Pam Bondi tells law enforcement agencies to investigate antifa groups for 'tax crimes'
Source: The Guardian
Fri 5 Dec 2025 11.02 EST
Last modified on Fri 5 Dec 2025 14.32 EST
The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, instructed law enforcement officials on Thursday to investigate antifa and other supposed domestic terror groups, and specifically directed them to search for tax crimes the groups may have committed, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian.
The document signals how the Trump administration and Bondi are ramping up efforts to crack down on leftwing groups. Antifa, short for antifascist, is not a clearly defined organization, but rather a loose network of activists. Trump signed an executive order in September declaring it a domestic terrorism organization something legal experts say he does not have the authority to do.
These domestic terrorists use violence or the threat of violence to advance political and social agendas, including opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality; and an elevation of violence to achieve policy outcomes, such as political assassinations, Bondi wrote in the document.
Bondis Thursday memo was sent to all law enforcement agencies and prosecutors as part of an effort to implement Trumps executive order and an accompanying presidential memorandum. In addition to prioritizing investigations, she instructed all federal law enforcement agencies to review their files and holdings for Antifa and Antifa-related intelligence and information and coordinate delivery of such material to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for review within 14 days. It also instructed the FBI to come up with a list of domestic terror groups and calls for a disseminating intelligence on antifa.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/pam-bondi-antifa-tax-crimes
More delusional nonsense.
ms liberty
(10,933 posts)Roy Rolling
(7,392 posts)A lot of them are still buried in Normandy.
Have some respect, bone spur Bondi.
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Joinfortmill
(19,908 posts)And veterans, and religious leaders, and just everyday citizens? Ok, do your best
Lovie777
(21,576 posts)insanity is their home now.
sop
(17,286 posts)Diraven
(1,795 posts)Basically they can just say any liberal group is "supporting Antifa" and then they're guilty of tac crimes.
electric_blue68
(25,615 posts)👍😄
Exactly, purely done for the Republican MAGAots happiness.....AND to give Fox News something to spew.....
bronxiteforever
(11,062 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(105,496 posts)ToxMarz
(2,727 posts)at their headquarters today
genxlib
(6,077 posts)That everyone paid appropriate sales tax on their inflatable frog costumes.
durablend
(8,880 posts)Blues Heron
(8,255 posts)Turbineguy
(39,795 posts)At least, for now.
Scrivener7
(58,145 posts)Pas-de-Calais
(10,242 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,481 posts)reACTIONary
(6,950 posts)sakabatou
(45,707 posts)Uncle Joe
(64,082 posts)with actually identifying "antifa groups" than they do actually kicking "the worst of the worst" out of the nation, little to none.
*rump's DOJ will make it up if they have to, they already started just by abusing the language, and lying about a non-existent threat.
underpants
(194,588 posts)and start investigating them which means they need a lawyer AND a tax lawyer.
turbinetree
(26,932 posts)you know the "guy" in the white house and his family...............just a thought..............they wouldn't know what antifa means........you know antifascist.........
AZLD4Candidate
(6,725 posts)Zelda_Orchid
(28 posts)Jimi du Ranty
(36 posts)a la the Khmer Rouge.
First it is Alligator Alcatraz. Next it is the Killing Fields.
rickford66
(6,032 posts)Solly Mack
(96,284 posts)BidenRocks
(2,696 posts)I've been looking for them but it's like they don't exist.
dgauss
(1,482 posts)They believe it will eventually work.
Deuxcents
(25,349 posts)What is their definition of antifa organizations and what are their criteria to designate a terrorist organization? Has the media asked for any details?
TommyT139
(2,134 posts)Peaceful protesters against a proposed militarized police training facility in Atlanta (nicknamed "Cop City," if you want a useful search term) were brought up on domestic terrorism charges. Contributors to a bail fund -- people who had never set foot in the protest area -- were charged with criminal conspiracy and RICO.Video cameras were set up secretly outside the homes of activists. And not to be forgotten, police shot and killed an unarmed protester.
This past September, charges were dismissed by a judge...after two years of people who were exercising their civil rights being terrorized and their lives upended.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/cop-city-case-georgia-prosecutors
But this sort of thinking isn't going away. And the types of laws that allowed the people charged in Georgia to get their lives back -- because of a sane judge -- other red states have been changing those laws to criminalize protest ever since the summer George Floyd was murdered.
Trump's federal regime isn't starting from zero on this plan.
As far as criteria to designate what qualifies as a terrorist organization, that already exists. It has not gotten enough attention.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs
Norrrm
(3,872 posts)Just after January 6, Republicans recognized it as a violent event and blamed
Antifa. Trump pardoned them.
There's a list of 1500 Antifa names available right now.
Historic NY
(39,577 posts)Anonymously, that ought to have the dog chasing its tail
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Mz Pip
(28,335 posts)Theyd better have their books in order. 🙄
sinkingfeeling
(57,062 posts)Vinca
(53,220 posts)Europe from the Nazis.
intheflow
(29,968 posts)Yes, antifa throws sandwiches and tries to rescue humans from masked, state-sponsored kidnappings. We famously have NEVER erected gallows to hang our own partys sitting vice president. I fucking hate this low IQ bitch.
Martin68
(26,940 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,565 posts)"If you are actively going after people who call themselves Anti-Fascists, what does that make you?"