5 highlights from Trump's Antifa roundtable: 'Protest industrial complex'
3. Designation as terrorist group is making a difference
The roundtable discussion also featured testimonies from several journalists who have covered Antifa, including Brandi Kruze.
Kruze said she's been covering Antifa for 15 years before crediting Trump’s decision to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization with saving lives.
“I genuinely believe there would be people at these tables who would be dead today and would have been killed in Portland had you not called them a terror organization, and said we’re going to bring the full weight of the federal government to bear,” she asserted. “They’re thinking in their heads, they’re worried. There’s been two dozen or so arrested in Portland. They don’t want to go to federal prison.”
Kruze recalled her conversation with Katie Daviscourt, another reporter who participated in the White House roundtable and was recently assaulted by Antifa activists. She agreed with Kruze in observing that, after the president's designation, “they didn’t seem as quick to violence as soon as you made that designation.”
Kruze also mentioned a recent video of an Antifa rioter who was “in the face of an ICE agent” and then “he’s in custody, shaking. Once you take the mask off, they’re nothing.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
