Dem Rep. Moulton: ‘Let’s Be Serious About Where This Violence Is Coming From ... [It’s] from Right-Wing Extremists’

BOLDUAN: “And John was talking to Republican Congressman Warren Davidson earlier, who also said that Democrats are also responsible for this as well. I think you are agreeing with this on some level, which is speaking of fascists and racists and the terminology, the heated terminology used by people on the liberal left towards the right is what Warren Davidson was calling out and speaking to earlier in the show, which leads me to kind of the bigger question, which gets to what the governor said. Going forward, not looking back, going forward, do you think it can be achieved of bringing down the temperature, lowering, you know, kind of — just being less hateful and angry between Democrats, Republicans and Donald Trump? Do you think it can be achieved?”
MOULTON: “Only if we all look ourselves in the mirror. And I’m happy to stand here as a Democrat and absolutely condemn the violence on the left. I have no hesitation in doing so. But people like Warren Davidson and Donald Trump need to condemn the violence on the right as well, not defend the attackers on January 6th, not lower the flag across the nation for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but refuse, refuse to lower the flag when a Minnesota lawmaker was murdered in her home, refuse to go to the funeral, refuse to acknowledge it. There are people who are trying to polarize us further, divide our nation further and just blame the left, even while those of us on the Democratic side are by and large saying we all need to turn down the rhetoric. So let’s be serious about where this violence is coming from. Of extremist violent attacks in America, extremist violent murders, 76 percent are from right-wing extremists, 4 percent are from left-wing extremists. I condemn that 4 percent. But we also need to be honest about — as a nation, about where this violence is coming from. And oh, by the way, it’s probably an appropriate time to talk about guns too. You hear a lot of conservatives saying, hey, the only thing we need to do here is get more guns on the street. That’s not going to solve this problem. That’s going to make it worse.”