{"id":230413,"date":"2025-09-16T03:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230413\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:58:19","slug":"donald-trump-cornered-with-list-of-right-wing-attacks-on-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230413\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Cornered With List of Right-Wing Attacks on Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump\u2019s narrative on political violence faltered Monday when a reporter confronted him with a list of right-wing attacks on Democrats.<\/p>\n

The president has sharply escalated his attacks on \u201cthe left\u201d since right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated last week in Utah, placing blame for political violence on the side of the aisle that isn\u2019t his.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the problem, the problem is on the left. It\u2019s not on the right,\u201d he told reporters<\/a> on Sunday. \u201cWhen you look at the agitators, you look at the scum that speaks so badly of our country, the American flag burnings all over the place\u2014that\u2019s the left. That\u2019s not the right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"WASHINGTON,President Donald Trump has stoked fears of a power grab by vowing to investigate \u201cthe left,\u201d which he blames for political violence. Kevin Dietsch\/Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

On Monday, however, CBS News\u2019 Chief White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes challenged that claim by presenting Trump, 79, with a list of political violence targeting Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the killing of [Minnesota Democrat] Melissa Hortman<\/a>, the attack on [former House speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s husband] Paul Pelosi<\/a>, the attack on [former Arizona Democrat] Gabby Giffords<\/a>, the attack on the Pennsylvania governor\u2019s mansion<\/a>, why make the case that violence is only on one side?\u201d Cordes asked. <\/p>\n

\",Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, was killed in June by a gunman who also targeted other Democrats and pro-abortion advocates. Glen Stubbe\/Star Tribune\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Cocking his head back, Trump replied \u201cI didn\u2019t say it\u2019s on one side,\u201d before continuing, \u201cbut I say the radical left causes tremendous violence and they seem to do it in a bigger way.\u201d<\/p>\n

He claimed that the \u201cradical left really causes a lot of problems for this country,\u201d saying, \u201cI really think they hate our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

When another reporter asked about his plans to crack down on the \u201cradical left,\u201d Trump deferred to his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, who was also in the Oval Office for the presser. <\/p>\n

\"WhiteVice President JD Vance spoke of an \u201cincredibly destructive movement of left-wing extremism\u201d while discussing the Trump administration’s plans to crack down on the \u201cradical left\u201d with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Monday. x.com <\/p>\n

Miller said the administration would target those who are \u201cpaying for violence,\u201d echoing a plan he outlined earlier on Charlie Kirk\u2019s talk show, which Vice President JD Vance hosted on Monday. <\/p>\n

Miller and Trump at times appeared to conflate political violence with not inherently violent protests such as the Black Lives Matter movement and June\u2019s anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Trump went on an extended tangent about protesters using \u201cbeautiful, brand new hammers\u201d to break concrete apart, apparently referring to an incident during the Los Angeles protests. <\/p>\n

The president was also asked why he didn\u2019t lower flags to half-staff after Hortman\u2019s assassination, as he had ordered following Kirk\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell if the governor had asked me to do that I would have done that. But the governor of Minnesota didn\u2019t ask me,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

However, CNN\u2019s Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins later pointed out on X<\/a> that Trump had said after Hortman\u2019s murder that calling Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, would \u201cwaste time.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s narrative on political violence faltered Monday when a reporter confronted him with a list of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19719,77,51,2066,124286,224,50,11203,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-230413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-charlie-kirk","9":"tag-donald-j-trump","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-jd-vance","12":"tag-kaitlan-collins","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-stephen-miller","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115211974864519201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}