The Dems are letting Antifa take over their cities — Trump is right to send federal troops to maintain order

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 heart 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 they want — 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 Task Force 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 Democrat governors and mayors covering for Antifa.

Revolting liar Pritzker

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

No more revolting a liar you’ll 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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Standing down is what post-George Floyd police in blue cities specialize in.

In blue cities like Chicago and Portland, cops have effectively been neutered.

Good cops have been replaced with DEI hires, lazy time-servers and social justice-types.

A case in point is what happened in Portland last week to Nick Sortor, one of the citizen journalists invited to Trump’s ­Antifa roundtable.

Portland police ignored the ­Antifa type who gave Post Millennial journalist Katie Daviscourt a black eye by hitting her with a flagpole.

But they wasted no time arresting Sortor, throwing him in jail and charging him with disorderly conduct after an Antifa mob surrounded him and pushed him to the ground.

The confrontation was caught on video showing Sortor being accosted by a short fat white guy in a black robe and mask, barking in his face: “Get the f–k out of here, white boy, get out of here or I’ll f–k your ass up.”

Others shrieked: “Get the f–k out or I’ll slam your head on the pavement.”

Sortor finally pushed the guy away.

Then he was shoved hard by someone and fell backward into a ditch, breaking his camera.

At least the local DA decided to drop the charges against Sortor, who has 1.2 million followers on X, conceding that Sortor acted in self-defense.

But his ordeal revealed that Portland police are in bed with the anarchists.

In footage Sortor posted on social media last weekend, he shows Portland police allowing militants to shut down streets and direct traffic around the ICE facility, while a local restaurant manager begs cops to let his customers pass.

Who’s in charge here?

“I don’t know why they’re allowed to control traffic,” says the man identified by Sortor as the restaurateur.

“Well it’s their event” replies a uniformed Portland police “liaison” officer.

“But you guys are the police,” says the manager.

“Correct, but we have a different task to do, and we can only do so much with four people,” says the cop.

“But there are 10 other cops that just went by [on bikes].”

“Different group,” replies the cop before requesting permission of the self-anointed traffic cop militant for the Spaghetti Factory’s customers to get past.

Under orders from their Democrat masters, these cops have crossed over to the dark side.

Trump has laid out exactly whom they are protecting: a “terrorist network just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas,” as Noem put it.

“They are just as dangerous, they have an agenda to destroy us just like the other terrorists we’ve dealt with for many, many years, and today is the day that we have a president that won’t tolerate it and will stand up and fight for the American people.”

The battle lines are drawn.

Time to choose which side you are on.