Left-wing violence in the Trump era

In the immediate aftermath of the election of Donald Trump, CNN broadcast a non-spontaneous set-up piece with "Lilly," who said

"We can’t just do rallies, we have to fight back. There will be casualties on both sides. There will be because people have to die to make a change in this world."

January

• Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine appeared on MSNBC calling for members of his party to "fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box.”

• Four Chicago gangstas were charged with hate crimes for kidnapping and beating a mentally disabled white student and live streaming video on Facebook forcing the victim to repeat anti-Trump taunts.
• Madonna, a person with the economic resources to pose a viable threat, publicly stated, "I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House."

• Pro-Trump demonstrator knocked out at protest.

March

• Unindicted Obamagate co-conspirator Loretta Lynch calls for blood and death in the streets.

• Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine's son, Linwood Kaine, was charged with “fleeing police on foot, concealing his identity in a public place, and obstructing legal process,” after a masked group he was with threw smoke bombs into a pro-Trump rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Masked protesters at Middlebury College rushed AEI scholar and political scientist Charles Murray and professor Allison Stranger, pushing and shoving Murray and grabbing Stranger by her hair and twisting her neck as they were leaving a campus building. Stranger suffered a concussion. Protesters then surrounded the car they got into, rocking it back and forth and jumping on the hood.

April

• Fears of violent protests shut down Ann Coulter’s UC Berkeley speech. Campus police had gathered intel on protesters who were planning to commit violence.

• David Horowitz's speech at UC Berkeley cancelled over threats and fear of riot.

• A parade in Portland, Ore., was canceled after threats of violence were made against a Republican organization.

May

• Director of BuzzFeed wishes for Donald Trump's murder.

• CNN host Kathy Griffen posed for a photo and video shoot with an ISIS-style decapitated head of the president.

• Republican Rep. Tom Garrett, his family and his dog were targeted by a series of repeated death threats deemed credible by authorities.

• FBI agents arrested a person for threatening to shoot Republican Rep. Martha McSally over her support for Trump.

• Police in Tennessee charged a woman for allegedly trying to run Republican Rep. David Kustoff off the road.

• Police in North Dakota ejected a man after he became physical with Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer at a town hall.

• Rapper SnoopDog simulates shooting President Trump in a video.

• A former professor was arrested after police said they identified him on video beating Trump supporters with a U-shaped bike lock, leaving three people with “significant injuries.”

June

• Congressmen Scott Scalise and five others shot by rabid anti-Trump activist and former Bernie Sanders volunteer prior to a congressional charitable event.

• Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney received an email threat that read, “One down, 216 to go,” shortly after the shooting at the Republican congressional baseball practice.

• Former conservative presidential candidate in France, a woman, was left knocked out and unconscious in the street by a male opposition supporter while campaigning in French parliamentary elections.

• In Indiana, shots were fired at pickup truck flying a ‘Make America Great Again’ flag on.

• New York Times sponsored a Skakespeare in Park production that features the bloody assassination of the lead character made up in the likeness of President Trump.

See also

• Left Wing Terrorism