[See NewsBusters for more.] While some have tried to pretend that Antifa is not that bad-- after all, it's short for anti-fascist," so how bad can they really be?-- others have asserted without any evidence that it's actually white supremacists posing as Antifa that is responsible for the violence across the country. On Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, hosts Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto claimed to have found the evidence needed: a lone tweet from a since banned Twitter account.
Harlow began the segment by hyping the singular tweet as "a really important development" because, "of all the talk you heard about Antifa, from the president, et cetera, and these protests, et cetera. Twitter overnight saying an account that called for violence and claimed to be part of Antifa was actually run by a group of well-known white supremacists."