The Antifa: Stories from Inside the Black Bloc

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction | The Trump -Wray Conversations

1 | The Rise

2 | The True Believers

3 | The Manifesto

4 | Whitewashing Antifa

5 | Deploraball

6 | The Black Bloc

7 | Anarchist Assassin

8 | Weimar Antifa

9 | The State Religion

10 | Red Ulrike

11 | The Children Of Mao

12 | The Sixties

13 | Guiding Lights

14 | The Rojava Revolution

15 | Campus Ground Zero

16 | Woke, Inc. and other Useful Idiots

17 | The Boogaloo Boys

18 | From Chaz To Lincoln

19 | Domestic Terrorists

20 | Outlook Assessment

Appendix

Bibliography

INTRODUCTION

THE TRUMP-WRAY CONVERSATIONS

President Trump had had it. The Director of the FBI, Chris Wray, was sitting across from him as the president leaned forward on the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office, arms-crossed. Director Wray shrugged and put his hands in the air like all middle managers do when they don’t have a good response to the boss. He then proceeded to get chewed out because President Trump, or the Boss as staff called him, hates when people shrug in response to his questions.

Antifa, they’re a non-factor, pleaded Wray, citing the extremism/domestic terrorism database compiled by FBI analysts working in the cubicle farms of the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

That’s a damn lie, Chris, and you know it, shot back the president. I see this stuff night after night on Twitter. We’ve got Homeland Security up in Portland getting attacked by gangs of these thugs and you’re going to sit there and tell me it’s not happening?

Wray paused, looking out the window, searching for something to say. Sir, we’re working on it he ended up going with.

We’ll see, responded the President with his characteristic New York sarcasm.

It was the morning after the October 28, 2020 rallies in Arizona, and the President was putting Wray on notice, as he had many times before, according to interviews I had conducted with multiple administration officials with Oval Office access.

According to a senior White House official of the Trump administration, this was the latest in a series of three occasions that the President and Wray had butted heads over the subject of Antifa. The first time was at the height of the Floyd riots around the country, and the second was during the height of the federal courthouse attacks in Portland. The official told me, It mostly consisted of Wray playing them down as a minor inconvenience with no real training, even though we know about People’s Protection Units (YPG), or saying the FBI can’t got after a political ideology, or playing them off like a bunch of anarchist LARPers. Wray would say Fox and OAN were exaggerating. He got tag-teamed by the Boss and O’Brien every time, and always promised to come down harder after every scrap but obviously never did.

The fact that the director of the FBI would push back against a direct request from the president, as well as his national security advisor is disconcerting, to say the least. This factor becomes even more troubling in light of the fact that during Wray’s tenure in January 2021 he mobilized the full force of the FBI to track down non-violent MAGA protesters nationwide.

I have received dozens of reports of peaceful MAGA-supporting families and individuals who received knocks on their door from their local FBI field office simply for attending a rally for President Trump in Washington, D.C. These supporters participated in first-amendment protected activity exercising their civil rights in the nation’s capital, and ended up under the aegis of federal law enforcement. Why would Chris Wray balk at investigating violent anarchists while sending teams of FBI field agents after peaceful MAGA supporters? Why is the FBI crowdsourcing the ID of peaceful MAGA teenagers but disinterested in investigating and prosecuting the perpetrators of the 2020 riots? What it comes down to is the prioritization of resources within the bureau, the same way every department of the federal government is run. Simply, the federal government is biased towards targeting right-wing groups rather than left-wing groups. This derives from a number of factors, but a strong component of it is single-source media consumption by those who live in the Beltway and truly run the government of the United States: the interagency bureaucracy.

Throughout President Trump’s first term in office, he had often highlighted the dangers of Antifa’s form of domestic terrorism, a phenomenon which first appeared on the 2016 campaign trail at Hillary’s DNC in Philadelphia, and eventually culminated in the attack on Trump’s inauguration in Washington D.C. in January 2017.

Beginning in Trump’s second year in office, he began focusing on Antifa as a potent force for destabilization of the country, and also one that was directly attacking his supporters in the streets and in their homes.

However, what has never-before been reported are the conversations between President Trump and Chris Wray in which the FBI director balked at designating Antifa a domestic terror threat and frequently undermined this initiative of the 45th president. For this chapter, I interviewed current and former officials of the United States government, from the White House, the National Security Council, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and US SOCOM (Special Operations Command).

The picture that emerged as to why the U.S. government was reluctant to take action against the Antifa movement, despite their repeated acts of fatal violence, was the result of confirmation bias and bureaucratic mismanagement. That is a fancy way of saying the feds refused to take Antifa reporting seriously and refused the order of the president of the United States. For anyone who has followed national politics in recent years, this should come as no surprise. The intelligence community lied to President Obama and Congress for years about the extent of their domestic surveillance programs, only to be exposed by the leaks of Edward Snowden. The same intelligence community then spent the first two years lying to the world about President Trump to falsely accuse him as a Russian asset, only to be exposed by independent investigations.

The intelligence community is run by rent-seeking bureaucrats all vying to lie, cheat, and fail their way into making the next rank and one day winning the ultimate prize of attaining entry into the highest caste, the Special Executive Service (SES). There is no real oversight of the intelligence community, as they long ago learned how to selectively leak to their media allies in order to secure ever-increasing budgets from congress and compliance from whoever is elected president. Recently, this dynamic has evolved into former leaders of the intelligence community actually becoming so-called expert contributors themselves on establishment outlets such as CNN and MSNBC. Using these outlets as mouthpieces, the intelligence community is able to exploit their information-warfare expertise to shape domestic narratives among U.S. citizens and drive government action favoring their interests.

During the Trump era, the American left embraced these information narratives peddled by the intelligence community, making strange bedfellows for a political movement that had recently stood against endless overseas wars and domestic surveillance operations.

What the intelligence community understood was that many in Washington D.C. on both sides of the aisle had begun to outsource their personal responsibility to the assessments and reporting of so-called experts. Rather than taking the time to dig in and understand an issue, a report is placed on a congressman’s desk, or a briefing is conducted, generally with staff, and their decisions are essentially made for them. Since nearly the entire D.C. bureaucracy, which includes the intelligence community, is made up of liberal Democrats, this becomes an issue. Much of this comes from firsthand knowledge from my years serving in the intelligence community in Washington DC, as well as interviews I conducted with current and former members for this book.

One active member of U.S. SOCOM told me "the Beltway intel community is one big circle [expletive]. They read the Washington Post every morning, watch CNN all day, and consider themselves informed. They never consider the fact that they might be getting information from bad sources. He continued, Look at 2020. You had looters and Antifa tearing up American cities every night of the summer, biggest riots since LA, but FBI barely even mentioned them. All these kids come in with criminal justice or poli sci degrees and think that counts as real-world experience, but they wouldn’t even know how to clear a corner."

I asked what sorts of reports were coming in during 2020. He said, Well all the analysts were working from home because of COVID so they really only had access to unclassified. So they’re sitting home using Google and CNN to write OSINT (open source intelligence) and everyone wants to write about the same Q Anon or white supremacist nut so we end up with 15 reports about one event and the SES thinks it’s some kind of crisis. Then they brief the director about it, and then he goes to congress and tells them it’s the biggest threat in the country.

The intelligence community has fallen for the trap of circular reporting in the past, when the CIA falsely reported to the Bush Administration that Iraq had active weapons of mass destruction program. This led to a chain reaction of ruining the credibility of the institution, as well as thousands upon thousands of avoidable deaths. Following this disaster, the intelligence community was supposed to put in safeguards to protect it from every happening again. No such safeguards were ever put in place, and instead the intelligence community grew at an even faster pace, so that now multiple agencies may be producing overlapping reports and analysis based on the same thinly-sourced raw intelligence. It is this same circular reporting that intelligence leaders exploit to shape narratives by selectively leaking to media, and then using the media reports as further confirmation of their preferred conclusions. This is the exact same dynamic that led to the Iraq War.

It is due to this same dynamic that President Trump’s request for security on January 6th, 2021 was denied. As reported by both Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller in Vanity Fair and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in an interview, President Trump ordered 10,000 troops from the National Guard to be activated to defend Washington D.C. on the date in question when he held a rally on the Ellipse outside the White House. Instead of deploying the soldiers, the Pentagon balked, in the same way that Wray balked at the president’s order to deploy assets against Antifa as domestic terrorists. The Pentagon reportedly was worried about the optics of deploying the National Guard on January 6th, as they had been criticized by establishment media and Democrats for deploying the National Guard during the Floyd riots over the summer of 2020 in Washington D.C. The fact that the leadership of the United States military is terrified of criticism from media and politicians not in the chain of command should be a wakeup call to the nation about the current state of the brass within the Pentagon following eight years of liberal Democrat governance and a corporate management-style embrace of woke ideology over the basic tenets of war-fighting and national security.

In fact, this dynamic has become such a threat to national security that officials in the all-powerful bureaucracy known as the interagency will refuse to act on their intelligence if it conflicts with the prevailing view. I will show later in the book how it was a Department of Homeland Security memo that reported they had obtained overwhelming evidence of Violent Antifa Anarchist Inspired involvement in the Floyd riots in Portland, specifically the nightly attacks on the courthouse. Yet at the same time, the FBI director was denying it to President Trump.

From the July 25th DHS memo: We have overwhelming intelligence regarding the ideologies driving individuals towards violence and why the violence has continued. A core set of threat actors are organized, show up night after night, share common TTPs and drawing on like-minded individuals to their cause.

As the Floyd riots began, the New Jersey Department of Homeland Security and Preparedness produced the following assessment of Antifa extremists. On June 1st, 2020 they published:

The nationwide protests resulting from the death of George Floyd have given Antifa-affiliated anarchist extremists the opportunity to infiltrate protests in order to further their violent ideology.

On May 31, President Donald Trump announced that the US government would designate Antifa as a terrorist organization, although there currently is no domestic terrorism statute that could label it as such. Attorney General William Barr stated violent incidents in Minneapolis were driven by groups using Antifa-like tactics. Barr vowed that prosecutors across the country would use federal riot statutes to charge protesters who cross state lines to participate in violent rioting. Federal law defines terrorism as a criminal attack intended to intimidate and coerce civilians in order to influence government policy or otherwise affect government conduct.

According to open source media, an initial New York Police Department (NYPD) analysis indicated that of those arrested in the New York City protests, one in seven people were from outside areas, including from the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Iowa, Nevada, Maryland, Virginia, Texas, and Minnesota. The NYPD stated agitators had planned violent interactions and vandalism ahead of the weekend rallies demanding justice over Floyd’s death, which occurred in Minnesota on May 25.

Yet, despite state and federal agencies collecting the intelligence, in the end, President Trump’s efforts on Antifa anarchists were delayed and blocked by the same interagency bureaucrats that stymied much of his agenda during his first term in office. This dynamic was exacerbated by the biased leadership of the interagency and their tunnel vision-like worldview derived from CNN and the Washington Post rather than following the evidence where it lies. To the interagency bureaucrat that runs our government, stepping out of line beyond the realm of what is the accepted and preferred narrative is like trying to breathe without air. Despite the interests of the victims of Antifa violence, the interagency cares little for them, as long as it does nothing to challenge their grasp on power. And, because the interagency has significant overlap with academia who, frankly, are pro-Antifa, this creates and echo chamber which permeates our government.

There is a reason you rarely see Antifa challenge the actual power structure in the United States.

Those in power use Antifa as their shock troops to go after anyone who challenges them.

ONE

THE RISE

The riots began at the end of May, and by the end of August nearly every state in the country had been hit. The pandemic lockdowns had everyone on edge, and then a viral video of a suspect dying in police custody was the spark that lit the fuse. It was the summer of 2020. Riots raged in Minneapolis, from there, spreading to the West Coast, and flaring to the East. Cities like Portland and Seattle saw protests, then mobs of violent activists appear overnight. In Chicago, New York, St. Louis and Philadelphia, looters took to the streets, smashing storefronts and stealing their pick of what was inside. Cable networks and smartphone screens alike filled with scenes of violence and carnage across American streets. Statues of America’s founders and religious figures were toppled. Lafayette Park outside the White House filled with occupiers who set fire to a historic church.

Amidst the mayhem, a singular force emerged; black-clad militants joined in the fray from city to city, urging protesters to go further, to cross the line. In some cases, armed militia wearing patches and flying flags of red and black appeared, chanting that they now controlled the streets. The coronavirus pandemic had forced mask-wearing in many American cities, and so the militants easily weaved in and out of the larger crowds that summer. Pallets of bricks and construction materials sitting out on city streets became caches of weapons. By the end of the summer, over 30 people had been killed in the riots. Nearly 700 police officers had been injured nationwide. Damages were estimated in the billions across the country, the highest in American history.

Most people who participated in the summer riots of 2020 were supporting the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, who for the most part peacefully exercised their First Amendment right. But another force attempted to infiltrate BLM, a force dedicated to overturning the establishment through a violent insurrectionist revolution.

This was the Antifa.

An internal memo released from the Department of Homeland Security dated July 25, 2020 explained the situation as it related to the city of Portland, which weathered some of the most violent riots:

"Starting now for Portland, replace the V.O. definition accompanying our FIRS (field intel reports) and OSIRS (open source intel reports) to VIOLENT ANTIFA ANARCHISTS INSPIRED (VAAI). Why? Myself and I&A leaders have been reviewing the Portland, FIRS, OSIRS, baseball cards of the arrested and FINTEL as well as the Ops info. The individuals are violently attacking the federal facilities based on these ideologies.

We can’t say any longer that this violent situation is opportunistic. Additionally, we have overwhelming intelligence regarding the ideologies driving individuals towards violence and why the violence has continued. A core set of threat actors are organized, show up night after night, share common TTPs, and draw on likeminded individuals to their cause."

The memo went on to state:

Here is the VAAI definition which will be applied from now forward: Threat actors who are motivated by Anarchist or ANTIFA (or a combination of both) ideologies to carry out acts of violence against state, local, and Federal authorities and infrastructure they believe represent political and social ideas they reject.

- Acting Undersecretary for Intelligence,

Department of Homeland Security

America had seen this movement’s violence the previous summer. On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts, dressed in black and clad in body armor, walked into Ned Peppers Grill in Dayton, Ohio, and opened fire with a semi-automatic .223 caliber long gun. Before police killed him, he had murdered nine people, including his own sister, and injured 27 others.

As in many such cases, Betts had been troubled for years. A bully in high school, he spent his aimless twenties living with his parents and devoted to what Vice termed the extreme metal music scene. He performed in purportedly antiracist metal bands such as the Menstrual Munchies and Putrid Liquid. A ex-girlfriend reported he’d confided to her his bipolar disorder and he suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder.

In the wake of his horrific attack, the mainstream media struck familiar notes: mournful reflection – and anger. Pundits pontificated on the sickness in America’s soul, editorialists blasted the NRA and the (overwhelmingly Republican) politicians who support it. But, what for so many made the Dayton tragedy especially heart-rending was that it closely followed two other mass shootings in the summer of 2019; one in Gilroy, California and one in El Paso, Texas, that were also perpetrated by young, single white men.

Social media sleuths began tracking the shooter as soon as he was identified, and quickly found numerous references to his extreme leftwing politics. He viewed conservatives, especially Trump supporters, as enemies, and he supported a movement known as Antifa.

Indeed, one of Betts’ last acts before launching into his killing spree was to support a Twitter post calling for my own death.

A New York Post headline blared just two days later: DAYTON SHOOTER CONNOR BETTS MAY BE ANTIFA’S FIRST MASS KILLER. It noted that, Betts had long expressed support for Antifa accounts, causes and individuals. That would be the loose network of militant leftist activists who physically attack anyone to the right of Mao in the name of ‘antifascism.’ In particular, Betts promoted extreme hatred of American border enforcement.

In the aftermath of the Dayton tragedy, the connection was impossible to miss. Kill every fascist, the shooter proclaimed on Twitter, echoing Antifa militants everywhere. Over time, his Tweets dramatically increased in violence: Nazis deserve death and nothing else, he tweeted in October 2018. Betts labeled those