"From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a health care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others, radical-left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives," President Trump said, just hours after Kirk was killed."
"So far, no information has been disclosed that clearly links the man charged with Kirk's killing to leftist groups or movements. Still, the Trump administration's claim that domestic terrorism largely comes from the left has flown in the face of data. Federal law enforcement authorities and non-governmental researchers have, for years, found the far right to be the most "lethal and persistent" domestic terrorist threat."
Assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk intensified national fears about political violence. No information has been disclosed that clearly links the person charged in the killing to leftist groups or movements. Federal law enforcement authorities and non-governmental researchers have long identified the far right as the most lethal and persistent domestic terrorist threat, pointing to racially motivated mass killings in Charleston (2015), El Paso (2019), Buffalo (2022), and a synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh (2018). A Center for Strategic and International Studies report analyzing roughly 30 years of data found that between Jan. 1 and July 4, 2025, far-left plots and attacks outnumbered far-right incidents. Researchers are examining possible reasons for the apparent shift.
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