WH in-town report #4 — Bondi, Noem, Patel quotes

President Trump started the roundtable on antifa with opening remarks.

Please check all quotes against transcript.

Antifa has "been very threatening to people" but "we are going to be very threatening to them," Trump said.

"We are going to be looking very strongly at the people who fund these organizations," he said.

He then described some incidents of violence directed at the independent journalists seated around him at the table.

Trump also praised AG Bondi for exposing "fake senators" during her Senate hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill, and singled out Sen. Richard Blumenthal in particular.

POTUS also praised Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel, who are seated to his left, and asked them to give remarks.

According to Trump, administration official remarks will be followed by remarks from the independent journalists at the roundtable, followed at the end by questions from the pool.

"We are not going to let masked terrorists" terrorize communities, Bondi said. She also praised Trump for designating antifa as a terrorist organization.

Antifa's agenda "is to destroy the American people and their way of life," DHS Sec. Noem said. She described ICE agents being "attacked" and "shot at" for carrying out immigration enforcement actions.

"I want to thank the new journalists here" for covering antifa, Noem added.

Next up was FBI Director Patel.

"What we are doing at the FBI is simple," Patel said. "We are following the money" to go after donors funding antifa, he said.

Now Trump has asked the independent journalists seated at the table to speak. More to come.

Daniel Bush | White House Correspondent

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