“Well, I’ve got two thoughts. First, look, I want Ilhan Omar to be deported and denaturalized, but I don’t want her to be attacked or hurt, and people shouldn’t do this sort of thing,” Fine said on Newsmax Wednesday. “But I also blame Ilhan Omar for what happened.”

Police identified Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, as the man they say used a syringe to spray an unknown liquid at Omar before security intervened. According to Hennepin County jail records reviewed by HuffPost, he is being held on one count of third-degree assault.

Right before her attack, Omar — who has become more of a target on the right wing amid President Donald Trump’s vicious attacks against her, calling for her deportation — called for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti over the weekend.

Fine claimed to the right-wing media outlet that when Democratic officials are “describing people throwing articles at law enforcement, at officers of the federal government, as peaceful protesters. They can’t be surprised when crazy people start to do that to them.”

“Attacking a representative of the federal government, whether it’s a congresswoman or law enforcement, is not peaceful, and we need to start saying that,” Fine said.