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riversedge

(78,340 posts)
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 01:41 PM Tuesday

Bondi agrees to working on a public report about 'left-wing political violence'


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/live-blog/trump-shutdown-carney-tariffs-bondi-guard-supreme-court-live-updates-rcna235640?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

31m ago / 12:06 PM CDT

Bondi agrees to working on a public report about 'left-wing political violence'


Megan Lebowitz

Responding to a question from Sen. Eric Schmitt, Bondi said she would have the Justice Department and FBI work on a public report about left-wing political violence.

"We need good data," Schmitt, R-Mo., said, before asking if she would commission the report.

Recent violent attacks have targeted both liberal and conservative political figures. Those include the assassinations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month and Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband earlier this year.



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Botany

(75,523 posts)
1. Didn't Pam just hide the D. of J.'s own multi year report that more than 80% of the political violence is ..
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 01:57 PM
Tuesday

… from the right? “Left wing political violence” is like ANTIFA in that it does not exist. We are way
down the path to fascism.

Botany

(75,523 posts)
3. When I was a kid in N.W. Pennsylvania in middle class neighborhood our next door neighbor was
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:04 PM
Tuesday

the county D.A. and his brother was Ray Shafer the Governor of the state and he was one of the finest
persons I have ever known and he was a Republican too. Those days are long gone.

Wifes husband

(613 posts)
6. There used to be honorable republicans
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 03:06 PM
Tuesday

You might disagree with everything they said, but they were honorable men.
Barry Goldwater for example. Wrong on everything. Good man. Meant well.
Eisenhower was actually a very good president.
The two party system worked pretty well then, and people answered questions at Senate or House committee meetings or took the 5th amendment

Botany

(75,523 posts)
7. Both Berry Goldwater and Rep. Hugh Scott of PA were WW II vets, who loved America more than their party,
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 04:07 PM
Tuesday

and both went to Nixon and told him it was time to go. A far cry from this group of “shit birds” who
cover up Trump’s crimes, pack the courts, gerrymandering the hell out things, lie their asses off, and
knowingly use corrupt election systems to keep power. Ray Schafer for some reason liked to talk to
me when I was fishing, played ball with the kids in the neighborhood, and nobody would think of bothering
him. And he supported, civil rights, decriminalizing marijuana, education, infrastructure, was a decorated hero in the U.S. Navy in WW II, and he was a Republican too.

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