By Jared Evan

Behind the Masks: Trump Takes On America’s Domestic Terror Threat

President Trump’s recent roundtable on ANTIFA wasn’t just another political statement — it was a long-overdue reckoning with the violent far-left movement wreaking havoc on America’s streets. For years, masked agitators have set fire to cities, vandalized property, and assaulted law enforcement under the guise of “resistance.” But, as Trump’s roundtable revealed, ANTIFA is far more than a collection of rogue anarchists: it is a coordinated, well-funded network of NGOs, ideological operatives, and foreign-backed financiers — a modern “Riot Inc.” engineered to destabilize America.

🚨The beginning of the end for Chaos, Inc.?
The Government Accountability Institute has mapped how non-governmental funding networks intersect with protest and activist movements across the US. The chaos and unrest spreading across this country, especially the ongoing anti-ICE… pic.twitter.com/IQlYwAKWuW

— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) October 8, 2025

Seamus Bruner, Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute, broke down the sprawling mechanics of this protest industrial complex. As he explained to President Trump, ANTIFA has evolved from a decentralized collective into a globalized enterprise, complete with sophisticated funding channels, messaging operations, and political allies. Among the financiers named by Bruner was tech billionaire Neville Roy Singham, currently under congressional investigation for allegedly funneling money to American-based protest groups at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party.

Bruner’s revelations were supported by Jonathan Choe, a journalist at the Discovery Institute, who detailed how ANTIFA’s organizing hubs on the West Coast intersect with the “homeless industrial complex” — taxpayer-funded nonprofits that profit from permanent social decay. Cities like Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles have become laboratories for this dangerous merger of chaos and cash flow.

🚨 @elonmusk is RIGHT! @seamusbruner and our team is still following the money and the numbers keep getting bigger. SHUT IT DOWN! Must read @zerohedge. pic.twitter.com/TFALe4HH5z

— Peter Schweizer (@peterschweizer) October 9, 2025

NGOs, Billionaires, and the Permanent Protest Industry

The evidence shows that ANTIFA is not spontaneous street chaos; it is carefully engineered. ZeroHedge reported that Arabella Advisors, a dark-money network tied to some of the most powerful progressive operations in Washington, funded the recent “No Kings” protests. These events, marketed as peaceful demonstrations, predictably devolved into violence: federal buildings were vandalized in Los Angeles, a protester was shot in Salt Lake City, and in Minnesota, two state lawmakers were killed while two others were critically wounded.

Bruner warned that tackling ANTIFA’s foot soldiers alone is insufficient. The real solution lies in dismantling the infrastructure behind them — the NGO networks, offshore foundations, and billionaire backers that bankroll the permanent protest industrial complex. According to Bruner, dozens of radical organizations have received more than $100 million from these networks. Political allies, including members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — formally linked to ANTIFA since their 2019 national convention — are now running for major offices in cities like New York, embedding this radical ideology directly into the political mainstream.

Mainstream Media: Complicit in the Cover-Up

While Trump and researchers like Bruner work to expose ANTIFA, the mainstream media have actively sought to downplay or deny its existence. Coordinated talking points have been issued to journalists and entertainers, scripting a narrative designed to mislead the American public about the domestic terror threat.

As journalist Tom Elliott noted on X, high-profile media figures from Jimmy Kimmel to Whoopi Goldberg have read nearly identical scripts in a synchronized effort to rewrite the facts on ANTIFA. Civil terrorism expert Jason Curtis Anderson pointed out that the DSA is effectively ANTIFA, making the media’s misinformation campaign all the more deliberate.

New talking point directive just issued #AntifaDoesntExist pic.twitter.com/1BbAe8ql0q

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 10, 2025

The pattern is unmistakable: the same establishment media that assured the public that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” that COVID came from nature, and that there was no border crisis, are now defending and hiding ANTIFA from scrutiny.

🚨 Rutgers Professor Calls for “Militant Resistance,” Then Flees to Europe

For years, Rutgers professor Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, has openly defended political violence as part of “anti-fascist resistance.” In a recent interview, he even admitted… pic.twitter.com/tMbTr1zCfu

— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) October 9, 2025

The Human Cost of Leftist Chaos

The real-world consequences of this networked radicalism are severe. In Portland, Oregon, an ICE facility endured a multi-hour riot. In Los Angeles, “No Kings Day” protesters assaulted officers with bricks, rocks, and fireworks. Across the country, local law enforcement has been repeatedly targeted, with injuries and fatalities mounting. This is not mere political expression — it is domestic terrorism, funded by billionaires, orchestrated through NGOs, and shielded by media allies.

Mark Bray, the self-proclaimed ANTIFA historian and Rutgers professor, even fled the country after being publicly named in Trump’s roundtable. The panic underscores the movement’s recognition that its operations are finally being exposed.

Trump’s Strategy: Target the Network, Not Just the Foot Soldiers

President Trump deserves credit for forcing the conversation into the open. But as Bruner emphasized, dismantling ANTIFA requires a dual approach: a “bottom-up” crackdown on street-level agitators and a “top-down” campaign targeting financiers, nonprofit executives, and academics who turn activism into an industry. Only by cutting the financial and organizational lifelines of these radical networks can the permanent protest industrial complex be dismantled.

The stakes are clear: ANTIFA is not simply a group of masked vandals. It is a visible node in a much larger, coordinated attack on America’s values, security, and political institutions. Its enablers — billionaires, NGOs, and a compliant media — have operated in the shadows for far too long.

Conclusion: The Fight to Restore Order

With the Trump White House leading the charge, the veil of ANTIFA’s secrecy is lifting. Researchers, journalists, and federal authorities are now documenting the vast networks behind domestic unrest, exposing foreign influence, and holding accountable those who profit from chaos. Meanwhile, the mainstream media’s attempts to distort or deny the threat only reinforce their own complicity.

America faces a choice: continue allowing radical networks to operate unchecked, or support a decisive strategy that dismantles both ANTIFA and the infrastructure that sustains it. The exposures from Trump’s roundtable show that the fight is winnable — if the nation has the will to follow the money, prosecute the organizers, and tell the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it is for the media elites.

ANTIFA is real. It is organized. And for the first time in years, the truth about America’s domestic communist threat is finally coming to light.