President Donald Trump has warned Democrats that “bad things” will happen to them if right-wing people decide to retaliate amid growing tensions over this week’s deadly shooting at a Texas immigration facility.
While investigations into the shooting are still ongoing, the president has made it clear that he believes the “radical left” is solely responsible for Wednesday’s tragedy, which killed one detainee and wounded two others.
No law enforcement officers were hurt in the incident, but authorities say the shooting was a politically motivated attack targeting ICE agents, who are central to Trump’s deportation strategy.
Asked in the Oval Office on Thursday who was to blame, Trump said he did not doubt that “the radical left is causing this problem”.
He also name-checked people such as