[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 186 (Tuesday, November 27, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S7108]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                Violence

  Mr. President, one final point on rightwing violence. I apologize to 
my colleagues who are waiting, and it will be a brief point when I can 
find it. I want to comment on a report by the Washington Post yesterday 
on extremist violence. The report found that ``over the past decade, 
attackers motivated by rightwing political ideologies have committed 
dozens of shootings, bombings and other acts of violence''--this is 
their language--``far more than any other category of domestic 
extremist.''
  We all abhor violence, whatever its origin--I have spoken out against 
it--but the conclusion of this report should put an end to the 
Republican fearmongering, President Trump's fearmongering, about the 
so-called Democratic mobs.
  The hard questions need not be put first to Democrats; hard questions 
need to be asked of President Trump. There is a question that looms: Is 
President Trump's rhetoric encouraging rightwing violence that we have 
seen in the past few years the No. 1 cause of domestic violence? That 
question needs to be answered.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.