FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau is “on the verge” of unmasking who is behind financing the anarchist group Antifa that has unleashed unrest around America for years.
“Look, the thing I can tell you is that money doesn’t lie, and the thing we’re doing at the FBI is following the money,” Patel said during an interview this week on the “Just the News, No Noise.”
“And thanks to President Trump, we now have Antifa designated, rightfully so, as a domestic terror organization,” he said. “And we have had multiple investigations going on.”
Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization through an executive order on September 22, 2025.
Patel said the FBI is “mapping out the money, and we are using social media and the influencers that the President had here just this last week, because they’re the ones on the ground, getting us ground level intelligence, because law enforcement isn’t able to enter these spaces, and these people are brave enough to do it.”
The FBI director said there are indications that some support may come from foreign enemies and U.S. nonprofit groups that enjoy tax exemptions from the IRS and are funded by left-wing billionaires.
“Someone is paying for this. These are organized acts of violence, fully funded by people who don’t even live necessarily in these communities, showing up in the dozens with the same placards, the same helmets, the same riot gear. Someone’s paying for it, and we’re on the verge of finding that out next to these new authorities,” Patel said.
Patel told Just the News that the effort tracking Antifa funding has become so important that “we’ve created an entire new program and division dedicated to rooting out the money that is funding these operations, whether it’s U.S. based or internationally.”
In a bombshell, Patel claimed that FBI’s investigations have found connections between traditional anarchist groups like Antifa and transgender activist groups. He said the groups are allegedly grooming young Americans in social media platforms favored by gamers, according to Patel.
“I think there’s going to be some crossover, for sure,” he said. “But what that raises in my mind is a problem that I’ve been trying to tackle for a long time: social media is wildly out of control. I mean our kids are allowed to go on these gaming platforms for fair purposes, gaming.”
“But then, unfortunately, you have the child predators that go on these gaming platforms. You have Antifa that goes on these gaming platforms and no one’s overseeing them, because our kids aren’t monitored while they’re on these platforms, and they’re taking advantage of lawful use of these mechanisms to make, basically, an anarchist system that wants to take down the United States government,” he said.
“And that’s why this threat is so real, and that’s why we in this White House and this administration are so fervently tackling it with every resource we have at the FBI,” Patel claimed.
Patel’s comments come after a federal grand jury indicted two people last week allegedly tied to Antifa. The two face terrorism charges for an attack in July on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas.
The two individuals, identified as Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts, were charged with providing material support for terrorism, attempting to murder federal officers, and discharging firearms during attempted murders. An ICE agent was shot in the arm during the alleged July 4 attack.
During a White House roundtable on Antifa, Seamus Bruner, a conservative journalist who acts as Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute, said he suspects left-wing funders such as billionaire Neville Roy Singham are behind Antifa riots and protests.
“We found a network of NGOs, it’s not just the Soros network, the Open Society Network. It’s other funding networks, the Arabella Funding Network, the Tides Funding Network, Neville Roy Singham and his network, foreign cash,” Bruner said. “And, it’s also big left-wing funders — some of them are not citizens of this country.”
“We have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than one hundred million dollars from the Riot Inc. investors,” Bruner claimed. “These would be the lawyer groups, these would be the groups that advocate for calling good, honest Americans ‘fascists.’”