"This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We begin today's show with the war on antifa that the Trump administration has ratcheted up in the aftermath of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk being assassinated last month. Yesterday, President Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden."
"We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements in Europe, the United States and beyond. Turning Point USA, the conservative campus group founded by Charlie Kirk, had called for Bray's firing and branded him "Dr. Antifa.""
Mark Bray, a Rutgers professor and author of the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, fled the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. Turning Point USA called for Bray's firing and labeled him "Dr. Antifa." The Trump administration escalated its campaign against dissent following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, using his death as a pretext to target activists, organizations, and speech. Bray identifies MAGA as a fascist movement based on his scholarship. President Trump signed an order to designate antifa as a domestic terrorist entity, though antifa is a decentralized political movement rather than a single organization.
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