{"id":35012,"date":"2019-07-28T07:49:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=35012"},"modified":"2019-07-28T08:01:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T00:01:25","slug":"us-president-trump-is-considering-labelling-antifa-a-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=35012","title":{"rendered":"US President trump is considering labelling Antifa a terrorist organization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, July 28 \u00a0(NNN-AGENCIES)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0US\u00a0President Donald Trump said Saturday he is considering labelling far-left anti-fascist group Antifa a terror organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 &amp; others),&#8221; Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Would make it easier for police to do their job,&#8221; the president added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has repeatedly criticized the far-left group, recently calling them &#8220;sick, bad people&#8221; at a North Carolina rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Bill Cassidy introduced a resolution in mid-July calling for the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The senators characterized members of the movement as &#8220;terrorists, violent masked bullies who &#8216;fight fascism&#8217; with actual fascism.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the resolution, they cited an assault on conservative journalist Andy Ngo during a demonstration in Portland, Oregon, late in June which saw clashes between left-wing and right-wing protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a leading Jewish group focused on hate crimes, it is unclear how many active members the Antifa movement, which it calls a &#8220;loose collection of groups, networks and individuals,&#8221; has in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president has previously drawn outrage for saying there were &#8220;very fine people on both sides&#8221; during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which saw a demonstrator being killed by a man with a far-right history as ultra-nationalists and progressive counter-protesters clashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> NNN-AGENCIES)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, July 28 \u00a0(NNN-AGENCIES)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0US\u00a0President Donald Trump said Saturday he is considering labelling far-left anti-fascist group Antifa a terror organization. &#8220;Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 &amp; others),&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}