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Why the White House’s ‘antifa roundtable’ took an exceedingly weird turn
Trump administration officials made bizarre claims related to antifa that were rooted in the idea that it’s an actual organization. It really isn’t.
At one point during the White House’s “antifa roundtable,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made comments she treated as important. “One of the individuals we arrested recently in Portland was the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa,” the secretary boasted, “and we’re hoping as we go after her and prosecute her, we’ll get more and more information about the network.”
Arrested who? For what? How does any of this work?
But to fully appreciate just how weird this White House conversation was, consider that Noem also took the opportunity to accuse four Democratic officials — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson — of “covering up” terrorism. NBC News reported:
‘I was in Portland yesterday and had the chance to visit with the governor of Oregon and also the mayor there in town, and they are absolutely covering up the terrorism that is hitting their streets,’ Noem said during a roundtable about antifa that Trump held at the White House this afternoon. ‘These leaders in these local cities, along with Pritzker and Johnson, ignore what’s going on, or, sir, they’re helping antifa cover it up,’ she added.
Antifa is committing regular terror attacks and we just don't know about it because democrat politicians are covering it up?
How does that work?