The left ‘set precedent for violence’ and the media is ‘covering it up’ | Sky News Australia

The radical left in the United States set the “precedent of violence” and the media is just ignoring it, according to Lauren Southern.

“Riots and protests in violent manners have been happening for ages in America under the guise of these Antifa protests,” she said.

It comes as America’s divisions continue to boil over with loyal Donald Trump supporters storming Capitol Hill on January 6, while left-wing rioters took to the streets throughout most of 2020.

Ms Southern said the idea that violent protests was only a feature of Trump supporters ignores the destruction caused throughout 2020 by Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters.

She also pointed to President Trump’s inauguration in 2017 where a “mass of what looked like orcs” took to the streets to protest his election.

“I was actually at the inauguration for Trump and remember being there watching a mass of what looked like orcs running down the street, smashing windows, smashing cars, setting limousines on fire when Trump was inaugurated”.

“We never hear about that we never talk about it, it was completely covered up.”

“People are pretending that it was not the left that set this precedent of violence.”