A podcaster recently described as “very attractive” by former President Donald Trump reported being attacked on Saturday by an individual associated with Antifa outside a Portland ICE facility.
Brandi Kruse, a conservative social media influencer who has been documenting the ongoing ICE demonstrations in Oregon, attended a White House roundtable on Antifa earlier this month when Trump unexpectedly complimented her.
Several weeks after the event, Kruse alleged she was assaulted by a man she identified as part of a group of Antifa provocateurs, who subsequently retreated to a notorious “safe house.”
Footage posted online captured a group of seven individuals fleeing the location of the alleged incident. The assailant, according to Kruse, wore a camouflage jacket and a keffiyeh to conceal his identity.
The remaining individuals, all dressed in black and equipped with helmets and sunglasses, included one person holding a transgender pride flag.
Jonathan Choe, an independent journalist with the Discovery Institute and a friend of Kruse, repeatedly questioned the alleged attacker about his actions. However, the group responded only with obscene remarks.
‘If you’re gonna assault women, why don’t you show your face?’ Choe yelled out at one point.
One of the women shouted back a crude reference at Choe.
Brandi Kruse, an Emmy-winning journalist who went independent in 2021, said she was assaulted by a man that was part of an alleged Antifa group
The man in the camo jacket is who Kruse said assaulted her. When he sees he’s being filmed by Choe, he puts on a keffiyeh to further obscure his identity
The group then arrives at what Choe and others have called an Antifa safehouse.
Clearly visible in the window was a Palestinian flag, a ‘Fight Oligarchy’ shirt and a sign that reads, ‘Regulating Capitalism Only Delays Oligarchy.’
‘This is the proof ladies and gentlemen that Antifa uses a safehouse, there is coordination with people in this building just a block away,’ Choe said.
‘Your journalism sucks!’ one of the women said as she hid her face behind an umbrella while jetting to the ‘safe house.’
Kruse, pleased with Choe’s efforts, thanked him for ‘chasing down an Antifa goon for me,’ adding that he was a ‘true friend’.
Because of her coverage of Antifa, a group the Trump administration deemed a terrorist organization, Kruse got an audience with the president during an October 8 event where conservative influencers talked about their experiences on the ground in Portland.
Kruse, an Emmy-Award-winning journalist, left Seattle’s Fox affiliate in 2021 to start her current independent platform and confessed to Trump that she used to have ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’, a term that describes liberals’ over-the-top disgust for him.
‘I’m living proof that you can recover from TDS,’ she said. ‘I had strong Trump Derangement Syndrome for probably eight years. This is one of the reasons I’ve recovered from it.’
‘And by the way, it’s much better to not have TDS. I’m happier, I’m healthier, more successful. I even think I got a little more attractive after I got rid of my Trump Derangement Syndrome.’
‘Very attractive,’ Trump said under his breath.
President Donald Trump is pictured as Kruse is speaking. He agreed with her assessment that she was ‘more attractive’ after she shed her ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’
Pictured: The so-called Antifa members head inside what has been deemed an Antifa safehouse in Portland. It’s an apartment that’s being rented by 29-year-old Chandler Patey
Jonathan Choe, an independent journalist with the Discovery Institute, followed the group of seven people, most of whom were wearing masks
The so-called Antifa safehouse in Portland, which has been covered by Kruse, was discussed Wednesday on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show.
Right-wing influencer Nick Sortor joined Ingraham because he had filmed inside the apartment, where a 29-year-old man named Chandler Patey lives.
Patey, himself an antifascist, freely admitted to The Oregonian that he has been allowing protestors to use his apartment to wash off pepper spray, recuperate and store various supplies.
‘Ironically, it’s technically not wrong to say that this is an anti-fascist safehouse, because if you’re an anti-fascist, then you’re allowed in,’ Patey said. ‘If you need to use the restroom, that’s totally cool, man. Just don’t make a mess of things.’
He called Sortor’s allegation that he and other protestors are conducting paramilitary operations ‘insane’.
Patey also sought to clarify that there is no centralized Antifa organization and that the term Antifa only refers t people who ‘don’t like fascism’.
In Trump’s executive order, he describes Antifa as ‘a militarist, anarchist enterprise’ that recruits and trains young Americans to engage in violence against ICE agents and other federal officers.
