CNN anchor Don Lemon said Tuesday that the biggest threat in America is far-right radicalized white men.
Lemon made the comment during the hand-off to his evening show, discussing the impending arrival of thousands of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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“We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them,” Lemon said. “There is no travel ban on them… there is no white guy ban.”
CNN’s Don Lemon: “We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right.” https://t.co/SRGaKD599G pic.twitter.com/PgFvGNnItM
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 31, 2018
Lemon said Americans need to stop thinking that the Central American migrant caravans and people who were targeted by Trump’s travel ban are terror threats in the U.S.
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“I keep trying to point out to people not to demonize any one group or any one ethnicity, but we keep thinking the biggest terror threat is something else,” Lemon said.
Last week, more than a dozen packages with pipe bombs were sent to prominent Democratic figures and politicians. The suspect is Cesar Sayoc Jr., a 56-year-old white man from Florida, who appears to be a staunch Trump supporter.
That was followed by a deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 people dead. The suspected gunman, 48-year-old Robert Bowers, used a social network favored by white supremacists and reportedly told an officer, “They’re committing genocide to my people. I just want to kill Jews.”
