WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Trump administration is ramping up its efforts to trace the funding behind Antifa. At the President’s Antifa roundtable on Wednesday, officials described the coordinated campaign to expose the networks they believe are fueling nationwide unrest.
The roundtable featured several cabinet members and independent journalists. Including Katie Daviscourt, who described recently being assaulted by Antifa in Portland, Oregon.
Today I am sitting here with a black eye and concussion after being violently hit in the face with a metal pole,” Daviscourt said. “I watched 20 Antifa militants help my assault suspect into an Antifa safehouse that is one block away from the ICE facility,” she added.
Among those also in attendance, Seamus Bruner, Research Director at the Government Accountability Institute. He echoed administration officials that unmasking Antifa will require tracing its finances, which he says he and his team did.
We followed the money and we followed it to the top of what we call the protest industrial complex,” said Bruner.
Bruner described what he calls “Riot Inc.” A corporate-style operation equipped with boots on the ground, marketing and legal support.
Dozens of radical organizations that have received more than $100 million from the Riot Inc. investors,” Bruner told the roundtable.
Bruner also pointed to GAI investigations, which showed coordination across cities like Portland, Oregon, Seattle and Chicago, involving people who were paid and transported to participate in the unrest. Specifically, naming some major funding sources like George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
The Arabella Funding Network, The Tides Funding Network, Neville Roy Singham and his network,” said Bruner.
Designated as a domestic terrorist organization, Antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, is an ideology, not necessarily an organization. But it’s been accused of organizing or encouraging violent riots, most notably during the 2020 “defund the police” protests and the more recent attacks against ICE facilities.
Bruner urged the IRS and Office of Management and Budget to review or revoke tax-exempt status for nonprofits that are misusing funds. Adding federal authorities could use RICO statutes to target networks.
