By Staff, Agencies

Following the shooting death of a Trump supporter in Portland, Democrats have taken to acknowledging increasing violence at protests across the country, but are laying the blame at the feet of US President Donald Trump.

Many Democrats made it clear through Sunday interviews that they believe Trump is to blame for increasingly violent protests across the country.

“I have long condemned looting, violence, threats...but let’s take a step back. This isn’t just happening in one place. It’s happening all over the country. It is happening under Donald Trump’s watch,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-Minnesota] told ABC News on Sunday morning.

The senator was reacting to a clip of a speech where Trump called out protesters who harassed his supporters leaving the Republican National Convention [RNC]. One of those supporters was activist Brandon Straka, who claimed he and colleagues were assaulted and he even captured video of the demonstrators hurling homophobic slurs at him.

Klobuchar chalks such behavior up to Trump, apparently.

“We are not safe in Donald Trump’s America,” she declared, citing hate crime deaths and Covid-19 deaths as proof America is “less safe” with Trump in office. She did not directly refer to the harassment Trump was speaking about, nor the death of a Trump supporter in Portland, which various conservatives have labeled a politically motivated murder.

Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-Louisiana], who is the national co-chairman for Biden’s presidential campaign, similarly blamed Trump for violent protest during a ‘Meet the Press’ interview, saying, “This is Trump’s America.”

"This is his America. So how do you break this country and then run for reelection saying, 'I want to fix everything that I just destroyed?'" he said.

Trump has taken a harsh stance against Black Lives Matter protests that have turned violent in cities like Kenosha, which he will visit this week. Entire blocks in the city have been looted and burned by rioters, similar to Portland, where Trump has insisted the National Guard should be deployed to, only to face a fierce opposition by the Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler.

Still, Democrats have laid blame for the violence at Trump’s doorstep, with many echoing Klobuchar’s statements on Sunday, and even getting #TrumpRiots to trend on Twitter.