Trump: “We’re Doing A Big Thing With Respect To Antifa, It’s A Sick Group”
During an interview with FOX News host Martha MacCallum on Thursday night, President Trump
MARTHA MACCALLUM: A lot of things out there, and you have this executive order now that we just heard about on political violence and hate speech, and you want to make Antifa a terrorist organization. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They are. MARTHA MACCALLUM: Do you believe there is a vast terrorist movement in the United States that people need to be aware of, and is it responsible for Charlie Kirk’s killing, the attempts on your life, these CEOs that we saw in New York City? Is there something we need to understand? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We will understand and we will find out maybe, but in the meantime we will do a big thing with respect to Antifa. It’s a sick group. We have a lot of things. They love burning the American flag. It’s terrible that they burn the American flag. We are going in and saying it incites riots and therefore you go to jail for one year to burn the American flag. It’s different than Antifa, but Antifa burns a lot of American flags. Because, as you know, free speech covers the American flag. The courts have ruled free speech, so we will go to court on that. MARTHA MACCALLUM: (Interrupts) The worried- PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They have an American flag and it starts burning and the people go crazy about it and they end up rioting all over the place. We think that is the reason also, and we are going into the courts with that, which is incitement. Antifa causes tremendous incitement and the things that they say and do are horrible. We will find out. MARTHA MACCALLUM: You said millions and millions of dollars are going toward some of these groups for agitation. Who are they? Where is the money coming from? Foreign entities? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You will find out and we will find out in great detail. It surprised me that Biden- it really became hot over the last three or four years. It surprised me that Biden wouldn’t do it, but then as I got to know him-first of all, even call the shots-but as we got to see what was happening in Biden’s group, Antifa plays perfectly for them.
