Andy Ngo: I Was Nearly Killed by Antifa. This is What I Learned.

American Thought Leaders

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Few people understand the far-left extremist group Antifa as well as investigative journalist Andy Ngo, author of “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.”

He has been beaten, attacked, and nearly killed by Antifa for his undercover reporting of the group’s operations.

In an executive order signed on Sept. 22, President Donald Trump designated the group a domestic terrorist organization. On Oct. 8, the president hosted a roundtable focused on Antifa and invited Ngo and other journalists to participate.

In this episode, Ngo recounts his harrowing personal experiences.

What will it take to actually dismantle Antifa? How is Antifa organized and funded? And what does Ngo make of the broader trends of political violence, from the assassination of Charlie Kirk to the murder of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson?

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	I was bleeding out from this area under my eyes, bleeding out from my ears, and then bleeding in my brain.
0:05.6	Andy Noe is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Unmasked, inside Antifa's radical plan to destroy democracy.
0:13.1	He's been beaten, attacked, and nearly killed twice by Antifa for his reporting.
0:18.1	I hope my reporting and my suggestions can give investigators some potential ideas.
0:25.3	Trump recently designated the group as a domestic terror organization in an executive order
0:31.1	and hosted a roundtable with Andy Noe and other journalists who recounted their experiences.
0:36.6	You don't get that level of successful rioting without coordination.
0:41.3	And they were clearly coordinated. They have flyers. Where to come, where to go.
0:45.0	People have died by radical leftists in the US.
0:48.8	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellogg.
0:58.0	Andy Noe, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders. Thank you.
0:59.0	You were just at the White House roundtable on Antifa and the AG Pam Bondi talked about, you know,
1:08.0	of course it's been designated a domestic terrorist organization.
1:11.2	She talked about taking it apart, brick by brick, top to bottom.
1:16.6	Cash Patel mentioned the FBI director that it had been built over a long period of time.
1:22.5	How does one actually accomplish this?
1:26.8	It's going to be very, very difficult, not easy. I alluded to that in my
1:33.4	comments to the president and members of his cabinet. Well, what the DOJ can do is there's several things.
1:55.0	First, if they take on cases of criminal suspects who are engaging in federal crimes relating to rioting and other attacks, that then takes it out of the hands of local prosecutors generally, because local prosecutors
2:01.3	aren't going to pursue charges against most of these riot cases, or they give them sweetheart
2:08.0	plea deals where there's no really meaningful consequence, as we saw in 2020.
2:15.1	There's that. So I'm not even talking about conspiracy charges or anything, just like assault, arson, charges that tax on federal officers. Like, there are federal crimes that can apply right now. You don't have to be very creative. But more meaningfully, taking it apart brick by brick, as you were just quoted them saying,
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