U.S. Attorney General Says “Foreign Actors” and Antifa Stoking Unrest

By Stefan J. Bos, Special Correspondent Worthy News

(Worthy News) – United States Attorney General Bill Barr says “foreign actors” and “extremist agitators” tied to the radical left-wing Antifa movement exploit legitimate protests against the killing of a black man by U.S. police.

After expressing deep sympathy over the death of George Floyd, Barr announced that the federal government has evidence that “three different sets of actors” use the outrage over the murder to stoke unrest.

“We have seen evidence that Antifa and other similar extremist groups, as well as actors of a variety of different political persuasions, have been involving in instigating and participating in violent activity,” Barr told reporters.

Barr added, “we are also seeing foreign actors playing all sides to exacerbate the violence.”

At the news conference in the Department of Justice, he warned that foreign groups use social media disinformation campaigns like those by Russia during the 2016 presidential election to widen divisions in U.S. society. “Some of the foreign hackers and groups that are associated with foreign governments are focusing in on this particular situation we have here and trying to exacerbate it in every way they can,” Barr explained.

He also defended his decision to forcefully push peaceful protesters back from the White House on Monday evening, saying rioting had gotten out of control over the weekend.

Clearing the protesters allowed U.S. President Donald Trump to stage a photo opportunity at a nearby historic church, where a fire set during the earlier mayhem did minor damage.

“While many have peacefully expressed their anger and grief, others have hijacked protests to engage in lawlessness,” Barr claimed. He mentioned “ violent rioting, arson, looting of businesses, and public property, assaults on law enforcement officers and innocent people, and even the murder of a federal agent.”

Such “senseless acts of anarchy,” he stressed, “are not exercises of First Amendment [constitutional] rights.”

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