( Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday the U.S. government will designate anti-fascist group Antifa as a terrorist organization, a relocation that legal specialists say would be difficult to execute.
FILE IMAGE: U.S. President Donald Trump U.S. President Donald Trump leaves amidst press reporters asking concerns after the president made a statement about U.S. trade relations with China and Hong Kong in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 29,2020 REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
The announcement, made by Trump on Twitter, comes in the middle of violent across the country demonstrations about police cruelty following the death of a black male in Minneapolis seen on video gasping for breath as a white policeman knelt on his neck.
A number of top officials from the Trump administration, including U.S. Chief law officer Will