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• rww Posting Through It: Who the Hell is Andy Ngo?

Andy Ngo is MAGA media's go-to "expert" on far-left extremism. The Portland-born social media personality has spent years pushing Republican leaders to treat anti-Trump and leftist movements as terrorist threats, churning out a bevy of hyper-sensationalized and misleading social media content to make his case.

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Andy Ngo is MAGA media's go-to "expert" on far-left extremism. The Portland-born social media media personality has spent years pushing Republican leaders to treat anti-Trump and leftist movements as terrorist threats, churning out a bevy of hyper-sensationalized and misleading social media content to make his case. Jared and Mike’s guest for this episode is researcher and reporter Molly Conger (https://bsky.app/profile/socialistdog...) , who hosts the "Weird Little Guys" podcast.

Together, they retrace notable moments in Ngo's life and career to explain his overnight MAGA stardom and how he's weaponized it against his perceived political opponents. From his roots in the "New Atheist" movement to his appearance last year at a White House "Antifa Roundtable" event, Ngo’s career has become emblematic of MAGA’s contempt for journalistic standards and the truth. (Ngo declined to be interviewed for this episode. He responded to our request for comment with a public statement on X that said he wanted "nothing to do with" this episode and included false claims about one of the show's hosts.)

Links for Molly: • ​Weird Little Guys (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-w...) (Cool Zone Media (https://www.coolzonemedia.com/) ) • ​Bluesky: @socialistdogmom.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/socialistdog...)

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The Heritage Foundation had Andy Ngo, a prominent propagandist for fascists, give a keynote speech about antifascists in 2019.

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The Black Lives Matter riots—overtly leftist demonstrations that left dozens of people dead and over a billion dollars’ worth of property damage—likewise fail to show up on registers of left-wing political violence. Even an attack by Antifa operatives that targeted me personally for my conservative political views appeared in official records and data sets as nothing more than “obstructing law enforcement” on the rare occasion it appeared at all. It turns out the Left commits relatively little political violence when one does not count the political violence that the Left commits. I’m here today to speak about that single, illustrative incident.

On April 18, 2023, I was scheduled to participate in a debate at the University of Pittsburgh on the topic of transgenderism. Before the debate, left-wing protesters gathered outside the O’Hara Student Center, many dressed uniformly in black with face coverings. The demonstration grew to an estimated 300-350 people, who lit the street on fire while burning me in effigy with a miniature mustache drawn on my lip. All because I held the opinion that men cannot become women. I awaited the start of the debate from inside the auditorium and therefore did not witness these events directly, though many were filmed and posted to social media.

But according to an FBI affidavit, at approximately 7 p.m., the demonstrators moved to the front entrance of the student center and prevented vehicles from passing, despite that road’s serving as the main access to the hospital. Buildings in the area were placed on a “soft lockdown.” As the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire put out my burning effigy, an Antifa operative named Brian DiPippa rolled a smoke bomb under police barricades. Twelve minutes later, Dipippa, hiding behind his wife Krystal, lit a second smoke bomb and placed it among the attendees as well as the University of Pittsburgh Police officers who had been called to maintain order. Attendees waiting in line scattered while demonstrators shouted, “Fascists, go home!”

The demonstrators then moved to the side of the building with window access to the auditorium in which my debate was set to begin. Police, seeing the threat, moved to create a barrier between the leftists and the building. The debate moderator, my interlocutor, and I began to walk to the stage one minute after the event’s scheduled start time. But before we reached the stage, we heard an explosion, which caused our security personnel to escort us back into the wings. A demonstrator, later identified as DiPippa, had thrown a lit firework into a group of police officers protecting the rear of the building.

The explosion injured several officers, including severe and life-altering injuries to a female officer. Even the less severe injuries included burns, bruises, hearing loss, and possible concussions. Demonstrators continue to disrupt and threaten us in the auditorium after the event began. Four protesters began to shout, “Trans lives matter!” before security agents escorted them off the premises. Toward the end of the debate, a protester in a hat, sunglasses, and face mask stood up and walked threateningly toward the stage before taking a seat in the second row after the protection team began walking toward her. The debate ended early after campus police notified security personnel inside the auditorium that protests outside were becoming even more destructive, and the campus had issued a “safety emergency” notification.

While Democrat politicians and liberal journalists have sought to downplay and even deny the existence of organized, left-wing terror, the attack at the University of Pittsburgh provides just one example among countless of serious and increasing leftist terrorism. Brian and Krystal DiPippa were not merely two citizens impelled to protest a speaker with whom they disagreed. According to reporting by investigative journalist and Antifa expert Andy Ngo, the DiPippas were members of an extremist left-wing cell that met at the Big Idea Bookstore in Pittsburgh. Such anarchist bookstores operate as meeting and training grounds for left-wing terror attacks. The Torch Antifa Network later claimed the DiPippas as members and offered the opportunity to donate money for them through a tax-exempt non-profit organization.

Thanks to the efforts of a courageous FBI agent who happened to be on the scene, the Department of Justice was impelled to bring charges against the DiPippas. Unfortunately, our justice system gave them only a slap on the wrist. Throwing an explosive into a crowd of people constitutes attempted murder. Justice calls for life in prison. Our justice system sentenced Brian DiPippa to minimal jail time for “obstructing law enforcement.” His wife got off with probation. The federal government must act now to stop the consistent and accelerating trend of leftist terrorism. For a legislator to deny the threat and neglect the remedy might once have been chalked up to ignorance; today, it is nothing less than complicity.

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‘Absurd’: Noem claim to have arrested ‘antifa’ founder’s girlfriend stirs ridicule

Jordan Green, Investigative Reporter

October 15, 2025

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A dramatic claim by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to have arrested “the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa,” therefore putting the Trump administration in position to “eliminate” the leftwing “network,” was dismissed by both the activist the arrested woman was said to have dated and a leading expert on such leftwing groups.

“I want to make it absolutely clear that I am not now, nor have I ever been, the ‘founder’ of ‘Antifa’ — in Portland [Oregon], the United States, or anywhere else,” said Luis Enrique Marquez, the activist, in a statement on a website promoting a book.

“It’s an absurd claim, no matter how they try to frame it,” Stanislav Vysotsky, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Fraser Valley in British Columbia, told Raw Story.

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Nonetheless, Noem’s trumpeting of the arrest of Katherine Vogel, 39, showed the administration’s determination to make headlines as it seeks to paint “antifa” activists as a danger to the American public, and Portland as the supposed base of such groups.

‘Root them out’

Seated alongside President Donald Trump during a White House roundtable last week, Noem said: “One of the individuals we arrested in Portland was the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa.

“We are hoping that as we go after her, interview her and prosecute her, we will get more and more information about the network and how we can root them out and eliminate them from the existence of American society.”

On Sept. 30, Vogel was the subject of a targeted arrest carried out by Federal Protective Services and U.S. Border Patrol agents, after she was allegedly observed with a group of people spilling red paint on the sidewalk outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.

A federal criminal complaint alleges that “while Vogel was being escorted into the facility for processing, she actively resisted by flailing her body” and struck one of the agents on the jaw with a closed fist.

She told an investigator she did not recall striking the agent.

Vogel was a contractor with the U.S. General Services Administration. As a result of her arrest “she was found unsuitable” and will no longer work for the agency, a spokesperson told Raw Story.

Noem’s description of Vogel as a potential linchpin for a nationwide network supposedly posing a terrorist threat appears to have been sourced to Andy Ngo, a right-wing media figure who Trump said at the roundtable was “a very serious person.”

Ngo was previously represented in a lawsuit for assault against Rose City Antifa, a Portland group, by Harmeet Dhillon, now assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice. Rose City Antifa was dismissed as a defendant. Ngo and Dhillon frequently share each other’s posts on X.

A week before Noem’s White House remarks, Ngo posted that Vogel was “a veteran Rose City Antifa member” and “the previous girlfriend of violent Rose City Antifa member Luis Enrique Marquez.”

Vogel, who was released from custody on Oct. 1, could not be reached for comment.

Marquez, the author of the book Antifascist: A Memoir of the Portland Uprising, refuted Ngo’s claim. The statement on his website said: “I have never been a member of Rose City Antifa or any other Antifa group.”

Marquez also said his relationship with Vogel ended in 2020, adding, “Any insinuation of an ongoing connection between us is false and disingenuous.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to a request to clarify Noem’s reference to Vogel as “the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa.”

Vysotsky, who has extensively interviewed antifascist activists, said that notion was difficult to square with reality, given that the movement dates back to the early 20th century.

“If we’re talking about the girlfriend of the founder of antifa, then we’re talking about someone who would have to be 120 years old or 130 years old,” Vysotsky told Raw Story.

While antifascism emerged in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, in response to the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany, Vysotsky said the modern antifascist movement in North America can generally be dated to the mid- to late-1980s.

Rose City Antifa, the Portland-based group referenced by Ngo, was founded in 2007. Vysotsky said that to the best of his knowledge, Marquez was not a founder.

“He came on the scene in 2016 or 2017,” Vysotsky said. “He happens to be someone who is prominent and outspoken on social media. It’s an absurd claim, no matter how they try to frame it.”

A DHS spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin, said Vogel’s activist connections were the subject of “an ongoing investigation,” adding: “We will release more information when we can.”

‘A militarist, anarchist enterprise’

In a Sept. 26 X post, DHS described Rose City Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” The post followed an executive order issued by Trump days earlier, which described “Antifa” as “a militarist, anarchist enterprise.”

But Vysotsky said Noem’s vow to “root out” and “eliminate” an “antifa” network was likely to go nowhere because there is no formal membership organization or international network.

“It’s an orientation, because it’s a set of beliefs by people opposed to fascism,” Vysotsky said.

“What they mean when they say ‘fascism’ is a movement based on a belief in an inherent inequality between people that is enforced by violence. What antifa stands for is equality between people, and what drives antifascism is a desire to create a more just and equal world.”

The idea that the Trump administration will be able to use Vogel’s arrest to identify a leadership cadre and, as Noem put it, “eliminate” an “antifa” network “from the existence of American society” is “an almost absurd claim,” Vysotsky said.

“Antifa activism, as it exists, is highly decentralized,” Vysotsky said, adding that antifascist activity ranges from individuals engaged in intelligence gathering and educational work “to small, local affinity groups that are organized in a direct, democratic manner.

“There’s no leadership,” he said.

The Sept. 26 DHS post accused Rose City Antifa of doxing ICE agents.

On Sept. 19 a website called Rose City Counter-Info did post two profiles that showed the names and images — and in one case, information about the employment history of a spouse — of two individuals purported to be ICE agents active in the Portland area. The DHS post included a photo of a flyer soliciting information about ICE agents that appears to include Rose City Antifa's email address, although it is partially redacted.

A statement published on Rose City Antifa's behalf denies that the group has doxed ICE agents or had anything to do with the flyer. The statement references a Bluesky post two months earlier that acknowledges the flyers but indicates Rose City Antifa was not responsible for putting them out.

The DHS X post referencing Rose City Antifa came a day after Trump issued a national security memorandum, NSPM-7, which argued that domestic terrorists organized under the banner of “anti-fascism” are engaged in “sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation.”

The memo claims campaigns “escalate to organized doxing, where the private or identifying information of their targets (such as home addresses, phone numbers, or other personal information) is exposed to the public with the explicit intent of encouraging others to harass, intimidate, or violently assault them).”

The memo specifically references activists targeting ICE agents.

“For the Trump administration to argue that antifa activists are terrorists, they’re going to have to greatly expand what acts constitute terrorism,” Vysotsky said.

They’re already doing that, he argued, by “talking about doxing as a form of terrorism.”

‘Exceptionally broad’

Vysotsky said rhetoric from the Trump administration linking antifascism to terrorism appears to be calculated to distract attention from ICE activities and violence by far-right actors.

“This serves as a distraction to focus Trump supporters away from the negative images of families being separated,” Vysotsky said. “It’s also a way to distract away from political violence, which has overwhelmingly been right-wing political violence.”

Antifascists, with journalists and observers, confront white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va in 2017. Picture: Anthony Crider

Vysotsky and Marquez said they saw the campaign against “antifa” as signaling a crackdown on all who oppose Trump’s policies — not just the far left.

“It’s exceptionally broad, because when they talk about antifa, they’re creating this image that ranges from the bogeyman of black-clad protesters to mainstream politicians like Adam Schiff [the Democratic senator from California] to the Ford Foundation, which is a major philanthropic organization,” Vysotsky said.

NSPM-7 charges that an “‘anti-fascist’ lie has become a rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights and fundamental American liberties.”

Core tenets of antifascism, the memorandum claims, “include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”

Marquez said that “by targeting innocent people and fabricating threats that do not exist,” the Trump administration is “attempting to build a mythical enemy in order to expand control over our lives.”

This story was updated on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 at 1:57 p.m. to reflect that Rose City Antifa has denied doxing ICE agents and responsibility for the flyer soliciting tips on agents.

Jordan Green is a North Carolina-based investigative reporter at Raw Story, covering domestic extremism, efforts to undermine U.S. elections and democracy, hate crimes and terrorism. Prior to joining the staff of Raw Story in March 2021, Green spent 16 years covering housing, policing, nonprofits and music as a reporter and editor at Triad City Beat in North Carolina and Yes Weekly. He can be reached at jordan@rawstory.com. More about Jordan Green.

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Oct 8, 2025Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec reported live outside the White House on Wednesday ahead of a historic roundtable between President Donald Trump and journalists, including some from The Post Millennial, who have faced Antifa violence firsthand. Among those in attendance were Andy Ngo, Katie Daviscourt, Savanah Hernandez, and Brandi Kruse —all reporters who have documented Antifa's ...

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Antifa militants 'not liable' in attacks on journalist Andy Ngo

Human Events editor Jack Posobiec posted on social media: "The judge in the Andy Ngo trial just admitted that jurors reported Antifa was trying to dox them. A journalist was accosted by Antifa *inside the courthouse* The jury said defendants John Colin Hacker and Elizabeth Renee Richter were not liable, the Post Millennial reported on Tuesday.

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Oct 2, 2025Daviscourt - who writes for the Post Millennial website, where former Portlander Andy Ngo is editor-at-large - reported the alleged assault to police on Tuesday around 9 p.m.

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7 days agoFar-right activist Jack Posobiec labeled him online a "domestic terrorist professor," while Andy Ngo, a conservative content creator, accused him of being a "militant anti-fascist activist." Both took part in a White House round table discussion on the "Antifa threat" this week.

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Inside the road to dismantle Antifa: 'We don't have any more time to lose'

Journalist Andy Ngo and Frontlines TPUSA contributor Savanah Hernandez discuss their experiences reporting on rioters on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

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From Andy Ngo to Nick Sortor and Brandi Kruse: Who were present at Trump's antifa roundtable | Hindustan Times

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Trump and key officials from his administration were joined by a group of conservative influencers for a roundtable discussion on Antifa on Tuesday at the White House. Among those who joined the 79-year-old were Andy Ngo, Brandi Kruse, Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Jonathan Choe, and many more.

Brandi Kruse and Andy Ngo listens at the White House on Wednesday.(AP)

At the roundtable, Trump accused Antifa - short for 'Anti-Fascist' of laying siege to federal buildings and attacking ICE agents, National Guards, and other officials charged with enforcing federal law. Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, was also present at the meeting. She said Antifa's agenda was to "destroy the American people."

Andy Ngo, Nick Sortor, Brandi Kruse and the other conservative activists also spoke about their experiences with the group after Trump and his officials were done speaking at the discussion.

Here's a full list of conservative influencers present at the roundtable: Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Jonathan Choe, Andy Ngo, Katie Daviscourt, James Klug, Savanah Hernandez, Nick Shirley, Brandi Kruse and Julio Rojas.

Andy Ngo Recalls Alleged Antifa Ambush

Andy Ngo, a conservative influencer, has often gone viral for his confrontations with Antifa members. He recalled an incident when members of the Antifa group allegedly assaulted him in 2019. "I was ambushed in a mob beating... The punches came from everywhere — on my head and my face, and I was bleeding out of my eyes and ears," he said.

Trump also joined in, seemingly supporting Andy Ngo's narrative. "Andy Ngo has been repeatedly beaten by antifa thugs," Trump said, adding, "Andy is a very serious person too. Been watching him for a long time."

Nick Sortor Talks About Portland Arrest

Nick Sortor, another conservative influencer, recently claimed he was arrested in Portlandfor allegedly trying to cover the law-and-order situation in the city amid Trump's push to deploy the National Guard. "Frankly, the cities and police departments are COOPERATING with Antifa, such as Portland!" he claimed.

Trump, meanwhile, called for the prosecution of those involved in the arrest of the Sortor, including one individual Sortor claimed he saw was burning the US flag.

Also read: Trump vs Antifa: What is anti-fascist movement and who founded it? All FAQs answered

Brandi Kruse Details Change Of Perception On Trump

Brandi Kruse, a Seattle-based conservative influencer, called Antifa a "paid anarchist group," despite Reuters and ACLED describing it as a decentralized organization that is not unified. She claimed she had Trump Derangement Syndrome, but she "recovered" from it.

"Some of us have been covering Antifa for 15 years and have never had anyone in a position of authority even acknowledge their existence," she said, praising Trump.

“I even think I got a little more attractive after I got rid of my Trump derangement syndrome,” she added, noting that since she stopped reporting negatively on Trump, she has been “happier, healthier, [and] more successful”

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JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): It is funny to watch Trump be a Fox News producer. We wake up in the morning and we look at the news and you see Trump is holding an antifa roundtable at the White House, and you just say thank you. Thank you, Donald Trump. This is the best. We know all of these reporters that are around this roundtable. Nick Sortor, Daviscourt, Andy Ngo. They're, like, guests on our shows. The mainstream media has probably never heard of any of these people, and this is why this is such great programming.

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On the 9th Oct, President Donald Trump hosted administration officials and conservative influencers for a roundtable, highlighting the efforts to crack down on left-wing groups, specifically the anti-fascist movement known as Antifa.

At the roundtable, Trump accused Antifa — short for ‘Anti-Fascist’ of laying siege to federal buildings and attacking ICE agents, National Guards, and other officials charged with enforcing federal law. Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, was also present at the meeting. She said Antifa’s agenda was to “destroy the American people.”

Recently, Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who taught a course on anti-fascism, left the US, a day after he was blocked from boarding a flight to Spain, following the White House event. The historian, who has taught courses on anti-fascism at New Jersey University, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport late on Wednesday when he was informed at the boarding gate that his and his family's reservations had been cancelled.

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10th, the rightwing influencer Jack Posobiec called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor” on X. The Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA then circulated a petition that accused the professor of being an “outspoken, well-known antifa member” and called for his dismissal.

This attempt to demonise groups that are challenging the increasingly authoritarian actions against immigrants and other marginal groups is part of an incremental phase of clampdowns on freedom of assembly and protest. As tensions increase, the need to isolate specific groups as terrorist organisations is an apparent attempt to shut down the right to hold the government to account in a failing democracy.

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This official White House video shows the invited attendees, including Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Jonathan Choe, Andy Ngo, Katie Daviscourt, James Klug, Savanah Hernandez, Nick Shirley, Brandi Kruse, and Julio Rojas.

Brandi Kruse, a Seattle-based conservative influencer, called Antifa a “paid anarchist group,” despite Reuters and ACLED describing it as a decentralised organisation that is not unified. She claimed she had Trump Derangement Syndrome, but she “recovered” from it.

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“Some of us have been covering Antifa for 15 years and have never had anyone in a position of authority even acknowledge their existence,” she said, praising Trump.

Andy Ngo, a conservative influencer and street agitator, has often gone viral for his confrontations with Antifa members. He recalled an incident when members of the Antifa group allegedly assaulted him in 2019. “I was ambushed in a mob beating… The punches came from everywhere — on my head and my face, and I was bleeding out of my eyes and ears,” he said.

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Trump also joined in, seemingly supporting Andy Ngo’s narrative. “Antifa thugs have repeatedly beaten Andy Ngo,” Trump said, adding, “Andy is a very serious person too. Been watching him for a long time.”

I had met Ngo in London last October when he avoided my questions and hid behind his phone with the flashlight on.

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Nick Sortor, another conservative influencer, recently claimed he was arrested in Portland for allegedly trying to cover the law-and-order situation in the city amid Trump’s push to deploy the National Guard. “Frankly, the cities and police departments are COOPERATING with Antifa, such as Portland!” he claimed.

Trump, meanwhile, called for the prosecution of those involved in the arrest of the Sortor, including one individual Sortor claimed he saw was burning the US flag.

The connecting thread between these people is that they are directly connected to the Turning Point organisation, who believe someone from the Anfita groups murdered Charlie Kirk, but the evidence so far shows this connection to be false.

It would be a violation of the First Amendment to prosecute all those who subscribed to anti-fascist ideology. While it is illegal to provide “material support” to groups designated by the government as foreign terrorist organisations, there is no analogous law for domestic groups, but it is hoped that new laws could be passed to give police new powers to arrest anyone associated with a proscribed group.

Antifa, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem added, is “just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA (Tren de Aragua), as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas — as all of them — they are just as dangerous.”

Trump closed the event with one final ding at reporters in the room before departing, he said, to address ongoing efforts to secure a Middle East peace deal.

“I think you could stay a little longer, but, you know, the problem is, although you have some very honest journalists in here, you also have some mostly dishonest journalists, like MS-DNC and CNN — I think they’re very dishonest, unbelievably, like a waste of time even talking to them,” he said. “But I have to go now to try and solve some problems in the Middle East.”

British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr has repeatedly warned that Donald Trump’s actions and policies pose a direct threat to the independent media and journalists. Her concerns connect Trump’s behaviour with the broader influence of big tech and disinformation, which she describes as the “broligarchy”.

Trump has assembled the social media influencers who most support him and never criticise him. Anything Trump sees as criticism is “fake news” and will be attacked or censored by limiting its reach. This puts Trump in a very weak position in the longer term. Good leaders don’t need to be sung lullabies that help them get a good night’s sleep.

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Right-wing influencers shape nation and Trump’s understanding of Portland protests

By Erik Neumann (OPB)

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Social media personalities, conservative media outlets and the Trump administration itself are blending online content to serve the administration’s policies.

Trump supporters face off with protesters outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore., Monday, Oct. 6, 2025.

Benny Johnson, a pro-Trump social media personality from Florida, announced to his followers on X that he had arrived.

“Yo, what’s up!” Johnson said Tuesday as he strolled into the airport. “We are on the ground in Portland, Oregon.”

Johnson was in town to meet with three other social media influencers and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to tour the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, where protests had been taking place since June.

“The Trump administration is here today. Follow along. The Trump administration ain’t gonna have any of this,” Johnson said. “This is going to be a rowdy day.”

From there, the influencers packed into SUVs and followed Noem, passing through police lines that had been established around the ICE facility and eventually behind its gates.

Standing on the building’s rooftop, Johnson and the other influencers filmed Noem for their millions of followers online. But the day was less than rowdy.

On the street below, around 20 reporters from local and national outlets stood behind yellow caution tape, along with a handful of protesters. It was a sunny fall day in Portland, far from the burning hellscape portrayed online.

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Still, influencer Nick Sortor warned Noem that she wasn’t seeing the real story.

“This is absolutely nothing as to what it is at night though. It’s really bad at night,” Sortor said. “That sun goes down and it gets totally lawless.”

Social media personalities like those who joined Noem are increasingly shaping the public’s understanding of events in Portland, where the Trump administration has been trying to deploy the National Guard in recent weeks.

While partisan online posting about protests in the Northwest is nothing new, right-wing media influencers are now being welcomed into the federal government to promote its messages. This kind of media access shows a deepening alliance between the administration and an online world willing to misrepresent facts if it means furthering political goals.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stands on the roof of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025.

*Eli Imadali / OPB

The influencers’ personal content is blended with interviews on Fox News, Newsmax and other outlets, and reposted by federal agencies at times. Sortor and another media personality on the ICE tour, Katie Daviscourt, appeared on a panel at the White House on Wednesday with President Trump, where clips were similarly repurposed and spun out to broader conservative media.

Local media like OPB and The Oregonian/OregonLive have not been given the same access to the ICE building when they requested it. In response to requests to tour the ICE building, DHS officials have asked OPB – a century-old media organization that has covered newsworthy events at the protests since their earliest days - to share links to OPB coverage of the protests before considering access.

‘Counter-protesters themselves’

The current Trump administration is working with these influencers to justify the president’s actions, according to A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor who studies media activism in the University of Alabama’s journalism department.

“The streamers are actually counter-protesters themselves who are going and documenting the protests that they disagree with. The government is actually working hand-in-glove with those folks in order to promote the government’s message,” Bauer said. “That is a new development.”

Masked-up federal agents confront the protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore., on Sept. 28, 2025.

*Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB

There are many examples over the years of mainstream journalists embedding with the government to cover major events, like during the Vietnam or Iraq wars. But those reporters were largely free to be critical of the government.

Bauer said right-wing influencers don’t follow the journalistic norms of balance, independence and not personally participating in stories. Instead, he said, they start out with an ideological vision of the world and then narrate what they see in a way that fits that vision.

“The consequences are that we have two competing visions of reality,” Bauer said.

There have been almost nightly protests outside of Portland’s ICE facility for months. Since June, the Portland Police Bureau has made at least 47 arrests, and federal officials have arrested dozens more, though not everyone has been charged with a crime.

Still, the protests span just one or two city blocks. Many nights, there are fewer than two dozen people. Dancing and whimsical costumes have been a frequent protest tactic since the Trump administration has expressed a desire to send in military troops to suppress the demonstrations.

Protesters recover after gas is deployed at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, Portland, Ore., Oct. 4, 2025.

*Alejandro Figueroa / OPB

But these influencers tell a story that chaos is rampant. And now, they are having the biggest impact possible by shaping how President Trump views the protests. They repeated a vision of Portland to him at a White House roundtable on Wednesday that many residents wouldn’t recognize.

“The amazing thing is you look at Portland and you see fires all over the place. You see fights. I mean, violence, it’s so crazy,” Trump said during the televised round table. “And then you talk to the governor and she acts like everything is totally normal. It’s almost like, are you waking up from a dream or something?”

A history of clashes

Right wing presence at protests in Portland is not a new phenomenon.

During the president’s first term, counter-protesters were a regular presence in the Rose City when residents and left-aligned demonstrators took to the streets. Provocateurs like Joey Gibson would frequently show up at protests between 2015 and 2020 to film and engage in conflicts with what they described as antifa mobs.

At times, those provocations turned violent, with people being shoved, maimed and even killed as dueling political factions took to the streets.

Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson directs people back to the west side of the Willamette River during demonstrations in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019.

*Bradley W. Parks / OPB

Those protests also launched the careers of streamers and media personalities who focused on the conflict with a particular political view, such as Andy Ngo, a former Portland resident who now edits for the Canadian conservative outlet the Post Millennial.

With around 1.7 million X followers, Ngo is an influential voice on the right who appeared at Wednesday’s roundtable with President Trump. He also helped pave the way for the people aligning with the Trump administration against the current Portland protests. That includes Daviscourt, who brands herself on X as an investigative reporter for the Post Millennial.

While activists like Gibson have appeared at the protests outside the ICE building in recent days, the content being produced by the streamers is not restrained to their own feeds and fans, as it largely was during the first Trump administration.

On Thursday, Ngo made a post to his X account warning of an impending attack on federal law enforcement.

“Antifa in Portland have been plastering flyers around the city urging people to try and crash the DHS helicopter flying over ICE,” Ngo wrote just before 9 p.m., sharing an image of a flyer with lasers pointing at a helicopter.

Around three hours later, DHS posted a similar version of the flyer to its X account.

“Antifa domestic terrorists WILL NOT overrun our cities,” the post stated.

Facts on the ground

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and most other state officials have rejected the need for the Trump administration to send the National Guard to the city. But their views seem to have little influence on the White House’s stated plans and rhetoric.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson speaks with Beaverton Mayor Lacey Beaty at a press conference Monday, Sept. 29 in Portland Ore. Wilson and 10 Oregon mayors spoke against President Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard in Portland.

*Saskia Hatvany / OPB

On a recent night outside the ICE facility, conservative podcaster Matt Tardio was live-streaming the Portland protests. Tardio said he’s trying to capture everything that’s going on, not just the clashes between protesters and police.

“I do know that I’ve caught some coming-up streamers or whatever they were, legitimately trying to start problems and having hidden cameramen off to the side trying to capture those problems starting so that they could have their viral clips,” Tardio said. “That’s messed up.”

Tardio, who is a veteran, agrees that the situation on the ground is being exaggerated online.

“I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve said I don’t think the National Guard needs to come out here. I feel that the Portland Police Bureau can handle it,” he said.

But that hasn’t stopped other influencers from repeating the story about a war-ravaged city that gets amplified by Trump officials and repackaged across the media ecosystem.

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Portland's anti-ICE protests have become a magnet for MAGA influencers

Right-wing influencers and media figures have flocked to Portland, helping bring national and Trump administration attention to ICE protests in the city.

Trump supporters face off with protesters outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore., on Oct. 6, 2025.

Trump supporters face off with protesters Monday outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore.Ethan Swope / AP

Oct. 9, 2025, 1:03 PM PDT

By David Ingram and Jo Yurcaba

PORTLAND, Ore. — Within a week, Nick Sortor experienced the lows and highs of being a MAGA influencer.

Last Thursday, Sortor was jailed in Portland after police arrested him on suspicion of disorderly conduct. A fan of President Donald Trump with 1.2 million followers on X, he had traveled to Oregon’s largest city to document the protest scene outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Police said he was involved in an altercation with demonstrators but was ultimately not charged.

But six days later, Sortor was back on the upswing: By Wednesday, he was sitting at the White House just a few feet away from Trump, as he and other conservative media figures were invited to participate in a roundtable discussion about the anti-ICE activity they had seen in Portland.

“It was not fun sitting in that jail, but I’m glad to see what has come of it,” Sortor, 27, told Trump during the livestreamed event.

The roundtable was a unifying moment for the alternative, right-wing media ecosystem that is helping shape perceptions of protests against Trump’s mass deportation campaign, showing how the MAGA influencers and the Trump administration are playing off one another in response to anti-ICE protests around the country.

Right-wing podcasters, writers and pundits are flocking to Democratic deep-blue cities to document the scene for their massive audiences but also, in some cases such as Portland, to spar with left-wing demonstrators. Their presence has been praised by the Trump administration and criticized by police for escalating tensions.

Federal agents stand guard on a rooftop to keep protesters away from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in downtown Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 6, 2025.

Federal agents stand guard on a rooftop Monday as protesters gather outside an ICE facility in Portland.Mathieu Lewis-Rolland / AFP - Getty Images

A poll last month from The New York Times and Siena University showed voters deeply divided on the immigration crackdown, with a slim majority, 52%, saying they disapprove of Trump’s handling of immigration and 46% saying they approve. The poll showed 51% believe Trump’s immigration actions have “gone too far,” 35% say they have been “about right” and 12% say they have “not gone far enough.”

At least a dozen out-of-town conservative journalists and influencers were on the ground in Portland in recent days, according to interviews with some of them and posts on social media.

“This is now a full-blown information war that we’re in, so being on the front lines is more important than ever,” said Jonathan Choe, who traveled from Seattle to Portland for Frontlines, a project of the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA. Choe spoke by phone on Tuesday, a day before taking part in the White House event, with Sortor.

Sortor, whose profile on X says he’s based in Texas and Washington, D.C., did not respond to requests for comment.

In Portland, anti-ICE protests have taken place nearly daily since June, largely confined to a block outside the ICE facility, about two miles south of downtown. The facility, where ICE agents bring people who’ve been arrested and are awaiting processing, was also the site of protests in 2018.

Activists and police say the crowd size and the intensity of the protests in Portland have grown in recent weeks, following Trump’s Sept. 27 announcement that he wants to send in National Guard troops with “full force” and as more influencers have arrived. The crowd sometimes has a circus-like atmosphere, including one anti-ICE regular who wears an inflatable frog costume.

While federal agents protect the ICE facility itself, local police patrol the nearby streets. Portland police say they’ve arrested more than 40 people in the protest area since June, including one man who jumped into the nearby Willamette River on Tuesday night, after police say he stole a tripod from the protest area. Additionally, federal prosecutors say they’ve charged 31 people for federal offenses at the ICE facility, including assaults on officers.

Portland police say that some of the self-described journalists appearing outside the ICE facility are acting more like counterprotesters. In an email made public last week as part of Oregon and Portland’s lawsuit against the Trump administration, Sgt. Andrew Braun named three right-wing journalists or activists who he said were victims as well as a chronic source of emergency calls.

“Despite repeated advice from officers to stay away from the ICE crowd, they constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed. They refuse or are reluctant to walk away from these confrontations, even when police are in the area trying to meet with them. They even engage in the same trespassing behavior on federal and trolley property as the main protesters,” Braun wrote in the Sept. 21 email.

Among those named was Katie Daviscourt, a writer for The Post Millennial. Daviscourt, who had traveled to Portland from Seattle, fired back on X, disputing the characterization.

“I am beyond pissed. Anyone who knows me, knows that I stand by myself, I am non violent, never approach the crowd, and quietly film,” she wrote. “I cannot wait to see the DOJ absolutely CRUSH this agency,” she added, referring to the Portland police. She did not respond to a request for comment.

Daviscourt said she was hit in the face at a protest last week and was bruised. Police said they were searching for a suspect. Daviscourt was also among the conservative media figures at the White House on Wednesday.

Mike Benner, a spokesperson for the Portland Police Bureau, said the bureau, unlike police in some other cities, does not have a credentialing process for members of the media.

“We recognize the changing landscape of journalism and respect the rights of both traditional and independent journalists to document events,” he said in an email. “We ask all individuals — regardless of media status — to comply with lawful orders and avoid interfering with law enforcement operations.”

Portland Police Chief Bob Day said in a news conference Tuesday that tensions near the ICE facility had risen due to the “influence of social media” and national attention. And in an interview on Monday with Fox News’ streaming service, he criticized influencers’ focus on getting views.

Federal agents, including members of the Department of Homeland Security, stand guard outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in downtown Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 6, 2025.

Federal agents, including members of the Department of Homeland Security, stand guard Monday outside an ICE facility in Portland.Mathiew Lewis-Rolland / AFP - Getty Images

“Their reach is obviously very significant, and so they’re going where they can get the views and create the perception. And our belief is that we are simply managing to the rule of law,” he said.

But the ascendant MAGA influencers have the ears of Trump Cabinet members: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem met some of them in person Tuesday during a trip to Portland, and on Wednesday, Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel joined the White House roundtable. At one point during the event, Trump directed Sortor and Bondi to confer about a possible investigation related to one of his videos.

Sortor said on X that he was acting in self-defense prior to his arrest. The Portland-area district attorney’s office declined to charge him with disorderly conduct, saying in a statement that while it believed police had probable cause to arrest him, it did not believe the crime could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Two anti-ICE protesters who were arrested at the same time are now facing criminal charges.

Accounts of the protests in conservative media often emphasize what they see as the rectitude of ICE’s operations, criticizing those who disagree. These accounts often include shaky video taken at night of protesters and counterprotesters facing off. It’s often close-in footage that lacks perspective on the size of the unrest. MAGA influencers also provide steady content for television networks like Fox News, where some of them have appeared for interviews.

At one point, Trump expressed confusion about the true nature of the situation in Portland, telling NBC News in a phone interview on Sept. 28 that he was getting conflicting accounts.

“I spoke to the governor. She was very nice,” Trump said. “But I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.’ They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place.”

At Wednesday’s roundtable, Trump praised Daviscourt and Sortor, saying he watched a video of Sortor and sent him a note. On X, Sortor said that Trump wrote, “Nick, I saw you on television. Great job. We are behind you 100%. Let us know if there is anything we can do… President DJT”

The influencers descending on Portland fall along a spectrum, with some closer to the role of traditional journalists than others. Choe, the Frontlines reporter, who previously worked in local TV news, said he’s been one of three Frontlines reporters who have been tag-teaming coverage in recent days, posting videos on a common account on X. He’s a Trump supporter and has cheered on Sortor, but he said he personally sticks to reporting facts on the ground.

Some of the MAGA influencers are with established conservative media outlets such as The Post Millennial or The Blaze, while many others are independent. On Tuesday, the gaggle included Florida-based podcaster Benny Johnson, who has nearly 6 million subscribers on YouTube and who flew in to Portland to report on Noem’s visit.

A White House spokesperson, Abigail Jackson, praised the cadre of right-wing influencers and journalists in a statement, saying: “The White House applauds all journalists who are willing [to] blaze their own trail to report the facts rather than go along with the Fake News Groupthink. The situation in Portland is a prime example.”

But some conservative media figures aren’t in Portland only to broadcast and document.

Some MAGA influencers have initiated confrontations with protesters who have set up camp on public sidewalks, walking through their tents and set-ups and interfering with protests.

Matt Tardio, a podcaster, has posted on X about wanting to “parlay with ANTIFA” alongside Sortor and hold a “PATRIOT MARCH” through a camp of protesters on a sidewalk near the ICE facility. He did not respond to a request for comment.

Sortor has repeatedly confronted anti-ICE protesters in Portland, according to videos that he and other influencers have posted on X.

“I’m going to walk through. I want to give a tour of the camp,” he says in one video, just before he advances into a tent carrying an American flag on a pole. As a protestor stands in his way on a public sidewalk, he responds, “Unfortunately, I’m going. Get out of the way. Get out of the way.”

In another video, he steps in and seizes an American flag that protesters had set on fire. On Wednesday, he brought the flag to the White House and showed it to Trump, who suggested the possibility of a flag-burning investigation. (The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that flag-burning is generally protected speech under the First Amendment. Trump said Monday that he disagrees and believes that flag-burning is a form of incitement to violence — an idea that the 1989 court explicitly rejected.)

Sortor was best known for commentary regarding Maui wildfires in 2023, for which he was criticized for allegedly politicizing the response, including by actor Dwayne Johnson, who called Sortor’s work “toxic, false clickbait garbage.” Sortor replied to Johnson at the time, saying he was focused on getting the government to provide more aid to Maui and was willing to work together.

Since at least 2017, Portland has been a recurring backdrop for street standoffs that pit the far right against self-described antifascist demonstrators clad in black clothing. Conservative writer Andy Ngo was beaten up at one rally in 2019 and now describes himself on X as a Portland refugee in London. He still frequently posts about his former city and was also at the White House event on Wednesday.

For this round of protests, there’s no comparable group of out-of-town left-wing influencers who have traveled to Portland, although local independent journalists have documented the protests on sites such as TikTok and Bluesky.

Julio Rosas, a national correspondent for The Blaze, a conservative media outlet, said there’s a bond among the right-wing influencers and journalists who’ve parachuted into Portland. He was there in 2021 capturing video of Black Lives Matter protests and this year he has taken two reporting trips to the city, including one within the past few days. He said he considers Sortor a friend and “a great patriot.”

“We’re often out there on our own. We’re independent or come from companies with much smaller budgets than other places,” he said. “It’s good to have someone to watch your back.”

But he said he doesn’t relish the assignment in Portland.

“Who wants to spend hours outside where people are angry?” Rosas said.

David Ingram reported from San Francisco. Jo Yurcaba reported from Portland.

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March 5, 23 people, including alegal observer with the National Lawyers Guild, were charged with domestic terrorismafter an intense demonstration against a planned police training facility in Atlanta. Tom Jurgens, an employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center who was there as a legal observer with the National Lawyers Guild, has been the target of a right-wing media smear campaign claiming that the SPLC condones violence and has colluded with antifa.

Far-right activist Andy Ngo posted about the SPLC connection to one of those arrested on Twitter on March 6, and prominent right-wing media figures including Tucker Carlson and Jack Posobiec picked it up.

The confrontation with police occurred during a music festival held as part of a week of action in opposition to “Cop City,” a $90 million facility that many say was approved largely absent community input. Atlanta is already a highly policed area, and the facility will uproot parts of a culturally significant forest that is one of Atlanta’s largest remaining green spaces in a predominantly low-income, Black area.

According to police, hundreds of activists broke away from the concert and breached the site of the project. Footage from the construction site appears to show construction equipment on fire while protesters threw rocks and fireworks at police. Music festival attendees and community organizers alleged that arrests were made “indiscriminately” at the festival, which was about a mile away from the training facility and occurred an hour after the action took place. According to an attorney for some of the defendants, there has yet to be a charge for arson or interference with government property and arrest warrants cited evidence such as activists simply having mud on their shoes.

Police initially arrested 35 people. In response to Jurgens' arrest, SPLC President and CEO Margaret Huang said in a statement:

“Tom was performing a public service, documenting potential violations of protesters’ rights. We are outraged that police officers present at the protest refused to acknowledge Tom’s role as a legal observer and instead chose to arrest him.”

Right-wing media are trying to delegitimize SPLC by suggesting it condones hate and violence and falsely claiming the group helped coordinate the event:

• Tony Perkins, president of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Center, told Newsmax host Chris Salcedo that the SPLC is “in bed with antifa”: “What's so bad about this is that you have the Southern Poverty Law Center that is anti-law enforcement, anti-government, they’re in bed with antifa, but yet they hold themselves out as being the definer of groups that are anti-government. … This isn't the fox guarding the henhouse; this is the fox living in the henhouse, dining on chicken.” Newsmax, The Chris Salcedo Show, [3/7/23]

• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Fox host Sean Hannity that antifa members are “the ground troops of the Democrat party”:“You wouldn't be surprised to find out that the Southern Poverty Law Center, their own attorney, was one of them. This is who the Democrat party is. They are domestic terrorists, and antifa needs to be held accountable. And the Department of Justice better start doing their job.” Fox News, Hannity, [3/7/23]

• Dinesh D’Souza called the SPLC a hate group: “The SPLC is itself a hate group, but a hate group on the side of the left. And so they promote violence. … Very often when you’ve got these rioters on the streets, you’ve got lawyers with the SPLC and other groups running around with the rioters and their idea is to quote ‘collect evidence’ that can be used to defend these people if and when they are arrested.”  Salem Podcast Network, The Dinesh D’Souza Podcast, [3/7/23]

• Former Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston falsely alleged that SPLC coordinated the attack: “The Southern Poverty Law Center was the group that apparently coordinated that. That's who the lawyer worked for. I do think he should be disbarred, but it was actually an orchestrated attack.” Newsmax, Wake Up America, [3/7/23]

• :{:{New York Post }:reporter Jon Levine implied that the Biden administration and SPLC turn a blind eye to domestic terrorism:“Let’s just put the shoe on the other foot here, Maria. Can you imagine if 23 Proud Boys were arrested for attacking a gender reassignment clinic in Atlanta? I mean, we’d already have — President Biden would probably already be down there giving a speech.” :{Fox Business, Mornings with Maria:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}:, [3/7/23]}:

• :{Former Georgia Rep. Vernon Jones said the FBI should investigate the SPLC:“I would like to see the FBI investigate the Southern Poverty Law Center, because he [Jurgens] cannot be the lone wolf, the lone actor. … And if they were to delve into that organization, who's supposed to be about anti-hate, which this really, they reflect on, this individual reflecting so much hate, I think they'll find where not only has it been funded, but you’ll see others that have been involved in this prior to this incident and other incidents.” :{Newsmax, :(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}:John Bachman Now, [3/7/23]}:

• The New York Post wrote that the SPLC “lost its moral standing” by refusing to call antifa a hate group.New York Post, [3/6/23]

• Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: “So is SPLC officially a domestic terrorist group?” Twitter, [3/6/23]

• Libs of TikTok:“The Southern Poverty Law Center called me a terrorist for posting a flyer of a publicly available drag show. Turns out one of their attorneys is an Antifa member and was arrested for domestic terrorism. It’s always projection with them.” Twitter, [3/6/23]

• Fox News host Tucker Carlson and anchor Trace Gallagher said SPLC propogates hate and attacks its political opponents: Carlson said SPLC “exists solely to destroy the lives of anyone who stands in the way of the Democratic Party.” Gallagher claimed the center has “long been accused of monitoring hate while propagating hate” and that it defines hate as “anything SPLC disagrees with.” Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, [3/6/23]

• Newsmax host Rob Schmitt said people like Jurgens want to “kill you and destroy your country.”:“These are all a bunch of angry white kids that still live at home at the age of 28 and hate capitalism. … One is allegedly an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the same organization which the FBI’s Richmond division recently used as a source for equating traditionalist Catholics to violent extremists.” Newsmax, Rob Schmitt Tonight, [3/6/23]

• Human Events editor, neo-Nazi affiliate, and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec called the legal observers an “antifa degenerate.”: “Here is a photo of the 23 Antifa degenerates arrested for Domestic Terrorism in GA last night after torching gov’t equipment and throwing rocks at cops. 1 of them is a lawyer for the SPLC. Sponsor? Almost all are from out of state. Proof that Antifa is a nationwide terrorist organization.” Truth Social, [3/6/23]

• Lauren Witzke, a far-right political activist and president of the Stew Peter Network, posted to Gab an image of Jurgen’s LinkedIn profile: “An SPLC staff attorney was arrested and charged with domestic terrorism at last night’s #Antifa ‘Stop Cop City’ riot in Atlanta. Now It’s time to shut down the ENTIRE SPLC terrorist operation.” Gab, [3/6/23]

• Far-right troll Eoin Lenihan:“Highly significant! An SPLC attorney arrested in Atlanta last night for terrorism. The SPLC is currently the biggest ally of Antifa relying on their hacked materials & doxes of individuals for their “hate watch” list. The SPLC actively hires Antifa “researchers” & “journalists”…  Twitter, [3/6/23]

Andy Ngo, who has covered the protest extensively on social media and accused legal observers of “helping antifa in the violent conspiracies,” has also acknowledged his disdain for SPLC based on the center’s criticism of him. The center has called out Ngo for trafficking “in politically charged disinformation,” accepting money from a Polish cultural center for giving an anti-antifa speech in Warsaw, and being friendly with the far-right Hungarian government.

Ngo’s fixation on antifa and SPLC has helped spur responses from lawmakers. In 2021, his coverage of clashes between the Proud Boys and left-wing activists in Portland, where he was allegedly attacked by demonstrators, was an impetus for Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) bill to designate antifa as a terrorist organization. On March 8, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced similar legislation to declare antifa a terrorist organization, and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said he wanted to open an investigation into the FBI’s reliance on SPLC to identify extremist threats.

This is not the first time right-wing media have come after SPLC

SPLC is a legal advocacy organization that focuses on civil rights and is widely considered to be an authoritative voice on extremism. The center identifies and tracks hate groups and has helped law enforcement and the FBI respond to them.

The center has drawn the ire of right-wing media for calling out hate speech from conservative groups in the past. In 2017, FoxNews.com promoted the false accusation that SPLC added a conservative writer to a “hate list,” when it simply noted that she has been a guest on a radio show produced by the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council. FRC and other hate groups have united to smear SPLC for accurately labeling them as such. FRC’s official position is that “homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large” and “is by definition unnatural.”

In 2012, FRC tried to blame SPLC for a shooting that took place at its office because the shooter was allegedly motivated by FRC’s anti-LGBTQ hate group label. At the time, FRC President Tony Perkins doubled down on hateful rhetoric saying SPLC needs “to be held accountable, and they need to be stopped before people are killed because of their reckless labeling and advocacy for homosexuality and their anti-Christian stance.” Perkins also used the Atlanta incident to denounce SPLC for Jurgens’ presence at the protest. [twt fitton]

there’s a good reason why legal observers are necessary at protests

Opposition to Cop City has already proved fatal. In January, Manuel Terán, a young activist who opposed the project, was killed by Atlanta police under suspicious circumstances. Police maintain that Teran was to blame for the confrontation and shot an officer first.

It’s not uncommon to have legal observers at protests, particularly when tensions between law enforcement and demonstrators are high. According to the New York City Bar Association, the “work includes documenting arrests, use of force, intimidating display of force, denial of access to public spaces like parks and sidewalks, and any other behavior on the part of law enforcement that appears to restrict demonstrators’ ability to express their political views.”

Legal observers have helped protect the rights of protesters in the past. For example, according to The Intercept:

Collecting the names of people arrested at protests is the first step toward ensuring that they have legal representation. During the mass arrests at the 2004 Republican National Convention, those names allowed lawyers to secure a habeas corpus writ for hundreds of protesters who were unlawfully detained by the NYPD, sometimes for days, without access to lawyers.

Legal observers have also been punished for their work in the past. In 2021, 12 legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild sued the New York Police Department, alleging the department violated their constitutional rights at a 2020 protest in the Bronx. Even though the NYPD patrol guide says legal observers are entitled to be present, the observers allege they were prohibited from carrying out their function and even met with violence. In fact, New York City just agreed to pay more than $20,000 each to hundreds of individuals who were trapped by police and attacked with batons and pepper spray during that same protest.

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Right-wing media are vilifying a group of environmental activists known as Defend the Atlanta Forest, particularly Manuel Terán, a member who was shot and killed by Atlanta police on January 18, falsely portraying the group as having a strictly anti-police objective.

The commentary is no surprise coming from media figures who have repeatedly derided young climate activists both in Europe and in the United States who were engaging in nonviolent protest.  

Twenty-six-year-old Terán, whose pronouns were they/them and was known as “Tortuguita” by family and friends, was killed while occupying an urban forest south-east of Atlanta. The area occupied by activists is set to be destroyed to make way for a movie studio and a $90 million police training facility known by many as “Cop City.” The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said that Tortuguita shot a Georgia State Patrol officer before being killed; Defend the Atlanta Forest disputes this claim, and no body camera footage has been released. Following Tortuguita’s death, opponents of Cop City took to the streets and damaged property, including an empty police car, in protest.

Right-wing media deliberately mischaracterized the goals of Defend the Forest

Defend the Atlanta Forest describes itself as an “autonomous movement” aiming to preserve land with ties to the Muscogee Nation — land which represents a long history of injustice. Right-wing media insisted that those occupying the forest were motivated by anti-police sentiment, trying to justify the killing.

On January 24, John Roberts, co-anchor of Fox News’ America Reports, asked whether protesters were “more … about being anti-police than being pro-environment” and parroted far-right commentator Andy Ngo, who called them “spoiled children of privilege trying to burn Atlanta down” in the New York Post. On Newsmax, on January 23, journalist Carolyn Ryan also echoed the idea that the activists only “claim” to want to protect the old-growth forest. Speaking with Roberts on January 24, Juan Williams, who for years served as a “liberal” co-host on Fox News’ The Five, said that “no question these people are from out of city, out of state” and that he hopes the protesters are “put down.”  

The brutal murder of Tyre Nichols at the hands of police in neighboring Tennessee showed us, once again, that police use excessive and deadly force under questionable circumstances. Yet without footage, right-wing media have unquestioningly accepted the Atlanta police’s narrative.

On January 23, OAN host Dan Ball called the protesters “environmental whackos” and “defund-the-police Nazis” and insisted, despite conflicting information from Defend the Forest, on characterizing police’s behavior toward the group as peaceful. He also claimed that “police and witnesses” saw Tortuguita shoot first, not mentioning that the only witnesses were the police. 

“They had no right to be in that forest,” said Fox News host Jenine Pirro, referring to the protesters on the January 24 segment of Hannity. “Someone from there shoots a cop and that’s what started the whole thing. … They turned it into police violence.”

Attacks fit a pattern of vitriol toward climate activists around the world

Right-wing media have similarly smeared grassroots groups that are loudly demanding climate justice. Just Stop Oil, Last Generation, and Extinction Rebellion, which participated in protests throughout 2022 and in 2023, where theyblocked roads and threw food on well-known works of art, have drawn outrage from the right, with some influencers suggesting they should be physically punished for their radical, yet peaceful, tactics.

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh and former Daily Caller writer Greg Price have suggested that these activists be dismembered, “beaten with a bullwhip, or forced into “labor camps where they spend all day drilling for oil.” Frequent Fox News guest and climate change denier Steve Milloy called climate activists “enemies of humanity.” The Washington Free Beacon put forth the absurd notion that Democrats would soon storm the Capitol over climate change policy. And in an October 14 segment of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson suggested that they should be monitored by the FBI. 

Fox News Digital writer Thomas Catenaccioften writes about activists embracing extreme tactics. In July, Catenacci falsely claimed that climate activists had embraced “violence” as the “deadline to 'save the planet' draws near.” It’s not uncommon for Fox News journalists to vilify activists who support causes they oppose while defending or downplaying extreme and violent actions of activists whose causes they support.

Antifa, the right’s favorite scapegoat, has become part of the conversation as well, with media figures referring to the movement and forest defenders interchangeably to fearmonger about the protests. 

Neo-nazi collaborator Jack Posobiec portrayed Defend the Atlanta Forest as antifa, which right-wing figures have blamed for the January 6 insurrection, as well as other violent incidents.

Fox host Jesse Watters alleged on December 16, without evidence and before the shooting even took place, that Defend the Atlanta Forest was “plotting to kill cops” and that the protesters were “all card-carrying members of antifa.”

Over the past few years, antifa has been used to detract attention from the climate crisis and its impacts. In September 2020, podcaster Joe Rogan and other misinformers blamed antifa for wildfires on the West Coast,and climate activists were similarly blamed for wildfires during Europe’s extreme heat wave this past summer. The right wants people to think climate activists are dangerous, and it seems they’re willing to say anything to support that.

Some right-wing figures have targeted climate activists with vile personal attacks

Tortuguita’s gender identity has been a subject of scrutiny for right-wing media since their death, seemingly for no reason other than to further antagonize networks’ prejudiced audiences. On the January 25 episode of Newsmax’s Tipping Point, guest and right-wing journalist Pedro Gonzalez was upset that some media outlets called Totuguita by their nickname and used their preferred pronouns: “It’s kind of ridiculous, but PBS did all their coverage by referring to him using his they/it pronouns and his preferred nickname.” 

On January 23, Newsmax host Jenn Pellegrino acknowledged Tortuguita’s pronouns but continued to misgender them, seemingly on purpose, as did most of the right-wing shows covering the story. Newsmax host Rob Schmitt on January 23 said that “cutting down trees to train more cops is almost as offensive as intentionally misgendering somebody,” adding that antifa “descended on Atlanta to defend trees from fascism.”

Right-wing media have also found other ways to insult young protesters and connect climate change to culture war issues like gender, beauty standards, and mental illness. In a nauseating November 22 segment of Gutfeld!, host Greg Gutfeld compared activists to Charles Manson and lamented that “it’s not just gender that’s no longer binary; it’s sanity. … In the old days, they’d be carted off, placed in comfy cells with padded walls.” 

The foulness continued as conservative “comedian” Jamie Lissow said of the group Last Generation, “No one is banging these girls.” “You know what kills me about them? They could be attractive,” said Gutfeld. “But they hate all, like, patriarchal standards of beauty,” he concluded.

Almost no one is a better example of this than 19-year-old Greta Thunberg, whom right-wing media influencers have mocked for her autism diagnosis, calling her psychotic and mentally ill, and even advocating violence against her.

The right is coming for your right to assemble

By framing protesters as violent, aggressive, and mentally ill, right-wing media figures are making excuses for state efforts to criminalize civil disobedience in response to climate change protests and public outrage over violent and racist policing. 

Cop City is funded by the Atlanta Police Foundation, which has a slew of corporate donors and has helped make Atlanta the most surveilled city in the U.S. In 2020, a report found that fossil fuel companies including Chevron and Shell and the banks that fund them are donors for police foundations across the country. 

As journalist Dharna Noor noted in Atmos, “Police exist primarily to protect existing structures and institutions. They are deployed to defend the exploitation of the land’s resources—like what is happening in Atlanta.” 

And Republican state lawmakers are actively trying to hinder lawful opposition. Since 2020, eight states have enacted laws that increase penalties and charges for either interfering with oil and gas activity or disturbing meetings of government officials. Iowa, Oklahoma, and Florida have all passed laws protecting motorists who hit protesters. 

Nineteen forest defenders have been charged with domestic terrorism. But according to Grist, nine are “alleged to have committed no specific crime beyond misdemeanor trespassing,” or tree-sitting.They’re facing five to 35 years in prison.

Right-wing media and politicians are sending a clear message: If they had their way, exercising your right to protest could be a death sentence, if the thing you’re protesting doesn’t kill you first.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andy-ngo-right-wing-troll-antifa-877914/

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

How a Right-Wing Troll Managed to Manipulate the Mainstream Media

When a milkshake to the face brought the spotlight on Andy Ngo, politicians and talking heads on both sides were happy to take on his cause: demonizing antifa

By EJ DICKSON

PORTLAND, OR - JUNE 29: Andy Ngo, a Portland-based journalist, is seen covered in unknown substance after unidentified Rose City Antifa members attacked him on June 29, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. Several groups from the left and right clashed after competing demonstrations at Pioneer Square, Chapman Square, and Waterfront Park spilled into the streets. According to police, medics treated eight people and three people were arrested during the demonstrations. (Photo by Moriah Ratner/Getty Images)PORTLAND, OR - JUNE 29: Andy Ngo, a Portland-based journalist, is seen covered in unknown substance after unidentified Rose City Antifa members attacked him on June 29, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. Several groups from the left and right clashed after competing demonstrations at Pioneer Square, Chapman Square, and Waterfront Park spilled into the streets. According to police, medics treated eight people and three people were arrested during the demonstrations. (Photo by Moriah Ratner/Getty Images)

Andy Ngo was hit with a milkshake by counter-protesters at a far-right rally in Portland in June.

Moriah Ratner/Getty Images

There’s a folksy saying that grandparents of all stripes like to dispense: If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, then you shouldn’t be surprised when it starts quacking. Another, perhaps less folksy version of this idiom is Occam’s Razor, the theory that the simplest explanation for an event or phenomenon is usually the most likely.

Nowhere was this demonstrated more quickly than in the case of the meteoric rise and equally rapid fall of Andy Ngo, the provocateur and social media personality who garnered nationwide sympathy last June, when he tweeted that he was attacked by antifascist protesters at a Proud Boys rally. Last week, the local newspaper the Portland Mercury reported that a left-wing activist going undercover as a member of Patriot Prayer, a far-right group known for promoting and engaging in violent clashes with leftist activists, had given the publication an 18-minute video that included footage of Ngo with a group of Patriot Prayer members as the members discuss an upcoming brawl, including weaponry to be used in altercations with antifa. Ngo, who describes himself as a journalist, did not record the conversation, and does not appear to have his camera or notebook out. For part of the footage, he is seen on his phone.

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The source told the Mercury that Ngo and Patriot Prayer have an “understanding” that the group offers him protection when he covers rallies in exchange for favorable coverage. While this has not been confirmed, and Ngo strongly denies these allegations, an audio conversation between members of the Proud Boys, released by Willamette Week seemed to confirm that such discussions between Ngo and the Proud Boys had occurred, as one man is recorded saying that Ngo was attacked on June 29th because he refused an offer of protection. “Andy Ngo was fucking told that if he wanted protection from the PBs [Proud Boys], he went in with us and he went out with us,” the man says.

When reached for comment, Ngo directed Rolling Stone to his attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who refuted the allegations made by the Portland Mercury. “There have been suggestions made by that story and others that he is part of that group or embedded in that group or took protection from that group, which is absolutely false,” she tells Rolling Stone.

Nonetheless, the footage was highly embarrassing for Ngo, who has long claimed to be an independent and objective journalist, despite many left-wing activists in Portland accusing him of antagonizing them at rallies and selectively editing his footage to malign the left. Shortly after the footage was released, Quillette, a “free thought” publication with a libertarian bent,  deleted Ngo’s byline from its masthead, though founder Claire Lehmann denied to the Daily Beast that it had anything to do with the recently surfaced Patriot Prayer footage, as did Ngo in an op-ed published by the Spectator. (When asked about this, Dhillon says, “the suggestion that the video coming out is tied with [Ngo cutting ties with Quillette] is false and defamatory.”)

But the issue wasn’t so much that Ngo had finally been “exposed” as a right-wing provocateur as opposed to a journalist. It was that he’d managed to successfully convince so many ostensibly reasonable people otherwise, despite significant evidence to the contrary — and, in so doing, did some serious damage in the process.

Ngo has a long and rich history of trolling those on the left. While getting his master’s degree in political science at Portland State, he became convinced that a “social justice frenzy” was rapidly sweeping the nation, as he told a reporter who profiled him for BuzzFeed, becoming particularly focused on what he viewed as the increasingly urgent threat of Islam. In 2017, Ngo attended an interfaith student panel and tweeted a paraphrase of a Muslim student’s comments about how non-Muslims would be treated in an Islamic state. After he posted the tweet, which used inflammatory language out of context, Ngo was fired from the campus newspaper, the Portland State Vanguard. At the time, the editor-in-chief of the Vanguard said the firing was not motivated by partisanship, and that Ngo was removed from his post because the tweet was a “half-truth” that “incited a reaction and implicated the student panelist,” thus putting them in imminent jeopardy. But Breitbart and other national right-wing news outlets salivated over the story, painting Ngo as an innocent victim on the pyre of political correctness and liberal media bias.

It was the experience of getting fired that apparently gave Ngo his first taste of martyrdom.He started fashioning himself as a gonzo independent journalist of sorts, showing up at various far-right rallies in Portland, a city that has increasingly become a battleground of the culture wars. He developed a knack for obtaining footage of anti-fascist protesters that leaned into preconceived notions of radical leftists, making them look violent, red-faced, angry, or even just irrational, a gimmick that landed him a handful of spots as a commentator on Fox News. He also found the time to rack up a few bylines, penning an investigation into “the suspicious rise” of gay hate crimes in Portland for the New York Post, which notably quoted a gay Proud Boys member as saying it was “the most welcoming organization that I have ever been a part of.”

But it wasn’t until Ngo was attacked at the June rally that he truly ascended to the ranks of right-wing media shit-stirrer. “Attacked by antifa. Bleeding. They stole my camera equipment. No police until after. waiting for ambulance . If you have evidence Of attack please help,” he tweeted, later adding that he had been diagnosed at the ER with a brain hemorrhage and that antifa had thrown quick-dry cement milkshakes at him. (This claim was later debunked.) Footage also surfaced on Twitter of Ngo at the rally, being doused with a milkshake and silly string, and getting punched by an antifascist protester.

Almost immediately, Ngo garnered tremendous sympathy from both sides of the political aisle, even raising $195,000 from a GoFundMe set up following the altercation. GOP leader Kevin McCarthy swiftly condemned the anti-fascist protesters, saying, “The hate and violence perpetrated by Antifa must be condemned in the strongest possible way by all Americans. I pray for full and speedy recovery for journalist Andy Ngo,” while Sen. Ted Cruz rallied for antifa to be labeled a domestic terrorist threat. CNN anchor Jake Tapper retweeted an interview with Ngo condemning antifa, and Democratic candidates Andrew Yang, Rep. Eric Swalwell, and Sen. Joe Biden also weighed in to defend Ngo, with a campaign spokesperson for the former vice president telling the New York Post, “violence directed at anyone because of their political opinions is never acceptable, regardless of what those beliefs might be,” and that “Andy Ngo’s attackers should be identified and investigated.”

Immediately, he metamorphosed from being just another right-wing troll scrambling for attention to a blank slate, a canvas onto which political figures and journalists of all stripes could project their goals and desires. For those on the right, condemning the boogeyman of antifa was a no-brainer, an easy and convenient way to score points with the base; for those on the left, it was an opportunity to telegraph being fair, rational, and level-headed, while simultaneously taking a few steps away from their black-clad brethren further left. And for members of the media, the industry to which Ngo ostensibly belonged, it was an opportunity to demonstrate, in the face of constant and unrelenting allegations of liberal bias, just how unbiased they could be.

What the buttoned-up campaign spokespeople and hair-shellacked CNN anchors could not have predicted, however, was that the legitimizing of Ngo would come at a cost. Not only did Ngo become a far more prominent media presence, warranting an expansive (if critical) profile in Buzzfeed and a byline in The Spectator, the world’s oldest English-language publication, he would also become the driving force behind — as Tess Owen of Vice put it — the increasingly hostile “national attitudes toward the decentralized [antifa] activist movement.”

The coverage of the Portland attack helped to spur Sen. Ted Cruz’s bill to designate antifa as a terrorist organization, which was introduced in Congress in July. In the hours following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, which took more than 20 people’s lives, Ngo was instrumental in promoting the conspiracy theory that antifa had played a role; when that was thoroughly debunked, he helped perpetuate the theory that the man behind the Dayton, Ohio shooting was a member of antifa, despite the fact that there is no evidence he was involved in local activism or organizing.

Even if Ngo himself were a fraudulent journalist, and the victim narrative he promoted was also under fraudulent pretenses, his ability to get bad ideas in front of a mainstream audience was all too real. Because above all else, the attack on Ngo — and his ability to successfully spin it into a lucrative and semi-legitimate media career — appeared to shift the narrative regarding extremist violence more toward the far right’s favor.For groups like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys, “what allegedly happened to Andy Ngo was galvanizing for them in a lot of ways,” Keegan Hankes, a researcher and analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, previously told Rolling Stone. “It got a lot of media attention and it reinforced something the Proud Boys have pushed for years, which is the real threat is the violent left.”

The issue with this narrative is that this is verifiably not the case; though members of antifa have committed violent acts, that number is dwarfed by those committed by far-right extremists, says Hankes. That’s also the truth according to FBI director Christopher Wray, who has said that white supremacists constitute “the vast majority” of domestic terrorism threats. And when considering the very real, very immediate threat of far-right radicalization, promoting the conspiracy theories of a huckster like Ngo serves as little more than a distraction.

While the Portland Mercury story could cost him whatever was left of his mainstream reputation, it certainly won’t cost him his career. In the ever-expanding right-wing media ecosystem, there is plenty of room for trolls with a knack for video-editing software and gaming Twitter to find an audience, particularly if they are telling that audience what they know they want to hear. It should, however, serve as a chastening teachable moment to those who took him seriously, if only for a short time. That way, when some other ambitious young man with slick and dangerous ideas starts quacking, we’ll all know exactly what to call him.

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andy Cuong Ngo (/noʊ/ n-oh; born c. 1986) is an American conservative journalist,^[1][2][3] author, and social media personality known for covering and video-recording demonstrators.^[4] He is the editor-at-large of The Post Millennial, a Canadian conservative news website.^[5] Ngo is a regular guest on Fox News,^[6] and has published columns in outlets such The Spectator^[7] and The Wall Street Journal.^[8]

Ngo's coverage of antifa and Muslims has been controversial, and the accuracy and credibility of his reporting have been disputed by other journalists.He has been frequently accused of sharing misleading or selective material,^[9][10][11] described as a provocateur,^[12][13] and accused of having links with militant right-wing and far-right groups in Portland, Oregon.^{[14][15][16][17][3]}

• 1Early life and education
• 2Career
  • 2.1PSU *Vanguard* (2016–2017)
  • 2.2Campus event coverage (2017–2018)
  • 2.3Reporting in 2018
  • 2.4Livestreaming Patriot Prayer rallies (2017–2019)
  • 2.5Later work (2019–2021)
• 3Social media influence
  • 3.1Doxxing
• 4Credibility
• 5Legal actions
• 6Personal life
• 7Bibliography
• 8See also
• 9References
• 10External links

Early life and education

Ngo was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.^[1] His parents fled Vietnam in 1978 as Vietnamese boat people^[18] after they had been forced into labor and re-education camps by the communist government.^[19] His mother came from an educated middle-class family that ran a jewelry business.^[18] His father had been a police officer in a small coastal town in Vietnam.^[18] His parents first met amid a six-month stay at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees camp near Tanjungpinang, Indonesia, prior to their arrival in the United States in 1979.^[20]

Raised in a Buddhist family, Ngo converted to Christianity in high school.^[19] After a period of time as an evangelical Christian, he became disillusioned and took an interest in skepticism. He subsequently became an atheist^[19] and was strongly against organized religion, which was reflected in his social media activity in the form of what Ngo later described as "inflammatory language," with Reddit comments such as "Islam needs to be neutered like Christianity".^[11] In 2019, Ngo said that his earlier social media activity "represented my simplistic views at the time" and that his comments no longer represented his beliefs.^[11]

While attending the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Ngo volunteered with AmeriCorps.^[18] He graduated from UCLA in 2009 with a graphic design degree.^[19] After graduation, he experienced a period of unemployment and worked as a photographer at a used car dealership.^[19] In the mid-2010s, Ngo came out as gay while visiting relatives in rural Vietnam.^[18] He began volunteering as a photographer at the Center for Inquiry in Portland in 2013.^[11]

In 2015, Ngo enrolled in a master's program at Portland State University for political science, with a focus on international relations and comparative politics.^[1][19] While attending the school, he joined the Freethinkers of Portland State University,^[19] a student organization that worked closely with professor Peter Boghossian.^[11][21]

Ngo has been described by critics as a disciple of James O'Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas, a right-wing activist group.^[22][23]

Career

PSU Vanguard (2016–2017)

While enrolled at Portland State University (PSU), Ngo worked as a multimedia editor at the Portland State Vanguard, a student newspaper.^[11] In 2016, he reported on a demonstration organized by Don't Shoot Portland in which a man pulled a gun on a crowd of protesters.^[24]

In 2017, Ngo drew national attention after he was fired from the Vanguard and accused the newspaper of firing him over his conservative political beliefs.^[18] He attended an April 26 interfaith panel at the university, then used his personal account to tweet a video clip of a Muslim student's remarks. In the clip, the student states, in part, "in a Muslim country, in a country based on the Koranic laws, disbelieving, or being an infidel, is not allowed so you will be given the choice [to leave]." Alongside the video, Ngo wrote: "At @Portland_State interfaith panel today, the Muslim student speaker said that apostates will be killed or banished in an Islamic state."^[1]

Breitbart News picked up and circulated the video within 24 hours of Ngo's posting,^[1] which led to a "social media firestorm."^[21] Four days later, the Vanguard's editor, Colleen Leary, fired Ngo and stated that he was dismissed because his summary of the Muslim student's remarks reflected a reckless oversimplification and violation of journalistic ethics, and was meant to incite a reaction.^[1] She said that the dismissal was "not partisan".^[1]

In May 2017, Ngo wrote an op-ed for the National Review on the subject titled "Fired for Reporting the Truth".^[1][25] He also took part in online discussions about the incident on the pro-Donald Trump subreddit /r/The Donald, where he called the firing part of a "trend towards self-censorship in the name of political correctness".^[21] Leary reported that since the incident did not receive much attention on campus, it left her with questions about the relationship between Breitbart News and Ngo.^[1][21] Ngo has said that he did not contact Breitbart News about his tweet.^[1]

Campus event coverage (2017–2018)

With his student group the Freethinkers of PSU, Ngo helped organize a January 2017 campus event with Dave Rubin, Peter Boghossian, and Christina Hoff Sommers.^[26] According to Ngo, Rose City Antifa used social media to launch a phone campaign aimed at administrators in an unsuccessful effort to shut down the event.^[26]

Ngo and the Freethinkers of PSU hosted several speakers at a campus event on February 17, 2018, that included the headliner James Damore, a former Google engineer and author of "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber", an internal memo on diversity and gender that the company fired him for after they determined it was discriminatory and had elements that constituted sexual harassment.^[21][27] The day before the event, Ngo wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in which he stated that there had been threats of violence against the event on Facebook and Twitter, which had led campus police to deny organizers' request for a larger venue to accommodate the expected crowd.^[27][28] During the event, a portion of the audience walked out in protest, and one protester attempted to vandalize the audio system on her way out.^[21][27]

 Jason Wilson of The Guardian stated that the Damore event was one of several that appeared to have been "calculated to provoke Portland's progressive activists" and that Ngo's widely circulated videos fit into a pattern of actions where Ngo had "shrewdly inserted" his coverage "into the workings of the rightwing outrage machine" several times within the preceding year.^[21] Afterwards, Ngo wrote an article about the incident for Quillette, and the story was covered by YouTuber and political commentator Tim Pool.^[21]

As a PSU graduate student,^[21][29] Ngo filmed a talk on March 5, 2018, at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland by Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute known for her criticism of the women's movement. The event was disrupted by student protesters engaging in no platforming tactics, who forced the talk to end early.^[29][30][31] Ngo posted photos and video clips of students gathering on the stage and drowning out Sommers' talk with chanting and music.^[30][31] Ngo, who had covered protests at several talks given by Sommers,^[31] expressed interest in what he called "illiberal reactions" which he said restrict freedom of thought or behavior.^[29]

Reporting in 2018

On August 29, 2018, Ngo wrote an op-ed titled "A Visit to Islamic England" for The Wall Street Journal.^[32] In the article, Ngo described his experiences in two neighborhoods in East London, including visits to a mosque and an Islamic center. From these experiences, he concluded that London was afflicted with "failed multiculturalism".^[33] He mistakenly connectedalcohol-free zones in parts of London to the Muslim-majority populations, subsequently issuing a correction acknowledging that alcohol-free zones "appear in many English neighborhoods, irrespective of Muslim population."^[34][35] Ngo's opinion piece was widely said to have been Islamophobic.^[36] Alex Lockie from Business Insider criticized Ngo's article for "fear monger[ing] around England's Muslim population" and cherry-picking evidence, and for mischaracterizing the neighborhood near the East London Mosque.^[32] Steve Hopkins from HuffPost stated that "some of his [Ngo's] assertions have already been disproved".^[37]

In October 2018, Ngo started a podcast entitled Things You Should Ngo. His interviewees included Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin and Carl Benjamin (who uses the pen name "Sargon of Akkad" online).^[19]

Livestreaming Patriot Prayer rallies (2017–2019)

In 2017, Ngo began filming rallies held by Patriot Prayer, a Portland-area far-right group^[19] known for holding pro-gun, pro-Trump rallies^[38] that have devolved into violence and street fighting.^[39][40][41] The Patriot Prayer gatherings (whose early rallies were used by white nationalists as recruitment events) were met by Portland's anti-fascists and anarchists known to support direct action, including violence.^[19] November 2018, Ngo live-streamed video coverage of the Him Too rally organized by a Patriot Prayer member in downtown Portland, and was sprayed with silly string and harassed^[42] by antifa protesters.^[43][44] By 2019, Ngo routinely attended and live-streamed events at Portland protests.^[36]

May Day 2019

On May 1, 2019, Ngo attended demonstrations and counter protests in Portland associated with International Workers Day or May Day.^[45][46] He reported being punched and blasted with bear spray while filming two separate May Day events, including a brawl between left-wing activists and members of Patriot Prayer, outside the Cider Riot pub.^[46] Bellingcat stated that Ngo's tweets framed the brawl as an unprovoked assault by anti-fascists.^[47] Prior to the fight, Ngo was filmed standing in the presence of members of Patriot Prayer as they planned an attack on antifascists following the protests.^[11][48] Ngo did not report on the actions of Patriot Prayer.^[47]Five members of Patriot Prayer were charged with felony riot incitement for their actions on May Day 2019, including the group's leader Joey Gibson.^[49]

Assault during coverage of the Proud Boys rally and counter-protest (2019)

On June 29, 2019, Ngo covered protests at a rally organized by the far-right group Proud Boys in Portland. A group of counter-protesters also organized, some of whom physically attacked Ngo, who was present filming.^[2] Ngo was punched in the head, kicked and hit with at least one milkshake. He blamed his injuries on antifa counter-protesters. No individual attackers were identified.^[50][51][52] He walked away and reported what happened in a livestream, during which a medic arrived to check on him.^[53] The video of the June 29 incident where Ngo was assaulted by masked demonstrators went viral and led the Proud Boys, a group designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, to organize a follow up event in Portland known as the End Domestic Terrorism rally for August 17, 2019.^[54][55]

As a result of the attack, medical examiners determined that Ngo suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage.^[19][42] He retained attorney Harmeet Dhillon to investigate the response of the Portland Police Bureau.^[56] Following Ngo's attack, Texas Senator Ted Cruz called on federal authorities to investigate Ted Wheeler, Portland's mayor and police commissioner.^[57][58] 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Andrew Yang wished Ngo a speedy recovery.^[57] Broader analysis of media coverage following Ngo's attack was polarized, with each side expressing criticism of the other,^[] including essays in The Atlantic^[59] and Commentary.^[42]

Patriot Prayer video and departure from Quillette (2019)

On August 26, 2019, the Portland Mercury reported^[15] on a video where Ngo was seen smiling^[42] and laughing at certain points^[9][60] while standing in the presence of members of Patriot Prayer on May 1, as they planned an attack on antifascists following the May Day protests.^[11] He later followed the group on foot a few blocks to the Cider Riot bar, where Patriot Prayer members attacked the patrons. The video became part of court documents in a lawsuit against Patriot Prayer members for causing the riot. One of the victims of the attack was knocked unconscious with a baton and suffered a broken vertebra; Ngo later posted a video of her being attacked and identified her online.^[61] The Portland Mercury's Alex Zilenski stated "there's no way [Ngo] couldn't know the group was planning on instigating violence."^[60] The Portland Mercury also quoted an undercover antifascist embedded in Patriot Prayer saying that Ngo had an "understanding" with the far-right group that the group "protects him and he protects them".^[15]

Later during the day on August 26, Ngo's name was deleted from Quillette's masthead, and the site from Ngo's Twitter feed.^[48] The editor of Quillette, Claire Lehmann, told The Daily Beast that the two developments were not linked and that Ngo had left the website several weeks earlier.^[48] After publication of its story, the Portland Mercury published a letter from Ngo's lawyer seeking retraction of the newspaper's "false and inherently defamatory statements."ThePortland Mercury stood by its reporting.^[15]

On August 30, The Spectator published an article by Ngo in which he stated he did not know about the far-right group planning the attack, that he "[only] caught snippets of various conversations" and "was preoccupied on [his] phone", describing the accusations as "lies".^[62] Writing in thelibertarian magazine Reason,Robby Soave expressed agreement that the video did not show evidence that Ngo knew beforehand about a violent plot.^[49]

Later work (2019–2021)

Ngo with U.S. CongressmanDan Crenshaw at a 2019 Turning Point USA event in Washington, D.C.

In 2019, Ngo published a series in the New York Post alleging numerous hate crimes reported to police in Portland, Oregon had been faked.^[63] He contributed articles to the online magazine Quillette where he was described as a sub-editor and photojournalist for the publication at the time of his departure in August 2019.^[36][48]

By June 2020, Ngo was with The Post Millennial,^[5] a conservative Canadian news website.^[64] Ngo describes himself as the editor-at-large for The Post Millennial.^[4] He has been a regular guest on Fox News^[10][65] where he has expressed his concerns about the dangers posed by the left on at least two dozen occasions as of February 2021.^[6]

Ngo has written several opinion articles for The Wall Street Journal.^[8] In July 2020, Ngo's reporting was among the concerns listed in a letter, penned by nearly 300 of The Journal's newsroom staff members to the paper's publisher, that condemned the opinion desk's "lack of fact-checking and transparency."^[8] Several media outlets,^[10] including The Oregonian^[66] have been critical of Ngo and described him as a "right-wing provocateur".^[67][68][69] BuzzFeed News said that "Ngo's work is probably best described as media activism" and that he engages in "participant reporting".^[19] New York magazine cites Ngo as an example of "busybody journalism."^[33] In April 2019, Cathy Young, writing for The Bulwark, criticized Ngo for "outrage mining" after he re-posted various tweets from random Twitter accounts, some of whom were teenagers, that mocked France following the Notre-Dame de Paris fire.^[70]

Unmasked

During the week of January 10, 2021, the online pre-sale of Ngo's first book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, was met with a small group of protestors who demonstrated outside the flagship Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon.^[63][71] The bookseller, which offered the book for sale online, chose not to promote Unmasked or physically stock it in their stores.^[4] The book became "one of the most popular political titles on Amazon before its release."^[6] Upon release, Unmasked became an Amazon bestseller.^[23][63] For the week of February 14, 2021 Unmasked was listed as the top national bestseller in hardcover nonfiction by Publishers Weekly^[72] and appeared as number three on *The New York Times* Best Seller list for nonfiction.^[6]

In the Los Angeles Times, Alexander Nazaryan reviewed Unmasked as a "supremely dishonest new book on the left-wing anti-fascist movement known as antifa".^[23] According to Nazaryan, Ngo wrote that his parents' immigration from Vietnam led him to describe his book as "a letter of gratitude to the nation" that made them welcome, as against the leftists who, he claims, wish to destroy it. "As an immigrant from a communist country", Nazaryan wrote, "I understand the sentiment. As a journalist, however, I must point out that he is churning out the very kind [of] propaganda that keeps authoritarians in power."^[23] Kirkus Reviews described Unmasked as "a book that belongs in any QAnon subscriber's collection."^[73] Writing forThe Oregonian, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh stated that Unmasked contained "serious omissions, errors and false equivalencies that have alarmed an array of academics and intelligence officials who track extremist movements."^[6]

In March 2021, Winston Marshall, banjoist and founding member of the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons, posted on Twitter to Ngo, "Finally had the time to read your important book. You're a brave man." His post led to online criticism, and several days later Marshall deleted the tweet, apologized for it, and stated that he was temporarily leaving the band "to examine my blindspots." In June, Marshall left Mumford & Sons permanently and recanted his apology, saying that it "participates in the lie that [the extremism documented in the book] does not exist, or worse, is a force for good."^[74]

In May 2021, while Ngo was in Portland to cover the one-year anniversary demonstrations for a follow up chapter to Unmasked, Ngo said he was recognized in disguise and then chased down by a group of five to ten demonstrators who attempted to unmask him before assaulting him.^[75][76][77] Ngo said that he was tackled and punched by demonstrators in black bloc before he fled into The Nines hotel.^[78] Ngo frequently uploads protesters' personal information, including mugshots, to social media: some protesters^[who?] have said this results in harassment and death threats, leading them to view Ngo as a threat.^[77][76][78]

Social media influence

Ngo's actions and role in covering issues, particularly civil unrest in Portland, Oregon, following the murder of George Floyd, have received media attention.^[79][80][81] In December 2019, The Oregonian named Ngo one of 2019's Top 15 Newsmakers citing events that included his attack, his surge in prominence within conservative circles, and his circulation of "heavily edited videos of several altercations to his then-270,000 Twitter followers, racking up millions of views online while spreading inaccurate claims and limited context about what transpired."^[80] President Trump began to mention Ngo at his rallies in July 2019.^[81]

In August 2020, The Southern Poverty Law Center said in an interview with philosopher and How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them author Jason Stanley that Ngo had been caught misrepresenting facts and that "what he says goes substantially viral after that."^[82] Stanley contended that Ngo promotes a "false equivalence [between left and right political violence in the U.S.], when there's no such equivalence at all", noting that hundreds of Americans had been killed in far-right violence since 1990 while antifa had not been responsible for any lives lost as of August 27, 2020, the date the interview was published.^[82]

Writing for MIT Technology Review in September 2020, Harvard University faculty member Joan Donovan addressed the use of video in social media to encourage an outrage response, stating that Ngo was one of two right-wing adversarial media-makers promoting "riot porn" consisting of videos of conflict at public protests that are edited, decontextualized, and shared among online followers.^[83]

By October 2020, Politico reported Ngo had established approximately 800,000 social media followers and had become a mega influencerthat was a "key source for rightwing audiences in search of news about the Black Lives Matter movement."^[79] The following month, Ngo's viral video content was recirculated by President Trump following the Million MAGA March.^[47][84]

In December 2021, The Intercept described Ngo as a "far-right Twitter star" with 940,000 followers on the platform.^[85]

Doxxing

In 2019, Ngo labelled several journalists, including Shane Burley and Alexander Reid Ross, as "antifa ideologues".^[86] According to Vox's Zack Beauchamp, Ngo doxed a political activist in 2019 by publishing her full name.^[2] Ngo is known for publishing the mugshots of arrestees in Portland to his Twitter account.^[65]

Credibility

Ngo's credibility and objectivity as a journalist have been extensively criticized.^[10][60][87] Since 2019, he has been accused of using selectively edited videos^[88] and sharing misleading and inaccurate information to paint antifa activists as violent,^[3] and to underplay the violence of the far right,^[89][90][83] with C**olumbia Journalism Reviewdescribing Ngo as a "discredited provocateur".^[91]

Ngo has also attracted criticism for allegedly associating with the same far-right groups that he purports to report on.^[16][92][17] After Ngo was assaulted by left-wing protestors in Portland in 2019, the Portland-based newspaper Willamette Week quoted the Portland Mercury's Blogtown in saying an unnamed Proud Boys member said that the attack on Ngo "happened because he ignored Proud Boys' offer of protection"^[14] and accordingly stated "it is increasingly clear [Ngo] is coordinating his movements and his message with right-wing groups".^[14]

BuzzFeed News reported that "[Ngo]'s literal brand is that anti-fascists are violent and loathe him", adding that he "has been building to a dramatic confrontation with the Portland far left for months, his star rising along with the severity of the encounters ... . [Ngo] is willing to make himself the story and to stream himself doing it. He proceeds from a worldview and seeks to confirm it, without asking to what degree his coverage becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy".^[19] Brian Levin, an extremist expert from California State University, San Bernardino, stated that Ngo was "a political pundit who certainly makes the most out of his conflicts, which sometimes turn violent on him. ... But to his credit, I've never seen him be the physical aggressor in the posts that he's made generally."^[93]

Legal actions

In June 2020, Ngo sued individuals allegedly associated with antifa, seeking $900,000 in damages for assault and emotional distress, and an injunction to prevent further harassment. The lawsuit, filed by Ngo's personal attorney Harmeet Dhillon, a national Republican operative who served as a legal adviser to Trump's re-election campaign,^[6] cites Rose City Antifa, five other named defendants, and additional unknown assailants.^[94] The suit stems from multiple alleged attacks on Ngo in Portland during 2019: at a demonstration on May 1, at his local gym on May 7, and during a protest on June 29. In particular, the suit accuses Rose City Antifa of a "pattern of racketeering activities".^[5][95] On December 15, 2020, aMultnomah County judge denied a special motion to strike down the suit.^[94]

Ngo has been invited by Republican lawmakers to testify before Congress on several occasions.^[6][96] On August 4, 2020, he provided testimony at a United States Senate Judiciary subcommittee titled "The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble: Protecting Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence."^[97] Fox News reported that Ngo disputed media coverage of protests and criticized Democrats for not condemning antifa for violence in Portland; however, prosecutors focused only on criminal conduct and did not provide evidence that any of the people arrested in Portland were linked to antifa.^[98] The Southern Poverty Law Center stated that Ngo has been a vocal proponent of listing antifa as a terrorist organization.^[99]

On February 24, 2021, Ngo provided testimony at the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security following the U.S. Capitol attack.^[96] During the congressional hearing which focused on the rise of domestic terrorism in the United States, lawmakers denounced the insurrection that left five dead but they diverged on how to address the problem.^[96] Democratic lawmakers condemned false equivalencies and raised concerns about white supremacist violence and homegrown extremism, whereas Ngo, the sole witness called by Republicans, suggested the media was at fault for failing to criticize the looting and rioting that occurred after the murder of George Floyd.^[96][100]

Personal life

Ngo considers himself to be politically center-right.^{[101][102][103]}

The Oregonian reported in 2021 that Ngo relocated to London, citing concerns for his personal safety.^[6] A Portland Police Bureau spokesman confirmed that Ngo filed at least 10 police reports about threats made to him or his family since June 2020.^[6]

Bibliography

• Ngo, Andy (2021). Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. Nashville, Tennessee: Center Street. [and consult xian, conserv bk club]ISBN 9781546059585.

See also

• List of LGBT people from Portland, Oregon

References

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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-02-08/andy-ngo-new-book-still-pretends-antifa-real-enemy

there is an alternate universe out there in which we never have to ponder, let alone read, “Unmasked,” provocateur Andy Ngo’s supremely dishonest new book on the left-wing anti-fascist movement known as antifa. In that other world far, far away, Marjorie Taylor Greene remains a nutty CrossFit enthusiast from Georgia, not a member of Congress, and we know nothing of her musings on Jewish space lasers, the execution of Democrats or “false flag” school shootings.

If you find that universe, please send directions.

Coming as it does in this weary universe of ours, a month after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in search of elected officials to kidnap or kill, “Unmasked” has to be taken seriously. Not because it is a serious book — it is nothing of the sort — but because Ngo’s prominence is evidence that false flags will continue to be planted, sometimes on the very same soil where violent reactionaries have spilled American blood.

A mainstay of conservative media, Ngo is a disciple of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, who rose to fame with videos in which members of liberal organizations were duped into making outrageous statements that were then deceptively edited. But whereas O’Keefe, whom Ngo thanks in his acknowledgments, goes after a diverse range of subjects, Ngo is singularly focused on inflating antifa’s importance. It is his black-clad white whale, his Marx-spouting Moby Dick.

Ngo’s fame, such as it is, stems from a June 2019 donnybrook in Portland, in the course of which antifa activists assailed him with a thrown milkshake. Ngo claimed the milkshake contained concrete; far more likely, it was a vegan blend heavy on cashew butter.

ngo was punched and kicked as well; he claims to have suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. The violence was obviously criminal. What goes unmentioned is that Ngo had a history of “embedding” with right-wing groups — including, according to persuasive allegations he has denied, the white supremacist outfit Patriot Prayer — that provoke antifa into the very fights Ngo then films. In “Unmasked,” he eagerly dons the martyr’s vestments, describing the attack with such self-serving detail, you’d think he’d been liberating Rome.

“Unmasked” is a culmination of Ngo’s single-minded quest to depict an assortment of leftists as a unified vanguard whose mission is to “destroy the nation-state, America in particular.” Only in its final pages does he explain the roots of that fixation, his parents’ immigration from wartorn Vietnam. He calls this book “a letter of gratitude to the nation that welcomed” them. As an immigrant from a communist country, I understand the sentiment. As a journalist, however, I must point out that he is churning out the very kind propaganda that keeps authoritarians in power.

Distortions and untruths hover like flies around every shred of confirmable fact. The same section of “Unmasked” that ends with Ngo’s paean to the United States portrays a mid-November “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington as a “peaceful and celebratory” affair, with no mention of the Proud Boys amassed there. The counter-protesters, meanwhile, are a “marauding gang.”

The truth about antifa has been chronicled elsewhere, and it is a lot more quotidian than Ngo and his abettors at Fox News would like you to believe. The nation’s top mainstream antifa scholar, Mark Bray, wrote in The Washington Post that antifa is “not an organization. Rather, it is a politics of revolutionary opposition to the far right.”

Ngo’s false-equivalence manifesto comes while fencing remains in place on Capitol Hill, all because the Proud Boys of the aforementioned November lovefest decided to return on January 6. Coming in the wake of that ugly insurrection, “Unmasked” has the ridiculous feel of a warning about the dangers of German communism issued in 1939.

Incredibly, Ngo makes that very comparison himself, arguing that antifa’s predecessors in Weimar Germany deserve as much scrutiny as their Nazi counterparts.

“While the Brownshirts are well remembered in contemporary Western society, the history of far-left paramilitaries in the German interwar years has faded to memory,” Ngo writes, in the tendentious, pedantic tone of a Wikipedia enthusiast. I guess he didn’t get around to clicking on the entry for Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Ngo crosses the line into truly despicable when he downplays the murders of Heather Heyer by white nationalists in Charlottesville and Black teenager Trayvon Martin by vigilante George Zimmerman. Every act of violence by antifa, meanwhile, is described so meticulously and ominously that Herr Goebbels would have been proud.

In no way do I make that allusion flippantly. Maligning the opposition was central to the Nazi strategy, and it is critical to today’s far-right extremists. Ngo’s intention here seems not just to discredit antifa, but to run a diversionary tactic for Patriot Prayer and other groups that are far more dangerous than their leftist counterparts. He calls the Proud Boys a “pro-Trump fraternity,” as if they were just J. Crew-clad beer pong aficionados instead of racist thugs.

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(Center Street Press)

The right is always reminding us that ”facts don’t care about your feelings,” so let us set out some facts. Ngo writes that the “numbers and influence” of right-wing extremists “are grossly exaggerated by biased media,” while antifa poses “just as much, if not more, of a threat to the future of American liberal democracy.” He frequently references last summer’s anti-racism protests, conveniently eliding the point that 93% were peaceful, according to a study from Princeton. A brief published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, hardly a lefty outfit, found that antifa had a “minor” role in what violence did occur, most of which was driven by local, autonomous actors, and that the organization’s threat was “relatively small.”

January 6th administered the coup de grâce to Ngo’s already teetering thesis. It should not have taken this long, however. Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security warned last October that “white supremacist extremists” would remain the “most persistent and lethal threat” to the American homeland.

A recent report in the New York Times noted that Trump was so obsessed with the imaginary threat of antifa, he effectively prevented his own administration from countering the looming threat from the right. Before he was banned from Twitter, Trump retweeted Ngo’s scurrilous dispatches 11 times between August and October 2020 to his nearly 90 million followers.

If trolling, not reportage, is Ngo’s purpose, then “Unmasked” is a tour de force. The left helped his cause (as it tends to), protesting in front of the famed Powell’s bookstore in Portland, Ore., for agreeing to carry the book. Powell’s backed down, giving Ngo the kind of publicity not even a Trump tweet would have brought. The book became an Amazon bestseller.

Yet no amount of commercial success can obscure Ngo’s fundamentally flimsy argument. Most of his reporting is focused on Portland and Seattle, where radicalism is not exactly new. His efforts to depict a national network are unconvincing, as are attendant efforts to show the Democratic establishment’s support for antifa (for example, an Instagram post from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supporting Unicorn Riot, an alternative news outlet that backs peaceful protests).

Seeking proof of antifa’s military cohesion, he quotes from a training manual he managed to obtain: “Childcare will be provided. Please just let us know the number and ages of the children ahead of time.” The road to Stalinism, I have long maintained, will be paved with BPA-free playmats.

Before the fine folks at Gateway Pundit rush to screencap any of the above as evidence of my left-wing affinities, let me just say that I have as much fondness for antifa as I do for orthodontic surgery. I watched them destroy a Starbucks in Berkeley during a protest over a scheduled appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos. This, shortly after the company’s chief executive, Howard Schultz, committed to hiring thousands of Syrian refugees. The destruction was not just pointless, but also detrimental to the cause. The same can and should be said about the violence that sometimes followed the summer’s protests.

Excuses for left-wing violence — I am thinking of Vicky Osterweil’s offensively clueless “In Defense of Looting” — deserve the same level of condemnation now directed at Ngo. The only difference, and it is a yuge one, is that Trump openly courted the Proud Boys and other right-wing groups, which essentially turned their violent acts into state-sanctioned terror. Say what you will about President Biden, he is unlikely to invite antifa for tea and crumpets on the South Lawn.

Less honest segments of the right will nevertheless argue the opposite, using Ngo’s book to pad their case. Greg Kelly, the Hannity wannabe anchor on Newsmax TV, gave the game away on Jan. 15, when he complained that he was “sick of hearing” about the Capitol riot. He then quickly pivoted to antifa, deploying exactly the same argument Ngo makes in this collection of words that I am legally required to call a book.

“Unmasked” will do no more to help Americans understand antifa than Borat helped us understand Kazakhstan. It is simply a cudgel for Trumpists to swing whenever they need to obscure their own complicity in events like the Capitol riot, which even Ngo was forced to admit had not been conducted by antifa.

On Jan. 4, some protesters showed up in front of the Virginia residence of Sen. Josh Hawley. The protesters were loud and plainly unwelcome. Hawley treated them as terrorists, denouncing “antifa scumbags” whom he falsely depicted as vandalizing his property. It made for some good Fox News segments, which seems to be both the origin and endopoint of so much conservative thought these days.

Not 48 hours later, there was Hawley in front of the Capitol, fist raised insupport of what few would call anything but treason. Followers of Trump fervently searched footage of the riot, desperately trying to find evidence of antifa agitators. But those rioters did not wear masks, so it was clear who they were — and were not.

Nazaryan is a White House correspondent for Yahoo News and the author of “The Best People: Trump’s Cabinet and the Siege on Washington.”

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https://www.amazon.com/Unmasked-Antifas-Radical-Destroy-Democracy/dp/154605958X

BS oddly no blurbs/endorsements?!

In this #1 national bestseller, a journalist who's been attacked by Antifa writes a deeply researched and reported account of the group's history and tactics.

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In Unmasked, Andy Ngo tells the story of this violent extremist movement from the very beginning. He includes interviews with former followers of the group, people who've been attacked by them, and incorporates stories from his own life. This book contains a trove of documents obtained by the author, published for the first time ever.}:

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Andy Cuong Ngo is an American journalist best known for covering protests in Portland, Oregon. He has written columns in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, National Review, and others. His series for the New York Post on Portland's "fake hate crime" industry became a viral sensation. He drew national attention when he was attacked by Antifa on the streets of Portland in the summer of 2019. Until recently, he was an editor for Quillette.com.

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Human Events, Post Millennial join together in big right-wing media merger

Human Events' acquisition unites Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, and Andy Ngo.

Claire Goforth Claire Goforth Tech Posted on May 5, 2022   Updated on May 9, 2022,

On Wednesday, Human Events announced that it has acquired right-wing outlet the Post Millennial. The acquisition brings some of the most notorious members of the far-right media landscape together under one digital roof.

Canada-based the Post Millennial has courted controversy in recent years with what many describe as its biased coverage and for employing far-right provocateurAndy Ngo. Human Events’ stable of writers includes Ngo’s ideological allies such as Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, and others.

The conservative Human Events has been a polarizing political force over its nearly 80-year history. Originally founded as a print publication in 1944, it went digital-only in 2013.

Former President Ronald Reagan credited Human Events with dissuading him of his liberal views and reportedly considered it his “favorite reading for years.” Reagan’s staff disliked its influence over the president so much that they reportedly blocked its delivery to him, leading Reagan to order several copies delivered to the White House residence on weekends.

Human Events ceased print publication in 2013. In 2019, Raheem Kassam and Will Chamberlain bought the outlet in the hopes of resuming a more regular publication schedule. Kassam departed very shortly thereafter. A year later, Human Events appointed Jeff Webb as co-publisher and senior news editor to rebuild it as a daily platform.

Rumors of Human Events’ and the Post Millennial’s business relationship began circulating online last week.

Some believe that the merger is a reaction to the Post Millennial losing advertisers over its employment of extremist-linked Ngo and coverage that often villainizes leftist activists and causes.

According to a release announcing the acquisition, the two entities will remain separate, but will share “social media assets, digital ad platforms, and other administrative resources.”

Fans of the publications reacted to the news with jubilation. They believe that the relationship will greatly increase the reach and influence of both. Similar more mainstream publications have undergone mergers recently as well, such as BuzzFeed acquiring HuffPost, and Vox purchasing New York Magazine

Their detractors similarly believe that the duo is more powerful than the sum of its parts. They’re concerned that the merger will facilitate each’s efforts to pollute the information ecosystem. “Dangerous bedfellows,”@kate_ross_ wrote of the news.

Researchers said they are already looking into which ad placement companies are working with Human Events.

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canada-based the Post Millennial has courted controversy in recent years with what many describe as its biased coverage and for employing far-right provocateur Andy Ngo. Human Events’ stable of writers includes Ngo’s ideological allies such as Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, and others.

The conservative Human Events has been a polarizing political force over its nearly 80-year history. Originally founded as a print publication in 1944, it went digital-only in 2013.

Former President Ronald Reagan credited Human Events with dissuading him of his liberal views and reportedly considered it his “favorite reading for years.” Reagan’s staff disliked its influence over the president so much that they reportedly blocked its delivery to him, leading Reagan to order several copies delivered to the White House residence on weekends.

Human Events ceased print publication in 2013. In 2019, Raheem Kassam and Will Chamberlain bought the outlet in the hopes of resuming a more regular publication schedule. Kassam departed very shortly thereafter. A year later, Human Events appointed Jeff Webb as co-publisher and senior news editor to rebuild it as a daily platform.

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Andy Ngo seen laughing as Patriot Prayer members plan an attack in newly emerged video

'There's no way he couldn't know the group was planning on instigating violence against people at Cider Riot.'

Sierra Juarez Sierra Juarez IRL Posted on Aug 24, 2019   Updated onMay 20, 2021,

A video has surfaced on Twitter that shows conservative journalist Andy Ngo laughing as members of the far-right group Patriot Prayer plan an attack on anti-fascist patrons at a Portland bar. The incident, which happened in May, is now at the center of a lawsuit.

The antifa members were having a peaceful May Day celebration when Patriot Prayer members came to protest, according to the Portland Mercury. Several fights broke out, and now the bar is suing the Patriot Prayer members for allegedly causing the riot. Ngo covered the event on Twitter and blamed the brawl on antifa.

Portland-based journalist Alex Zielinski posted a video, which is part of the court documents in the ongoing lawsuit and appears to negate Ngo’s claims.

“This clip, shot right before Patriot Prayer arrived at [the bar] Cider Riot on May Day, is the clearest evidence I’ve seen supporting the claim that PP … were intent on instigating a fight that afternoon,” Zielinski tweeted.

In the video, Patriot Prayer members discuss what weapons they have, talk about the direction of the wind to avoid getting pepper-sprayed, and some make phone calls to request for backup.

Ngo is present in the video and can even be seen laughing at certain points.

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“[Ngo] smiles as they joke about being outnumbered. There’s no way he couldn’t know the group was planning on instigating violence against people at Cider Riot,” Zielinski tweeted.

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In Ngo’s coverage of the riots, he posted misleading videos that crop out violent actions from Patriot Prayer members, putting the blame fully on antifa. Since then, videos have emerged that discredit several of his tweets.

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“As more people send me clips, it becomes clear that Andy’s work is plagued by these dishonest edits. For example, in this clip, he edited out some goons stomping a man’s head, and did it with a sloppy looking jump-cut in his own clip,” Twitter user @RespectableLaw wrote.

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Ngo is relatively new to the media scene. He is known for videos of political clashes in the streets of Portland and for a recent attack by an antifa supporter on June 29, which reportedly sent Ngo to the hospital.

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Some Twitter users–like Charlotte Clymer, the communications director for the Human Rights Campaign–have said that Ngo purposely instigates fights with left-wing protesters in order to get publicity.

“Violence is completely wrong … but I’m also not going to pretend that this wasn’t Ngo’s goal from the start,” Clymer tweeted.

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Update 7:37am CT, Aug 27: On Monday, Aug. 26, several reporters noticed Andy Ngo was no longer listed on Quillette’s website as an editor and that Ngo removed Quillette from his bio.

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Many speculated it was a result of the videos of Ngo with Patriot Prayer.

Quilllette founder Claire Lehmann denied that was the case, however, saying Ngo’s exit from the site had been long planned.

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As right-wing groups clashed with counter-protesters at pro-Trump demonstrations over the weekend, Ivanka Trump, the senior White House adviser and daughter of outgoing President Donald Trump, condemned the media on Twitter for "near total silence" over alleged assaults on conservatives. The tweet came as selectively edited video wrongly portraying Trump supporters as victims of violence circulated online in right-wing circles.NOTE THIS SETS UP RATIONALE FOR MORE RW VIOLENCE]

"The media's near total silence about the physical violence being perpetrated against conservatives is shameful & dangerous. Just image the outrage and indignation if this went the other way," Ivanka tweeted. "Violence is never the answer and instigators must be condemned and prosecuted." ATLAS, BANNON BOOGALOO...]

Donald Trump Jr. one-upped his sister's allegation an hour later by claiming, without evidence, that the media was "complicit." He also suggested that "they might as well" put Trump supporters on a non-existent Gulag list controlled by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. [THE NEW PELOSI?]

"The media's silence on the violence against Trump supporters is deafening. After four years of calling them Nazis, at this point they might as well just dox them all or add the[m] to AOC's lists for the Gulags," Don Jr. baselessly tweeted. "They are complicit in the violence. They are the worst of the worst."

Trump supporters and right-wing groups marched in several cities on Saturday in protest of the president's recent electoral loss to President-elect Joe Biden. The demonstrators echoed the president's evidence-free allegations of a stolen election.

Many of these groups were met by counter-protests, and violence broke out in some instances. The most serious of these incidents took place in Washington, where Proud Boys and other right-wing groups and militia members clashed with counter-protesters, according to multiple reports. Contrary to the Trump family's assertions, conservatives were filmed launching attacks. 2 STABBINGS ONE PROUD?]

It was not the first time Ivanka had misleadingly tweeted about political violence. In a tweet referencing "inner city communities," the first daughter cited the wrong number of people killed and wounded in the wrong location ("near a playground") over the course of a weekend in Chicago in August 2019.

In his first debate with Biden, President Trump told the Proud Boys to "stand back, and stand by." Unlike his offspring, the president outwardly applauded Saturday's violence in the streets.

"ANTIFA SCUM ran for the hills today when they tried attacking the people at the Trump Rally, because those people aggressively fought back," he tweeted.

The president also shared a selectively edited video posted by Andy Ngo, a right-wing sympathizer with a history of wrongly framing left-wing groups. The clip showed a man getting knocked out by a counter-protester after being attacked from behind.

"A close-up angle of BLM rioters knocking a man unconscious who was leaving the #MillionMAGAMarch in DC earlier today," Ngo wrote. "They also steal his phone when he's on the ground."

"Human Radical Left garbage did this," the president added, quoting Ngo's original tweet. "Being arrested now!"

But an extended clip appears to shows the man was with a group of Trump supporters who earlier attacked a counter-protester holding a bullhorn by pushing him down to the street and stepping on his head.

D.C. police on Sunday said they hadarrested nearly two dozen people, many of them on gun charges, according to The Washington Post. One person was stabbed,and four officers were injured.

Police Chief Peter Newsham told The Post that groups on both sides had descended on the city "intent on clashing," and "the police department was put directly in the middle of it."

In Sacramento, Calif., a group of Proud Boys met counter-protesters with bear spray, according to the Bay Area's ABC7 News. Police broke up the incident.

President Trump urged police to use force on counter-protesters, tweeting: "Antifa waited until tonight, when 99% were gone, to attack innocent #MAGA People. DC Police, get going — do your job and don't hold back!!!"

There is no evidence to support the protesters' accusations of widespread electoral fraud in the presidential election. Courts have summarily dismissed the vast majority of the Trump campaign's lawsuits.

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a Canadian web publication called The Post Millennial is gaining traction among far-right American audiences. It has all the dressings of a standard news website?—a sleek interface, a masthead, a ?prominently displayed code of ethics—but the content, following themes popular among far-right audiences, strays far from what any standard news site would produce.

The Post Millennial was founded in 2017 by ?Canadians Matthew Azrieli, the grandson of billionaire real estate mogul David J. Azrieli, and entrepreneur Seyed Ali Taghva, who left the publication under uncertain circumstances this summer. Despite lacking experience working at or operating news organizations, the duo sought to create a scrappy outlet that could compete with major news sources, pitching itself to potential readers as “Your Reasonable Alternative.” Three founding staff leaders are also associated with a now-defunct outlet called The Nectarine, according to ?Canadian news site CANADALAND.

Many of the articles published on The Post Millennial are comprised of aggregated content from press releases, social media posts?, and the very news sources the site claims it wants to be challenging. Few articles contain additional reporting? and are titled with inflammatory headlines following the themes of far-right social media rage bait. The Post Millennial regularly publishes attacks on journalists, defenses of? President Donald Trump? from his leading sycophants, and inflammatory smears toward causes the modern far-right movement perceives as anathema, like racial justice, LGBTQ equality, and anti-fascism. The site’s coverage mixes its far-right outrage ?fuel with articles that read like sponsored content, like a July article that celebrated the return of an ice cream promotion at McDonalds.

The outlet’s masthead carries a skeleton crew of conservative media writers; the outlet states that it relies on contributors and freelance writers for “a significant amount of the site’s content.” The outlet is home to right-wing propagandist Andy Ngo, who rose to fame in conservative audience?s fear-mongering about Muslims and later anti-fascist street demonstrators.Libby Emmons, senior editor at The Post Millennial, recently appeared on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s primetime television program to attack ?school districts ?in the United States for teaching children about systemic racism and the role it played in ?the country’?s? founding. President Donald Trump has retweeted employees at The Post Millennial, including Ngo and contributing editor Ian Miles Cheong.

Although The Post Millennial is headquartered in Canada, web analytical tools SimilarWeb and Alexa accessed September 2020 indicate? that most of the outlet’s web traffic is U.S.-sourced. At the time of publication, The Post Millennial carried about 76,400 followers on Facebook, 46,300 on Twitter, 12,600 on Instagram, and 11,300 on YouTube. Despite its modest digital following for a news outlet, the content on its website has been increasingly shared by far-right actors in the United States.

[graf: Google searches for The Post Millennial spiked in the summer of 2020, according to Google Trends. (Screenshot / Google)]

The site is rooted among a crop of similar right-wing Canadian outlets that have injected themselves in American politics, such as the far-right outlet Rebel Media, and far-right Canadian ?commentators who have transplanted themselves into American political discourse, like Lauren Southern, Gavin McInnes, and Stefan Molyneux.

Emails and Twitter direct messages requesting interviews with nine current and former staff at The Post Millennial went unanswered at the time of publication.

The Post Millennial Mixes With the Far-Right

The Post Millennial’s crossover with the far-right ?began shortly after its founding. An early hire at the outlet was editor Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, who? brought with him a resume that? included stints at Free Bird Media and Russia Insider—websites that publish racist and pro-Kremlin propaganda?—Canada’s National Observer reported ?in 2019.

Confronted with National Observer’s original reporting? on the hire,? Azrieli declined to tell the paper how the decision to hire Dzsurdzsa was made and chalked up ?the paper’s reporting on Dzsurdzsa’s prior employment as “claims of guilt by association that are spurious at best and defamatory at worst.” Taghva echoed that sentiment, calling the reporting “gross and unworthy of publication.” About a month after National Observer published its findings, The Post Millennial parted ways with Dzsurdzsa and told National Observer that Dzsurdzsa had worked for the site as a copy editor. Dzsurdza’s current Twitter bio begs to differ—he lists himself as a former senior editor for The Post Millennial. According to archives, Dzsurdza published 559 articles for the website? in about a year.

CANADALAND? reported in 2018 that columnist Barbara Kay started an article for The Post Millennial with a quote from Holocaust denier Kevin Alfred Strom that appeared in an anti-Semitic context and ?that Kay falsely attributed? to Voltaire. Weeks after an employee was notified of the mistake, editors at the site removed the article. The Post Millennial claimed that it took weeks to remove a Holocaust denier’s quote because the person who was originally notified had left for a vacation without notifying editors of the mistake.

And last year, The Post Millennial hired right-wing writer Andy Ngo as an editor-at-large after Ngo was embroiled in a scandal? in the U.S. A Portland Mercury investigation last year revealed that Ngo’s chummy relationship with far-right protest group Patriot Prayer included a video of Ngo appearing to listen to Patriot Prayer members plan a violent clash at a bar, which he omitted from his coverage and made no effort to stop.

Shortly after the Portland Mercury’s reporting, Ngo’s former employer, online magazine Quillette, removed Ngo from its masthead. Later that year, Ngo joined The Post Millennial as editor-at-large, where he has ?since published 18 articles. Ngo is by far the outlet’s highest profile figure in American media, having appeared on Fox News and testified before the U.S. Congress.

The Post Millennial ran? a defense? ?of and? a column by racist troll Eoin Lenihan in ?the summer of 2019 ?after this reporter wrote about the anti-journalist smear campaign Lenihan conducted with the assistance of right-wing media. Portraying himself as an extremism researcher,Lenihan attempted to link several journalists to “antifa” based on the accounts they followed on Twitter, resulting in a plague of harassment for the mentioned reporters at the hands of far-right figures who treated the assembled catalog as a list of targets.In Lenihan’s ?column for The Post Millennial, the outlet allowed him to falsely claim that his online history “was never racist, aimed at immigrants, women or religious minorities” and to make numerous dubious claims about journalists who exposed his history. (Disclosure: This writer requested a correction from The Post Millennial after the outlet allowed Lenihan and other authors to publish multiple false statements and characterizations about his work without attempting to seek comment or verify the statements. The Post Millennial refused to correct even basic factual inaccuracies.)

LGBTQ issues are a frequent topic on The Post Millennial,and the coverage carries a tone that is ?hostile toward transgender people. One such article, published by Ngo in July, is titled: “Trans woman who boasts of having ‘female penis’ arrested at Portland Antifa riot.” The article includes images of the individual that appear to show them pre-transition and uses the individual’s dead name. The article hyper-focuses on the individual’s gender identity, although it provides no explanation for why the publication considers it relevant to the person’s arrest.

A Plagiarized Statement of Principles That Appears to Be Rarely Followed

CBC/Radio-Canada reported in 2019 that The Post Millennial had published a journalistic ethics policy in late 2018 that ?appears to be derived from the ethics statements of mainstream outlets?. “Approximately 75 per cent of the language in the policy is identical to declarations of principles from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail and Torstar publications,” CBC/Radio-Canada found.

Although The Post Millennial’s policy now includes a sentence with a hyperlink directing to The Washington Post’s own stated policy, the standards laid out still closely resemble those at most major news organizations. Regarding fact-checking, it states that reporters are primarily responsible and that all articles are “put through a rigorous multi-level review process that involves multiple editors.” The Post Millennial states that its reporters are expected to “offer rights of reply to key subjects before publication” in order to allow subjects to clarify their views, statements?, or public image and that “articles must document the efforts taken to contact them when they decide or are unable to reply.” It states that its reporters mu?st be “forward with their identity and disclose their status as journalists while functioning in an investigative role” unless operating in a country that is aggressive or violent toward reporters.

But whatever agreement exists is almost immediately undercut by the fact that a senior editor at The Post Millennial has worked under a pseudonym for no discernable reason. The writer using the pen name “Barrett Wilson” has made a small niche for himself in right-wing media by claiming to be a “former social justice warrior” who experienced an epiphany that made him conservative—but without a name or details, there is simply no way to verify anything he claims about himself. The editor calling himself Wilson has published more than 300 articles at The Post Millennial under his pen name.

Regarding fact-checking, The Post Millennial also appears to neglect its own stated standards. The outlet is one of several conservative outlets that The Daily Beast reported were duped into publishing material produced by a Middle Eastern propaganda campaign. A closer look at The Post Millennial’s ensnarement by PressProgress in July found that the article it published, an opinion piece regarding anti-government protesters in Iraq, was attributed to Joseph Labba—a computer-generated persona. ?Following this reporting, The Post Millennial yanked Labba’s author profile off its site ?but said it would repost the article with a staff byline. As PressProgress reported, a close look at Labba’s author photo reveals indicators the image was computer generated.

Several stories published at The Post Millennial cite unreliable sources to support its claims and some articles contain just a single source to support its claims. In July, The Post Millennial contributor Cheong recycled a false claim originating from a QAnon conspiracy theorist about a slain Black Lives Matter supporter in Austin, Texas, who was shot and killed at a protest. The Post Millennial ran an article falsely claiming that the killed BLM supporter had fired a gun first, primarily supported by Cheong’s inaccurate tweets—one of which was shared by President Trump. The site later issued a correction but reportedly stuck by its framing?, insinuating the person who had been shot was to blame for his death.

The Post Millennial has also defended right-wing actors who have been criticized for making false and unsubstantiated claims. An article the outlet published this year backed disinform?er and far-right ?activist Jack Posobiec after The Daily Beast reported that Posobiec had falsely claimed that crates of pipe bombs were found near the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. In its attempt at a refutation, The Post Millennial failed to produce any proof that The Daily Beast’s reporting was inaccurate and that Posobiec had been telling the truth about the bombs.?

Despite The Post Millennial?’s statement that its reporters must “offer rights of reply,” the policy in action leaves much to be desired. A column published last week presented what it said was an “exclusive” story revealing that Seattle Public Schools had required its staff to attend a virtual presentation on racial equality, intersectionality, and anti-racism. The Post Millennial’s coverage accused SPS of being “more interested in indoctrination of their students towards their intersectional and divisive ideology than teaching math, science and accurate history,” and alleged that people who disagreed with the training “seemed to be shamed into silence.” Despite the outlet’s stated standards, the article made no mention of efforts to reach SPS or any mentioned staff for comment, and the article relied on anonymous sourcing in its entirety?, without conveying to the reader why anonymity was necessary.

In another incident, Portland Mercury news editor Alex Zielinski tweeted about Ngo’s presence at a ?June Portland protest?,?? where he was not forward about his identity or role as a journalist as The Post Millennial? claims it requires. Following the tweet, the outlet ran? a story attacking Zielinski, claiming that her tweet had “endangered both Ngo and those around him.” Zielinski said that she was asked for comment on the stories about her, but that the requests were atypical of standard requests. She provided RWW a screenshot of one such request from Mia Cathell, a writer at The Post Millennial.

Mia Cathell, a writer at The Post Millennial, sent this inquiry to Portland Mercury news director Alex Zielinski.

“The questions were always very much like ‘Do you have a response to us thinking that you’re doing a bad job?’” Zielinski said. “It was very accusatory. … It was more like, ‘We’re coming after you, what do you have to say about that?’”

Murky Ties to Conservative Political Campaigns Raise Ethical Concerns

Even as The Post Millennial ?grows its readership?and influence, the inner workings of the outlet remain ?murky. A 2019 CBC/Radio-Canadainvestigation found that the outlet suffered from “poor transparency” surrounding its ties to conservative political campaigns and “unanswered questions about its journalistic standards and funding model.”

Jeff Ballingall, founder of the right-wing political advocacy group Ontario Proud, was brought on as The Post Millennial’s chief marketing officer in May 2019, raising questions about the outlet’s ties to Canadian conservative political campaigns. Earlier this year, The Globe and Mail reported thatConservative Party of Canadaleadership candidate Peter MacKay and his lawyer issued a legal notice against The Post Millennial alleging the outlet had published an article that was defamatory and provided an “entirely false and misleading impression to any reader” regarding MacKay’s campaign.

The notice also stated that The Post Millennial failed to disclose in its article that Ballingall was working for MacKay’s then-political opponent Erin O’Toole. After O’Toole’s election win in August, co-founder Taghva tweeted that it was a “huge night” for Ballingall, who he said “effectively led the O’Toole digital campaign.”

Additionally, BuzzFeed News reported last year that a then-employee for ?The Post Millennial was behind a collection of Facebook pages promoting conservative politicians and attacking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, often linking to stories published on The Post Millennial. ?

When Ballingall became its chief marketing officer, his hiring announcement reportedly stated that the site had received money from undisclosed “private investors.” Azrieli says none of his ?billionaire family’s money is invested in the website, according to the Ryerson Review of Journalism, but the outlet’s investors remain unknown.

National NewsMedia Council Weighs In

RWW spoke to representatives of National NewsMedia Council, a voluntary self-regulatory organization that acts as an independent third-party between reader complaints and news outlets in Canada?, via conference call. NNMC is funded by its more than 500 member organizations, ranging from major papers to local digital outlets, to act in a hybrid role of public editor and press council, offer?ing judg?ments regarding journalistic standards and ethics. News organizations are typically invited to join NNMC, and some apply directly. NNMC ?Executive? Director Pat Perkel said that The Post Millennial is not a member.

“We would neither invite The Post Millennial? nor have they expressed any interest in joining,” Perkel said. “One of the things we ask is that our potential members have a code of practice? or standard of practice or code of ethics that they adhere to, that they make that available to their readers so that their readers can find out what they are doing, and that they adhere to our complaints handling process. Those are pretty big hurdles for some people—The Post Millennial, for one.”

NNMC said it received two complaints about The Post Millennial pertaining to accuracy in 2019 and no complaints in 2020. Since The Post Millennial is not an NNMC member, the organization is unable to ?accept the complaint.

Brent Jolly, director of communications, research, and community management with the NNMC, told RWW that credibility is the currency of news organizations, and that public trust in journalism “has been eroded significantly by organizations that have begun to mimic journalism in order to espouse a larger social-political belief.”

“It’s one thing to post a code of ethics on a web page or run it in a manual or something like that, but it’s something completely different to actually internalize it and ensure it’s part of your DNA,” Jolly said. “I think very much this is a case where that connection may not be as strong as it in is other trusted news organizations.”

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Far-right forces will converge on Portland tomorrow, incited by the right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo. Though he poses as a journalist, the purpose of his platform is to sow harassment and violence against his targets on the Left — and the mainstream media have fallen for it. But none of these ...

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Andy Cuong Ngo (born c. 1986) is an American conservative social media personality and journalist [disputed - discuss] best known for covering street protests in Portland, Oregon. He has written columns in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, National Review and Quillette, amongst others.

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Andy Ngo, the right-wing journalist and provocateur who was embraced by mainstream Republicans and covered favorably in mainstream media after he was attacked by antifa activists during a street fight in Portland, Oregon, may suddenly be persona non grata among conservatives.Nearly all mentions of Ngo were scrubbed from the upscale right-wing publication Quillette after a newly-released video showed him acting friendly with members of Patriot Prayer, a far-right hate group that has repeatedly sought out fights with leftists.

Ngo, who has used selectively edited videos to paint antifa as a violent, criminal group was hit with punches and milkshakes during a clash between antifa activists and members of the Proud Boys, an organization labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Many on the right rallied around Ngo after that altercation, and spread false rumors that the milkshakes thrown at him and others had contained quick-dry cement.

Ngo used his newfound fame to boost his profile, appearing on Fox News and other cable news outlets and embracing his victimhood.

Just weeks later, however, a video surfaced on Twitter showing Ngo pal around with the Proud Boys-adjacent group Patriot Prayer.

The video shows Ngo laughing as the group plans a violent attack on antifa members at a Portland bar in May. The video surfaced as part of a lawsuit brought by the bar, accusing Patriot Prayer members of causing a riot.

The Portland Mercury reports that Patriot Prayer members targeted antifa while they were celebrating a day of peaceful May Day celebrations. The lawsuit brought by the bar owners alleges that Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson and six others trespassed onto the property with the aim of engaging in violence.

The video of Ngo laughing as the group plans their attack, wrote Portland Mercury news editor Alex Zielinski, “is the clearest evidence I’ve seen supporting the claim that [Patriot Prayer] & leader Joy Gibson were intent on instigating a fight that afternoon.”

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This clip, shot right before Patriot Prayer arrived at Cider Riot on May Day, is the clearest evidence I've seen supporting the claim that PP & leader Joey Gibson were intent on instigating a fight that afternoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awN9J88j4mA&feature=youtu.be …

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The video shows members discuss their weapons and making preparations for the attack. Ngo is present the entire time and can be seen laughing at certain points.

“There’s no way he couldn’t know the group was planning on instigating violence,” Zielinski wrote.

In Ngo’s coverage of the violence, however, videos of the attack were selectively edited to remove violence by Patriot Prayer members. His tweets entirely blamed antifa for the violence.

Respectable Lawyer

@RespectableLaw

• Aug 23, 2019

Replying to @RespectableLaw

And of course, Andy also posted misleading footage after the attack. He shows a woman aggressively approaching Patriot Prayer members in hysterics, and then a Patriot Prayer member hits her with some kind of club.https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1125811724932632576 …

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Here is the moment that woman charged in to fight and got knocked out. Notice the masked person who went in the direction of the camera man with a blade or pick. I saw numerous patrons on the bar’s property with weapons ready. pic.twitter.com/exCiimM4cp

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But as @imminentbulb pointed out, a full video shows the woman was attacked immediately prior to the start of Andy’s clip. If you listen to Andy’s clip, you can even hear one Patriot Prayer member frantically apologizing for the attack on her.https://twitter.com/imminentbulb/status/1125818772793618432 …

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Replying to @imminentbulb and 2 others

Here's what happened immediately before the footage Andy is pushing. Deme Cooper, thirsty to carry out further #PatriotPrayer violence, returned to blatantly assault that person. She responded briefly in self defense, then Ian Kramer struck her after she had turned around.

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“As more people send me clips, it becomes clear that Andy’s work is plagued by these dishonest edits,” wrote a Twitter user who has posted numerous videos discrediting Ngo’s tweets. “For example, in this clip, he edited out some goons stomping a man’s head, and did it with a sloppy looking jump-cut in his own clip.”

Respectable Lawyer

@RespectableLaw

• Aug 23, 2019

Replying to @RespectableLaw

This is the same woman who Andy had filmed and identified to his followers. She was knocked unconscious and suffered a broken neck. Andy also published her name while she was in the hospital.

Respectable Lawyer

@RespectableLaw

As more people send me clips, it becomes clear that Andy’s work is plagued by these dishonest edits. For example, in this clip, he edited out some goons stomping a man’s head, and did it with a sloppy looking jump-cut in his own clip.https://twitter.com/leftkist/status/1163913780197113856 …

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@leftkist

For your Andy Ngo list @RespectableLaw

Andy crudely edited out footage of Patriot Prayer associates Tiny Toese and Igor Ponomarev pummeling someone on the ground on 10/13/18.

Footage from @itsmikebivins shows what he cut.

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Quillette, where Ngo worked as a photo editor until Monday, announced after the video surfaced that Ngo was leaving his job at the site. Ngo’s name was scrubbed from the site, The Daily Beast reported.

Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann told The Daily Beast that Ngo left the site weeks earlier but the move was not publicized until Monday.

“Andy actually moved on from Quillette a few weeks ago because he is undertaking bigger & better projects, we just hadn’t updated the website and he hadn’t updated his Twitter bio until today,” she told the Daily Beast. “I haven’t seen the video,” she added.

Lehmann also said that Ngo had been on a “break” from a “brain injury” he suffered at the Portland rally.

Ngo, however, did not remove Quillette from his Twitter bio until Monday, noted National Observer reporter Caroline Orr, the same day that the Patriot Prayer video was released.

Meanwhile, Ngo’s crowdfunding campaign has raised nearly $195,000 since the Portland attack, which was even cited in a letter sent by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to the Justice Department.

Cruz cited the Ngo incident to demand that the FBI investigate Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and prosecute antifa members under the RICO statute. Cruz’s call was amplified by President Trump to his 63 million followers on Twitter.

“At least give Andy Ngo credit,” wrote HuffPost reporter Luke O’Brien, for “lifting $200k off some of the dumbest people alive. Right-wing writers staked their reputations on this guy. Ted Cruz based an anti-anti-fascist congressional resolution on Ngo.”

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Lawyer For Journalist Beaten During Portland Riot Posts Brutal Message To Antifa

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By AMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO

@AMANDAPRESTO

July 1, 2019

Around 12:30 a.m. on Monday morning, Harmeet K. Dhillon, a lawyer representing journalist Andy Ngo, warned far-left criminal Antifa members that she plans on suing them “into oblivion.”

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“Goodnight everyone except Antifa criminals who I plan to sue into oblivion and then sow salt into their yoga studios and avocado toast stands until nothing grows there, not even the glimmer of a violent criminal conspiracy aided by the effete impotence of a cowed city government,” Dhillon wrote.

Harmeet K. Dhillon

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@pnjaban

Goodnight everyone except Antifa criminals who I plan to sue into oblivion and then sow salt into their yoga studios and avocado toast stands until nothing grows there, not even the glimmer of a violent criminal conspiracy aided by the effete impotence of a cowed city government.

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Ngo was viciously assaulted on Saturday afternoon while he was covering Antifa protesters. In a video posted online, the journalist was kicked, punched, and had milkshakes thrown on him by the left-wing thugs. According to Portland Police, some of the milkshakes being tossed by Antifa reportedly contained quick-dry cement.

Soon after the attack, Dhillon informed the public that Ngo “is being admitted to the hospital overnight as a result of a brain bleed.”

“You sick ‘journalists’ and other hacks gloating about this should be ashamed,” she added. “As for the rest, please pray for [Andy Ngo] who we need back in health — brave man!”

Harmeet K. Dhillon

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@pnjaban

Update to @MrAndyNgo supporters — he is being admitted to the hospital overnight as a result of a brain bleed. You sick “journalists” and other hacks gloating about this should be ashamed. As for the rest, please pray for @MrAndyNgo who we need back in health — brave man!?????????????? https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1145116276605329408 …

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Later that night, the lawyer said the Quillette editor “has been cleared to leave the hospital.”

“He’ll have more to say in coming days about what happened to him & others yesterday in Portland,” Dhillon promised. “He is very thankful for the overwhelming support from decent people, especially [Michelle Malkin] & donors.”

Harmeet K. Dhillon

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@pnjaban

Good news! ?@MrAndyNgo? has been cleared to leave the hospital! He’ll have more to say in coming days about what happened to him & others yesterday in Portland. He is very thankful for the overwhelming support from decent people, especially ?@michellemalkin? & donors.

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Malkin, a conservative commentator and investigative journalist, set up a GoFundMe account for Ngo in the wake of the attack; as of Monday morning, over $135,000 has been raised.

Dhillon has been at the forefront in high-profile cases concerning political bias. For example, the entrepreneur’s firm is representing former Google engineer James Damore, who was fired after penning an internal memo addressing diversity at the company, specifically in relation to intrinsic differences between the sexes. Damore is suing the tech giant for alleged discrimination against conservatives, whites, and males, The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti previously reported. In the suit, Damore claims “employees who expressed views deviating from the majority view at Google on political subjects raised in the workplace and relevant to Google’s employment policies and its business, such as ‘diversity’ hiring policies, ‘bias sensitivity,’ or ‘social justice,’ were/are singled out, mistreated, and systematically punished and terminated from Google, in violation of their legal rights.” The case is still ongoing.

In addition to the potential lawsuit by Dhillon, at least three Antifa activists were arrested during the violent demonstrations, though it’s unclear if any if any of the arrests were made in connection to Ngo’s assault.

According to Fox 12 Oregon, two females and one male, all of whom are in their early 20s, were cuffed and charged:

Gage Halupowski, 23, on charges of second-degree assault and assault on a public safety officer.

James K. Stocks, 21, on the charge of harassment.

Maria C. Dehart, 23, on the charge of second-degree disorderly conduct and harassment.

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Related: Three Arrests Made After Violent Antifa Protests In Portland

Related: UPDATE: GoFundMe Account For Journalist Brutalized By Antifa Thugs Blows Past Goal

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By HANK BERRIEN

Unidentified Rose City Antifa members beat up Andy Ngo, a Portland-based journalist, on June 29, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.

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SEE IT: Police Post Photos Of Andy Ngo's Attackers, Special Antifa 'Milkshake Recipe'

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The Rose City Antifa prepare to march in opposition to members of HimToo and Proud Boys on June 29, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.

Ted Cruz Calls For Investigation Of Portland Mayor For Antifa Violence; Mayor Issues Statement

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WALSH: Antifa Punks Brutally Assaulted A Journalist. Here's The Real Reason Why Democrats Still Refuse To Condemn Them.

By MATT WALSH

Andy Ngo, a Portland-based journalist, is seen covered in unknown substance after unidentified Rose City Antifa members attacked him on June 29, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.

UPDATE: GoFundMe Account For Journalist Brutalized By Antifa Thugs Blows Past Goal

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US Ambassador Gives Health Update On Journalist Attacked By Antifa, Demands Justice Dept. Investigate

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Lawyer For Journalist Beaten During Portland Riot Posts Brutal Message To Antifa

By AMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO

Portland Police Bureau

Three Arrests Made After Violent Antifa Protests In Portland

By AMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO

Rally and March Against the Fascists in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018

WATCH: Antifa Mob Brutally Assaults And Robs Journalist Andy Ngo In Portland

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Authorities also posted an image of an alleged Antifa “milkshake recipe." The recipe calls for soy milk, Quickrete cement mix, and “other chemical additives to cause long term injury and burns.”

“We hope the biggie officers and proud boys enjoyed the shake back!” the “recipe” said....

go was so-called “milkshaked,” kicked, punched, and robbed during the attack.

“Prior to the event, information was circulating that some participants planned to throw milkshakes on others. As the event progressed, officers learned from some participants that a substance similar to quick drying concrete was being added to some of the ‘milkshakes,’” the press release said.

“A Lieutenant in the field observed some of the material and noted the texture and smell was consistent with concrete,” the post continued. “The Portland Police Bureau sent a tweet out to bring attention to this potential hazard and to encourage victims to contact us. The act of throwing any substance on another person without that person's consent constitutes the crime of harassment (ORS 166.065).”

The image of the "milkshake recipe” was then anonymous sent via email to the bureau.

"The members of the Portland Police Bureau and our partner agencies worked diligently in difficult circumstances on Saturday in an attempt to keep the peace, then respond to violence perpetrated by some of the participants as the event devolved," Chief Danielle Outlaw said in a statement. "These events are dynamic in nature and challenging to predict and manage. The acts of a select group of violent individuals do not define Portland, but do have a negative impact on all of us. We are determined to pursue every lead with the goal of arresting those who engaged in crimes and holding them accountable. The public should be aware of the time it takes to shift resources and address violence; it is not immediate and officers have to weigh many factors in their approach. Even with this approach, some of our law enforcement and community members were subject to pepper spray, projectiles, and assault, which is unacceptable and impeded our ability to assist others."

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note drop eco econ and go straight up terror (// iran republican guard):

https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/dangerous-republican-resolution-suggests-that-all-forms-of-political-dissent-could-soon-be-considered-terrorism/

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Dangerous Republican resolution suggests that all forms of political dissent could soon be considered terrorism

Written by Urie Dvorozniak / Salon July 23, 2019

Last week, Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Ted Cruz  of Texas introduced a resolution to designate “antifa,” which the Anti-Defamation League defines as “a loose collection of groups, networks, and individuals who believe in active, aggressive opposition to far right-wing movements,” as a “domestic terrorist organization.”

In fact, antifa is a constellation of many different activist groupings, with no official leader or clear hierarchy. As the New York Times has noted, its membership count is “impossible to know.” That didn’t stop the two Republican senators from claiming that “Antifa are terrorists, violent masked bullies who ‘fight fascism’ with actual fascism, protected by Liberal privilege.”

Senator Ted Cruz

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Antifa is a terrorist organization composed of hateful, intolerant radicals who pursue their extreme agenda through aggressive violence. Time and time again their actions have demonstrated that their central purpose is to inflict harm on those who oppose their views.

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Antifa, short for “anti-fascist,” traces its ideological roots to 1920s and 1930s Germany and supposes that if people had opposed the Nazi Party more aggressively, Adolf Hitler might never have come to power. The ADL reports that many people who act within antifa are anarchist or very left-wing, but that “since Trump’s election, some people with more mainstream political backgrounds have also joined their ranks.”

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In their resolution, Cruz and Cassidy reference the “violent demonstrations” on June 29 in Portland, Oregon, where writer right-wing Alex Ngo was assaulted while covering an antifa protest against the “far-right nationalist” group known as the Proud Boys.

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After the incident, Cruz called for a federal criminal investigation of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat who is also the police commissioner of the city.

Ted Cruz

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@tedcruz

 To federal law enforcement:  investigate & bring legal action against a Mayor who has, for political reasons, ordered his police officers to let citizens be attacked bydomestic terrorists.  https://tinyurl.com/y2udrv5d  https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1145212511966441473 …

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Under Fire for Not Stopping Antifa Protests

Wheeler's hands-off policy when it comes to Antifa came under scrutiny on Saturday after journalist Ngo was assaulted by masked assailants.

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To law enforcement:  find & prosecute these violent felons. https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1145212299914952704 …

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Cruz and Cassidy also point to antifa activists occupying the areas outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices, as well as posting the personal information of ICE officials online.

But the Republican senators’ resolution is little more than a political stunt.

Cruz and Cassidy’s resolution, which is entirely non-binding, won’t actually change U.S. law — because there is no existing law to change. The Patriot Act defines domestic terrorism as criminal activity that appears intended to “intimidate or coerce” civilians or influence government policy using violent methods. But, domestic terrorism is not a specific crime under U.S. law. Labeling a group as domestic terrorists give federal law enforcement broader powers to conduct investigations of other crimes, but does not itself define any criminal activities. criminal make. Furthermore, since antifa isn’t a singular group, as mentioned above, its definition under this resolution is unclear.

The designation of what “groups” are called terrorist, domestic terrorist or hate groups is extremely loose. For instance, the Pulse Nightclub shooter was charged with terrorism, while the Ku Klux Klan is legally considered a “hate group,” not a domestic terror organization. And while the federal government keeps a list of foreign terrorist groups, there is no public list of domestic terrorist groups.

Some outlets have thought it worthy to equate the confrontational tactics of antifa to political violence on the far-right. But as the ADL has pointed out, “To date, there have been no Antifa related murders,” yet “right-wing extremists” have “ murdered hundreds of people in this country over the last ten years alone.”

Just last week, James Alex Fields Jr., an avowed neo-Nazi, was sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years for the violent assault he committed during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Fields deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyerand injuring several others.

Free speech activists have expressed concerns that the Cruz-Cassidy resolution could set a precedent for more groups to be labeled domestic terrorist organizations.  As National Observer reporter Caroline Orr noted, Cruz’s resolution uses the terms “antifa” and “left-wing activists” interchangeably. Most dangerously, it suggests that all manner of dissent could be considered terrorism.

Cruz’s move looks to be a transparent attempt to saddle congressional Democrats with a divisive political debate, declaring themselves either against antifa or in support of it, invariably alienating some of the party’s supporters ahead of a critical presidential election.

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https://spectator.org/journalist-andy-ngo-attacked-by-antifa-at-portland-protest/

Andy Ngo, a journalist covering a clash between far-right and far-left demonstrators in Portland, was sent to the ER after being surrounded and beaten by members of Antifa on Saturday.Ngo was punched in the head, covered with silly string and eggs, and struck with milkshakes thatPortland PD later claimed were filled with quick-drying cement. Ngo’s camera equipment was stolen by a member of the group, which can be observed in this video. Ngo was recognized and attacked because of his history of documenting Antifa’s actions in Portland.

In both videos, Ngo can be seen walking among Antifa demonstrators with his camera out before he is rushed by a masked horde cloaked in black. The entire assault is captured; it happens in an instant. One Antifa-affiliated demonstrator, in disguise, pulls Ngo’s camera away from him. Ngo is then sucker-punched by another masked protester, who quickly backpedals in retreat. The crowd closes in; Ngo covers his head. He is kicked, sprayed with silly string, hit with milkshakes, and pelted with eggs. Taunts and profanity can be heard. Ngo makes his way from the street, trying to protect his head as the mob behind him cheers.

Andy Ngo was beaten for covering an anti-fascist protest against a demonstration by the far-right nationalist group known as the “Proud Boys.”Antifa and the Proud Boys alike have a history of promoting violence.A member of the Proud Boys threatened Portland’s mayor in January, and group members have participated in a number of street fights, some of which have led to arrests. Antifa also advocates the use of force against their political enemies, often clashing with right-wingers during counter-protests. Both groups embrace violence and were active participants during the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville in 2017.[note no mention of Heather Heyer]

Antifa members wear black and cover their faces, arguing that such measures are necessary to be effective in their mission. Their stated aim is to prevent the spread of fascism. This is not the first time, however, that Antifa members have targeted observers. They rose to prominence for protesting speaker Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley, starting fires and causing approximately $100,000 in collateral damage in the process.

In a video from October 2018, which later went viral, members of the group can be seen accosting a driver during the protest of a police shooting that left 27-year-old Patrick Kimmons dead. Antifa representatives from the branch “SmashRacismDC” also gathered outside Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s home in November 2018; a taken by one observer shows them chanting “We know where you sleep at night.”[he interview prof from gp john jay college after?]

There is an ideological explanation for why Antifa members attack bystanders. Per the Rose City Antifa website FAQ, “Failing to stop fascists from speaking — that is, giving them the opportunity to organize to impose their agenda on the rest of us — makes you as bad as them.” Antifa’s philosophy equates bystanders with fascists, marking anyone that does not overtly support them a threat and thus a target.

Worse than a bystander, though, is a critic of Antifa.

Andy Ngo is one such critic. He and the Rose City Antifa organization are familiar with one another. A resident of Portland, Ngo had previously described himself as “hated by Antifa” on his Twitter page, and has documented their activities in the past. In May, Ngo doxxed one of their members.“Doxxing” is a contemporary term that refers to publicly revealing someone’s personal information online without their consent. Some have argued that Ngo did so with malicious intent; he claimed the member’s identity was relevant to the story he was writing.

Antifa’s retaliation consisted of labeling Ngo, who is gay, a fascist. Ngo had been accused of promoting Islamophobia after contributing an article to The Wall Street Journal in August 2018. He was condemned for race-baiting by a London resident who disputed the claims he made in this op-ed. These claims, in conjunction with the doxxing of an Antifa member, led the group to identify him as a danger. Ngo was aware of this, announcing his intent to cover the demonstrations the night before on Twitter and noting that he had been singled out in Antifa’s message for physical confrontation.

Ngo claimed that nearby police officers did not step in to help him. Portland police have come under fire in the past for leniency in dealing with Antifa; Mayor Wheeler, a Democrat who also holds the title of Police Commissioner, was accused of instructing Portland Police officials not to respond to ICE requests during the Occupy ICE protests that took place on June 17, 2018. Mayor Wheeler strongly denied the accusation, claiming he was expressing a desire for his department to not be drawn into an engagement on behalf of a federal agency he thought “was on the wrong track.”NOTE SLIPPAGE

As of writing, Mayor Wheeler has made no statement about the harassment of Andy Ngo or the protests that occurred in his city.

Ngo has become a national figure since the video of his assault went viral. Michelle Malkin, a friend of Ngo’s, set up a GoFundMe crowdfunding page to raise money for Ngo’s medical expenses and to replace his stolen equipment. At the time of writing, the page has raised $122,000 on Ngo’s behalf. According to a statement from a legal representative, Ngo is currently recovering in the hospital after suffering from a brain hemorrhage.

The lack of action by Oregon’s elected officials and police are a disappointingly — and dangerously — tepid response to Antifa’s actions against Ngo. It remains to be seen if this violence will create a violent backlash by opposing forces or prompt the government, state-level or national, to address it.

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Harmeet K. Dhillon

@pnjaban

Trial lawyer/1A warrior @dhillonlaw, @PubliusLex founder, RNC Member,

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How conservative figures turned a flimsy rumor about "concrete milkshakes" in Portland into a meme

Nobody is doubting that there was a physical confrontation. The details, however, remain murky.

Blog ››› July 1, 2019 4:39 PM EDT ››› PARKER MOLLOY

Over the weekend, far-right and anti-fascist protesters clashed in downtown Portland, OR. Among the controversies was an attack carried out against Quillette editor Andy Ngo, caught on film by Oregonian reporter Jim Ryan. The June 29 footage shows black bloc demonstrators punching and kicking Ngo while others throw milkshakes at him.

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A trend of throwing milkshakes at far-right politicians and activists originated earlier this year in the United Kingdom, but has more recently made its way over to the United States. Supporters of the practice see it as a way to humiliate political opponents and make them fear public organizing. Critics correctly note that this is a form of battery but have also warned that this tactic could quickly escalate into more damaging, permanent attacks involving acid or other corrosive chemicals.

According to some on the far-right, their worst fears of such an escalation were realized during the attack on Ngo. In reality, there’s not any actual evidence of that -- and that’s a big problem.

A rumor takes off thanks to a vaguely worded tweet the Portland Police Bureau seemingly sent out of an abundance of caution.

One rumor coming out of the face-off was that some vegan milkshakes being handed out by antifa demonstrators contained cement or other harmful chemical substances. This rumor took on a sense of legitimacy when the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) tweeted that it had “received information that some of the milkshakes thrown today during the demonstration contained quick-drying cement.

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While  there is plenty of video evidence of people throwing milkshakes, and members of the left-wing contingent were handing them out, there’s no actual evidence to suggest that the “quick-drying cement” rumor is anything more than that -- an unsubstantiated rumor.

Willamette Week writer Katie Shepherd reached out to the PPB for any additional information it had regarding “cement.” In response, the department again said that it “received information during the event that some people were mixing a concrete like substance into the milkshakes” and cited a police lieutenant’s on-site observation of a cup that “appeared to have material on it consistent with quick drying cement.

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As it turns out, this substance was likely just a coconut milkshake. At the Portland Mercury, Alex Zielinski wrote that the police had offered no proof that there was cement in the shakes and noted, “Several people ended up throwing their 12-ounce milkshakes at people associated with the alt-right and at PPB officers -- but most people consumed the coconut milk-based treats.” Zielinski went on to link to several Twitter posts of people who drank the shakes without their internal organs turning to stone.

Conservative journalists and commentators began running with the PPB’s tweet as confirmation that there was concrete mixed into the shakes when, of course, this was far from a statement of certainty.

Jack Posobiec, a One America News Network host and right-wing conspiracy theorist with links to white supremacist activists, was one of the most vocal proponents of this narrative. On Twitter, Posobiec mischaracterized the PPB’s alert, which only echoed its earlier claim that it had received an unconfirmed report that there could be substances in shakes. He described it as “Portland PD report on Antifa mixing concrete into milkshakes,” claiming that “this creates an acid-like chemical weapon.” He did the same regarding the information obtained from the PPB by Shepherd, framing it as “Portland PD share additional details about concrete chemical-laced milkshakes used by Antifa.”

Posobiec also used a photo to further the rumor, and photographer Shane Burley called him out for the misleading and unauthorized use.

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IanMiles Cheong, managing editor of conservative site Human Events, tweeted matter-of-factly, “Antifa mixed quick-drying concrete into the shakes. Called it the ‘Stonewall Shake’—a clever pun referencing both the ingredients of the secret recipe as well as the LGBT riots in 1969, NYC.” While Popular Mobilization, the group distributing the shakes, had indeed named the drink the Stonewall Shake “in honor of the 50th anniversary” of the LGBTQ protests, Cheong omitted the group’s tweet containing the actual recipe: coconut-based ice cream and cashew milk (plus rainbow sprinkles). In a separate tweet, Cheong elaborated, “The milkshakes were lined with quicklime/quick dry concrete mix and produce chemical burns, in addition to being heavy.”

Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson, and anti-Muslim bigot Pamela Gellersimilarly amplified this narrative. Right-wing commentator Matt Walsh took the “milkshake laced with cement mix” line at face value, distorting what the PPB said while also using the occasion to get in a dig at trans people.

Fox News published a story to its website headlined “Antifa, conservative protests turn violent as demonstrators throw milkshakes of quick-dry cement at police and onlookers.” Mother Jones reporter Ali Breland noted that Fox later quietly edited its headline to remove the reference to the milkshakes without issuing a correction

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It should be easy for media figures to denounce exaggerations and the spread of flimsy rumors.

Early in the day, Ngo posted a tweet showing a white liquid splattered across his bag, and like many, I made a joke about it, saying that it looked like he’d been attacked by a small family of pigeons. Once the video of him being physically assaulted was posted later, I apologized for the joke, which by then seemed to be in poor taste, and unequivocally condemned the violence he faced -- which appeared to involve kicking, punching, and yes, throwing milkshakes. Condemning violence against journalists should be easy enough.

As the unsupported rumors about anti-fascist protesters weaponizing milkshakes with cement were increasingly presented as facts, even Ngo’s biggest fans and defenders should have been willing to come forward and call this out as irresponsible. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened.

Political violence is wrong, and so is the spread of unconfirmed or exaggerated accounts for the purpose of advancing a political cause. Doing so is not only intellectually dishonest, but it is sure to increase tensions at a time that demands de-escalation -- or we can all expect further clashes like those we just saw in Portland

Jack Posobiec, Laura Ingraham, Paul Joseph Watson

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Far-left extremists have been threatening to shut down a Los Angeles city council meeting today to stop them from voting to ban encampments around schools & daycares. Riot police had to be deployed:

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Many #Antifa accounts are celebrating the FBI raid on Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Fla. home. They are encouraging one another to monitor any protest rallies from Trump supporters in order to dox or attack them.

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Aubry Atwood, an LGBTQIA+ activist in Charlotte, NC who works in healthcare, posted viral celebrated video on TikTok of her taking her baby to a drag show in late June. At the Artisan's Palate restaurant in Charlotte, the baby is taught to give cash to the drag queens.

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"What we're witnessing is certain federal agencies are being used & weaponized against segments of the American population that the current administration shares as mutual enemies." Two weeks ago I was interviewed by Nigel Farage on @GBNEWS: www.youtube.com/watch?v…

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Former President Trump has released a statement saying his family home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., is currently being raided by FBI agents. www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl…

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Andy Cuong Ngo is an American conservative journalist, author, and social media personality known for covering and video-recording demonstrators.

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The Post Millennial

'I sh*t my pants,' wrote felony assault suspect from anti-Dave Chappelle Minneapolis protest

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Rachel Lee Bean, 35, was arrested and charged on Friday with felony assault and riot after activists descended upon the First Avenue club to...

.2 weeks ago

The Post Millennial

Porn maker exposed as organizer of Portland Antifa children's photoshoot

By Andy Ngo

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A planned Portland photoshoot for children complete with makeup and wardrobe changing is being run by an Antifa pornographer who makes and...

.1 month ago

The Post Millennial

Portland Antifa member among those arrested at Pride event in Idaho

By Andy Ngo

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Stoms uses the fake name "Switch" among Antifa networks. Antifa raised cash for Stom's bail using Twitter and CashAp and Venmo.

.Jun 14, 2022

The Post Millennial

Secret grand jury in San Diego indicts alleged Antifa members accused of brutal assaults

By Eva Knott, Andy Ngo

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A secret grand jury in San Diego indicted 11 alleged Antifa members accused of being part of a network of violent cells in southern...

.Jun 9, 2022

New York Post

Twitter workers freaking out over Elon Musk in internal Slack messages

By Andy Ngo

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Leaked internal communications by Twitter employees reveal woke employees are overtaken by despair and anger about Elon Musk's month-long...

.Apr 27, 2022

Newsweek

Democratic Influencers, Media Figures Spread Fake Tucker Carlson Quote | Opinion

By Andy Ngo

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On Monday, former Republican and ex-congressman Joe Walsh fabricated a Tucker Carlson quote on Twitter.

.Apr 6, 2022

The Post Millennial

Prominent American fat studies activist-scholar dies suddenly

By Andy Ngo

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Pausé was most recently featured as the organizer of the 2020 Fat Studies New Zealand Conference infiltrated by conservative YouTube host...

.Mar 29, 2022

The Post Millennial

Trans Antifa arrested over Seattle police station firebombing

By Andy Ngo, Mia Cathell

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Haines, who is transsexual and is also known by the name “Naomi Cassandra Krell,” has been arrested multiple times this year at violent...

.Mar 1, 2022

The Post Millennial

Realtor and son of former Democrat lawmaker charged over Antifa firebombings and assault

By Andy Ngo

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Danielle Elizabeth McMillan and Jacob Bennet Greenburg are accused of carrying out a firebomb attack on Seattle Police in Antifa riots.

.Mar 1, 2022

The Post Millennial

Montana man arrested twice within hours at Portland riots is an Antifa member

By Andy Ngo, Mia Cathell

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Original publication date: March 2021. Advertisement. Update: In the federal criminal complaint against Darby Howard, it is revealed that he...

.Mar 1, 2022

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How a Right-Wing Troll Demonized Antifa to the Mainstreamhttps://www.rollingstone.com › culture › culture-features

Sep 3, 2019 — Andy Ngo was hit with a milkshake by counter-protesters at a far-right rally in Portland in June. Moriah Ratner/Getty Images. There's a folksy ...

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Michael Reinoehl (top left) fatally shot Patriot Prayer protester Aaron “Jay” Danielson. How a Portland radical murdered a Trump supporter — and became a hero ...

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Jun 6, 2022 — A Polish cultural center paid right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo 720 euros (roughly $773) in public funds for a speech about the left-wing ...

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A journalist who's been attacked by Antifa writes a deeply researched and reported account of the group's history and tactics. When Andy Ngo was attacked in the ...

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On Monday, former Republican and ex-congressman Joe Walsh fabricated a Tucker Carlson quote on Twitter. On 4/6/22 at 4:22 PM EDT.

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Mar 28, 2022 — This episode was recorded on November 8th, 2021Andy Ngo is an independent journalist and photographer who lives under constant threats for ...

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Concrete Milkshake Hoax: Police Criticized For Spreading Antifa Rumor

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Jul 2, 2019 - This was Pop Mob’s response to a question from the Daily Dot about whether the sweet treats the group handed out at Saturday’s protests in Portland, Oregon were laced with quick-drying concrete. ... Several assaults were reported, including that of journalist Andy Ngo; videos of the ...

No, Andy Ngo Wasn't Pelted with “Concrete Milkshakes” by AntiFa

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Jul 1, 2019 - Let's talk about the Andy Ngo vs. AntiFa news story that went down yesterday. When I was informed about it by a friend and asked what my ...

Portland police provide no evidence for claim milkshakes thrown at far ...

https://www.independent.co.uk › News › World › Americas

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Jul 1, 2019 - Members of Antifa were counter-protesting a march in the city by the ... A number of people who said they drank the milkshakes posted on ...

SEE IT: Police Post Photos Of Andy Ngo's Attackers, Special Antifa ...

https://www.dailywire.com/.../see-it-police-post-photos-andy-ngos-attackers-amanda-p...

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Jul 1, 2019 - SEE IT: Police Post Photos Of Andy Ngo's Attackers, Special Antifa 'Milkshake Recipe'. Moriah Ratner/Getty Images. By Amanda Prestigiacomo.

Antifa Mob Viciously Assaults Journalist Andy Ngo at Portland Rally ...

https://reason.com/2019/06/29/antifa-andy-ngo-mob-milkshake-violence/

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Jun 29, 2019 - Portland police have claimed that some of the milkshakes thrown by the antifa activists on Saturday contained quick-dry cement. That may or ...

Did Protesters Throw 'Concrete Milkshakes'? - Truth or Fiction?

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Jul 1, 2019 - After a demonstrator threw a milkshake at a Quillette writer, a quick-drying rumor about ... I am nervous about tomorrow's Portland antifa rally

In Portland, Milkshakes, a Punch and #HimToo Refresh Police ...

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Jul 1, 2019 - ... that some milkshakes tossed in the melee were laced with cement. ... but called out on Twitter to “Antifa criminals” whom she said “I plan to ...

Milkshakes -- the latest protest tool -- make splash in Portland ...

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Jul 1, 2019 - Widespread milkshake-dousing makes debut at Saturday protests in ... of the Proud Boys, the #HimToo movement and Rose City Antifa.

Alt-Right, Antifa, Cops, and Milkshakes Clash in Downtown Portland ...

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Jun 29, 2019 - It's officially summer in the Pacific Northwest, which means it's time for our first alt-right vs. left-wing clash in downtown Portland. This afternoon ...

concrete milkshakes - Media Matters for America

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Jul 1, 2019 - One rumor coming out of the face-off was that some vegan milkshakes being handed out by antifa demonstrators contained cement or other ...

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Proud Boys member Donovon Flippo has accepted a plea deal after participating in a violent attack in Portland that left its victim with a split lip and a bloody nose, according to Western States Center. More details about the deal will be announced later today in Portland.

Flippo wasarrested in March on a federal charge of third-degree assault and a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree assault for an attack he participated in the prior year. The Oregonian reports that Flippo allegedly joined Proud Boys member Tusitala John “Tiny” Toese in an attack on 35-year-old Timothy Ledwith in Portland that left Ledwith bleeding. The paper reported:

Timothy Ledwith, 35, said he was punched June 8 by Flippo and Proud Boys member Tusitala John “Tiny” Toese after they exchanged words near Northeast 12th Avenue and Broadway. Toese punched him in the face, Ledwith said.

Ledwith fell to the ground, hit his head and when he came to, noticed Flippo standing over him. Another witness reported that Flippo had struck Ledwith next, according to Ledwith.

A grand jury voted to bring charges against the two right-wing extremists who attacked Ledwith earlier this year after Willamette Week reported that Portland Police had built a case against Toese and Flippo but decided not to pursue it. Text message exchanges between Portland Police Lt. Jeff Niiya and Patriot Prayer organizer Joey Gibson revealed an amicable relationship between Gibson and police.

Flippo was involved in a similar incident in Vancouver, Washington, with Toese, but the duo was allowed to leave the scene without charges. Toese is thought to still be residing in American Samoa but said on Facebook earlier this year that he would return to Portland to face charges.

The attack adds to other violent incidents involving Proud Boys hate group members across the United States.

The office of the Multnomah County District Attorney was not immediately available for comment.

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