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The man suspected of shooting up a Mormon worship event in Michigan on Sunday, killing at least four and leaving the structure burned out, "hated" people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon church.
That's according to Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary for President Donald Trump.
Trump earlier decried the additional attack on "Christians" in America, and society in general puts the organization and its members among the widely considered "Christian" church.
He said, "This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America. The Trump Administration will keep the Public posted, as we always do. In the meantime, PRAY for the victims, and their families. THIS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COUNTRY MUST END."
Some leaders of other Christian groups, however, point to the extra-biblical teachings adopted and accepted by the Mormons to challenge that assumption.
Christianity.com has posted a response to that exact question with a blunt answer.
"The answer to that question is easy and straightforward: 'no.' Nevertheless, even as the question is clear, the answer requires some explanation. The issue is clearly framed in this case. Christianity is rightly defined in terms of 'traditional Christian orthodoxy.' Thus, we have an objective standard to define what is and is not Christianity," it wrote. "We are not talking here about the postmodern conception of Christianity that minimizes truth. We are not discussing Christianity as a mood or a sociological movement. We are not talking about liberal Christianity that minimizes doctrine or sectarian Christianity that defines the faith in terms of eccentric doctrines. We are talking about historical, traditional Christian orthodoxy.
"Once that is made clear, the answer is inevitable. Furthermore, the answer is made easy, not only by the structure of Christian orthodoxy (a structure Mormonism denies) but by the central argument of Mormonism itself – that the true faith was restored through Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century in America and that the entire structure of Christian orthodoxy as affirmed by the post-apostolic church is corrupt and false."
It is suspect Thomas Jacob Sanford, a Marine veteran who served America's military in Iraq, who was shot and killed by police to end the attack in
Detectives said the still were documenting what could have been a motive in the violent attack in which the suspect rammed the church with a truck, then shot up parishioners and even lit the building on fire.
Leavitt explained, "From what I understand based on my conversations with the FBI director, all they know right now is that this was an individual who hated people of the Mormon faith. And they are trying to understand more about this, how premeditated it was, how much planning went into it, whether he left a note, all of those questions have yet to be answered, but certainly will be answered by the FBI."
At least four people died in the attack and at least eight others were hurt.
The attacker died when he engaged police in gunfire.
Christianity.com also added, "Christians do respect the Mormon affirmation of the family and the zeal of Mormon youth in their own missionary work. Christians must affirm religious liberty and the right of Mormons to practice and share their faith."
Upon his nomination to the role of FBI director, Kash Patel vowed to clean house and eliminate left-wing bias perceived to have taken hold among agency leadership in recent years.
It appears that Patel is making good on that promise amid reports that the FBI has fired a number of agents who were seen kneeling during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in the nation’s capital, as Breitbart explains.
Details of the dismissals were reported by the Associated Press, which cited three individuals familiar with the situation.
According to the outlet, the firings impacted agents who had been reassigned in the spring, and though the total number of affected employees was not disclosed, sources suggested it was somewhere around 20.
The agents in question were photographed taking a knee during the aforementioned demonstration, an event which followed the police-involved death of George Floyd, which sparked destructive protests in cities across the country.
Images of federal agents kneeling in apparent solidarity with sometimes-violent demonstrators sparked outrage at the time, though some observers took a more charitable view of their decision.
Those defending the agents’ conduct suggested that kneeling amid the protests was a means of de-escalating what had regularly become dangerous scenarios over the course of that summer.
The administration’s prior decision to reassign the agents at issue was viewed as part of President Donald Trump’s push to rid federal agencies, particularly those involved in law enforcement and intelligence matters, of woke ideology, and the dismissals have amplified the voices of White House critics.
Not surprisingly, the FBI Agents Association has weighed in, blasting the agents’ firings and suggesting that litigation and congressional investigation are in order.
“As Director Patel has repeatedly stated, nobody is above the law. But rather than providing these agents with fair treatment and due process, Patel chose to again violate the law by ignoring these agents’ constitutional and legal rights instead of following the requisite process,” the union said in a statement.
The union also declared, according to NPR, “Patel’s dangerous new pattern of actions are weakening the Bureau because they eliminate valuable expertise and damage trust between leadership and the workforce, and make it harder to recruit and retain skilled agents -- ultimately putting our nation at greater risk.”
The FBI, for its part, did not offer comment on what were described as personnel matters, and the specific identities of fired agents were not immediately available.
These dismissals come amid a broader personnel reshuffling at the FBI under Patel, with a series of top-level officials also facing ouster in recent weeks, as Fox News explains.
Three former agents recently filed suit over their own respective job losses, alleging that current agency leadership has exhibited blatant disregard for the law to exact retribution on behalf of the president, but whether those claims will eventually prevail in court, only time will tell.
Depending on whether or not President Donald Trump ultimately approves it, Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan, who claimed the lives of 13 people during a shooting spree in 2009, could get the first military death penalty in six decades.
According to Fox News, the Pentagon is reportedly preparing to request that President Trump authorize the death penalty for Hasan, which would mark the first military execution in over 60 years.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is fully behind the decision to put Hasan to death, saying he's "100% committed" to making sure the convicted killer is sentenced to death.
Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 after he was convicted by a jury.
Hasan is one of four death row prisoners under military jurisdiction, and if his execution is approved, it could pave the way for the others to meet the same fate.
In 2009, Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people and wounded 32 more.
Fox News noted:
Hasan entered Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center armed with a semi-automatic pistol and opened fire on fellow service members preparing for deployment.
During his subsequent trial, Hasan admitted to the shooting and claimed it was necessary to protect the "Islamic Empire" from American forces.
Secretary Hegseth provided a statement to Fox News Digital.
"I am 100% committed to ensuring the death penalty is carried out for Nidal Hasan," Hegseth told the outlet.
He added, "This savage terrorist deserves the harshest lawful punishment for his 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. The victims and survivors deserve justice without delays."
Users across social media responded to the news of the potential military execution.
"This deranged murderer has live 16 years longer than the 13 military members he killed.
Whatever the Trump administration determine as his fate is fine by me as long as it’s the most harsh punishment and deterrent out there," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "Don't ever forget that the Obama Administration classified this as 'Workplace Violence' initially, and many were therefore unable to get combat benefits. This was sheer madness and the compliant lapdog press gave him a pass on this as usual"
It'll be interesting to see if Trump signs off on the request. Clearly, many believe it's about 16 years in the making.
Former FBI Director James Comey faces a maximum of five years in prison if found guilty on charges stemming from allegedly making false statements to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and obstructing justice, News Nation reported. Comey testified before the committee on September 30, 2020, regarding the FBI's investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 election.
A grand jury indicted Comey on Thursday, finding that he allegedly falsely denied that he "authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports" about the 2016 case during the campaign. Trump was accused of colluding with Russia to help him win the 2016 election, a charge which later proved to be patently false.
Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated the indictment with a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday. "No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case," Bondi wrote.
No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) September 25, 2025
According to Fox News, Comey will be arraigned on Oct. 9 in front of District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff. The criminal investigation began in July to uncover whether Comey had lied to Congress after Trump was embroiled in the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation.
Special counsel Robert Mueller looked into the investigation and found in March 2019 that there was no proof of any collusion or conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin. Armed with that information, Special Counsel John Durham was appointed to investigate the origins of the investigation that dogged Trump throughout the 2016 campaign and into his presidency.
As many suspected, Durham concluded that the FBI "failed to act" on doubts despite a "clear warning sign" that Hillary Clinton's campaign made the FBI the "target" of a scheme to "manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes" during the campaign. This all but proved the entire investigation was a politically motivated witch hunt that was used in an effort to keep Trump out of the White House.
Still, Comey claims that he is the victim of political targeting, having been allegedly held accountable for only a small part of the injustice. "My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way," Comey claimed in a video post to Instagram.
"We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either," he went on. "My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I’m innocent, so let’s have a trial and keep the faith," Comey later concluded.
As Comey makes himself a martyr, the media dutifully reports his indictment as an example of Trump targeting his political enemies. However, as Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary under George W. Bush, expertly demonstrated in a post to X Friday, this is a blatant double standard from the press.
"I don’t know if James Comey is innocent or guilty, but I do know that when the Biden DoJ indicted Trump aides Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, the WP and NYT treated it as straight news, not as Biden going after his opponents. But now, it’s all about Trump getting his enemies," Fleischer pointed out.
Contrast it with these headlines today: pic.twitter.com/NZC3OAwlbD
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) September 26, 2025
The media consultant shared screenshots of several headlines from the news outlets when then-President Joe Biden's administration started going after Trump's former aides and associates. In another post in the thread, Fleischer shared headlines from the story about Comey's indictment, where those same outlets called it part of his plan to "prosecute foes" and called Comey a "longtime Trump target."
The left tried to destroy Trump with investigations, prosecutions, and smears in the media thanks to people like Comey. If he's guilty, Comey deserves to serve every day of his sentence for what could have amounted to election interference and, at the very least, for trying to destroy Trump's reputation
No matter how hard one tries, it's never really possible to erase something from the internet.
The latest example: footage of would-be President Donald Trump assassin Thomas Crooks dry-firing a weapon in his bedroom that quickly disappeared off the internet after he was killed by a Secret Service sniper were unearthed and posted on Candace Owens's podcast on Wednesday.
Cell phone video showed a handgun lying neatly atop Crooks's made bed, then progresses to him picking it up and taking a tactical stance as he dry-fires it at a real or imaginary target off-camera.
A second, shorter video showed Crooks again dry-firing the weapon, this time looking even more menacing than before.
Crooks, 20, shot President Donald Trump in the ear during a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally in August 2024.
The bullet was intended to kill Trump, but only grazed his ear when he turned his head at the last minute.
Crooks's digital footprint showed that he had been obsessed with assassinations, mass shootings, guns, and explosives.
As far back as 2019 when he was only about 15 years old, he made violent comments on YouTube videos.
Despite frequent internet searches on these topics and his comments, Crooks had not come to the attention of the FBI or other law enforcement before the assassination attempt.
Based on this information, it seems as though Crooks's motive was infamy or the ability to accomplish an assassination of his own, not any particular ill will toward Trump.
His violent comment in 2019 pertained to chopping the heads off anti-Trump Democrats, which makes one wonder why he would target Trump at all.
It may have just been a case of opportunity knocking when Trump decided to do a rally in Butler, near Crooks' home outside Pittsburgh.
The chance to act on his obsession was just too tempting to pass up, I guess.
Given that he is dead, we may never know what motivated him to try killing Trump.
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Law enforcement investigators digging into the shooting at a Dallas ICE facility this week, allegedly by the now-dead Joshua Jahn, 29, say he had threatened federal officers with "real terror," had an affinity for video games and specifically was targeting law enforcement when he killed and injured detainees.
Handwritten notes found after the suspect's death revealed he, at one point, threatened, "Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, 'Is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?'"
Reports also confirm he had spent thousands of hours, a total of about 17,500, playing video games.
And he searched for details on "Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management" and watched the "Charlie Kirk Shot Video."
Jahn was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after three detainees were gunned down at the facility used by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. No officers were injured, but authorities say that's who Jahn allegedly was aiming at.
A report in Time said he had been firing "indiscriminately" at officers when he hit the detainees.
"While authorities have yet to state an official motive, they also said that they found bullets inscribed with the words 'ANTI-ICE' near Jahn's body, prompting President Donald Trump and administration officials to call the shooting an attack on the institution over his hardline immigration agenda," the report said.
It describes a suspect who had two siblings and lived with his parents as recently as a few months ago.
Online resources said his father retired in 2020 after 36 years working at an elevator firm.
"Speaking to a local NBC News outlet, Jahn's brother Noah said he and Joshua were Boy Scouts who grew up in Allen, a northern Texas suburb. Jahn was unemployed but had taken an interest in coding, his brother added," the report said.
Authorities have searched two homes, one in Fairview, Texas, and another in Durant, Oklahoma.
The suspect apparently had attended some college classes years ago, and had worked for a time with a solar energy company.
A report from a Fox affiliate said evidence found after Jahn's death showed a "high degree of pre-attack planning."
FBI agent Joseph Rothrock said, "Jahn specifically intended to kill ICE agents. He fired at transport vehicles carrying ICE personnel, federal agents, and detainees. He also fired multiple shots into the windows of the office building, where numerous ICE employees do their jobs every day."
"He wrote that he intended to maximize his lethality against ICE personnel and to maximize property damage at the facility. He hoped to minimize any collateral damage or injury to the detainee and any other innocent people," said Nancy Larson, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas. "He also hoped his actions would give ICE agents real terror of being gunned down."
The shooting suspect apparently hauled a ladder atop his car to the scene where he accessed a building roof to carry out his shooting.
Larson added, "I want to address the heroism of our federal agents. Yesterday, while under fire, ICE agents and ATF agents who were also present in the facility, the sally port Area worked together to remove detainees from the vans and get them to safety while the bullets were flying. These agents were heroic, clearly willing to lay down their lives to save the lives of the detainees in their custody. And that's an extremely important point to make at this point in time. I want to express my deepest appreciation for the bravery of these law enforcement officers yesterday and every single day that they go out there to keep us safe."
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For years, ever since the January 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capital, a protest intended to raise questions about the legitimacy of the Joe Biden presidential race win, a protest that turned violent for a percentage of the protesters and included a police officer shooting and killing an unarmed Ashli Babbitt, there have been questions about what the FBI did to instigate trouble.
After all, that was the FBI that had falsely created a "Russiagate" investigation of President Donald Trump on no more than the desire of failed Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, whose scheme to link Trump to Moscow has been explained to Barack Obama.
Now a report in the Blaze reveals the bureau had 274 plainclothes agents embedded in those crowds.
"Disclosure by the FBI to Congress answers a long-simmering question but does not reveal what the agents did that day," the report explained.
"A senior congressional source said the number is not necessarily a surprise, since the FBI often embeds countersurveillance personnel at large events. But given the FBI's until-now steadfast refusal to disclose the level of its presence at the Capitol, the figure might still be viewed with skepticism in some quarters."
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General previously has claimed the FBI had no "undercover personnel" in the crowds that day when they were protesting the election. That election was the one impacted by at least two undue influences.
One was Mark Zuckerberg's decision to interfere by handing out $400 million plus to local elections officials who often used the cash handouts to recruit voters in Democrat districts. The second was the FBI's decision to interfere by telling media corporations to suppress information about Biden family scandals documented in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop. The FBI knew, at the time, the scandals were true, and a subsequent polling discovered that had that knowledge been reported routinely, enough voters would have withheld their support from Biden to cause him to lose the election.
It was in 2024 that the OIG said, "We found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6."
The report noted that same report conceded there were 26 FBI "confidential human sources" in the crowd that day, including several who participated in illegal actions by entering the Capitol building after police closed it down.
There was a Democrat-biased committee assembled by ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi several years ago assigned to "investigate" the events that day. Its members orchestrated evidence and testimony in order to place blame on President Donald Trump.
One of the factors involved was that Pelosi refused to seat GOP nominees for the committee, instead insisting on picking only her own candidates.
Now there's a new committee, led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga.
He said, "With that many paid informants being in the crowd, we want to know how many were in the crowd, how many were in the building, but I also want to know, were they paid to inform or instigate?"
Previously court testimony already had listed nearly 50 FBI agents and others from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, U.S. Army counterintelligence and others who were on hand.
The report noted, "Undercover Metropolitan Police Department officers have acknowledged inciting the crowds by helping protesters climb over barriers, encouraging them to continue on to the Capitol, and applauding those committing vandalism."
A report at the Gateway Pundit pointed out former FBI Director Chris Wray "lied and lectured House Republicans for accusing the FBI of planting informants/operatives/agents inside the massive crowd of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021."
The report said Wray testified to Congress in 2023 he "does not believe" undercover FBI agents were on hand.
It came during a confrontation with Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Biggs said at the time Wray would be "held accountable," a phrase that has taken on new meaning with this week's indictment of ex-FBI chief James Comey for obstruction and lying to Congress.
The publication said it previously had identified "20 different confirmed incidents and operations involving federal, state, and local government operatives who infiltrated the massive Trump crowds…"
Vice president J.D. Vance confirmed rumors that Wednesday's deadly attack on an ICE facility was carried out by a "left-wing extremist," Breitbart reported.
The 29-year-old suspect, Joshua Jahn, is said to have fired indiscriminately at the ICE facility in Dallas, killing one detainee and injuring two before turning the gun on himself. No law enforcement officials were harmed in the attack.
.@VP SLAMS Democrats for their constant demonization of ICE agents: In Dallas, Texas, an ICE facility was opened fire upon by a violent left-wing extremist... We know this person was politically motivated.
"It is time to STOP the rhetorical assault on law enforcement." pic.twitter.com/KLAnRSB8UU
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 24, 2025
As news of the attack began spreading online, some on the left speculated without evidence that a bullet engraved with the simple message "anti-ICE" had been planted by the FBI to frame Trump's political opponents.
This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.
While the investigation is… pic.twitter.com/SMOyxiKLqA
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 24, 2025
FBI director Kash Patel shared further updates Thursday, saying Jahn wrote a note about creating "terror" for ICE agents.
The suspect had also searched the gruesome video of Charlie Kirk's assassination and looked up information about ballistics, Patel said.
Democrats responded to the shooting by condemning "dehumanizing" rhetoric toward immigrants, although the evidence suggests that ICE agents were the intended target.
"No one in America should be violently targeted, including our men and women in law enforcement who protect and serve our neighborhoods, and the immigrants who are too often the victims of dehumanizing rhetoric," House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY), Whip Katherine Clark (MA) and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar said in a statement.
Republicans say Democrats are responsible for the attack, citing a pattern of rhetoric from the left comparing ICE agents to soldiers of an authoritarian regime.
Hours before the shooting, Governor Gavin Newsom (CA) compared ICE to a "private domestic army."
Democrats have also pushed to require ICE agents to go mask-less, and left-wing activists routinely threaten to expose agents' identities.
During a speech in Charlotte, North Carolina, Vance said there is a difference between criticizing the administration's policies and demonizing people who work for the government. Those who attack law enforcement can "go straight to hell," Vance said.
"In Dallas, Texas, an ICE facility… was opened fire upon by a violent left-wing extremist, a person who wrote ‘ANTI ICE’ messaging on their bullets,” Vance said. “And there’s some evidence that we have that’s not yet public, but we know this person was politically motivated.”
Trump has also weighed in, demanding that Democrats dial down their rhetoric immediately.
"This violence is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to 'Nazis,'" Trump wrote in a social media post.
"I AM CALLING ON ALL DEMOCRATS TO STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW!" Trump added.
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The FBI has confirmed that the suspect in this week's sniper attack on a facility used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in Dallas, a suspect now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot, had wanted to deliver "real terror" to the federal law enforcement agents.
The confirmation came in a statement from FBI chief Kash Patel about the shooting that left ICE detainees dead and injured, but no federal officers were hurt:
He confirmed the FBI in Dallas and at its headquarters "have been working 24/7 to seize devices, exploit data, and process writings obtained on location and in the subject's person/residence/bedroom."
The suspect has been identified in several documents at Joshua Jahn, 29.
Patel said, "The perp downloaded a document titled 'Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management' containing a list of DHS facilities. – He conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the 'Charlie Kirk Shot Video' between 9/23-9/24. – Between 8/19-8/24, he searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents. – One of the handwritten notes recovered read, 'Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, 'is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?" – Further accumulated evidence to this point indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning."
Jahn is thought to have "fired indiscriminately" at the ICE building on Wednesday morning.
ICE detainees were being loaded out of a van when the gunfire erupted, authorities said.
Authorities confirmed one of the bullets left behind by the suspect was engraved with the phrase "ANTI-ICE."
WND had reported the violence follows a months-long campaign by leftist politicians and their supporting media corporations to unleash inflammatory rhetoric about President Donald Trump's agenda for border security and the deportation of illegal alien criminals.
"This vile attack was motivated by hatred for ICE," charged Kristi Noem, Homeland Security secretary. "For months, we've been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed.
"This shooting must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences," Noem said.
In fact, on Rumble, a video of leftist California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasting ICE was posted just hours earlier:
The FBI said the attack happened early Wednesday morning and involved multiple gunshots.
Gov. Greg Abbott said his state supports border security and deportation efforts, and the shooting "will NOT slow our arrest, detention, & deportation of illegal immigrants. We will work with ICE & the Dallas Police Department to get to the bottom of the assassin's motive."
Noem chided those in leftist campaigns who demonize immigration authorities.
"Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences," she added. "The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night."
Newsom's state actually launched a campaign to ban ICE agents from wearing masks to conceal their identities – to prevent attacks on their families.
Federal authorities said that since state officials have no authority over federal officers, Newsom's campaign means little.
Activist Laura Loomer confirmed, "I did a background check on Joshua Jahn, the ICE shooter in Dallas, Texas. Joshua Jahn's profile picture from his now-wiped Facebook page, per the background check results, reveals ANTIFA and communist imagery. The profile photo is of an armed communist with the hammer and sickle. The text reads GLORIOUS EXPOSITION, COMRADE. He also has a previous conviction for selling Marijuana. Proof this was Leftist political violence against ICE officers.":
The link between leftists advocating for actions against ICE and the shooting, however, was noted over and over.
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Antifa, that organization of radical extremists that pushes for leftist causes, already has been blamed for riots, vandalism, arson and mayhem across America.
It calls itself Antifa, for anti-fascist, under the odd political positioning that claims conservatives such as President Donald Trump are, in fact, fascists. It's part of the extremist agenda fabricated by leftists that calls conservatives "Nazis" and Trump "Hitler."
Antifa appeared shortly after Trump was elected in 2016, and subsequent damage from riots related to Antifa has been costly for American cities and states.
It primarily fights Trump's agenda to restore America's security, economy and influence, and more
Already, Trump has designated the group members as domestic terrorists.
"Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law," he said in his signed order. "It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists."
And it could be getting much worse for the leftists and their agenda very soon.
A report in the Washington Examiner reveals that American Antifa cells actively have been receiving funds from an international antifascist network, and U.S. national security officials reportedly are moving toward a foreign terrorism classification for Antifa abroad.
"Antifa International, an antifascist cohort helping far-left militants connect to local Antifa cells or operate their own, is one of the international networks providing material support to Antifa operatives in the U.S. by way of its bail fund," the report said.
It confirmed, "The International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund, a project of Antifa International, effectively serving as its funding arm, pays for the legal defense of arrested antifascists 'anywhere in the world,' including the United States."
Members of an Antifa group in Texas are accused of attempted murder, terrorism and organized crime for an incident in which an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility was shot up in July. The report confirmed Antifa International allocated $5,000 for the suspects' legal defense.
A blog posting by the international organization said, "The stakes could not be higher for our friends." And it describes such funding as "money well-spent."
The international group boasts, in scorecard-type announcements, about results, such as "Anti-Fascists 2, Authorities 0."
The report documented the international organization assembles its cash through online campaigns and promotes them with merchandise like hoodies and flags.
"The organization's online store sells 'KILL FASCISTS' shirts and clothing specific to member chapters, such as Central Oregon Anti-Fascist Action; the Atlanta Antifascists; and the John Brown Gun Club's Texas-based Elm Fork branch, which reveres a radical pre-Civil War abolitionist who raided a federal armory in a violent slave revolt," the report said.
And Antifa International was endorsed by Torch Anti-Fascist Network, which has regional chapters all over the U.S.
The current "domestic terror" designation from Trump allows federal law enforcement to investigate, and "disrupt and dismantle" illegal operations by Antifa-related operations, including action against the funders. But the criminal cases would have to involve other allegations, such as arson, vandalism and such.
The additional designation would actually criminalize "involvement in terrorist activity. U.S. persons caught knowingly providing material support to foreign terrorists could face criminal liability, including up to 20 years in prison. Among other consequences for sponsors of foreign terrorism, the U.S. government can freeze assets, cutting off the funding flow and thereby financially crippling operations," the report said.
The report said now the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is looking at Antifa's transnational links, according to sources for investigating journalist Andy Ngo.
The Examiner said, "A framework already exists for the State Department to target a decentralized transnational network, even one connected mainly through social media."
That's courtesy of Joe Biden, who labeled Terrorgram, a collection of neo-Nazis operating primarily online, as "Specially Designated Global Terrorists."
Subsequently, Terrorgram leaders in California were charged, and pleaded guilty, to federal criminal charges.
In his earlier designation, Trump charged, "Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members. Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech. This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism."