Charles Marino, former Department of Homeland Security senior adviser, told Newsmax on Wednesday that the left “doesn’t care” that its rhetoric is endangering the lives of federal law enforcement agents by inciting violence.

Marino was discussing the July 4 ambush attack at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, in which a police officer suffered a gunshot wound to the neck.

“The rhetoric from the left brings out the crazies – it’s as simple as this,” Marino said on “Wake Up America.” “We saw it during the assassination attempts on President [Donald] Trump, where this rhetoric about him being a threat to democracy brought out people that wanted to do him significant harm and take him out of the picture, and it continues here now against law enforcement.

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