MSNBC star Lawrence O’Donnell’s outrageously woke slur against US military

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell claimed that American military personnel are more dangerous than illegal immigrants when it comes to domestic terrorism.

O’Donnell, 73, emphasized on air Thursday that the U.S. has suffered “more lethal terrorism at the hands of American-born citizens who are veterans of the U.S. military than people who entered this country at the southern border.”

“The evidence is very clear that if you want to worry about terrorism in this country, the U.S. military is a much bigger problem than the southern border,” he said.

His comments follow the deadly attack by ISIS-inspired US Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar in New Orleans and the Cybertruck suicide bombing by active-duty Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger in Las Vegas.

Both Livelsberger and Jabbar served at the same military base, Fort Bragg, and in Afghanistan, according to authorities.

O’Donnell also pointed to Army veteran Timothy McVeigh, who bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, killing 167 people.

“Timothy McVeigh parked a truck outside that building, loaded with explosives, in an act of homegrown American terrorism,” the host said.

“Timothy McVeigh’s hatred of the U.S. government was in no way tamed by his service in the U.S. military.”

“The evidence is very clear that if you want to worry about terrorism in this country, the U.S. military is a much bigger problem than the southern border,” O’Donnell said.

O’Donnell pointed to Army veteran Timothy McVeigh, who bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, killing 167 people. ‘Timothy McVeigh’s hatred of the US government was in no way tamed by his service in the US military,’ said

“But when Donald Trump sees the kind of terrorist attack that took place in New Orleans, he doesn’t remember Timothy McVeigh and instead blames the criminals he thinks are crossing the southern border,” O’Donnell continued.

“Nobody who has ever crossed the southern border, in the history of the existence of the southern border, has killed more people in this country than Timothy McVeigh,” he said.

“The New Orleans terrorist, like Timothy McVeigh, rose to the rank of sergeant in the U.S. Army.”

The National Institute for Justice (NIJ) found in a Report January 2024 that 11.5 percent of domestic extremists who have committed violent and non-violent crimes in the U.S. since 1990 are individuals with a military background.

“Although this percentage seems small, there has been a growing trend in recent years that (former) soldiers are guilty of extremist crimes,” the report said.

Between 1990 and 2010, an average of seven U.S. citizens with a military background per year committed extremist crimes, which has risen to 29 people per year over the past decade, according to NIJ.

More than half of those extremists committed violent crimes, according to the government organization.

It also found that veterans “may be susceptible to recruitment by domestic violent extremist groups due to their unique skills” that could lead to a successful terrorist attack.

O’Donnell’s comments follow the deadly attack by ISIS-inspired US Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar in New Orleans and the suicide bombing of Cybertruck by active-duty Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger in Las Vegas. Both served in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg

“But when Donald Trump sees the kind of terrorist attack that took place in New Orleans, he doesn’t remember Timothy McVeigh and instead blames the criminals he thinks are crossing the southern border,” O’Donnell said.

“The transition from military to civilian life also appears to have an attraction to engaging in violent extremism,” the report said.

Cato Institutea liberal research organization, has found 219 foreign-born terrorists who carried out attacks on U.S. soil between 1975 and 2022.

Nine of them were illegal immigrants, 13 were asylum seekers, 28 were refugees, 22 were students and 44 were tourists with various visas, among others.