Tim Pool on politics: what the evidence says · JRE #1258
“I'm sorry. Homeland Security in New Jersey has listed them under domestic terrorism. OK, so so here I understand there's a conundrum in that the general concept of anti-fascism is a loose term”
What the evidence says
No federal or state legal mechanism exists in the United States for formally designating a domestic group as a "terrorist organization." Unlike the State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, there is no statute or process, at any level of government, that lets an agency issue an official legal designation of a domestic movement, a point fact-checkers and national security and legal experts reiterated both when President Trump made a similar claim in 2020 and again in 2025. Antifa itself is a decentralized, loosely organized movement with no formal membership, leadership, or governing body, which fact-checkers note makes any claim of an official government "listing" of it as an organization legally meaningless regardless of the source making the claim. Tim Pool's statement that New Jersey Homeland Security "has listed them under domestic terrorism" implies a formal legal designation that, per these sources, does not and cannot exist under U.S. law at either the federal or state level.
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