{"id":19617,"date":"2025-09-23T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19617"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:35:34","slug":"what-does-it-mean-for-trump-to-designate-antifa-a-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19617","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean for Trump To Designate Antifa a &#8216;Terrorist Organization&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The RICO Act allows prosecutors to define more or less&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/1990\/03\/01\/rico-and-the-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anything they want<\/a>&nbsp;as a mafia organization, and the charges are nearly impossible to defend against, partly because the government can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2004\/04\/01\/washingtons-biggest-crime-prob-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seize the defendant&#8217;s assets<\/a>&nbsp;before trial, making it impossible to pay a defense lawyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/18\/what-does-it-mean-for-trump-to-designate-antifa-a-terrorist-organization\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/18\/what-does-it-mean-for-trump-to-designate-antifa-a-terrorist-organization<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The RICO Act allows prosecutors to define more or less anything they want as a mafia organization, and the charges are nearly impossible to defend against, partly because the government can seize the defendant&#8217;s assets before trial, making it impossible to pay a defense lawyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/18\/what-does-it-mean-for-trump-to-designate-antifa-a-terrorist-organization\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[855,221,1650,108,115,170],"class_list":["post-19617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-antifa","tag-donald-trump","tag-fascism","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19618,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617\/revisions\/19618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}