Opinion

DEVINE OP-ED: The Dems Are Letting Antifa Take Over Their Cities — Trump is Right to Send in Federal Troops to Maintain Order

posted by Hannity Staff - 10.09.25

By Miranda Devine

It’s been five years since the nation was terrorized by Antifa militants rioting, attacking cops, throwing Molotov cocktails, setting streets ablaze, breaking shop windows, vandalizing cars, targeting journalists and hurting innocent people.

They used the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police as an excuse for strategic mayhem designed to destabilize Donald Trump’s first administration and strike fear in the hearts of law-abiding Americans, some of whom wrongly thought that if they voted out Trump, the pain would stop.

In one sense, they were right.

Store owners on Madison Avenue boarded up their windows before the 2020 election in preparation for another bout of violence if Trump won.

But it was all sweetness and light when Joe Biden was installed in the White House.

The price of peace is giving the left what it wants — the destruction of this country.

Biden was happy to oblige, most notably by deliberately enabling an invasion of 10 million to 20 million illegal aliens, a disproportionate number of whom seem to be criminals, gang-bangers and child molesters.

Now that Trump is again in charge, the calm is over.

Antifa is back with a vengeance.

This time their target is Immigration and Customs Enforcement and all the federal agents trying to undo Biden’s border crimes by searching out and deporting criminal ­illegal aliens.

It’s a dangerous job, but it has to be done if law and order in this country means anything.

Democrats have placed themselves squarely on the wrong side of public opinion and no amount of lies and gaslighting will work this time.

Trump Mark 2 has designated Antifa a terrorist organization and has sicced his entire administration on destroying it.

That means not just arresting the black bloc militants and their zombie comrades, but attacking the source of their funding.

‘Paid anarchists’

“These are agitators, anarchists, and they’re paid,” he said Wednesday at a White House roundtable with Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, Homeland Security boss Kristi Noem and a group of independent journalists who have been attacked while trying to report on the violence.

“They are paid anarchists.”

The president then foreshadowed a crackdown on the people who fund Antifa — including, he revealed shockingly, potentially some of the unnamed wealthy people with whom he has had dinner.

“We are going after Antifa criminals and all who fund and support their campaigns. [They] are in serious trouble, and we have a lot of records already, a lot of surprises, a lot of bad surprises, people that you would never think … probably some of the people I know, some of the people I dine with.”

Noem paid tribute to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has been quietly investigating Antifa’s shadowy funding networks, alongside the FBI, Homeland Security and the intelligence community.

Bessent is “getting to the bottom of these funding mechanisms and individuals who are perpetuating this violence on our American cities,” said Noem.

Bessent’s office on Wednesday refused to comment on what he has discovered, but Trump promised that all would be revealed in due course.

It will be a relief to find out who has been funding these violent groups that appear for all the world to be the Dem street militia.

How else to explain years of Democrats gaslighting us and Democratic governors and mayors covering for Antifa.

Revolting liar Pritzker

Portland and Chicago are emerging as epicenters of anti-Trump resistance, with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker their unlikely general.

No more revolting a liar will you ever find.

He and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are endangering the lives of ICE and Border Patrol personnel by calling them Nazis and withholding police backup even as gang members place bounties on the heads of federal agents.

The two have created a permission structure for Antifa — and the drug addicts, homeless crazies and disaffected loners coerced to join them — to do their worst while ordering the cops they control to stand down.

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