Donald Trump’s obsession with antifa surfaced again Wednesday as the president announced that he was designating the loose-knit anti-fascist political movement as a “major terror organization.”

That phrase does not appear in U.S. law or federal regulations, but legal niceties did not stop Trump from making a nearly identical announcement during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

While there’s no legal mechanism allowing the Trump administration to directly label a domestic terror group, experts warn that the Trump administration could still try to find creative ways to put American activists in court or under financial pressure by tying them to foreign groups.

As Trump and allies try to use last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk to paint left-wing groups with no ties to th

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