In a dramatic White House roundtable on October 8, 2025, President Donald J. Trump convened administration officials, conservative influencers, and independent journalists to confront the escalating threat of Antifa terrorism both in the United States and abroad. Following his September 22 executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, the session exposed a sprawling web of financial networks fueling the group’s violent activities, from assaults on law enforcement in Portland to coordinated disruptions in European cities. Trump, flanked by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, vowed to unleash federal resources—including Treasury Department probes into illicit funding—to dismantle these operations, likening Antifa to “major gangs and drug cartels” that demand a military-grade response. Witnesses, including journalists who had faced direct Antifa violence, recounted harrowing encounters, underscoring the movement’s anarchist ideology and its role in suppressing free speech through intimidation and riots.

The revelations centered on a sophisticated ecosystem of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and billionaire donors bankrolling Antifa’s chaos, with the White House publicly releasing key names implicated in funneling over $100 million into radical causes. At the forefront was George Soros and his Open Society Foundations, alongside the Arabella Advisors network—known for its dark money operations—and the Tides Foundation, which acts as a fiscal sponsor for progressive activism. Other culprits included Neville Roy Singham’s pro-China influence network and Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, whose Wyss Foundation has poured tens of millions into left-leaning groups, including ballot initiatives and protest infrastructure. As one briefer, Seamus Bruner from the Government Accountability Institute, stated, “We found a network of NGOs… It’s also big left-wing funders, some of them who are not citizens of this country,” highlighting how foreign cash from entities like Wyss’s Swiss operations evades U.S. disclosure laws to sustain an “entire ecosystem” of violence.

The most explosive disclosure was the diversion of over $100 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars—allegedly laundered through Democratic channels—directly into these Antifa-linked networks, effectively funding “our own protests” against American institutions. Bruner emphasized, “I think the most shocking thing is that we have found that more than $100 million in US taxpayer funding has flowed into these funding networks,” pointing to grants from federal agencies and state programs under prior Democratic administrations that subsidized radical organizations under the guise of community aid. Trump decried this as “treasonous,” directing Patel to pursue prosecutions and financial tracing, while promising to revoke nonprofit statuses for enablers like Arabella and Tides. As the administration maps these flows, the roundtable signals a broader crackdown, potentially reshaping nonprofit oversight and exposing foreign meddling in domestic unrest.