A D.C. resident who lost her grandson to violence praises Donald Trump and says she loves him and to get off his back because he is keeping Washington, D. C. safe. It was a touching moment and a story you will not hear in the mainstream media. Also, in a big report, the FBI Director, Cash Patel, is now saying the FBI has uncovered Antifa's funding sources and some of the money may come from overseas.
00:03:26.380I feel my cup runneth over because he allowed his constituents, his people to come to my house to interview me to talk about the murder of my grandson.
00:03:52.520I pulled out other families in the District of Columbia that had murders and did not have answers.
00:03:57.220We marched and we rallied and nobody heard me, Democrats get mad at me, until this Republican sent his constituents, his people out there to interview me in my home.
00:05:28.500And from the mainstream media, that moment celebrating black history and a grandmother who lost her grandson praising President Trump for what he's doing to protect the African-American community in Washington, D.C.
00:06:01.500Cash Patel, the FBI director, is now coming out and saying that the FBI has uncovered Antifa funding sources in a major breaking news event.
00:06:12.500Now, let me remind you of where we were about four months ago when Cash Patel was talking at the White House.
00:06:19.500When Cash Patel was talking at the White House with President Trump.
00:06:22.500President Trump and this is what he said.
00:06:24.500What we are doing at the FBI is simple.
00:06:32.500And that's what it's going to take to bring down this network of organized criminal thugs, gangbangers, and yes, domestic terrorists, because that's what they are.
00:06:42.500They are harming everyday citizens in every single one of our communities.
00:06:46.500And the folks you see here on the right and left, they're some of the bravest men and women we have today.
00:06:50.500They're reporting the stories live time because the mainstream media won't cover it.
00:06:53.500They're putting their lives on the line.
00:07:00.500I read more of your stories than I do theirs because you guys are putting out the truth.
00:07:04.500And we deserve a country where you are protected as equally as they are.
00:07:08.500We, in this FBI, will go after the criminals with a vengeance.
00:07:11.500We will not rest until we find every single seed, money, donor, organization, and funding mechanism that we have.
00:07:19.500And I want to echo the secretary's comments on Scott Besson, who's allowing us to map out these networks through their financial criminal activities, which has been going on for decades.
00:07:29.500And I would like to remind the American public, they built this disease temple of corruption over decades.
00:07:35.500And in eight short months, Mr. President, you have crippled their foundation because of your leadership here, because of the interagency, because of people like Deputy Attorney General Blanche, and because of Attorney General Pam Bondi's fearless leadership to go after criminals wherever they are.
00:07:50.500They were able to hide and conspire with prior administrations.
00:07:53.500And we are exposing their corruption from within.
00:07:56.500And we will go to every single city in this country under Operation Summer Heat and the other operations we are doing at the FBI to bring these criminals to justice.
00:08:04.500We will arrest every single one of them from whatever perch you sit in, private or public, no matter how your goal or your ambition is.
00:08:11.500It will be crushed by the Constitution because the American people deserve law and order.
00:08:15.500And that's what we're going to give you.
00:08:17.500You listen to Kash Patel there, and he made it very clear we're going to go after the funders.
00:08:22.500The FBI will follow the funds to dismantle Antifa operations.
00:08:28.500So fast forward just four and a half months later, and the FBI director is saying now that investigators have uncovered what he described as major funding streams tied to Antifa.
00:08:40.500The revelation signaled possible new enforcement actions as the bureau is intensifying their scrutiny of left wing violence, according to the report coming out from the Washington Examiner.
00:08:53.500Kash Patel also speaking on the Dan Bongino show said the FBI under President Donald Trump has been conducting a financial investigation into how demonstrations linked to the loosely organized far left movement are really supported.
00:09:45.500It happened in Cop City in Georgia, where we had to go rearrest everybody because the state authorities couldn't get their act together to produce the enough enough information to take that to trial.
00:10:36.500Now, to be clear, Patel did not identify specific donors, organizations or financial mechanisms, but said more details could emerge in the coming months as the investigation continues.
00:10:49.500The FBI director said agents are examining whether funding has flowed through U.S.-based nonprofit groups.
00:10:58.500There's also some groups that have tax exempt status as well as possible foreign sources.
00:11:15.500He emphasized that investigators are focused on tracing financial support tied to acts of violence specifically and not constitutionally protected protest activity.
00:11:31.500Describing the effort as a strategy to follow the money to determine who may be underwriting unlawful conduct.
00:11:39.500Patel also pointed to prosecutions the Bureau has already brought that he said were connected to Antifa related violence, including federal arrests and convictions tied to protest incidents in multiple states now under his leadership.
00:11:56.500He referenced that ongoing federal trial involving nine defendants in Texas.
00:12:01.500They're accused of ambushing and attempting to murder ICE personnel on July the 4th of last year.
00:12:08.500Patel also cited a case from 2023 in Georgia surrounding the proposed Atlanta public safety training facility known as Cop City.
00:12:19.500The director said the FBI has elevated the issue internally by creating what he described as a dedicated program focused on identifying financial backers of protest related violence.
00:12:32.500Tracking Antifa has become so important that the Bureau, he said, established additional resources to investigate the funding behind such activity.
00:12:42.500Antifa has long been described by participants and many analysts as a decentralized movement rather than a formal organization, a distinction that has complicated past law enforcement efforts.
00:13:00.500Because it's hard to pursue conspiracy style cases.
00:13:02.500Patel points to Antifa's organizational structures, including conferences and a national network for local chapters.
00:13:10.500Bongino also criticized past FBI leadership under Democratic President Barack Obama and Joe Biden for describing Antifa as they said an idea, quote unquote.
00:13:23.500It's not an idea when actual action follows the idea.
00:13:28.500In September of 25, Trump also signed that executive order declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization after first raising the idea during his first term.
00:13:40.500Patel said the FBI's current approach relies solely on intelligence and financial investigations similar to those used in other counterterrorism probes.
00:13:52.500He did not announce new charges tied specifically to the alleged funding networks.
00:13:57.500But clearly, there's a lot more of this story coming very soon.
00:14:01.500And it also goes back to what was said five months ago at the White House.
00:14:05.500Donald Trump had a clear mandate on this issue.
00:14:08.500And Kash Patel and Dan Bongino made sure to pay off on that mandate so the American people got exactly what they voted for.
00:14:17.500Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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