President Donald Trump said Friday that the “radical left” was responsible for much of the political violence in the country, and appeared to excuse violence on the right by saying that it was driven by people who “don’t want to see crime.”

Trump’s comments, in an interview on “Fox & Friends” that ran for nearly an hour, expanded on a series of statements he had made since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and political organizer. The president had seemed to excuse violence from right-wing or other supporters, while promising investigations into who was funding and organizing the left, suggesting the violence was somehow coordinated.

Shortly after Trump spoke Friday, the FBI and the governor of Utah announced the arrest of a suspect in the Kirk case, and said t

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