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FBI Director Kash Patel made a statement that could reshape the national debate over Antifa.

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Speaking on "The Dan Bongino Show," Patel 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 supported.

"These organizations don’t operate alone or in silence," Patel said. "They operate with a heavy, heavy stream of funding.

And we started looking into it, and guess what? We found them."

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Antifa has long described itself as an idea, not an organization. Members work in loose networks, often masked and decentralized, and deny the lack of a leadership structure.

Yet coordinated violence has appeared in city after city.

Portland endured over 100 consecutive nights of unrest in 2020. Minneapolis suffered extensive destruction following the death of St. George Floyd. Federal buildings were attacked, officers were injured, and businesses were looted and burned.

Insurance estimates placed the 2020 Summer of Love riot damage at billions of dollars.

Critics have argued for years that such sustained activity needed funding. Travel, communications, equipment, bail, and legal defense don't appear out of thin air.

Until now, federal authorities haven't publicly confirmed tracing a centralized funding stream.
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He also confirmed that the FBI created a dedicated program to follow the money behind coordinated street violence. Agents are reviewing financial flows connected to nonprofit entities and potential foreign backers.

Patel didn't accuse George Soros, China, or any specific foundation. He didn't present the idea of indictments, stating that investigators located financial pipelines and that more details would follow.

The troubled, racist son of trans Nazi-loving Rhode Island killer Robert Dorgan was jailed last year for setting a series of fires at a predominantly black church, according to a report.

Kevin Colantonio, one of six children Dorgan had with three different women, is serving a nearly seven-year sentence in a Texas federal prison for using gasoline and a lighter to spark five fires outside Shiloh Gospel Temple Ministries in North Providence in February 2024, WPRI reported.

The church — which the deranged arsonist labeled as a place of worship for “Atheist God mockers” in a text to his family after the blaze — serves a mostly black congregation of 100 and was empty when the flames erupted.
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Locals close to the family told the outlet that Dorgan — who murdered his ex-wife and 23-year-old son, and critically wounded three others when he opened fire during a high school hockey game at a Pawtucket ice rink Monday afternoon — influenced Colantonio’s twisted obsession with race.

The gunman, who went by Roberta after undergoing gender reassignment surgery in 2020, had vile neo-Nazi tattoos on his bicep and a history of spewing antisemitic and racist filth on social media.