President Joe Biden thinks Antifa is an “idea.” New York Representative Jerry Nadler thinks it’s a “myth.” Washington, D.C.’s, cops beg to differ. They believe it’s very, very real, and very, very dangerous.
The assessment is contained in a trove of documents that hackers leaked after a ransomware cyberattack on the department.
Tweeted by journalist Andy Ngo, who knows Antifa’s terror tactics first-hand, the documents show that police in the city don’t see the group in quite the same way as top Democrats and leftist media stars.
The Docs
The documents went public after the city refused to pay money to Russian cyberattackers called the Babuk group, the Associated Press reported. The outfit released thousands of pages that included material from the FBI and Secret Service.
Included in the dump were the Antifa documents from which Ngo excerpted for tweets.
“Antifa — the movement is a conglomeration of left-wing autonomous, militant anti-fascist groups in the United States,” the documents say. “The principal feature of antifa groups is their use of direct action.”
That, of course, means terrorist violence, and when necessary, beatings of the type Ngo himself has suffered.
Continued Ngo’s excerpts:
They [antifa] engage in varied protest tactics, which include digital activism, property damage, physical violence, and harassment against those whom they identify as fascist, racist, or on the far-right.
They [antifa] tend to be anti-capitalist & they are predominantly far-left & militant left, which includes anarchists, communists & socialists. Their stated focus is on fighting far-right & white supremacist ideologies directly, rather than through electoral means.
Antifa’s allies in the Democrat Party and leftist media don’t want the public to know how dangerous the group is. But D.C.’s cops summed up the threat it poses in one sentence: “This group by far is the most violent we have dealt with over the years.”
Continued the assessment:
As you all are aware during the Inauguration of President Trump this was the group that destroyed property, assaulted any Trump supporter they ran into includ[ing] the elderly. They have no moral compass on who they go after.
Ngo wrote that the department’s “key conclusion” was this: “If you do not believe in what they [antifa] believe in, you are a target of violence.”
“Whoever compiled the report understands the most important things about antifa,” Ngo rightly concluded.
Biden, Nadler
That differs somewhat from what Biden and Nadler think.
During his first debate with Donald Trump last year, Biden claimed that Antifa really didn’t exist when Trump said most political violence was coming from the radical Left.
“Somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the Left because this is not a right wing problem this is a left wing,” Trump said.
“His own FBI Director said unlike white supremacists, Antifa is an idea not an organization,” Biden replied, mangling what FBI chief Christopher Wray said.
Two months earlier, Nadler said likewise. “That’s a myth,” he said of the group.
Biden’s “idea” and Nadler’s “myth” sent Ngo to the hospital in June last year, an attack for which he sued the group for $900,000. In December, a judge rebuffed an attempt to squelch the case and ruled that it can proceed.
Also last year, a member of the mythical group, Michael Forest Reinoehl, who proclaimed “I am 100% Antifa,” murdered Trump supporter Aaron Danielson in Portland, Oregon. Police killed Reinoehl in a shoot-out when he refused to surrender.
In 2019, police killed another terrorist affiliated with the “idea,” Willem Van Spronsen. He threw several incendiary devices at vehicles and tried to blow up a propane tank at a detention facility operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
