President Trump Holds Antifa Roundtable with Assault Victims, Independent Journalists and Federal Law Enforcement Leaders

with it. They beat journalists. They attack courouses. They attack police stations. They dox and assault our law enforcement officers. The Biden administration let them commit these crimes with total impunity for years. So did Democrat leaders like Pritsker and Mayor Brandon Johnson. Last week, independent journalist Nick Sorder was arrested just for protecting himself against Antifa. I saw it online and I called Nick. I couldn't believe what happened. He did all this just trying to save our American flag from being burned. He was pushed down and assaulted. Yet the local police arrested Nick, not the Antifa thugs who did this to him. Antifa feels empowered to operate in the open because weak Democrats have turned a blind eye to their actions. Their hatred for President Trump and for law and order agendas fuels their violence. We've seen more than a thousand% a thousand% increase in attacks against our ICE agents since January 20th. Secretary Gnome is out there fighting for you firsthand to keep our federal officers safe, to keep our federal buildings safe, and we're not going to have it anymore. These thugs, we saw what's happening in Portland and Chicago, and you saw what happened in Dallas. No longer. This is not activism. It's anarchy. We can't and we will not let mask terrorist burn our buildings, attack our law enforcement, and intimidate our communities. Under your leadership, President Trump, we're deploying the full might of the federal law enforcement to crack down on Antifa and other domestic terrorist organizations led by Steven Miller. And Stephen, thank you for everything you're doing. Last week, I issued a memo ordering our federal law enforcement agents, DEA, FBI, US Marshalss, and ATF to protect ICE officers from Antifa and other radical left-wing violence. Director Patel has been going nonstop. He and Deputy Attorney General Blanch were in Chicago yesterday. Yesterday, while Secretary Gnome was in Portland. We are around this country fighting against this domestic terrorism. We had Apple and Google take down the ICE block apps. Hope they continue to comply with that. It's threatening the safety of our federal law enforcement officers. We're not going to stop at just arresting the violent criminals we can see in the streets. Fighting crime is more than just getting the bad guy off the streets. It's breaking down the organization brick by brick. Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa. Destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We're going to take them apart. Thanks to your bold leadership and the designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization, which is exactly what they are, Americans will no longer tolerate their unhinged violence. Thank you. >> Thank you very much, Pam Christie. >> Well, thank you, Mr. President, and thank you for hosting today and focusing on Antifa and the terrorists that they are. Uh, let's not make any mistake. Uh these individuals do not just want to threaten our law enforcement officers, threaten our journalists and the citizens of this country. They want to kill them. Their agenda is to destroy the American people in our way of life. And this president is standing in their way. He is stopping them from bringing their death and this destruction to the individual citizens in this country that just want to raise their kids and their grandkids in peace and in safety. I want to also thank everyone around this table for being so bold and so brave, for standing up and recognizing the threat that Antifa is to our way of life. Um, by recognizing how advanced they are, how sophisticated their networks are, how they've infiltrated our entire country and we're seeing them play out with their tactics from city to city and how they have built out uh their funding mechanisms. And sir, I also want to thank our um Treasury Secretary for his work and getting to the bottom of these funding mechanisms and individuals who are perpetuating this violence on our American cities. I was in Portland yesterday and had the chance to visit with the governor of Oregon and also the mayor. They're in town and they are absolutely covering up the terrorism that is hitting their streets. Um, while you talked about some of the stories of our ICE agents, our border patrol agents, how they have been attacked, how they have been shot at, injured, the damage that they've done, these leaders in these local cities along with Pritsker and Johnson, ignore what's going on or sir, they're helping Antifa cover it up. We have arrested dozens of individuals that are Antifa members or affiliated with them and I want to thank our attorney general for prosecuting them and making sure they never see the light of day again. They have been so bold in making sure we're bringing those individuals to justice. One of the individuals we arrested recently in Portland uh was the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa and that we are hoping that as we go after her, interview her, and prosecute her, we will get more and more information about the network and how we can root them out uh and eliminate them from the ex existence of American society. I want to thank the new journalists here today for telling their stories and for being able and willing to go to the streets and to cover what's happening here in America. Many times the legacy media has looked the other way, refused to tell the stories. The networks have not really um focused on what this is and what damage it is doing to our country and how this network of Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them. They are just as dangerous. They have an agenda to destroy us, just like the other terrorists we've dealt with for many, many years. And today is the day that we have a president that won't tolerate it and will stand up and fight for the American people. So, thank you for being here, for being so bold and for standing in the gap at such a time as this. It will matter. It will make a difference and your life will be one of significance because of what you've done today. So, with that, God bless you and thank you, Mr. President. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. Cash, please. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, the American people gave you a sweeping mandate in your victory in this election cycle and they demanded safety and security for our citizens. And your administration with your leadership has provided us with the resources that we need, which is a whole of government approach to go after criminals absolutely everywhere, not just outside of this country, but within this country. And that takes a whole of government approach. The inter agency seated up here with the Department of Homeland Security, our attorney general, our deputy attorney general, and your White House staffers and including Steven Meter, Steven Miller's leadership has allowed us to go out there and map out these networks. What we are doing at the FBI is simple. It does not require rocket science. We are following the money. Money never lies. And that's what it's going to take to bring down this network of organized criminal thugs, gangbangers, and yes, domestic terrorists, because that's what they are. They are harming everyday citizens in every single one of our communities. And the folks you see here on the right and left, they're some of the bravest men and women we have today. They're reporting the stories lifetime because the mainstream media won't cover it. They're putting their lives on the line. They're standing up for the flag. The least we can do is stand up for them. So, you have my thanks. I read more of your stories than I do theirs because you guys are putting out the truth and we deserve a country where you are protected as equally as they are. We in this FBI will go after with the criminals with the vengeance. We will not rest until we find every single seed, money, donor, organization and funding mechanism that we have. And I want to echo the secretary's comments on Scott Bessant who's allowing us to map out these networks through their financial criminal activities which has been going on for decades. And I would like to remind the American public, they built this disease temple of corruption over decades. And in eight short months, Mr. President, you have crippled their foundation because of your leadership here, because of the inner agency, because of people like Deputy Attorney General Blanch, and because of Attorney General Pam Bondi's fearless leadership to go after criminals wherever they are. They will not be able to hide. They were able to hide and conspire with prior administrations, and we are exposing their corruption from within. And we will go to every single city in this country under operation summer heat and the other operations we are doing at the FBI to bring these criminals to justice. We will arrest every single one of them from whatever perch you sit in it, private or public. No matter how high your goal or your ambition is, it will be crushed by the Constitution because the American people deserve law and order and that's what we're going to give you. >> Thank you very much, Cash. Great job. Uh maybe we'll start over here. Would any of you like to say something? Feel free. You can say it in front of a fine group of people also journalists and reporters. >> Would you want to start? >> Sure. >> Go ahead. >> Absolutely. uh President Trump, members of the cabinet really appreciate uh you guys bringing this together and the fact that we are here today in on such short notice uh shows how serious you guys are taking this issue of trans terrorists and the frankly the cities and police departments that are cooperating with Antifa such as Portland. I mean, the the Portland politicians are literally willing to sacrifice their own citizens just to appease these Antifa terrorists. It's sickening. Uh I've seen it firsthand, obviously. Uh I I I I when I went to jail that night, never expected it to happen. I thought that they were maybe removing me for my own safety. It never crossed my mind that I was the one that was being arrested for a crime after I was just thrown into a hole. Uh I I heard from the Department of Homeland Security after I had gotten out of jail uh and and one of your I won't say exactly who it was, but somebody very close to uh Secretary Gnome over here said that they were legitimately worried for my safety in the Portland jail. But luckily the Portland jail was uh I was the only one there essentially because they don't actually arrest people in Portland uh besides conservative journalists I guess. So it I look I'm glad that it was not a good night for me. Let's just say that it was uh not fun sitting in that jail, but I'm glad to see what has come of it. And uh I I've been able to talk to a bunch of uh FBI agents, ATF agents, uh DHS agents that I didn't even know existed until I went there and went to that ICE facility. And the morale is at an all-time high. It is so exciting to see uh these guys know now that they have the backing of the secretary, the DOJ as well as the president of the United States and they are there to do their job. They are going to fulfill this mission and deport these violent criminals. I believe one of the ones that I I did a ride along with uh with Secretary Gnome yesterday, President Trump, and there was a a pedophile that had come into the country five times over the past seven years. Seven years. And apparently under the Biden regime, that was just allowed to happen. That was fine. No problem. Um, it's concerning to me that you're seeing the Portland Police Department as well as the governor of Oregon, uh, and the mayor, of course, coming out and running defense for pedophiles that have entered the country illegally five times. It's It's crazy. I'm glad it's taking a a a front row seat in the media and uh, you know, they're being forced to talk about it in reality because, you know, we we're the ones that were on the ground. We're the ones that are actually reporting what's going on. uh and and you know m much of the legacy media has been either ignoring it or covering for Antifa for years now. So, thank you guys so much for taking this seriously. And uh and President Trump, you mentioned that flag. So, remember uh you put out a truth right after I uh >> That's right. I >> took this flag from that uh from that man that was burning it in the street. >> Uh do you know who he is? >> Oh, yeah. I know exactly who it is. >> So, why don't you give it to Pam? give it to the attorney general and let's start prosecutions. >> Yeah. I actually have a a second flag that he tried to burn as well. So I have two of them from >> He also saw what happened when that flag started burning. Everyone went crazy. >> That's right. >> And that's when it started when they started burning the flag. So thank you. If you could give the information, it would be great. >> Absolutely. >> And then at least that horrible night made you famous. >> You got I got a I got a text from the president of the United States. So I appreciate that. and President Trump. After that happened to Nick, I called Harit Dylan and we opened a pattern and practice investigation into the Portland police very publicly as to how they let this happen. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, sir. >> Mr. President, you're going to Brandy Cruz, you're going to hear us be very fired up today and you can tell and it's because some of us have been covering Antifa for 15 years and have never had anyone in a position of authority even acknowledge their existence. And I'll also tell you that I think that had you not done the single most powerful thing you've done to deal with this scourge has been acknowledging that Antifa is a real thing. I genuinely believe there would be people at these tables who would be dead today and would have been killed in Portland had you not called them a terror organization and said we're going to bring the full weight of the federal government to bear. I talked to Katie Davis Court in Portland the other day. She'd been assaulted all summer and she said the same thing. that in seems quick to violence as soon as you made that designation. So, they're thinking in their heads, they're worried. There's been two dozen or so arrested in Portland. They don't want to go to federal prison. There's this video of them, one of them who was in the face of an ICE agent and then he's he's in custody shaking. Once you take the mask off, they're nothing. >> And I uh was told by probably a dozen people not to tell you this. I'm going to tell it to you anyway because it's relevant to what we're talking about. I'm living proof that you can recover from TDS. I had strong Trump derangement syndrome for probably eight years. It's one of This is one of the reasons I recovered from it. And by the way, it's much better to not have TDS. I'm happier. I'm healthier, more successful. I even think I got a little more attractive after I got rid of my Trump derangement. Yes. You know, I watched I'm a reporter in Seattle and frankly, I could not care any less what any of you have to say about this meeting. Could not care any less. We're not here for you. I'm not here to convince any of you that Antifa is a real thing. Because if you have not come to that conclusion by now, you are never going to come to that conclusion because you don't want to see it. And you're going to go and you're going to say, "It's a bunch of right-wing conservative influencers who are here spinning a tail. I was one of you. I was a mainstream reporter in Seattle for 10 years. I was a TV reporter on the streets doing my job. And I was still assaulted by Antifa. So, it's not about being conservative. It's about people who go there and show what they're doing. And when I saw after all those years that the media wouldn't be honest about what was happening, that Democratic politicians wouldn't be honest about what was happening, I thought, well, gosh, if they're not being honest about that, maybe they're not being honest about President Trump either. And it opened my mind to just looking at things for what they were. And now I find you quite funny actually. No, I it's like I said, I'm much happier about it. But you know, for me again, I could not care any less the stories that they go to print. This is what I care about. We have three and a half years. Nothing is guaranteed. Although I think if Democrats keep it up, we'll probably have Republican presidents for the next three decades. But nothing is guaranteed. And so what I want to see over the next three and a half years is a fullcourt press to dismantle Antifa once and for all in a meaningful way. I know Andy, we talked before this about some ideas. That's really what we want to I don't care what the media says. I don't care what Democrats say. They will never wake up to this fact. So, we want the federal government to take as many of these cases as possible. Look at the interstate travel between Portland and Seattle when it comes to these uh people who are committing violent acts. Uh and hopefully in three and a half years, >> they will be a shell of their formerelves. >> Very close to done. And it's Antifa and many others. Unfortunately, there are many others, bad ones. Most have been named terrorist organizations. There a couple that we're going to, but I think we've got it pretty well covered, but there are many others, but very specifically today, it's Antifa, and it's really bad, and we're going to get it uh cleaned up. Andy, do you have some? Thank you very much. I'm glad you no longer have TDS. I feel very good about that. >> Fully recovered. >> Thank you. >> U Thank you, Mr. President, and members of the cabinet. I have a lot of gratitude and a little bit about my background. I'm born in Portland, Oregon, from there and growing up it's always been leftwing, very progressive and I liked it. It had cafes and artists and those who lived a bohemian lifestyle and in 2016 I was a graduate student at Portland State studying political science. I was an editor at the student paper there, very progressive paper and I was assigned to cover the election night demonstrations. Well, the elections night protest turned to riots, three days of violent rioting in Portland, and it was the first time that I saw groups dressed in black with their faces covered. This is four years before CO. Some of them were waving the black flag of anarchism, some the red flag of Marxism, and within seconds they would ravage one street to another to another to another. And the next day I would read the legacy media which I still read at that time and looked forward to who and I looked up to those journalists and I was really shocked to see that the narrative was that these in my view anti-democratic political violence was legitimate acts of protest because people were they were concerned about racism or all these other lies. And so for the next four years, I just continued going out with my video camera. I thought, look, people can ignore what I write because of spin, but videos can quite speak for themselves. And in 2019, it led to me nearly losing my life. I was covering another Antifa protest turn riot. At that point, have been routine in Portland. And then I was ambushed in a in a mob beating. And I had never been in a fight. I didn't even realize that I was being assaulted until seconds in. And the punches came from everywhere uh on my head and my face. And I was bleeding out of my eyes and ears. And then they threw all the drinks in my eyes to humiliate me further and to laugh at me. And I was rushed to the hospital in a ambulance and CT scan and I had subacoid hemorrhage which is bleeding in the brain. I nearly died. And after surviving that the reporting that I saw in liberal media was it seemed to suggest that I had deserved it because they branded me far right. Uh and some even went so far as to suggest that I may maybe faked my injuries. um a Buzzfeed reporter asked for my medical records which I did provide but this felt so um it's like because I didn't die in that attack there was another round of people who wanted to finish me off but I I continued and then 2020 um Portland was really the epicenter of the longest political violence those months of riots I was on the ground undercover and there was an assassination there was a supporter of Donald Trump named Aaron Danielson who was shot dead by a self-described Antifa member who then flat out of state and died in a shootout with US Marshalss. Um, in 2021, I returned undercover naively thinking that enough time had passed and uh was chased through the streets of downtown and um beaten uh nearly choked out. Um the person who was choke trying to choke me out held me so tightly that I had the the blood uh the vessels in my eyes burst. So, one of the symptoms where my eyes were completely red after that and I was hospitalized. So, thank you so much for acknowledging Antifa um and for directing your administration to treat them as domestic terrorists. It's going to be really challenging because what they how they organize is that they are decentralized, autonomous, and they operate on deception. And we're still to to this day told that they don't exist, that it's a figment of our imagination. Um, I think the DOJ could look at uh federal conspiracy charges. The state of California and San Diego County last year broke up an antifel in San Diego. Um, and I think maybe perhaps the state department should designate Antifa, its international arm, as a foreign terrorist organization, FTO. So, thank you so much for this invitation, Mr. President. >> Thank you very much, Andy. Great. That's a rough time you had, huh? So, the choke out was uh almost the end. You thought you felt? >> Yeah, that was my only uh near death experience in my life. And I'm quite shaken when I think about it now. Um it it's it really feels unbelievable to me that on the streets of America that this type of violence against citizens could become so routine and accepted and cheered on by people. Although, you know, in the immediate aftermath of Mr. Kirk's assassination, we saw again that type of depravity play out on quite large swats of the left. So there's um there's a deep sickness that's in this country right now and it pains me a lot to acknowledge it. >> Yeah. The amazing thing is you look at Portland and you see fires all over the place. You see fights and I mean just violence. It's just so crazy. And then you talk to the governor and she acts like everything is totally normal. There's nothing wrong. It's It's almost like, are you waking up from a dream or something? You see it on your network? You see it all over the place. And uh it's so bad. It's so crazy. It's like uh the movies you see for the kids, I guess, not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like worse than that. I don't think they could make a movie as bad. And then the governor will get up and say, "I don't know why they're coming here. It's such a wonderful place." And the amazing thing is the people want us to be there. The people when they get the real people that live there, many of them have left, but uh the real people want us to be. The same thing in Chicago. So they've had 60 70 murders over a short period of time. Murders, people that got shot. They've had hundreds of people shot. And then a guy like Pritsker or this low IQ mayor gets up. I mean, he got up. He's got a 5% approval rating. And the people are all against him. They want people to come. Uh beautiful black women are wearing a MAGA hat last night on television. Beautiful people. And they want they said we don't care who comes. Just stop the crime. They don't care. Frankly, they don't care if it's National Guard, military. Send in anybody you want. Stop the crime. And they they they're afraid to go out. They can't even go out. And then a guy like Pritskar, think of that. 50, 60, 70 people over a short period of time murdered. Actually murdered. Mostly gun violence, but knives, but gun violence. They're murdered. And hundreds of people shot. They had one weekend where they had like 18 murdered and 71 shot. But they said, you know what their excuse is? Yeah, but it was a long weekend. In other words, it was a long weekend, so that was okay. And then Pritka gets up and he says like, "Uh, I don't know what they're talking about. We don't have crime here." He They're crazy. I think actually they're petrified. You know, their families live there. Everything else, I actually think they're scared. Pritskar was a failure in his family. They threw him out of the family business. Guy's a loser. But you know what? They actually I believe they're scared. They're actually frightened for their lives. Uh Jack, please say a few words. >> Mr. President, >> Mr. President, thank you so much for having us here today and holding this uh this round table. Antifa is real. Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost a hundred years in some instances going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany. And it's now been just under one month since we saw a far-left murder Charlie Kirk. And we saw thousands upon thousands of people, other far-lefts and and people in positions of of authority, people like like nurses and pilots and doctors and HR departments celebrating the death and the murder of Charlie Kirk. This sickness that's out there is absolutely real. And Mr. President, thank you for mentioning the fact that one of the bullet casings read, "Hey, fascist catch on it." One of the other bullet casings right next to that had Bella Chow written on it. Now, Bellachow is a song that is known in Antifa circles as the international anthem of Antifa. And all of us around the world, around this room that have studied Antifa, we're very familiar with these symbols. And Mr. President, I think the situation is getting worse. When you look at people like Luigi Majioni uh in his 20s, Thomas Matthew Krooks of course who uh took a shot at you, sir, uh the ice shooter in Dallas, and now this Tyler Robinson. We're starting to see a pattern of more and more murderous violence. And this same violence is not just random. It is targeted assassinations, which are getting worse. And every single one of us in this room that goes out there and obviously you as well, sir, and and and all the staff, we are now under that threat every single day. And working there at Turning Point USA, and I've I've spent just about the last month out there in Phoenix with with Erica, with the family, with the team, and I will tell you this, Mr. president. Even though going through something like that, which is an absolute nightmare, and people say, you know, what was it like to speak in front of all those people was horrible. Every second of it was horrible. But we're not going to quit. And Turning Point USA is continuing the tour that Charlie was on. We had 6,000 people when we went back to Utah. We had 5,000 people last night in Montana, if you can believe that. We are continuing to organize on campus. We are getting more and more people coming out in the face of this threat knowing what happened to Charlie. But Mr. President, we need to do something about this because I fear that the next one who could be killed could be sitting at this table right now. And we're not going to stop, but they need to stop and they will not stop until they are stopped. Thank you. >> Thank you, Jack. I appreciate it very much. One one thing I have to say is that Washington DC was almost as bad. I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They they don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows. But most of the retailers have left. But um Washington DC was so bad. And Pam, I'd say it took 12 days to really make it pretty good and a month to make it great. And now people are going out to dinner. The restaurants are booming. They don't have enough seats. They're opening up new restaurants cuz many of them closed and people are walking down the street totally safe. Reporter a reporter I'm not sure if she's there. I can't see so many reporter there. She is. She was violently assaulted and uh I don't know she tends to be somewhat liberal but she wasn't liberal on this one. I appreciated your honesty but uh you won't that won't happen again. It won't happen again. You're lucky you're alive frankly with what happened. I know exactly what took place. So, u Washington DC, our capital. We thought we'd start there appropriately and it, uh, it's safe and people are so happy. They're so happy. And now it's a couple of months. I went to dinner there. I felt totally safe. I gave a press conference right in the middle of the street, which I'm not don't think Secret Service was thrilled about, but you know, I'll tell you what, I wouldn't have wanted to do it six months ago. It's incredible what happened. Now, we're in Memphis. As you know, we're having a great impact in Memphis. It's been uh only a week but it's cash I hear it's been amazing what's happening there uh just very early but uh you take a look at DC and you take a look at some of the other we've had a big impact there what we haven't said because Pritska said well crime is going down in Chicago well uh five months ago cash went to Chicago with a lot of FBI agents just to prepare it so that we went in with I guess you could call it a surge call it whatever you want but would be even more effective And we're going to be doing that and very very strongly doing that because Chicago is a very unsafe city. It's a great city. The head of the Union Pacific Railroad said, "Sir, please save Chicago. It's a great city. It can be saved." Other cities are gone. I mean, they're lost. Uh they can get better, but they're just really they've been so decimated. But uh I'm so proud of what they've done so quickly in DC. and it's taking place quickly in Memphis where we were asked to go by the mayor and by the governor and uh it's it's really incredible what we can do and how fast we can do it. Uh let's go for two more. Would you like to go and then Katie, you'll go. Okay. Please. >> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President, uh for having us here. And you know, not to sound like a broken record, but it needs to be said that Antifa is real. >> It's real. It's a threat. I just saw him last weekend uh over in Portland while they're causing mayhem over there. And the reason why they're such a big problem is because we have Democrats and a lot of people in the mainstream media refusing to acknowledge that they even exist. Right? So how can we as a country begin to address it is when you have large swaths of you know these people who are supposedly decision makers and you people who are supposed to inform they don't want to say that it exists. Um you know because the common who are supposed to inform say that it exists. Um, you know, because the common the common argument is like, well, they're not a real organization because there's no national leadership. They don't have a national headquarters. So, how can law enforcement go after a group that doesn't exist like that? Well, yeah, law enforcement goes after criminal groups that organize to rob banks or do smash and grabs. They don't have a registered LLC. They don't have official membership cards. They don't have, you know, a business address, but they but law enforcement still goes after them because they're working as a group. These people don't just show up, you know, randomly at the same time to do the same thing, dressed in a very similar fashion, espousing the same ideology. And they say, "Well, it's an ideology." It's like, "Well, yes, it's an ideology because there's people alive present that believe in it and they're they're acting on it." And so, I I've been very well aware of what Antifa has been doing. I was very busy during the riots in 2020. Uh, that was probably uh my most exposure to them prior to this year. Um, you know, I've been at I've been at the ICE facility at Broadview. I'm originally from the Chicagoland area, unfortunately, but that's where I that's where I grew up around. Um, like I said, I was in Portland. I was covering the riots in in Los Angeles as well. And uh, probably the one of the most disturbing uh, parts about that is in addition to Antifa being present, there uh, they were tagging the the streets with CJNG, which is cartel no, which is a cartel. So you have these people who are working basically in concert with other terrorist groups to say that we're here, we're president, and we're going to we're going to attack federal agents and people who are going to expose what we do. And so to be clear, political violence, sustained political violence that we're seeing in this country is not a both sides issue. I was uh you know, you know, I was at Charlie Kirks Memorial uh in uh Glendale recently. Conservative gathering, totally peaceful. was the most peaceful gathering that I've been at. Every other time that I've been covering violence in the streets just this year, you know, forgetting just this year, it's always been from left-wing people, radical leftwing people. And it's not even just Antifa anymore. I mean, the the shooting that happened in uh you know, the defensive shooting that happened in in the Chicago area, you know, that wasn't someone dressed in black block. was just somebody that had taken upon themselves to go out and try to interfere and ram federal vehicles. So, people are becoming more and more radicalized. And it was to be expected, unfortunately. And the reason why we're in this position today is because after I was done covering the riots, I was at the border from the San Diego sector all the way down to the real Grand Valley sector covering the border crisis month after month. And we all knew the solution to that. We all knew why it was happening. It's because, well, it's racist to have a border. It's like, well, actually, it's not, but okay. And so it required you to jump back into office and to fix the problem. But it's no longer just a border issue. It's it's it's a nationwide issue. And that's one of the reasons why uh you got elected back into office because thankfully the American people said we're not going to deal with it anymore. But unfortunately there's a lot of people as we've seen who are willing to take to the streets to do violence. And uh that's a scary thing because typically when I was in 2020, you know, I was covering Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle. loves over in Chaz and that was to be expected. Uh but now because the issue of immigration, illegal immigration is so widespread, riots can happen anywhere. Attacks can happen anywhere. So that's why it was weird kind of going back to my home state to cover this violence. I mean, just after the Dallas shooting, they were chanting outside Broadview, shoot ICE, you know, shoot those, you know, efforts. Shoot those efforts. Um so I'll just I'll just leave that. Uh thank you so much again for for having this. You know this this this is uh very dangerous. You know we don't work for companies that have billions of dollars. You know we we're running and gunning often on our own. A lot we became friends. A lot of us are friends because we would see each other all the time and we became friends because we wanted to have someone watch our back while we're out there because we're like I said we're we're just out there and um but we'll continue to do it because it's an important topic. It's an important issue. Uh the American people deserve to know what's happening in these chaotic situations and you know we're more than happy to do it. >> So great job. Thank you very much. Katie, please. >> Hi Mr. President. It is an honor being here today and I first wanted to start by thanking you guys for designating Antifa a terrorist group. It's exactly what this group is. It's a long time coming. I'm an investigative journalist from Seattle. I work for the Postmillennial alongside Andy No and Jack Poic. I have been infiltrating Antifa cells in Seattle and Portland for the past decade. I know their inner workings and Antifa uses extreme political violence to crush the civil rights of their political enemies and believes that violence is justified by any means necessary. But today I want to focus on what is happening in Portland at the ICE facility. I've been covering this for the past four months and this is a call out to corporate media who has completely ignored this story or has falsely reported on it. This is nothing short other than a sustained attack on the United States which is being supported by Democratic elected officials. The Portland Police Bureau has completely abandoned several blocks outside the ICE facility, giving away their jurisdiction to a terrorist group who has spent the past four months harassing, assaulting, and intimidating anyone they perceive to be against their cause. Not only have federal agents been agents been relentlessly assaulted for more than 100 consecutive days, blackclad anarchist militants concealing their identities behind black facial coverings have been assaulting reporters just for trying to cover their crimes. Today, I am sitting here with a black eye and a concussion after being violently hit in the face with a metal pole while reporting outside the ICE facility just this past week. After the attack, I immediately went to a Portland three Portland police officers who refused to detain the suspect. I took the time to chase down the suspect in the streets, had her held for 35 minutes. I was waiting for Portland police to come and they never came. Then that's what opened to my eyes to what this group is actually doing. I watched 20 Antifa militants help my assault suspect escape into an Antifa safe house that is one block away from the ICE facility. And this safe house is where Antifa affiliated protesters are conducting par parliamentary operations. It's where they are resting, they're showering, they're eating to continue this occupation. I have staked out this safe house and have observed shift changes. This group is highly organized. It is being funded through mutual aid groups and they have no plans of stopping. Residents living across the ICE facility have been held hostage by Antifa. They are begging for federal intervention. The city refuses to help and they want you, President Trump, to come in and restore law and order. I want to stress the importance of taking this situation seriously because when I first started reporting on this occupation, I went undercover in Blacklock. I talked to these Antifa militants. I lasted for about a month. They believe that ICE agents are the Nazi Gestapo who need to be killed. They told me that directly and I think that if this situation is not taken as seriously as is, it's just a matter of time before someone gets killed. And thank you for having me. >> Thank you, Katie. That's uh pretty incredible. The only question nobody can answer is why. Why are they doing this? They're like insurrectionists. They're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they what are they gaining other than they're obviously paid they're paid a lot of money? Go ahead, please. >> Mr. President, if I can answer that question, the reason why they're doing it is because the same media that's sitting in this room with us has declared all of us at this table Nazis and fascists and they've been doing this for years. This is why Antifa feels emboldened to attack us now. Almost every single person at this table has been threatened with the steel bat. We've been assaulted. We've been harassed. We've been threatened. And that is in huge part due to the media. So my message right now is for you guys because two years ago in uh or back in 2020, by the way, I was censored for my reporting on Antifa here in Washington DC. You were talking about how safe it is. Now, Mr. President, it wasn't so safe back then. Then back in 2020, I watched as a father was being mobbed and surrounded by Antifa members as his terrified crying children looked on and the port or the police here did nothing. I watched as a woman had her hair violently ripped out of her skull simply for waving an American flag on the streets of Washington DC. And by the way, if you guys try to go and find any of this footage, you won't find any of it because Twitter deleted all of it because our president shared my reporting and they deleted my entire account immediately after. So now, if you want to know what happened in 2020, all you're going to see is the media headlines that said that it was fiery but mostly peaceful. Thanks for that one, CNN. The reality is that it was an extremely violent period of time and for the last 10 years, Antifa has been wrecking havoc on law-abiding and innocent American citizens, and it needs to end. Now, I'm with Turning Point USA. It's an honor to be here, Mr. President. Thank you guys so much. you know, everybody in the administration for giving us a seat at the table because the media has not only been demonizing us for so long, but immediately after the brutal assassination of our founder, Charlie Kirk, our Turning Point USA chapters have seen an uptick in violence across the nation, as Antifa chapters that are embedded in our universities go and target them. It's been extremely difficult to report on the ground. And for a long time, I was afraid to go to Portland because I knew that the only people who would have my back, like Julio said, were one of my friends on the ground because there is no police force there. I was terrified to go because I knew if I got shot or stabbed, and I have been assaulted, I've been mobbed and robbed in Austin, Texas by Antifa, that nobody would come to help me. So my plea to the entire administration, especially to the DOJ, is every single radical left-winger who is in front of the ICE facility in Chicago, in New York, in Portland, please make sure that you use the full force of the law to come after each and every single one of them because it is us being soft on left-wing violence that has fuamented all of uh, you know, the terror that we have seen in this country. And it is the leftwing getting away time and time again with assaulting law- abiding American citizens that has led us to this place. So truly um to the Americans that I speak to on the ground, they feel completely abandoned by their state and local government. So please step in. You have Americans begging for the National Guard and um to the media over here. Please report on the truth. Please do your jobs. I'm an American citizen. Everybody at this table simply views ourselves as American citizens who have an iPhone and the will to actually tell the truth. So, please take your job seriously and tell the truth to the American people. And thank you for letting me be here on behalf of Charlie to continue his legacy of cleaning up the country. Thank you, Mr. President. >> Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Wow. You feel very strongly. I can say >> I'm mad. I got beat up so many times, Mr. President. My friends have gotten beaten up and I want to cry right now from happiness because we have been completely ignored for so long. For almost 10 years, we've been getting assaulted on the streets. I have watched children cry as their parents have been attacked on the streets. That should not be happening at our nation's capital. So please, again, the DOJ, please utilize the full force and go after each and every single one of these people. >> Fantastic. Thank you very much. Great, great job. Impassioned. That's important because you should feel like that. Please go ahead. Mr. President, thank you for uh having us here and bringing together this uh panel of brave brave journalists uh everybody on this side of the room. And uh no one can speak to the violence better than these people here. So uh I think we know that this is not just a story about violence and chaos as you alluded to, Mr. President. This is a money story. And at the Government Accountability Institute, my colleague and I, Peter Schweitzer, and my I and our team, we follow the money and we followed it to the top of what we call the protest industrial complex, Riot, Inc. Uh, and we found a network of NOS's. It's not just the Soros network, the Open Society Network. It's other funding networks, the Arabella funding network, the Tides funding network, uh, Neville Roy Singum and his network, Foreign Cash. Uh and it's also big uh left-wing funders. Some of them are not citizens of this country. Uh Mr. Hansorg Vese of Switzerland. They're pouring money into this entire ecosystem. And so I want to share three money facts with you about what we call Riot Inc. Number one, like uh like any corporation, Riot Inc. has many divisions. It doesn't just have the Antifa boots on the ground division. It has PR divisions. It has marketing divisions. It has a very wellunded legal division to get these boots on the ground back on the streets as quickly as possible. Um, but it does have those investors that I mentioned. Number two, we have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than 100 million dollars from the Riot Inc. investors. These would be the lawyer groups. These would be the groups that advocate for calling good, honest Americans fascists, etc. Uh, and then three, I think the most shocking thing is that we have found that more than $100 million in US taxpayer funding has flowed into these funding networks, including at least $4 million to these very groups themselves. Not just Antifa types, but uh uh there was an event in Atlanta called Stop Cop City. over 60 rioters were charged with domestic terrorism. Uh these groups received money for that uh from both the the billionaire class as well as taxpayer money. So uh one other thing the this money helps fund the decentralized crowdfunding platforms. Uh these are ways that Antifa, the John Brown Gun Club of Elm Fork, which had links to that attack on the ice facility, the Socialist Rifle Association, and just because they don't have LLC's or EIN numbers, doesn't mean they can't get paid. Some of these funding platforms, crowdfunding platforms are funded by this network that we call rioting. So again, I want to thank you for your leadership, for the whole cabinet's leadership on this. Uh, we're going to keep following the money and appreciate everything you're doing, sir. >> Do you know the name of any of the funders? Do you know the names? Because if you do, I'd like you to give them to Cash or Pam. >> Absolutely. >> Or Christie. >> Yeah, we we'll we'll do that >> as soon as you can. That's all of you because you probably know the names. After a certain period of time, you tend to find out. But these are people that do not have good intention for the country and that's uh treasonous probably. So, if you could if you very important if you could do that, that would be great. Nobody would know better than you. You'll figure it out. Uh, thank you. Please go ahead. >> Yeah, my name's uh Nick Shirley. I'm 23 years old. I'm 100% independent YouTube journalist. And over the past year or so, I've been able to go to 15 countries. I've hung out with people in the gangs of Brazil and the FLLAS in the prisons of SKOT. But yet, the most dangerous places I have been have been here in the United States, unfortunately. And I've had the opportunity to show people about the protest Antifa here in the United States. And there is nothing organic about what they are doing here in the United States. I've watched people be bust in from states. I've watched the same lady at a protest in Atlanta be bust to the protest in DC and then in New York City. Uh there's nothing that is honest about what they are doing. And they have signs. I've seen the same signs here in DC and in London as well. It's a big organization and corporation that they're they're running. And people may wonder like what's the threat to us as Americans if we go? Well, you'll be labeled as a fascist. You'll be labeled as a Nazi. And they'll wish death upon you because they wish death upon me. And just last week in Portland, Oregon, I watched a lady get trapped in her car surrounded by Antifa. And her sister messaged me after seeing the video. She said, "The only reason I think my sister was safe is because you were there recording." I also um was chased out by a member of Antifa who said he would smoke me and next thing he knew a DHS sniper had lasers on his chest. If he was not there, who knows what would have happened that day. Uh these people are very dangerous and people wonder how they're able to do it. It's the re the reason is because these these cities are not enforcing the law. And why should these people be worried if the law is not being enforced? And we are not far right, nor are we far wrong. We're just right. And the truth about what's happening here in in America with these groups is very dangerous. And I thank you, Mr. President, and your administration as well for acknowledging that. >> Thank you very much. It's too bad you have to go through it. >> I know it's a little crazy, right, Mr. President? >> Well, you're going to get to the bottom of it, so it's a very important thing you're doing. Thank you very much. Please, Kim. >> Yeah. Um, I've just got something very short. Uh, I'm attacked every time I do my job. When I leave my house to go to work, I am violently assaulted. I've had guns pulled on me. I've been bear sprayed. I've been beaten down. I've been almost killed. So my question for all of you is, how would you feel if every time you showed up to work, masked militants tried to kill you? Because that's how we feel. That's our lived reality. And you guys go and tell us that we're liars, the riots aren't that bad, right? I've never seen any of you guys on the ground. In fact, I've never seen anybody representing the companies you work for on the ground. You guys come to us for interviews that never get published. Stop saying we're lying. We're not. We risk our lives every day to do the job that you guys are too afraid to do. >> What network would you say is the worst that I could ask? >> Oh man. Yes. >> I mean, you know, it's a honestly it's a simple question. It's >> Well, there's a lot of people in this pool and and I would say I'm not talking about Fox. I'm not talking about uh Newsmax or any outlet that resembles them. So, I'll let you guys put the pieces together on who I'm exactly talking about. say which network >> MSNBC for sure. >> Oh, they're terrible. I agree. >> CNN probably close. Yeah. >> Yeah. I' I'd rate it that way. Yeah. MS NBC. It's Brian Roberts. >> Yeah. >> That he allows that to happen is a disgrace. >> Absolutely. >> And CNN is second. >> Yeah. >> I would say CNN is not quite as bad as MS. >> MSNBC is not really sight anymore. >> Oh, MSNBC is sick. >> They're sick. Well, well, sir, it's also just the stories that they publish about what's the ICE enforcement operations that are so heavily slanted that it's no longer, as I was saying, no longer just Antifa, but Americans that are becoming radicalized. So, they've been very irresponsible with how they've been reporting. >> Who is that? >> MSNBC for for example, they're >> Would you rate them the worst? >> Probably second. Well, they ran a story about an operation in Southern California about how a father of three Marines was arrested and they made it seem like they just did it because he's brown. Um, but he there's video of that same man charging at the agents with a weed whacker. Now, I've worked with weed whackers back in the day and I you don't want to be on the receiving end of one of those, so that's why he was arrested, but the story was presented as if it's a brown guy just simply being arrested. And I've been around ICE agents and, you know, I'm a citizen, so you know, I feel fine. But it's just that that's why that it's not just Antifa. It's not happening in a vacuum. It's >> No, it's also working in conjunction. I think they work in conjunction with some of the media. Uh I think ABC is very bad. I think NBC is very bad. And CBS has a new owner. So we have hope for CBS. CBS has a great new owner, my opinion. But uh I I will tell you ABC is terrible. NBC is terrible. NBC's MSNBC, too. You know, they changed it. They moved it over legally so they couldn't be tainted by the words MSNBC, but they are absolutely terrible. There a lot of them. What about independence? >> Independence. >> Independent networks. >> They're a little bit better. But I would say that we're we're an example of how you don't need to be part of a super large company to be able to do just basic journalism. All you got to do is sit and record and you'll let the story play out. And that's that's why that's why they hate us. That's why I watched a level of dishonesty that's incredible where answers are changed if like just before the election an answer was changed by Kamala she gave a horrible uh deathdeying electionefying answer and they took the answer out and they replaced it with another answer that she gave five minutes later having to do with a different subject but at least it wasn't electiondee defying. I know the level of dishonesty with the media is incredible whether it's uh on Antifa or many of the other groups. You know, you're talking about Antifa and I know that's close to your heart because that's the one that's most affecting you. But there are others that are as bad or almost as bad as Antifa having to do with different people, different sections of the world, but it's terrible. We're not going to let it go on in this country. We can not going to let it go on. And a big problem is uh not all of them, but some of the uh networks out there. And you do wonder why. You really do. Okay. Please go ahead. Yeah. >> Um, Mr. President, thank you again. My name is My name is Jonathan Cho. I am an investigative reporter for Front Lines Turning Point USA. I'm also a senior fellow at Discovery Institute in Seattle. And I cover far-left extremism as well as the homeless drug crisis in America. And I find it often times those worlds intersect. And hot off the press is what I wanted to bring to your attention today is a report from Capitol Research Center here in DC in conjunction with Discovery Institute. Uh they just put out this study right now and what it shows is that Antifa is heavily embedded in the homeless and housing nonprofit sector. In many cases, the homeless industrial complex is running cover for Antifa. Antifa is benefiting from American tax dollars and they're essentially being used as the muscle. Let me give you an example. There's a group called Stop the Sweeps in many US cities right now. They get in front of encampment sweeps. What they're doing quietly is they're bringing in Antifa militants to manufacture a crisis to make the police look bad. Another group right now that is behind Antifa and working with Antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're going to give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America, also known as DSA. Again, these far-left progressive groups tend to be aligning themselves with Antifa. So, finally, in closing, what I wanted to thank you again, Mr. president is that a few months ago, earlier this year, you put out an executive order on homelessness and the drug addiction crisis in America and that's sent the entire homeless industrial complex on the run. You have absolutely moved the needle and changed the game. But what's also come out again is that there is a connection, a deeply embedded connection with the homeless housing nonprofit game in America connected to Antifa and the far-left activists. And finally, uh, I just wanted to say that all of our resources at Turning Point USA and Discovery Institute are at your disposal. Uh, and we will continue again to carry on the legacy of Charlie Kirk. He would have wanted us to pursue and chase the story. >> Well, he was a good friend of mine, as you know, and he helped us get elected. Us, it really is us. It's even some of them, but not too many of them. Not enough of them. And did you notice when we mentioned CNN and MS DNC, the cameras went off. Two of the cameras immediately went up, but they're not going to cover it anyway. The problem we have is that this is a very important meeting, but you'll see very little press about it. These are major statements being made by major people, including the people right here, and uh you're not going to see too much about it. They don't like to cover this kind of thing. So, very dishonest what's going on there. I think the press is a big a big factor. Uh please go ahead. Thank you, James. >> Mr. President, thank you so much for having us all here to bring attention to this matter. Um, you know, you did mention MSDNC, CNN, a handful of those other outlets that have been lying about, I mean, various things, but especially what ICE, the brave men and women over at ICE have been doing. I was talking to uh, Antifa members in Portland the other day. And you know, a lot of these people genuinely believe they buy these lies and they genuinely believe that they're fighting against literal Nazis and not brave men and women that are sacri, you know, putting their lives on the line to basically, you know, enforce basic im immigration law, right, that everyone seemed to agree with up until maybe a few years ago, handful of years ago. So, uh, once again, thank you so much for having me. My name is James Klug. While my primary job is traveling around the country having conversations with Americans about various political topics and issues, um, you know, I I I have had a lot of run-ins with Antifa over the last 5 years. And I do think that Antifa is a primary reason why many conservatives are afraid to go out and protest and make their voices heard and maybe bring friends and family to a demonstration and exercise their First Amendment right because they are literally deathly afraid. I talk to these people all the time. They're afraid of militants showing up in Black Block and hurting them and their families. And um you know, I have witnessed I've personally witnessed Antifa assaulting hundreds of police officers. I've witnessed them firebombing police departments and federal property. I've witnessed them uh making death threats against federal agents, police officers, journalists. I think I've witnessed every single person here. maybe maybe not personally, but I've seen them get, you know, hunted down and attacked. And so, um, you know, this is a group that is responsible for a good percentage, if not a majority of the violent riots in 2021 and 2020 when Democrat mayors had a kind of a hands-off approach with these left-wing militants. Just as a quick reminder for everybody, we're talking about dozens of murders that happened in those riots. We're talking about billions of dollars of damage to uh property and communities all over the country. We're talking about thousands of officer injuries. So, this isn't just like some little thing that they're, you know, oh, they punch a journalist here and there. No, they're they're responsible for a lot of damage and uh a lot of people that have, you know, unfortunately died and uh basically suppressing people's voices, you know. And so, uh what I did want to talk about is to get this footage almost every single person in the room here to get this footage. You have to go undercover because you are at risk of being beaten or worse. You have to go undercover. You have to film low-key to capture them committing crimes. This is stuff that the mainstream media was not doing and has not been doing. They'll show when Antifa is maybe it's a little bit more peaceful and they'll show when it's more mellow, but they'll remove the cameras when things get violent and it's actually dangerous to be here. And I have person personally witnessed legacy media vans showing up at a riot 300 yd away, getting out of the vehicle, filming for 30 seconds, saying something like, you know, fiery but mostly peaceful, packing up. And to add insult to injury, you have Democrat politicians that are saying it's just an idea, right? That's all this is. So it's just an idea. After all of this chaos, it's just an idea. Well, that idea has threatened to kill me and many of my friends that are here today. So, uh, Mr. President, thank you so much for bringing this to the forefront and uh it's definitely making a big change. Really appreciate you. >> Uh one question. So why is it there are numerous groups I mean Antifa is terrible but you have other groups that I guess probably are almost as bad or just as bad. Uh not one other group was mentioned. I'm sort of surprised at that. Uh you just come into contact with Antifa. It seems to be that you mostly come into contact with Antifa. please. >> There's a lot of overlap and I would say that for instance, Jonathan brought up the Democratic Socialists of America. They're basically the same thing. I mean, there's a lot of Democratic Socialists of America who are out there in black block, you know, hiding their faces. And so, I think we use, and I do understand, for the record, I do understand the challenge, as Andy pointed out, with Antifa as a graspable entity. I do. Um, but at the end of the day, when you look at behavior, you prosecute behavior, right? We're not prosecuting ideas or ideology, you're prosecuting behavior. So whether you can prove that this amorphous thing is Antifa or someone has a patch that says Antifa, it doesn't matter. You know, did they assault someone? Did they assault a federal agent? Uh, were they engaged in rioting? What is it? And so it's they're always using that, oh well, they don't call themselves Antifa, even though some of them literally do. It's called Rose City Antifa. How long has it been around in Portland, Andy? >> Since 2007. >> They call themselves Antifa in Seattle. I was outside the federal building and they were yelling, "There's no police here. This is Antifa land." And at the same time, Democrats like our governor, "Oh, Antifa is an idea." Um, but yeah, I think Antifa can overlap with a lot of other entities and organizations. >> Okay, very good. Thank you. You know, President Trump, I just wanted to add this real quick because you were asking which mainstream media outlet is the worst. The what I think it's any of them that decided to call Kilmar orgo Garcia Maryland dad because when I'm out there on the street talking to these people, you know, they call Maryland dad is this this human, he's actually a human trafficking uh uh MS-13 gang member that's illegally in the country. But the amount of people on the street that I spoke with that thought that he was a US citizen that was being deported to Uganda is is dangerous. These people genuinely believe based on what comes out of the uh the garbage standing over here that you guys are deporting US citizens. So that's what >> you have a governor like uh Pritsker in Chicago where you have uh Illinois which is in a lot of trouble. Chicago is their, you know, potentially great city again. It's not great now, but it's it could be great again. That's why we have to get there soon because eventually you can't do that. U what makes a man like that say that things are wonderful? Why doesn't he say we love that President Trump is going to come and help us clean up Chicago and make it safe again as opposed to fighting us and pretending that there weren't 50 murders and 200 shootings and all of that? Why why uh why is that? Uh, go ahead, Nick. >> To spite you. To spite you. To spite the administration. That's that's simply what it's about at this point. Because, you know, if you go and talk to some of these citizens, like I I'll use Portland as an example again because I've been there for so long now. You talk to the neighbors that live in the apartments next door to the ICE facility. They are they there are veterans with PTSD that live there and they're here all night long screaming, fireworks being uh lit off by these uh riers. Uh children crying because they, you know, can't sleep at night and they're scared of of of all the noise outside and they can't leave. They can't I mean they got a lease. You can't just just leave. these people aren't wealthy individuals and uh that that's one of the major problems here. These people are afraid to come out and speak out. Uh and they're getting no help from their government at all. They they've been begging for the noise ordinance to be enforced outside of their apartment complex for months now and the city of Portland has ignored them every single time. Uh the the the victims are, as I said, they're afraid, but the governments aren't doing anything because they they want to spite the administration. And it's all political >> and the politicians make you feel like uh like you're foolish, like there's something wrong. How could President Trump be saying that about Chicago? And yet the night before you see that, you know, 11 people were shot, five people died, and you have him talking about like it's a wonderful situation. It's they make y