Trump warns Democrats: Provoke the right and "bad things happen"

President Trump warned "bad things" happen when Democrats provoke the right, tying the Wednesday shooting at a Dallas ICE facility to "radical left" rhetoric.Why it matters: The president's comments risk inflaming already high tensions after the deadly shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk as officials point fingers at ideological opponents for political violence.What they're saying: "Bad things happen when they play these games," Trump said at an Oval Office news conference Thursday."I'll give you a little clue, the right is a lot tougher than the left," he said. "… They better not get them energized because it won't be good for the left, and I don't want to see that happen either."White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Axios the president was pointing out "the right is not committing the heinous acts of targeted violence that the left is."Driving the news: The president issued the warning in response to a question about the shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Wednesday.The sniper killed one detainee and wounded two others, who remained in critical condition as of Thursday morning.Acting ICE director Todd Lyons identified the gunman as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, who officials said died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.The FBI is investigating the attack as "targeted violence" after the agency said it found one shell casing at the scene etched with "ANTI ICE".Zoom out: America has witnessed more high-profile assassination attempts in the past 14 months than at any point since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were shot in 1968. Politicians and pundits quickly blamed the violence on their opponents' rhetoric, often before key facts were made public.The phrase "civil war" has surged on social media and in Google searches, NBC News reported, as Republican politicians adopt harsher language against the left.Go deeper: ICE shooting sparks partisan blame game before facts confirmed

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