In September, I was the first to report that the U.S. intelligence community was actively investigating the terrorism activities of foreign Antifa groups. Background leading up to today's FTO designation by the State Department:

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The U.S. State Department has, for the first time in history, designated four extremely violent foreign Antifa groups as FTOs—Foreign Terrorist Organizations. This is a formal, legal designation that would criminalize membership or involvement.

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The designation comes after Antifa-linked militants also targeted a Turning Point USA event taking place at UC Berkeley in California.

German Antifa terrorist group Antifa Ost (aka Hammerbande) is among the four groups designated by the US State Department as FTOs (Foreign Terrorist Organizations). The Antifa Hammerbande carries out brutal mob beatings on targets with melee weapons across national lines in Europe. Antifa rioted for years as their ringleader, social worker student Lina Engel (pictured below), was prosecuted and ultimately convicted for attempted murder in a series of attacks from 2018–20. The group would break their victim's bones, including a victim who had a skull fractured. Engel received only a five-year sentence. One of the alleged Italian members (Ilaria Salis) was being prosecuted in Hungary. To help her escape being convicted, the Greens and Left Alliance party had her become their candidate for the European Parliament. She won, thus granting her diplomatic immunity. The case had to be dismissed. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c2951521594598f02f309a521e97688021c700a41c7a43fd36dd2ea02f76c3e2.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f7b7bb5ffe04623f7d9388b461da4dd666036d749a9965f15b228231ffde2353.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8c04a6bf9feecfb8f7978b194fcc3c28b4038158d7f3a3ad9be512565e763fd5.file

RT @StateDept@twitter.com: Anarchist militants have waged terror campaigns in the United States and Europe, conspiring to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization through their brutal attacks. The State Department will designate these four Antifa groups as Foreign Terror Organizations:

Thank you, Sec. Rubio. The four Antifa groups sanctioned so far are among the most violent in Europe. One of the accused terrorist members is an Italian woman (Ilaria Salis) who escaped prosecution in Hungary by gaining diplomatic immunity by becoming a Member of the European Parliament for the Greens and Left Alliance party. Hungarian prosecutors accused her of being part of Antifa Ost/Hammerbande, which jumped and beat people in Budapest with weapons. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/68bf46305a0d1efb4947464b802d49c814f3b78ec150dd6ea26b85fa38c9cc85.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/dbd55c9ee2c235397c98bcff834a7fa780bdc25462e3d9265c8ed082ad88af15.file

When I spoke at the White House last month, I recommended to the President & his cabinet that the US government look into designating foreign Antifa groups as FTOs. Today, the State Department took that step by designating four Europe-based Antifa groups as terror organizations.