Trump announces ‘sick, dangerous’ Antifa will be designated ‘a major terrorist organization’

It’s unclear when Trump plans to make the designation official or what legal weight it will carry. 

Unlike for foreign terrorist organizations, the US government does not currently have a mechanism in place to designate domestic terror groups. 

Trump similarly said he would slap Antifa with a terror designation in 2020, in response to major riots in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. 

The Justice Department, at the time, directed additional resources to apprehend and charge “violent radical agitators.”