According to FBI Director Christopher Wray violent white supremacists are a domestic terrorist threat
the White House’s anti-antifa messaging push while testifying in front of the House Homeland Security Committee. “It’s not a group or an organization. It’s a movement or an ideology,” he said, explaining that “folks who subscribe or identify” with antifa do not operate at a national level, but instead organize “regionally into small groups or nodes.”
When asked about the greatest domestic terrorism threats facing the U.S., Wray did not name antifa. Instead, he cited the kinds of violent extremists historically more likely to side with the president. “Within the domestic terrorism bucket, the category as a whole, racially motivated violent extremism is, I think, the biggest bucket within that larger group, within the racially motivated violent extremist bucket,” said Wray.
Wray did make a statement in line with what Trump officials have said about investigating members of antifa along with other extremists: “To be clear, we do have quite a number of properly predicated domestic terrorism investigations into violent anarchists, extremists, any number of whom self-identify with the antifa movement, and that’s part of this broader group of domestic violence extremists that I’m talking about,” he said. ”But it’s just one part of it.
about antifa, including that there was an “entire plane filled up with looters, the anarchists, rioters” flying from city to city “looking for trouble” during the height of the protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In August, Senator
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