Last month, his administration went one step further by declaring that the “extreme left” had developed the antifa network into a global threat. But what the Trump administration calls “antifa” just doesn’t exist. But that’s not the “antifa” that the Trump administration has in mind. In June, the Justice Department celebrated the conviction of “eight North Texas Antifa Cell operatives” for their involvement in a protest outside an ICE detention facility in Texas. Global TiesThe failure of the Justice Department to prove the existence of antifa notwithstanding, the Trump administration has worked hard to play up the threat of this shadowy organization and connect it to other convenient bogeymen.