‘What In The Hell Is Going On?’: Eric Schmitt Blasts Left’s Embrace Of Political Violence During Hearing

Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri condemned the left during a Tuesday hearing for having a constituency that backs political violence following the Wednesday assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk.

YouGov published a Friday poll finding 25% of those who are very liberal believe political violence can be warranted occasionally. Schmitt cited the poll during a Senate Judiciary Committee to argue against the notion that the left does not have a worse political violence issue than the right.

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“Political violence is always wrong. Period, full stop. It doesn’t matter which side, in the name of any ideology or cause, it’s wrong. But in America today, political violence is not a problem that falls equally upon both sides,” Schmitt said. “We have to be honest about this. We must reject an attempt to paint it as some kind of random phenomenon with no particular creed or ideology, a kind of spontaneous insanity, which takes place outside of any broader social context and has no pattern at all. That’s wrong.”

“Already, we’re hearing people talk about Charlie’s assassination in those terms. We’re told that we can’t possibly know what drove a killer to plan and carry out a murder of the most prominent conservative activist in America,” he added. “But that’s a lie. We do know. The facts are plain and clear, and we have to speak truth in this moment or there’s no other side of the mountain.”

Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said on Friday that Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspect in the assassination