President Donald Trump and senior law enforcement officials within his administration participated Wednesday in a “listening session” with self-described “independent journalists” who painted a picture of crime and anarchy in America’s cities driven by “antifa,” as the Trump administration ramps up a federal crackdown on urban crime.

“You look at Portland [Oregon] and you see fires all over the place, you see, fights, and, I mean just violence,” Trump reflected during the event. Those associated with antifa “have been very threatening to people, but we're going to be very threatening to them, far more threatening to them than they ever were with us, and that includes the people that fund them," Trump said.

Government officials participating in Wednesday’s event promised not just to targe

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