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#AG Barr thinks Antifa will spread if states don’t squash violence

#AG Barr thinks Antifa will spread if states don’t squash violence

July 28, 2020 | 2:09pm

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr is concerned that Antifa-led violence will grow and spread across the country if state officials allow riots to continue rocking their cities.

During a hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Barr pushed back on New York Rep. Jerry Nadler’s claim that violence in Portland by the extremist group is “a myth.”

“I don’t think it’s a myth,” Barr said, adding the violent far-left radical group was “heavily represented in the recent riots.”

“It’s a national organization that moves nationally. They tend to get organized for an event and there’s a lot of organization right before an event occurs, but we see a lot of the organization during the mob violence,” he told lawmakers.

“We are concerned about this problem metastasizing around the country,” he said.

Barr defended his decision to deploy more than 100 federal troops to downtown Portland where Oregon officials have allowed hundreds of demonstrators to riot for two months and repeatedly attempt to burn down a federal courthouse.

During the highly-charged hearing, Democrat lawmakers insisted the protests were “peaceful” and a “wall of moms” as Barr reminded them that demonstrators came armed with rifles and explosive devices and had injured multiple officers.

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William BarrChip Somodevilla/Getty Images

When asked if federal troops should abandon the city and withdraw, Barr said he had “no doubt” the violence would “spread.”

“We feel that we have to in a place like Portland, where when we don’t have the support of the state, the local government, we have to take a stand and defend this federal property,” he continued.

“We can’t get to a level where we’re going to accept these kinds of violent attacks on federal court,” he said.

“In Portland, we have a relatively small number of federal officers who have been withstanding this for almost two months. It’s a great strain, but we cannot just stand aside and allow the federal court to be destroyed,” he said.

President Trump has tried to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization.

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