Trump Officials Push Allies to Pursue Antifa and Far Left as Terrorist Threats (opens in new tab)

The Trump administration is aiming its counterterrorism machine at far-left groups like antifa (shorthand for “antifascist), pushing allies to recognize their “political terrorism,” despite offering little evidence that the groups present a dire threat to U.S. citizens. A leader of the initiative is Sebastian Gorka, the senior counterterrorism director on President Trump’s National Security Council. He has pushed to designate more far-left groups abroad as terrorist organizations and to press...