The law enforcement reports show that authorities believed that "anarchist extremists" who were well-funded, well-resourced and educated on tactics, perhaps from overseas anarchist groups, were at the root of a new domestic threat.
As the Trump campaign began to sweep across the nation, the Antifa anarchists groups instigated violence at Trump rallies, and other right-wing events. California was the primary base for the early organizers of the terror group. Instances of violence began cropping up in areas from Orange County to the San Francisco Bay Area.
The question for many is, given the various reports by federal authorities, why was the Obama administration and DOJ not taking action against Antifa?
A Group of Antifa Terrorists in Berkeley, CA.
What federal authorities' reports show is that Antifa groups are well-resourced.
The reports specifically mention that Antifa utilizes hand-held radios, pre-planned carpool plans, counter-surveillance of law enforcement and other measures that suggest professional consulting from those with law-enforcement and/or military backgrounds.
While establishment Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi have disavowed Antifa, for the tactics that they use, they have not condemned the ideology. As the Democrat Party accelerates further and further to the left, traditional democrats remain afraid to disavow far-left anarchism, communism and fascism.
The article says the funding for this terror group is unknown... I'm sorry, but the government and their constitution violating spy agencies, not to mention the subverted tech companies, have a fully functioning system by which they know who and where money, especially large sums, are being moved. So to say they don't know how Antifa is getting its funding, or who is providing it, is a lie. But we've come to understand that the government wouldn't know the truth if it grabbed them by their withered scrotum!