Fact Check: Is Political Violence a "Both Sides" Problem?

Political violence is always accompanied by Democrats screaming, "Political violence is a "both sides" problem!" Then they'll find some sympathetic propaganda data set that shows just that. 

Forget obscure propaganda data sets that require weeks of analysis to debunk.  The only thing that matters is, "who is attacking who"? 

Below is every known attack on a U.S. politician in the last decade.  Do you see a pattern? 

(NOTE:  100% of the incidents that resulted in death, injury, or property damage came from DEMOCRATS!  Specifics are in the footnotes.)   

Every U.S. Politician Physically Attacked in the Last 10 Years

Politician	Party/Affiliation	Violence	Year	Perpetrator’s Politics/Motive
Donald Trump	GOP	Attempted assassination	2016	DEM (1)
Steve Scalise + Several Others	GOP	Attempted assassination - severe injury	2017	DEM (2)
Donald Trump	GOP	Attempted assassination	2017	DEM (3)
Donald Trump	GOP	Assassination plot	2017	ISIL (Iraq)
Rand Paul	GOP	Assault - severe injury		DEM (4)
Donald Trump	GOP	Ricin attack #1	2018	DEM (5)
Barack Obama + Several Others	DEM	Sent inert miniature pipe bombs in the mail	2018	GOP (6)
Donald Trump	GOP	Ricin attack #2	2020	DEM (7)
Brett Kavanaugh	GOP Appointee	Attempted assassination	2022	DEM (8)
Paul Pelosi (Nancy Pelosi targeted)	DEM	Assault - severe injury	2022	DEM (9)
Donald Trump	GOP	Attempted assassination - bystander killed, several injured including Trump	2024	DEM (10)
Donald Trump	GOP	Attempted assassination	2024	DEM (11)
Josh Shapiro	DEM	Arson - property damage	2025	DEM (12)
Melissa Hortman	DEM	Assassinated - killed along with spouse	2025	DEM (13)
John Hoffman	DEM	Attempted assassination - severe injury	2025	DEM (13)
Charlie Kirk (Trump Advisor)	GOP	Assassinated - killed	2025	DEM (14)

1. This would-be assassin tried to steal a cop’s gun to kill Donald Trump when he was a candidate in 2016.  He was motivated by leftist ideology.  Turned out he was not a U.S. citizen and was deported back to the UK.  
2. This was the mass shooting that was done at a GOP congressional baseball practice by a Democrat Socialist follower of Bernie Sanders.  
3. This Democrat stole a fork-lift and tried to kill Trump by ramming his motorcade.  
4. Rand Paul was attacked in his yard by his Democrat leftist next door neighbor.  He was left with broken ribs and a collapsed lung.
5. This was initially thought to be a Ricin attack on Trump and others in his administration, but later turned out to be unrefined castor beans.  The sender was ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment after time served.  His motive was to “send a message”.
6. This was a Trump supporter named Cesar Sayoc who was sentenced to 20 years for sending inert miniature pipe bombs to many Democrat critics of Donald Trump.  No injuries resulted.  While clearly a Trump supporter, Sayoc was a male stripper who lived in his van.  He was not a traditional Republican in any sense.
7. This attack was by a leftist Canadian woman who wanted someone to “put a bullet in Trump’s face”.  She was apprehended at the border. 
8. This leftist Democrat was motivated by abortion and sought to kill a Supreme Court Justice who questioned the constitutionality of Roe v Wade.
9. This assailant attacked Paul Pelosi but was targeting Nancy Pelosi.  He was a destitute alleged drug addict and male prostitute who had an affiliation with The Green Party.
10. This was the televised attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, PA.  The Biden FBI scrubbed the assailants house, deleted all social media, has not released anything from several encrypted digital devices (including burner phones!), and never held a press conference.  The only conclusion is that this was likely Trump Derangement Syndrome, & possibly something far more sinister.  Democrat President Joe Biden dropped out of the race a week. later.
11. This leftist Democrat was just found guilty of trying to kill Trump on his golf course.
12. This arson attack was motivated by Jew hatred and support for Mid-East terrorism.  Those sentiments are closely linked to the Democrat Party, though this arsonist had no formal party affiliation.  
13. There are only two things we know for sure about this killer: he was an appointee of two successive Democrat Governors, the 2nd being Tim Walz, and he wrote a handwritten two page confession letter.  According to the killer, he killed in retaliation for being set-up by Tim Walz who had tried to hire him to kill Democrat Amy Klobuchar so Walz could assume her Senate seat.  When the killer refused the job, the Democrats tried to eliminate him.  (Take that confession with a grain of salt, as you should.  Either way, this looks like internal Democrat warfare.)
14. This killer was deeply enmeshed in ANTIFA, LGBTQ, and leftist Democrat ideology & killed Charlie Kirk for his conservative and Christian beliefs.  

NOTE ON OTHER ACTS OF VIOLENCE:  This list is limited to actual direct physical and chemical threats against political figures.  Rioting, burning, & looting for political purposes whether at the Capital, an ICE facility, a court house, a statehouse, a police station, or in the streets, is not included.

NOTE ON MENTAL ILLNESS & PSYCHOTROPICS:  Blaming political violence on mental illness or SSRIs is like blaming a plane crash on gravity.  Those are constants and should not be confused with the motivating political factors. 

NOTE ON PARTY:  We have a two party system in the U.S.  However, no two people fall perfectly in either party the same exact way.  I use the following political affiliations and ideologies synonymously with Democrat (DEM):  Leftist, Socialist, Communist, Green, Progressive, Totalitarian.  And for Republican (GOP): Right, Conservative, Free Market, Libertarian, Constitutionalist, Limitarian.

And if you think I'm cherry picking just the last 10 years, I researched every Presidential assassination and the results are HERE.  (Hint: all came from the Left!)