*Don Lemon has sparked a firestorm of criticism after claiming that white men, particularly on the far-right, are the biggest threat to our country.
The comments came on Monday, during an on-air discussion with colleague Chris Cuomo about the migrant caravan.
“We keep thinking that the biggest terror threat is something else – some people who are marching toward the border like it’s imminent,” Lemon commented. “The last time they did this, a couple hundred people came and they, most of them didn’t get into the country. Most of them got tuckered out before they made it to the border.”
He cited some indisputable examples: the suspects in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and Kentucky grocery store shooting last week (both are being investigated as hate crimes — per usatoday.com.
“We have to stop demonizing people and realize that the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them,” he proposed.
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CNN declined to comment on his statements after folks like President Trump’s son Donald Trump, Jr. called Lemon a “moron” in a tweet on Wednesday morning.
“Amazing. I thought this was some sort of joke quote taken out of context but no… it’s just Don Lemon being a moron. Unfortunately this is how so many leftists actually think.
Meanwhile, Lemon, an openly gay man who’s in a relationship with a white male, opted to revisit the issue on Wednesday after Trump said he would move to end birthright citizenship.
“Well, tonight I want to talk about some uncomfortable truths: the truth about who really carries out domestic terror attacks in this country,” Lemon began, before reminding viewers of his original remarks. “I said that the biggest terror threat in this country comes from radicals on the far right, primarily white men. That angered some people. But let’s put emotion aside and look at the cold hard facts. The evidence is overwhelming.”
He noted the 2017 investigation by the Office of Government Accountability which found that the majority of domestic terrorism between Sept. 11, 2001, and December 31, 2016, was propagated by right-wing extremists.
“Even though more people died in attacks by Islamic extremists (119 vs 106), the vast majority of deadly attacks in this country from 2001 to 2016 (62 vs. 23) were carried out by far-right violent extremists,” Lemon said of the findings.
He concluded, “So people who are angry about what I said are missing the entire point. We don’t need to worry about people who are thousands of miles away. The biggest threats are home-grown.”
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