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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.

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March 24, 2026, edition of MS NOW's Deadline: White House

ALICIA MENENDEZ (CO-HOST): You see my point about the socialization that begins to happen when you are accustomed to seeing these guys in their uniforms basically everywhere you go.

ANGELO CARUSONE (GUEST): That's right. And that is a big -- and that is what Bannon is trying to say is that they are trying, and there's an important thing sort of tie in here with the question you just had with Michael, because one, they're trying to make it much more acceptable and normal. And that's not only going to be in these big displays like we saw in Minnesota where it's scary and they're coming in with masks and it's overwhelming force. It's a normal part of life. And if they're picking a few people off the line, and that's one of the things that they've been saying in talk radio as they continue to pull Bannon's thread, is that they're getting used to sniffing out individuals that are suspicious on these lines. It's practice in training.

MENENDEZ: Sounds a lot like racial profiling.

CARUSONE: It sure does. And this is all part of it, that it starts to become even more normal and acceptable in places you don't expect. But in the lead up to your question with Michael, one of the things you said is that ICE was sent in a response to viral videos. Now, let's play this out. There is a entire phalanx of investigative creators just like that Nick Shirley guy that are about to be deployed around election misinformation. So, now what happens when you have a video that sort of totally based off of nonsense gets uplifted in the right-wing media, makes its way to Fox News. It's a new big story.

Then Trump has a pretext to sort of send these now figures that have been socialized to be more present into these areas where these videos prop up. That's the scenario that we're playing out. It's not just going to be out of nowhere. Right now, it's the crisis at airports because of TSA and it seems dispersed, but it'll be much more targeted and focused as we get closer and closer to the election. That's the real threat. And so when it's more normal, it's going to be hard to mount a kind of resistance to just their sheer presence alone.

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### On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone discusses how right-wing media are spinning economic consequence of the Iran war

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Fox News platformed several of the participants of a White House roundtable on antifa in the weeks leading up to the event

In the weeks preceding the event, Portland footage captured by roundtable participants was featured on Fox's evening programming at least 31 times and the network interviewed them at least 12 times

Written by Jack Winstanley

Research contributions from Rob Savillo, Harrison Ray & Tyler Monroe

Published 10/24/25

New Media Matters data finds that in the roughly two weeks leading up to a White House roundtable discussion of antifa, Fox News interviewed and repeatedly ran b-roll footage of Portland anti-ICE protests captured by several of the right-wing influencers who attended the roundtable. This data underscores right-wing media’s ongoing campaign to cast the protests as violent while the Trump administration simultaneously takes actions against antifa and other protesters.

On October 8, the White House hosted a roundtable discussion focused on supposed threats posed by antifa, complete with testimony from a dozen right-wing media figures and online commentators who shared tales about the violence supposedly emerging from the left. Central to many of their talking points were the ongoing anti-ICE protests in Portland, Oregon, where the Trump administration has attempted to deploy 200 National Guard troops. The roundtable followed President Donald Trump’s issuance of an executive order designating antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” on September 22.

Right-wing media have repeatedly characterized the anti-ICE protests in Portland as violent. Several right-wing media figures and influencers have even gone to Portland, including some accompanying Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as part of what Oregon Public Broadcasting described as the “deepening alliance between the administration and an online world willing to misrepresent facts if it means furthering political goals.”

The White House roundtable was populated with a dozen right-wing media figures and influencers

The White House welcomed 12 right-wing media figures and online influencers for the October 8 roundtable, which also included Trump, Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other high-level administration officials.

Many of these influencers have been in Portland during anti-ICE protests, with some covering the protests for right-wing media outlets or online shows. As reported by The Guardian, influencer Nick Sortor, who was among the roundtable attendees, “has been involved in multiple physical altercations with protesters in Portland this month, some of which he clearly initiated.”

The roundtable included:

- Jack Posobiec, host of Real America’s Voice’s Human Events Dailyand senior editor of Human Events.

- Andy Ngo, editor-at-large for right-wing online outlet The Post Millennial.

- Katie Daviscourt, a correspondent for The Post Millennial.

- Nick Sortor, a conservative influencer.

- Julio Rosas, a correspondent for Blaze Media.

- Savanah Hernandez, a former Infowars host and current Turning Point USA contributor.

- Cam Higby, a personality for Today is America who has also contributed to Turning Point USA’s Frontlines.
- Nick Shirley, a YouTuber.

- Jonathan Choe, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute who has also reported for Turning Point USA's Frontlines.

- James Klug, a YouTuber.

- Brandi Kruse, a conservative podcaster.

- Seamus Bruner, the director of research at the Government Accountability Institute.

At least three of the outlets represented at the roundtable — Human Events, The Post Millennial, and Frontlines TPUSA — have since announced that they have joined the Department of Defense’s press corps after Pentagon reporters refused to agree to restrictive press policies.

## Fox used roundtable participants’ footage of Portland for b-roll in dozens of segments during the roughly two weeks before the roundtable

Media Matters observed at least 31 segments about anti-ICE protests in Portland, Oregon, that aired during Fox News’ evening programming between September 22 (when Trump issued an executive order designating antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization”) and October 7 (the day before the roundtable) and featured b-roll from at least one of the roundtable participants.

Footage captured by The Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt appeared in 87% of the segments that featured b-roll from roundtable participants — 27 of 31 total segments — and footage attributed to Turning Point USA’s online show Frontlines appeared in nearly a third of qualifying segments.

Nick Shirley, a YouTuber who was present at the Portland protests, had b-roll footage appear in 2 segments. Footage from Brandi Kruse, who filmed a video documenting the two days she spent in Portland, appeared in 1 segment.

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## Roundtable participants have repeatedly appeared on Fox News, with several appearing on the network during the roughly two weeks ahead of the roundtable

Seven of the roundtable participants (Posobiec, Ngo, Sortor, Shirley, Choe, Daviscourt, and Klug) appeared on Fox News’ weekday programming in the weeks leading up to the roundtable for a collective total of 12 interviews between September 22 and October 7.

Several of these interviews focused on the Portland protests, with some roundtable participants characterizing the protests as violent and at least one participant calling for a more intense crackdown on protests from the Trump administration.

During a Fox interview on October 2, Shirley claimed there had been “lots of violence” at the protests and that he had been threatened with a gun. In a September 29 Fox News appearance, Choe claimed the protests were “causing chaos” for Portland. On October 6, Sortor argued on Hannity that the protests were “so hostile,” and “very, very aggressive.”

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Appearing on Jesse Watters Primetime, Daviscourt declared, “It’s time for a federal crackdown,” adding, “The Trump administration needs to start treating antifa like ISIS, the terrorists that they are.”

And the roundtable participants aren't new on Fox. In fact, Media Matters found that all of the individuals who participated in the roundtable had appeared on Fox News prior to the study period as well, for a total of at least 177 appearances combined since August 2017.

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Mario Lotmore

October 9, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Donald J Trump hosted a roundtable at the White House on October 8 to address what administration officials described as a growing epidemic of left-wing political violence attributed to Antifa and associated far-left extremists. Later in the meeting President Trump instructed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take the necessary steps to classify Antifa as Foreign Terror Organization.

Journalists, and independent reporters who attended the White House roundtable on Antifa on October 8, 2025. Source: Brandi Kruse.

The roundtable, attended by key cabinet members, journalists, and independent reporters, focused on Antifa’s alleged role in promoting Marxist, communist, and anarchist ideologies through targeted attacks on federal agents, law enforcement, and journalists. Participants shared their knowledge on the group’s activities across multiple U.S. cities, its opaque funding sources, and the Trump Administration’s strategies to counter it, including a recent executive order designating Antifa as a “militarist, anarchist enterprise” that advocates for overthrowing the U.S. government.

The roundtable came amid reports of escalating incidents, including assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities and the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk by an alleged far-left extremist.

President Donald J Trump hosting the Roundtable on ANTIFA. Source: The White House YouTube channel.

“It should be clear to all Americans that we have a very serious left-wing terror threat in our country,” President Trump opened. “Radicals associated with the domestic terror group, Antifa, that you’ve heard a lot about lately, and I’ve heard a lot about them for 10 years. And other far-left extremists have been carrying out a campaign of violence against ICE agents and other officials charged with enforcing federal law.”

Trump cited specific examples of Antifa violence and intimidation, such as anarchists in Chicago surveilling ICE facilities then posting diagrams and photos of agents online, accompanied by threats. He referenced a July incident in Texas where “approximately a dozen Antifa-aligned militants stormed the ICE facility in Texas and then lured officers out of the building before firing dozens of rounds at police,” that resulted in one officer being shot in the neck.

Trump also mentioned a sniper attack on an ICE facility in Dallas two weeks prior, that killed two detainees, where attackers left a note reading, “Hopefully this will give ICE agents some real terror.”

In Portland, Oregon, President Trump further noted that “Antifa thugs have repeatedly attacked our officers and laid siege to federal property in an attempt to violently stop the execution of federal law.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi reported a “more than a thousand percent increase in attacks against our ICE agents since January 20th,” attributing the impunity to Democratic leaders in cities like Chicago and Portland.

The discussion repeatedly tied Antifa’s actions to broader left-wing, Marxist, and communist ideologies aimed at undermining the U.S. government.

Funding sources emerged as a central theme at Wednesday’s roundtable, with participants alleging that Antifa’s operations are supported by wealthy donors and sophisticated networks.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem compared Antifa’s sophistication to international terrorist networks: “This network of Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas… They are just as dangerous, they have an agenda to destroy us just like the other terrorists we’ve dealt with for many, many years.”

Secretary Noem praised Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for “getting to the bottom of these funding mechanisms and individuals who are perpetuating this violence on our American cities.”

The White House roundtable on Antifa on October 8, 2025. Source: Jonathan Choe.

A representative from the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative think tank, described Antifa as part of a “protest industrial complex” or “Riot Inc.,” funded by networks like the Open Society, Arabella, Tides, and Neville Roy Singham’s organizations. He claimed that over $100 million has flowed to radical groups, including at least $4 million to Antifa-affiliated entities, some from U.S. taxpayer funds.

“When you see the signs and they’re all made out of a beautiful paper, beautiful, nice, stiff, very expensive paper with beautiful wood handles all the same, all the same color, they come from very expensive printing machines,” Trump said implying an organized funding machine behind Antifa protests. “These are not people that write out their signs in a basement that believe in something. These are paid anarchists.”

Jonathan Choe, an investigative reporter for Turning Point USA and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, alleged that Antifa is directly tied to the “homeless industrial complex.”

“Antifa is heavily embedded in the homeless and housing nonprofit sector,” Choe told President Trump providing a research report to administration officials. “In many cases, the homeless industrial complex is running cover for Antifa. Antifa is benefiting from American tax dollars, and they’re essentially being used as the muscle.”

Participants during the roundtable acknowledged the challenges of combating a decentralized group like Antifa, which operates autonomously and uses deception to evade accountability.

Andy Ngo, a Portland-based reporter noted, “How they organize is that they are decentralized, autonomous, and they operate on deception.” Despite this, Trump administration officials expressed confidence in their ability to dismantle Antifa through financial investigations and federal conspiracy charges.

Patel said his agency is taking a “whole-of-government approach” to “follow the money,” that targets donors and organizations to map out alleged financial criminal activities which, for decades has permeated throughout American society and institutions with the goal of overthrowing the Republic.

To counter efforts to usurp the federal government, President Trump referenced his executive order designating Antifa as a “militarist, anarchist enterprise” that calls for overthrowing the U.S. government, which Bondi said unlocks broader federal investigative powers.

Patel described ongoing operations, such as “Operation Summer Heat,” to dismantle networks “brick by brick, just like we did with cartels.”

AG Bondi detailed recent actions align with President Trump’s executive order such as a memo directing federal agencies like the DEA, FBI, U.S. Marshals, and ATF to protect ICE officers, and efforts to remove apps like ICEBlock from Apple and Google platforms.

Noem reported the arrests of dozens of Antifa-affiliated individuals, including the arrest in Portland of the girlfriend of one of the group’s founders, who she hopes to “get more and more information about the network” to “root them out and eliminate them from the existence of American society.”

The administration also criticized Democratic leaders for allegedly enabling Antifa’s violence.

Trump accused governors like Oregon’s and Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson of covering up Antifa’s activities or ignoring the threat.

Noem claimed that Portland police were “cheering on” rioters chanting threats against ICE agents, while Bondi opened a pattern-and-practice investigation into the Portland Police Bureau following Nick Sortor’s arrest for defending an American flag.

Andy Ngo, Brandi Kruse, Jonathan Choe, and Katie Daviscourt

Several independent journalists from the Pacific Northwest shared firsthand accounts of Antifa’s violence in Washington and Oregon to President Trump during the roundtable.

Brandi Kruse (left) and Jonathan Choe (right). Source: Brandi Kruse and Jonathan Choe.

Brandi Kruse, a former mainstream reporter in Seattle, described covering Antifa for 15 years without official acknowledgment by her peers.

“The single most powerful thing you’ve done to deal with this scourge has been acknowledging that Antifa is a real thing,” Kruse told President Trump. “I genuinely believe there would be people at these tables who would be dead today and would’ve been killed in Portland had you not called them a terror organization.”

Kruse, who said she recovered from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” after witnessing media dishonesty, urged federal action.

“We want the federal government to take as many of these cases as possible, look at the interstate travel between Portland and Seattle when it comes to these people who are committing violent acts,” Kruse said.

Choe shared with the president that groups like Stop the Sweeps and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) work with Antifa to manufacture crises and protect their clandestine operations. He praised President Trump’s executive order on homelessness for disrupting these networks.

Katie Daviscourt, an investigative journalist with the Post Millennial, detailed her infiltration of Antifa cells to the president.

“I have been infiltrating Antifa cells in Seattle and Portland for the past decade,” Daviscourt shared.” I know their inner workings and Antifa uses extreme political violence to crush the civil rights of their political enemies and believes that violence is justified by any means necessary.”

Focusing on the Portland ICE facility occupation, she added, “This is nothing short other than a sustained attack on the United States, which is being supported by Democratic-elected officials… Federal agents been relentlessly assaulted for more than 100 consecutive days.”

Daviscourt, appearing with a black eye from an October 2, 2025, assault while reporting on protests outside the ICE facility in Portland, criticized Portland police for refusing to act.

A masked Antifa-affiliated protester allegedly struck her in the face with a flagpole resulting in a black eye and concussion, she said. Daviscourt then chased the suspect, held her for 35 minutes, and alerted Portland police, who refused to detain the individual and allowed her to escape into an alleged Antifa safe house.

“Residents living across the ICE facility have been held hostage by Antifa,” Daviscourt told President Trump. “They’re begging for federal intervention.”

Nick Sortor, a conservative independent reporter and social media influencer, described the plight of Portland residents near the ICE facility, including veterans with PTSD, who are “held hostage” by Antifa’s noise and violence. “They’re begging for federal intervention,” he said, noting that local governments have pretty much ignored resident’s pleas.

Ngo, a Portland-based reporter, recounted being ambushed in 2019, suffering a brain hemorrhage from a mob beating.

“I was bleeding out of my eyes and ears,” Ngo said, noting that mainstream media outlets suggested he deserved the attack or faked his injuries.

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BREAKING: Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt assaulted by Antifa militant in Portland amid ICE riot

“Katie Daviscourt was just assaulted a short time ago, by a female who’d attempted to assault me earlier... We had to walk blocks to find the police. THIS IS A LAWLESS ZONE.”

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Breaking: I just got assaulted by an Antifa agitator outside the ICE facility in Portland. The suspect walked up to me and hit me in the face with her flag pole, swinging it like a baseball bat.

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Ari Hoffman

Seattle WA

Oct 1, 2025

The Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt was assaulted Tuesday night while reporting on violent anti-ICE demonstrations outside Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, in the latest attack on journalists covering the ongoing unrest.

Daviscourt was filming outside the ICE building when a female activist waving a Palestinian flag deliberately struck her in the face with the flagpole. The blow left Daviscourt with a visible black eye. The attack was captured on video as protesters once again clashed with federal officers during another night of rioting.

A bystander attempted to intervene, trying to wrestle the flag away from the assailant. Independent journalist C.K. Bouferrache, who was nearby, said the same woman had tried to attack her earlier in the evening. honeybadgermom

“Katie Daviscourt was just assaulted a short time ago, by a female who’d attempted to assault me earlier,” Bouferrache wrote on X. “We tracked the female for blocks & then waited for police to come arrest her — which of course didn’t happen. We had to walk blocks to find the police. THIS IS A LAWLESS ZONE.”

Even after Daviscourt followed the suspect and flagged down a police officer, the officer failed to act.

A short time later, Daviscourt reported, "The suspect escaped into the Antifa safe house — an apartment unit near the ICE facility that has been harboring Antifa militants involved in the occupation — with the help of her comrades. Portland Police still refuse to make an arrest."

She added, "Portland Police will not be going in to make an arrest. Despite my effort in chasing the suspect down and tracking her. Officers say it’s too unsafe."

In July, Daviscourt reported that Department of Homeland Security agents raided the apartment unit outside the Portland ICE facility and made an arrest, after the person who leases the unit had been allowing Antifa to use it as a staging area.

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:{:{The Post Millennial said in a statement posted to X, "On Sept 30, 2025, Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt was violently assaulted by a far-left extremist while reporting on the ground in Portland. Katie was targeted simply for doing her job: documenting the reality of what is happening in the city and bringing the truth to the public. This assault is part of a disturbing pattern of harassment, intimidation, and violence carried out by far-left radicals against journalists who refuse to toe their ideological line. }:

Attacks on reporters are attacks on the free press itself, and this should concern all Americans, regardless of political affiliation. Katie has shown tremendous courage in continuing her work despite repeated threats and dangers. We stand firmly with her, and with every journalist committed to reporting the truth in the face of mob violence. We call on local officials, law enforcement, and national leaders to condemn this political violence unequivocally and to take action to ensure that journalists can do their jobs without fear of assault or intimidation. The Post Millennial will not be silenced. We will continue to report the facts, shine a light on extremism, and hold the powerful accountable."}:

The attack on Daviscourt follows a string of similar incidents targeting reporters at the Portland ICE facility, which has been the site of months of nightly unrest.

On Monday night, independent journalist Nick Shirley was confronted by a masked Antifa member who aggressively advanced on him, shouting, “get the fck out of here.” Shirley repeatedly tried to de-escalate, warning that he was being pushed into the road, but the man continued threatening him, saying, “If you come back, I’m gonna fcking smoke you dude. I’m gonna smash that f*cking camera.”

The escalating hostility toward journalists is occurring against the backdrop of federal investigations and security crackdowns at the site. Earlier this week, the FBI raided a Portland home tied to a suspect accused of pointing a high-powered laser at a Customs and Border Protection helicopter during Saturday’s protest.

Four illegal immigrants were taken into custody during the raid, and the laser was seized as evidence.

Portland’s ICE facility has been under siege since June 7, when Antifa-linked activists launched a round-the-clock occupation. Federal authorities have arrested at least 27 individuals on charges including assault on officers, arson, and property destruction.

Despite the growing violence, local officials have downplayed the crisis, even as journalists are assaulted in public and federal aircraft are targeted.

President Donald Trump has declared Antifa a domestic terrorist organization and deployed 200 National Guard troops to Portland to protect ICE facilities. Clashes between protesters, federal law enforcement, and ICE supporters have escalated in recent days.

Daviscourt, a frequent target of Antifa agitators for her reporting, has documented the Portland unrest extensively. Tuesday night’s attack underscores the increasing dangers faced by journalists covering extremist activity on the ground in Portland, as local law enforcement fails to protect them.

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PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

The White House

October 8, 2025

For years, anAntifa-ledhellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks onfederal officers and property— yet the Fake News remains inshameful denialabout the Radical Left’s reign of terror.

That’s why, as President Donald J. Trump mobilizes federal resources to safeguard lives and property, the White House is hosting today the fearless independent journalists who have long risked their own safety to shine a light on Portland’s descent into chaos.

Of course, Portland’s own citizens — betrayed by their leaders — are sounding the alarm loud and clear, demanding action while the Fake News turns a blind eye:

“It’s like a war zone. There are times I’ve had to have a gas mask on inside my own home,” says a resident near the ICE facility under siege in south Portland. “[Deploying the National Guard] is one thing I support, as far as Trump is concerned, because the city is failing us and I don’t want to feel like I’m collateral damage — and my rights matter, too.”

“115 days of hell. I only come out during the day. You see all the black-covered Antifa people aren’t here. They come with the night,” says another Portland resident. “In the daytime, it’s all these little old senior people that think they’re changing the world before they pass from this earth.”

“Yesterday morning, I was broken into again for the tenth time,” says a business owner in downtown Portland. “We need help here and something needs to be done, so if [the National Guard] is what we need to do to get our leaders paying attention to what’s happening in Portland, then I think it’s a good thing. We’ve been struggling for a long time — since 2020.” AMY NICHOLS ON FOX

“We struggle every day, every week, with the crime and the drugs and just the unsafeness that comes with being here in our city right now. It’s like our leaders have abandoned public safety for us,” says a Portland coffeeshop owner.

“It may be the only way if our city and state governments are not willing to do their jobs… If city governments and police departments are not able to protect people, folks are going to look for protection from anywhere they can get it,” who represents retailers ravaged by crime in the city. “For those people who do not want federal troops in our streets, I would say start clamoring for your local government to protect our property, our businesses, and our lives.”

“I kind of support it 110% just because I would like to see them clean up the city of Portland,”. “At least they can do something to help our city.”

“Look at our streets — there’s homelessness, they’re full of garbage, businesses are leaving. We are not a thriving city. Our city is falling. It’s horrible,” says a Portland woman. FOX DIGITAL REDNECK GUY AND MAGA WOMAN FOC TALK PTS
SQUARING OFF IN PORTLAND: Fed-up residents confront protesters on streets of troubled city | Fox News Video

It’s obvious that what’s happening in Portland isn’t mere protest; it’s premeditated anarchy — the latest chapter of violence in Portland at the hands of Antifa and the Radical Left:

Since early June, Antifa militants have laid siege to the ICE field office in south Portland. The terrorists have violently breached the facility by using a stop sign as a battering ram, hurled explosives and projectiles, burned American flags, viciously assaulted, attacked, and injured officers, doxed officers, berated neighbors, and even rolled out a guillotine.

- As part of the ongoing siege, dozens have been arrested and charged with serious crimes such as arson, assaulting federal officers, and resisting arrest.

In May 2024, an “Antifa anarchist movement” took credit for burning more than a dozen Portland Police Bureau training vehicles.

In May 2022, Antifa members deployed smoke grenades, paint-filled balloons, and fireworks to break up a campaign event for a Republican political candidate.

In August 2021, Antifa terrorists violently attacked right-wing demonstrators with explosives and chemical spray.

In January 2021, more than 100 Antifa demonstrators attacked Portland police and vandalized property, with some armed with knives and long poles.

In October 2020, Antifa terrorists sparked a riot at an “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage” event, toppling statues of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt and vandalizing multiple buildings.

In August 2020, a self-described Antifa militant shot and killed a Patriot Prayer supporter during a riot in Portland, then was later killed after he brandished a weapon while law enforcement attempted to apprehend him on murder charges.

In 2020, Portland Antifa terrorists led 100 days of carnage and violence in Portland — in which they rioted, looted, burned buildings, bludgeoned officers, deployed power tools and commercial-grade fireworks as weapons, and attempted to destroy a local courthouse.

In May 2020, Antifa terrorists released a “chilling video” in which they threatened the city’s mayor and publicized his home address.

In November 2019, an Antifa terrorist was sentenced to six years in prison after “using a weapon against a conservative demonstrator who suffered blows to the head that the victim claims left him with a concussion and cuts that required 25 staples to close.”

In June 2019, Portland Antifa terrorists were arrested after assaulting rightwing demonstrators and police with quick drying cement and bear spray.

:{In August 2018, a Bernie Sanders voter was beaten by Antifa militants “for carrying an American flag.”

In 2017, Antifa terrorists caused an innocent Wisconsin family to be inundated with threats after they published their address online in a botched doxing attempt.

In 2017, Antifa terrorists attacked and injured law enforcement and attendees at a pro-free speech rally.

In 2017, Antifa threatened organizers of the annual Avenue of Roses Parade for including a Republican-themed float — prompting the group to cancel the event altogether.

In 2016, Antifa-led rioting caused more than $1 million in damage in Portland after President Trump’s election.

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10 arrested after ambush on Texas ICE detention facility, officials say

The incident occurred in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4.

ByCharlotte Slovin and Luke Barr

July 7, 2025,

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10 arrested after ambush on Texas ICE detention facility, officials sayOfficials announced on Monday that 10 people were arrested for engaging in a "planned ambush" on an ICE detention facility in Texas over the Fourth of July holiday.

State and federal officials announced on Monday that 10 people were arrested for engaging in a "planned ambush" on an ICE detention facility in Texas over the Fourth of July holiday.

The individuals were charged with attempted murder of a federal officer, according to court records.

The incident occurred at the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, on Friday, according to Nancy Larson, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas.

At approximately 10:37 p.m., 10 to 12 individuals dressed in black, military-style clothing began shooting fireworks and engaging in acts of vandalism at the facility, Larson said during a press conference.

Officials announced on Monday that 10 people were arrested for engaging in a "planned ambush" on an ICE detention facility in Texas over the Fourth of July holiday.

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Larson said the incident "was a planned ambush with the intent to kill ICE corrections officers."

Some individuals drew correction officers out of the facility using the fireworks while others damaged vehicles and vandalized the facility with graffiti, Larson said.

When an Alvarado police officer arrived on the scene, one of the individuals shot him in the neck. Another individual shot 20 to 30 rounds at the facility correction officers, according to Larson.

All assailants fled the scene, though all have since been apprehended, the U.S. attorney said.

Bradford Morris, who goes by Megan, was one of the suspects that allegedly fled the scene, according to court records. He was stopped a short while later, with a magazine clip and Kevlar vests.

Morris allegedly told police that he met some people online who wanted to "make a little noise" at the detention center, according to court records.

State and federal officials announced on Monday that 10 people were arrested for engaging in a "planned ambush" on an ICE detention facility in Texas over the Fourth of July holiday.

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Law enforcement found 12 sets of body armor, spray paint, a flag saying "resist fascism, fight oligarchy," flyers saying "fight ice terror with class war free all political prisoners," more fireworks, weapons and cell phones across multiple searches over the weekend.

Police also found two AR-15s nearby, according to court records.

No employees at the Prairieland Detention Facility were harmed during the shooting incident and the officer who was shot is expected to recover, according to Josh Johnson, the acting field office director for ERO Dallas.

The U.S. attorney's office has charged the individuals with three counts of attempted murder of a federal officer, and each of the suspects is also charged with three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.

The FBI is working alongside local and state law enforcement on this investigation.

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former reservist was named in a 2023 lawsuit involving the Elm Fork chapter of the John Brown Gun Club (JBGC), in a counter-protest at a Fort Worth drag show, where members of Elm Fork JBGC were providing security for the event.^[2] Some suspects arrested have backgrounds in protest activism and prior protest-related arrests, including five suspects who had been arrested in 2016 at Texas A&M University while attempting to disrupt a speech there by white supremacist figure Richard B. Spencer.^[1] Slogans and materials recovered bear anti-ICE, anti-government, and left wing language.^[1]

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Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization – The White House

Presidential Actions

DESIGNATING ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

Executive Orders

September 22, 2025

_Section_ _1_. _Antifa as a Terrorist Threat_. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists. Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members. Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech. This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.

_Sec_. _2_. _Designation as a Domestic Terrorist Organization_. Because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa provided material support, including necessary investigatory and prosecutorial actions against those who fund such operations.

_Sec_. _3_. _General Provisions_. (a) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(b) This order shall be published in the Federal Register.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 22, 2025.

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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets – The White House

...(ii) provide assistance to State and local governments, through technical guidance, grants, or other legally available means, for the identification, adoption, and implementation of maximally flexible civil commitment, institutional treatment, and “step-down” treatment standards that allow for the appropriate commitment and treatment of individuals with mental illness who pose a danger to others or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves.

_Sec_. _3_. _Fighting Vagrancy on America’s Streets_. (a) The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall take immediate steps to assess their discretionary grant programs and determine whether priority for those grants may be given to grantees in States and municipalities that actively meet the below criteria, to the maximum extent permitted by law:

(i) enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use;

(ii) enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering;

(iii) enforce prohibitions on urban squatting;

(iv) enforce, and where necessary, adopt, standards that address individuals who are a danger to themselves or others and suffer from serious mental illness or substance use disorder, or who are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves, through assisted outpatient treatment or by moving them into treatment centers or other appropriate facilities via civil commitment or other available means, to the maximum extent permitted by law; or

(v) substantially implement and comply with, to the extent required, the registration and notification obligations of the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act, particularly in the case of registered sex offenders with no fixed address, including by adequately mapping and checking the location of homeless sex offenders.

(b) The Attorney General shall:

(i) ensure that homeless individuals arrested for Federal crimes are evaluated, consistent with 18 U.S.C. 4248, to determine whether they are sexually dangerous persons and certified accordingly for civil commitment;

(ii) take all necessary steps to ensure the availability of funds under the Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance program to support, as consistent with 34 U.S.C. 50101 et seq., encampment removal efforts in areas for which public safety is at risk and State and local resources are inadequate;

(iii) assess Federal resources to determine whether they may be directed toward ensuring, to the extent permitted by law, that detainees with serious mental illness are not released into the public because of a lack of forensic bed capacity at appropriate local, State, and Federal jails or hospitals; and

(iv) enhance requirements that prisons and residential reentry centers that are under the authority of the Attorney General or receive funding from the Attorney General require in-custody housing release plans and, to the maximum extent practicable, require individuals to comply.

_Sec_. _4_. _Redirecting Federal Resources Toward Effective Methods of Addressing Homelessness_. (a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take appropriate action to:

(i) ensure that discretionary grants issued by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery fund evidence-based programs and do not fund programs that fail to achieve adequate outcomes, including so-called “harm reduction” or “safe consumption” efforts that only facilitate illegal drug use and its attendant harm;

(ii) provide technical assistance to assisted outpatient treatment programs for individuals with serious mental illness or addiction during and after the civil commitment process focused on shifting such individuals off of the streets and public programs and into private housing and support networks; and

(iii) ensure that Federal funds for Federally Qualified Health Centers and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics reduce rather than promote homelessness by supporting, to the maximum extent permitted by law, comprehensive services for individuals with serious mental illness and substance use disorder, including crisis intervention services.

(b) The Attorney General shall prioritize available funding to support the expansion of drug courts and mental health courts for individuals for which such diversion serves public safety.

_Sec_. _5_. _Increasing Accountability and Safety in America’s Homelessness Programs_. (a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall take appropriate actions to increase accountability in their provision of, and grants awarded for, homelessness assistance and transitional living programs. These actions shall include, to the extent permitted by law, ending support for “housing first” policies that deprioritize accountability and fail to promote treatment, recovery, and self-sufficiency; increasing competition among grantees through broadening the applicant pool; and holding grantees to higher standards of effectiveness in reducing homelessness and increasing public safety.

(b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, as appropriate, take steps to require recipients of Federal housing and homelessness assistance to increase requirements that persons participating in the recipients’ programs who suffer from substance use disorder or serious mental illness use substance abuse treatment or mental health services as a condition of participation.

(c) With respect to recipients of Federal housing and homelessness assistance that operate drug injection sites or “safe consumption sites,” knowingly distribute drug paraphernalia, or permit the use or distribution of illicit drugs on property under their control:

(i) the Attorney General shall review whether such recipients are in violation of Federal law, including 21 U.S.C. 856, and bring civil or criminal actions in appropriate cases; and

(ii) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall review whether such recipients are in violation of the terms of the programs pursuant to which they receive Federal housing and homelessness assistance and freeze their assistance as appropriate.

(d) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall take appropriate measures and revise regulations as necessary to allow, where permissible under applicable law, federally funded programs to exclusively house women and children and to stop sex offenders who receive homelessness assistance through such programs from being housed with unrelated children.

(e) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall, as appropriate and to the extent permitted by law:

(i) allow or require the recipients of Federal funding for homelessness assistance to collect health-related information that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development identifies as necessary to the effective and efficient operation of the funding program from all persons to whom such assistance is provided; and

(ii) require those funding recipients to share such data with law enforcement authorities in circumstances permitted by law and to use the collected health data to provide appropriate medical care to individuals with mental health diagnoses or to connect individuals to public health resources.

_Sec_. _6_. _General Provisions_. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

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Right-wing writer Andy Ngo was awarded $300,000 in a lawsuit ruling Tuesday after three individuals accused of assaulting him ignored the hearing, resulting in a default ruling.

Ngo, editor-at-large of the conservative Canadian outlet The Post-Millenial, alleged in the civil suit that he had been assaulted by three people he claimed were members of "Antifa," a catch-all term for a variety of mostly separate and autonomous anti-fascist left-wing political groups. The incident took place at a protest in downtown Portland, Oregon, in late May 2019, purportedly organized by a group called "Rose City Antifa," which Ngo had gone to cover.

The writer alleged that three individuals—Katherine Belyea, Madison Allen, and Joseph Evans—attacked him at the event. Evans, who now goes by the legal name Sammich Overkill Schott-Deputy, was accused of striking Ngo and initiating the confrontation. Allen was accused of hitting him with a sign, while Belyea was accused of throwing a milkshake at him.

Above, a photo of conservative writer Andy Ngo after having a milkshake thrown at him by alleged "Antifa" members. Ngo was rewarded 0,000 in...Read More | Moriah Ratner/Getty Images/Getty Images

By failing to appear for a virtual hearing at the Multnomah County Courthouse Tuesday, Circuit Judge Chanpone Sinlapasai found the three civilly liable for assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, ordering them to pay Ngo a total of $300,000, split evenly between them. A lawyer representing Schott-Deputy attempted to argue, according to Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide, that his client could not appear due to being homeless, and due to the fact that they were serving out other prison sentences when the lawsuit was served, but the judge dismissed the attempt, citing the length of the trial, with the suit being filed initially in 2020.

In a post to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Ngo thanked his legal team and further accused the defendants of "trying to violently silence my First Amendment rights." He also expressed worry that the collection of the $300,000 will be a challenge.

"While it will continue to be a steep uphill battle to collect today's awarded damages given the default defendants' history of evasion, I remain determined to hold Antifa and its members accountable for their violent attacks," he wrote.

Earlier in August, a jury ruled against Ngo in a different civil lawsuit, finding that two left-wing activists were not liable for an attack he sustained at a Portland protest in 2021, Oregon Live reported.

Newsweekreached out to the Multnomah County Court via email for further information.

Critics have contested Ngo and other conservatives' characterization of "Antifa" as a "terrorist organization," noting that it is not a centralized organization, but a loosely affiliated left-wing political movement. Nevertheless, conservatives have continued to allege that the movement and its adherents as major threats to their political interests. Ngo has also been accused in the past of sharing selectively edited videos to inaccurately paint Antifa demonstrators as violent.

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GAI’s Seamus Bruner Reveals Left-Wing Funders Such as Roy Singham Behind Antifa Riots

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Seamus Bruner, the Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) revealed that left-wing funders such as billionaire Neville Roy Singham were behind left-wing Antifa riots and protests.

During a roundtable event on Antifa with President Donald Trump, Bruner explained that he, GAI President Peter Schweizer, and their team “followed” a trail of money and “followed it to the top of what” they called the Protest Industrial Complex, or Riot Inc. Bruner explained that the so-called “Riot Inc.” was made up of many different divisions, and that “dozens of radical organizations” have received millions of dollars from Riot Inc.

“We found a network of NGOs, it’s not just the Soros network, the Open Society Network. It’s other funding networks, the Arabella Funding Network, the Tides Funding Network, Neville Roy Singham and his network, foreign cash,” Bruner explained. “And, it’s also big left-wing funders — some of them are not citizens of this country.”

Bruner continued to note that these left-wing funders were “pouring money into this entire ecosystem.”

Bruner continued to share “three money facts” about Riot Inc., explaining that there were “many divisions” such as “PR divisions, marketing divisions” and even a “well-funded legal division.”

“Number two, we have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than one hundred million dollars from the Riot Inc. investors,” Bruner added. “These would be the lawyer groups, these would be the groups that advocate for calling good, honest Americans fascists.”

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“And then, three, I think the most shocking thing is that we have found that more than one hundred million dollars in U.S. taxpayer funding has flowed into these funding networks, including at least four million dollars to these very groups themselves,” Bruner added.

Bruner’s mention of Singham comes after an investigation by the Breitbart News Foundation reported that while “records from the United Kingdom confirm” that Singham resigned from Thoughtworks, Inc., which he founded in 1993, “Chinese government records suggest otherwise.”

After founding Thoughtworks, Inc. in 1993 and building the company into a software consulting powerhouse, Singham helped orchestrate its sale in October 2017, for approximately $785 million to a group of funds managed by London-based private equity firm Apax Partners. Corporate records from the United Kingdom confirm Singham’s resignation from Thoughtworks the same month, and his own LinkedIn profile says he has been retired since 2017. Thoughtworks’ English-language website relegates him to its “alumni” section, reinforcing the image of a clean break.

But Chinese government records suggest otherwise. These records list Singham as a corporate officer of Thoughtworks’ Chinese subsidiary, Thoughtworks Beijing, as recently as June 17, 2025, and for at least as far back as 2022. These records are from the National Enterprise Credit Reporting System (NECIPS), China’s corporate registry. Other documents, including trade show profile and “help-wanted” ads, listed Singham as Thoughtworks Beijing’s official contact in 2021.

The New York Post reported in June that Singham was set to be called to testify before a congressional committee regarding him funding “radical anti-Israel and Marxist groups” behind the Los Angeles riots.

In an article written by Bruner in June, Bruner detailed how the GAI had uncovered how the “official partners” behind the “No Kings” protests “bagged $114.8 million since 2019 from the Arabella Avisors dark money network an how professional protest organizations use tax dollars as a force multiplier.”

Bruner reported:

The expected worldwide mobilization of protests against President Donald Trump this weekend will hardly be a spontaneous eruption. On the contrary, the tumult is a carefully plotted production organized by The Indivisible Project and financed by the progress dark money network managed/advised by Arabella Advisors, which has perfected the mounting of made-to-order protests. Since 2019, the Arabella network has dumped more than $100 million into the coffers of the official “No Kings” protest partners—including the creator of the official protest song book.

This “grassroots” “nationwide days of defiance” targets Trump and his “billionaire allies,” according to organizers. The Arabella network’s biggest benefactors are the left’s own billionaire heroes, including George Soros, Bill Gates, Hansjorg Wyss, Mark Zuckerberg, and Reid Hoffman.

During the roundtable event, Bruner vowed to “keep following the money,” and expressed that he appreciated “everything” Trump was doing.

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How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland

President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

A group of people stand on the roof of a building next to an American flag. Some of them have cameras and other equipment.

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, tours the roof of an ICE detention center in Portland on Tuesday.Credit...Jordan Gale for The New York Times

By Anna Griffin and Aaron West

Reporting from Portland, Ore.

Oct. 10, 2025

In the fight over deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., Democratic leaders in the city and state have pleaded with President Trump and the courts to trust law enforcement records, both local and federal, that describe the demonstrations as small and comparatively calm.

But in the bifurcated media world of 2025, one side’s comparative calm is the other’s “hellscape” — as the White House described Portland on Wednesday — and the narrative that the Trump administration has wanted has been supplied by a coterie of right-wing influencers elevated by Mr. Trump himself.

On Thursday, the repercussions of those dueling versions of reality became clear as judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit questioned a district court’s finding that the protests in Portland were likely too minor to justify the National Guard deployment. The appeals court judges instead cited federal reports of demonstrators spitting on federal officers and shining flashlights in their eyes, behavior that has been captured, amplified and sometimes even prompted by pro-Trump personalities eager to counter local police.

“The Portland Police Chief did an interview today attacking independent journalists for exposing the violent terrorists that he allows to run the city,” Benny Johnson, a popular pro-Trump podcaster, wrote Tuesday on social media after accompanying Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, in Oregon. “He’s humiliated and knows Portland is under siege.”

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Protesters gather outside of a federal ICE facility in Portland on Monday.Credit...Jordan Gale for The New York Times

To some extent, the right’s assertions of chaos in Oregon have been self-fulfilling. The administration’s close ties to a small but well-followed group of influencers and conspiracy theorists has amplified their voices, and they in turn have encouraged administration efforts to crack down on demonstrators. The portrayals of a city on fire have angered protesters.

And sometimes, left-wing activists have risen to the bait, leading to scuffles and injuries conservative streamers then promote on the internet. One right-wing commentator, Katie Daviscourt, said she received a black eye when a demonstrator hit her with a flag pole.

“Certainly over the last 10 days, the energy level has gone up, the amount of conflicting points of view have increased greatly,” Chief Bob Day of the Portland Police Bureau said at a news media briefing Tuesday. “And this has created an environment that’s equally, if not more, challenging for us.”

Pro-Trump provocateurs have gotten more open about their efforts as the stakes in the battle over how to police protests grow. Ms. Noem has threatened to quadruple the number of federal law enforcement agents in Portland if she is not satisfied with the city’s crowd-control efforts. Troops from the Oregon and California National Guards are awaiting deployment. Another group of guardsmen from Texas could be summoned at the president’s request.

Meantime, influencers are seeking to raise the tension. Matt Tardio, a right-wing streamer who was broadcasting to an online audience of 10,000 or so from the ICE building in Portland on Wednesday night, conceded that other streamers were trying to stir up trouble so they could capture it on video.

“They were handing out flags and trying to get antifa folks to burn them, and then claimed that they were going to do physical harm to them if they burned the American flag,” he said. All the while, a videographer was capturing the action.

Mr. Tardio, 41, said he was not sure which side the people involved were supporting.

“In the beginning it looked like people on the right are the ones instigating, but in the following evenings it looked like people on the left,” he said. “People are absorbing information on social media quicker than reality.” Nobody can keep up, he added.

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“They were handing out flags and trying to get antifa folks to burn them,” the right-wing streamer Matt Tardio, center, said of fellow influencers.Credit...Jordan Gale for The New York Times

Political messages don’t seem to be the point for some on either side, said Sgt. Daniel DiMatteo while patrolling near the protest Wednesday night.

“It’s a lot more of the, ‘I’m going to get in your face and say something controversial to try to get a response out of you,’” he said.

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There are, to be sure, streamers and podcasters on the left who are commenting on the standoff, but conservative provocateurs hold more influence because of their connections to the administration. Ms. Noem did not have any news briefings or public appearances during her trip to Portland this week. Instead, she brought her own media entourage, which chronicled her every move through the prism of their support.

“BREAKING,” Bo Loudon, a 19-year-old influencer and friend of Mr. Trump’s youngest son, Barron, wrote on social media. Ms. Noem “just stared down violently Antifa rioters on the roof of a Portland ICE facility,” he wrote. chicken suit?

The video attached showed Ms. Noem on the roof of the building looking down at a small clutch of protesters far away, one of them in a chicken suit.

The man in the chicken suit, Jack Dickinson, 26, who had been coming to the ICE building to protest federal immigration policies for months, said he was struck by the disconnect. Mr. Dickinson said he watched one of the pro-Trump influencers, Nick Sortor, film outside the ICE building, then heard the narration.

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Jack Dickinson’s chicken suit has made him stand out amid the small group of protesters that have been staking out the ICE facility in Portland.Credit...Jordan Gale for The New York Times

“He was talking about this looking like a third-world country,” Mr. Dickinson said as he surveyed a riverfront neighborhood of apartment buildings, coffee shops and an Italian restaurant popular for holiday meals and graduation parties. “It’s just clearly not.”

The influencers with Ms. Noem included major conservative celebrities such as Mr. Johnson, whose YouTube posts regularly draw hundreds of thousands of views, and younger conservative journalists such as David Medina, who lives in Oregon, and Mr. Sortor, who has been producing a steady stream of content this week based on his Oct. 2 arrest at the ICE demonstrations.

Mr. Sortor was initially charged with second-degree disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor in Oregon, after he took a burning American flag from a left-wing demonstrator and a fight ensued. The response from Washington, D.C., was intense and immediate. Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded an investigation into the Portland Police Bureau, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Mr. Sortor had been “ambushed by antifa.”

For his efforts, Mr. Sortor found himself at the White House on Wednesday, as the president praised the actions of right-wing activists and pledged to dismantle antifa, a loose-knit group of anarchists whose presence in Portland has long angered Mr. Trump.

Mr. Sortor had been “assaulted in Portland by a flag-burning mob,” the president declared.

Mr. Sortor responded, “The Portland politicians literally are willing to sacrifice their own citizens just to appease these antifa terrorists.”

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Nick Sortor, a right-wing media personality, turned his arrest in Portland after a scuffle with protesters into an invitation to the White House on Wednesday.Credit...Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times

Nathan Vasquez, the district attorney of Multnomah County, which includes parts of Portland, dropped the charges against Mr. Sortor but planned to take two left-wing demonstrators he scuffled with to trial. Mr. Vasquez said police did have probable cause to arrest Mr. Sortor.

The influencer was engaged in “what I think most people would consider antagonistic behavior,” Mr. Vasquez said. “The hard part is that obnoxious behavior doesn’t amount to you getting to punch him in the face.”

After Ms. Noem’s visit to Portland, Mr. BENNY Johnson appeared live on Newsmax from inside the cordoned-off ICE building. He described the building as being in downtown Portland and said that the windows were blacked out and covered with tarps because “Democrats keep shooting sniper rounds into ICE facilities.”

Police have not reported any incidents of sniper fire, and the ICE building sits about two miles from downtown Portland.

Along with a video of Ms. Noem praying before a fast-food meal with federal workers, Mr. Johnson posted on social media his own photo of her on the roof of the ICE building.

“She stood at the edge and stared down Antifa and a dude in a chicken suit,” Mr. Johnson wrote. “Straight savage.”

A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 11, 2025, Section A, Page 13 of the New York edition with the headline: Comparative Calm or ‘Hellscape’? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator.. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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