WATCH: ‘RINO’ Senator Suggests ‘Both Sides’ Are To Blame For Political Violence

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) appeared to dismiss President Trump’s promise to crack down on left-wing extremism and violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder by suggesting that “both sides” are to blame.

During Sunday’s installment of CNN’s “State Of The Union,” host Dana Bash pointed to comments from White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller about the administration’s plans to counteract left-wing violence. In a fiery appearance on Fox News, Miller pointed to years of dehumanizing rhetoric from the left, including labeling their opponents as “fascists” and “Nazis.”

“Says they have to be removed, and then prints their addresses. What do you think they’re trying to do? They are trying to inspire someone to murder them,” Miller said. “That is their objective. That is their intent. And when you see online, Sean, as we’ve seen for the last few days, tape after tape after tape of federal workers, bureaucrats, staffers in the Pentagon, educators, professors, healthcare workers, nurses, celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. These are radicalized people. There is a domestic terrorism movement in this country.”

Miller further told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that the last time he spoke with Kirk, he stressed the importance of cracking down on left-wing extremist movements in the United States.

“And we are going to do that under President Trump’s leadership. I don’t care how it could be a RICO charge, a conspiracy charge, conspiracy against the United States. insurrection, but we are going to do what it takes to dismantle the organizations and the entities that are fomenting riots, that are doxxing, that are trying to inspire terrorism, that are committing acts of wanton violence. It has to stop. And my message is to all of the domestic terrorists in this country spreading this evil hate, you want us to live in fear? We will not live in fear, but you will live in exile,” Miller said.

Lankford — who infamously advanced a bill that would have allowed 5,000 illegal aliens to enter the country on a daily basis during the Biden presidency — counter-signaled the administration’s rhetoric while speaking with CNN.

“We need to be careful in how we talk about this, whether it is talking about white nationalists and preparing to be able to attack and to be able to carry an attack, or to somebody like a Timothy McVeigh that hated the government intensely in my state 30 years ago, murdered 168 people in Oklahoma City, or whether it is a leftist group that is interested in actually attacking a a pro -life center that we saw several years ago, or whether it’s carrying out some other act of terrorism or trying to be able to intimidate people,” he said, seemingly ignoring the suspected killer’s ties to left-wing movements.

“We should have equal application of the law to saying, if you’re choosing to be able to carry out an aggressive, violent act, that should be something that we actually try to interdict any time that we possibly can,” he continued. “Again, thinking something, talking about something, is very different than carrying out that action. We have freedom of speech, but you do not have the freedom to be able to plan, prepare, and carry out an attack against another American, no matter what your ideology.”