You can count on the legacy media to run cover for left-wing criminal goblins, can’t you? The latest example of this comes in the form of some propagandizing by The Washington Post, which has now drawn a sharp reply from the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a recent X post.
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This headline is ridiculous. These violent rioters are facing federal charges because they violently obstructed and assaulted law enforcement officers and destroyed government property.
Shame on the @washingtonpost for defending these Antifa rioters’ violence against our law… https://t.co/knNgJOO9r5
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 20, 2026
The DHS post reads:
This headline is ridiculous. These violent rioters are facing federal charges because they violently obstructed and assaulted law enforcement officers and destroyed government property. Shame on the @washingtonpost for defending these Antifa rioters’ violence against our law enforcement.
The original WaPo post read:
15 people were charged with conspiring to impede or injure federal officers in what the DOJ called an antifa-linked plot targeting agents during Trump’s immigration operation. Defendants say the “antifa” label is being used to criminalize dissent.
Is it belaboring the obvious to note that the “antifa label” is being used, not by DHS, but by, you know, the actual Antifa? The vicious little fascists who call themselves “anti-fascist”? These people? 
The Department of Homeland Security is right to call out WaPo’s rather ridiculous assertion.
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There is, though, no shame in the editorial offices at The Washington Post. Here’s the article linked to in the Post’s X comment.
Short for “anti-fascists,” antifa is a loosely knit movement of far-left activists. They are often anti-capitalist or anti-state, and oppose fascism and right-wing ideologies, which has made them a target of the Trump administration.
But some of the defendants and their attorneys said they did not all belong to those groups, that the groups were mischaracterized and that the prosecutions are politically motivated. They said the indictment is designed to intimidate those who resisted the federal operation and to appease Trump.
And instead of dampening dissent, they already see signs that the indictment has reawakened activist networks that had gone dormant in the months after federal officials drew down the immigration operation.
Antifa doesn’t just oppose “fascism and right-wing ideologies.” They oppose free trade – or what WaPo calls capitalism, and which is honestly nothing more than people using their own skills, experiences, assets, and resources to their own economic benefit without the interference of government. They oppose the Constitution. They oppose federalism. They oppose anything and anyone that’s to the political right of Josef Stalin, and they are willing to attack federal agents and even ordinary citizens if it might serve their agenda. We’ve seen this time and again.
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Of course, these defendants are claiming, through their attorneys, that they aren’t affiliated with Antifa, and any such affiliation is a hard thing to prove when the group is, by design, decentralized and organized into small, semi-autonomous cells, like most terror groups are.
But WaPo’s comments here are a distraction. The facts are that these people stand accused of interfering with and even attacking federal law enforcement in the legal performance of their duties, and they will receive their due process. That’s what really matters. The Washington Post’s comments are nothing more than a distraction, as DHS has rightly pointed out.
Editor’s Note: this article was edited for clarity post-publication.
UPDATE [12:42 PM Eastern]: President Trump has just shared his take on the matter in a new Truth Social post, which includes a poll on what the DHS agents should be called:
POLL: ICE has been abused by the Fake News Media at levels never seen before. They are Great Patriots who work hard, and do a fantastic job in a very hostile environment. Much of this hostility is caused by the Dumocrats and the Fake News. The concept I have had for quite some…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2026
It reads:
POLL: ICE has been abused by the Fake News Media at levels never seen before. They are Great Patriots who work hard, and do a fantastic job in a very hostile environment. Much of this hostility is caused by the Dumocrats and the Fake News. The concept I have had for quite some time — A strong feeling that the name of these Patriots, “ICE,” should be changed to, “NICE,” in that it will totally discombobulate Crooked, Dishonest, and Unpatriotic Reporters and Journalists. For them to say, “We went to a NICE Facility today,” as opposed to “ICE” or, “NICE Agents have deported a Violent Drug Dealer,” they won’t be able to handle it, they will go totally crazy! All it means is adding an “N” (“National”) to “ICE (“Immigration and Customs Enforcement”) — A much more prestigious name. Everyone loves it, but I have been told by the legendary Tom Homan that the Agents do not love it as much as the other population. Who thinks that we should add an “N” to change the name of “ICE” to “NICE?”
Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
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