5 highlights from Trump's Antifa roundtable: 'Protest industrial complex'

2. Antifa's ties to ‘homeless industrial complex’ 

Jonathan Choe, an investigative reporter for Frontlines Turning Point USA, who's also a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, shared information from a newly released report published by the Capital Research Center and the Discovery Institute, which found that “Antifa is heavily embedded in the homeless and housing nonprofit sector.”

“In many cases, the homeless industrial complex is running cover for Antifa,” he said. 

“Antifa is benefitting from American tax dollars, and they’re essentially being used as the muscle,” he explained. “There’s a group called Stop the Sweeps in many U.S. cities right now. They get in front of encampment sweeps. What they’re doing quietly is they’re bringing in Antifa militants to manufacture a crisis to make the police look bad.” 

While Choe expressed gratitude for an executive order signed by Trump designed to address homelessness and drug addiction, which he praised for sending “the entire homeless industrial complex on the run,” he noted that “what’s also come out again is that there is a connection, a deeply embedded connection, with the homeless, housing nonprofit game in America connected to Antifa and the far-left activists.”

Choe named the Democratic Socialists of America as another group that is closely affiliated with Antifa.