBI has made rapid progress is the tracking of financing and command structures of anarchist groups like Antifa that have fomented unrest in American cities, attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounding up illegal immigrants and antisemitic movements on college campuses.
He said there are indications that some support may come from overseas enemies and U.S. nonprofit groups that have tax exemptions from the IRS.
“Look, the thing I can tell you is that money doesn’t lie, and the thing we’re doing at the FBI is following the money,” Patel explained. “And thanks to President Trump, we now have Antifa designated, rightfully so, as a domestic terror organization. And we have had multiple investigations going on.”
Patel said those probes are “mapping out the money, and we are using social media and the influencers that the President had here just this last week, because they’re the ones on the ground, getting us ground level intelligence, because law enforcement isn’t able to enter these spaces, and these people are brave enough to do it.”
I don’t understand that. Doesn’t the FBI have subpoena power? Or maybe both legal process and infiltration are needed.
Patel’s comments came as a federal grand jury on Wednesday night indicted two people allegedly tied to Antifa on terrorism charges for an attack in July on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas.
Many conservatives are eager to see criminal charges brought against Biden administration officials who betrayed their offices. I understand the impulse, but I am more interested in unraveling the financial networks whereby left-wing billionaires and NGOs, many of which receive taxpayer funding, finance criminal enterprises like Antifa.
