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Miles Archer

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Wed Oct 15, 2025, 12:23 PM Oct 15

Russian Asset / Trump Fluffer Benny Johnson has a bigly yuge meltdown as Rep. Ro Khanna asks "WHO'S YOUR DADDY?" [View all]

Khanna pushed back, citing reporting from the Anti-Defamation League that noted “all extremist-related murders in 2024 were committed by right-wing extremists,” the third year in a row in which right-wing extremists had been “connected to all identified extremist-related killings.”

Having been directly rebuked, Johnson fired off at the ADL as being unreliable, and questioned the accuracy of its data.

“You can't use the ADL! The ADL uses prison violence and ascribes right-wing – uh – white nationalist prison violence as right-wing hate,” Johnson said. “We disavow that entirely, that's not part of our movement, you can't bundle that data together. I refuse to acknowledge that data on this program!”

Despite Johnson’s assertions, the ADL’s report is supported by a number of other studies, including a study published last month by the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute. That study found that terrorist attacks propagated by “right-wingers” accounted for 11% of politically motivated murders since 1975, whereas “left-wing terrorists” were responsible for 2% during that same time period.

https://www.rawstory.com/political-violence-2674195507/

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