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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Tamara Davison

What is Antifa and why does Trump want to designate them a terrorist organisation?

Donald Trump says he plans to designate Antifa as a “major terrorist organisation,” as the Republican further tries to silence far-left movements in the United States.

In the early hours of Thursday morning, the 79-year-old president took to social media to vent about Antifa, a broad term used to identify far-left learning anti fascist groups in the US.

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