Summertime and Antifa was Uneasy

Clarice Feldman – Summer’s almost over. Have you noticed how peaceful it has been compared to the last few years? This calm is particularly remarkable since ICE activity is at an all-time high and the mid-term elections are right around the corner.

Dismantling USAID certainly put a crimp in these orchestrated demonstrations. But there was more behind the cutback, notes Jeff Childers at Flopping Aces. He credits Secretary Scott Bessent’s close examination of nonprofit organizations being used as conduits to move illicit funds to support political terrorism:

On July 16, Bessent spoke at a State Department event organized by Marco Rubio. “Increasingly,” he said, “legitimate nonprofit and charitable structures are being exploited as a mechanism to conceal the movement of illicit funds to support political terrorism.” Then he dropped the hammer. “In the fall, the United States designated four far-left Antifa extremist groups abroad as foreign terrorist organizations.” Continue reading →