Don Lemon has doubled down on his statement that white men represent the biggest terrorist threat in the country, with the CNN host saying there are 'cold hard facts' that back up his remarks.

Lemon has attracted criticism from conservative circles ever since he made the initial statement on Monday night in a guest appearance on fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo's show.

The CNN Tonight host started out by talking about the negative attention given to a caravan of potential refugees currently making their way from Mexico to the U.S.

They also discussed the fatal shooting of two black shoppers in Kentucky last week and the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre where both the suspects are white men.

Don Lemon doubled down on his statement that white men represent the biggest terrorist threat in the country by saying there are 'cold hard facts' that back up his remarks

'We have to stop demonizing people and realize that the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them,' Lemon said.

Lemon was again speaking about right-wing extremist threats on Wednesday's show when he acknowledged the anger and criticism he has received over his initial statement.

'I made some comments about that in a conversation with Chris. I said that the biggest terror threat in this country comes from radicals on the far right, primarily white men. That angered some people,' he said.

'But let's put emotion aside and look at the cold hard facts. The evidence is overwhelming. A recent report from the Government Accountability Office shows that.

'Even though more people died in attacks connected to Islamic extremists, the vast majority of deadly attacks in this country from 2001 to 2016 were carried out by far-right violent extremists.'

Lemon went on to quote a number of reports and flashed graphics up on the screen related to domestic attacks by right-wing extremists.

Lemon went on to quote a number of reports and flashed graphics up on the screen related to domestic attacks by right-wing extremists

Robert Bowers (left) is charged with killing 11 people after storming the Pittsburgh synagogue. Gregory Bush (right) is charged with shooting dead two black shoppers in Kentucky

In the latest attack, Robert Bowers stormed the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 people

Lemon was discussing the murders of Maurice Stallard, 69, (left) and Vickie Jones, 67, (right) who were shot dead in a grocery store last Wednesday in a Jeffersonton, Kentucky

'So let me break that down for you even further. Their analysis shows that for every eight deadly attacks by right-wing extremists, there were one by left-wing extremists,' he said.

'Those are the facts. So people who were angered about what I said are missing the entire point.

'We don't need to worry about people who are thousands of miles away. The biggest threats are homegrown. The facts prove that.'

CNN has declined to comment about Lemon's remarks.

His initial comments from Monday were not widely noticed until Ryan Saavedra, a reporter for the conservative news outlet Daily Wire, posted a clip of the exchange on Twitter late Tuesday.

It quickly drew backlash from the right.

'Disgusting! Imagine the outrage if you changed 'white men' with any other demographic?' tweeted Donald Trump Jr.

'I too can’t understand why traditional media continues to lose credibility, when Megyn Kelly is fired over questionable references to Halloween costumes, but Don Lemon is given a national platform to spew overt racism to an audience of literally dozens on his low rated show,' joked Steve Deace, a conservative host for CRTV and The Blaze.

Lemon has attracted criticism from conservative circles ever since he made the initial statement on Monday night in a guest appearance on fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo's show

CNN's Don Lemon: "We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them." pic.twitter.com/OFu9fL3eHn — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 31, 2018

Other Twitter users pointed out that Lemon's boyfriend is a white man.

In a column, Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi lamented that Lemon's remarks were 'unsurprising' in the age of 'identity politics'.

'The notion that a person’s race predisposes him to act violently is unequivocally racist,' Harsanyi wrote. 'It’s also easily debunked by a cursory reading of history.'

However, Lemon's supporters also took to Twitter to defend his remarks.

'Maybe @donlemon has a point!!!!! What IS lunatic is ALL of the massacres created by the White man against Native Americans and Blacks,' tweeted user @independusa.

'People of color STILL fear for their lives walking down the streets in 2018! It’s an American tragedy! Reprehensible!'

Lemon's original comments came in the middle of a conversation between the two CNN hosts about recent tragedies that have been classified as hate crimes.

Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vickie Jones, 67, were shot dead recently in a grocery store in Jeffersonton, Kentucky.

Both victims were black and police say the suspected white shooter, Gregory Bush, had tried to get into a predominantly black church before shooting up the supermarket instead.

The story received little coverage because it was overshadowed by the spate of suspicious packages targeting critics of President Donald Trump.

The suspect in that case, Cesar Sayoc, is half Filipino and half Italian. He falsely proclaimed himself to be a Native American and member of the Seminole tribe.

Sayoc, an apparent ardent fan of Trump who had a van plastered with stickers supporting the President, was quickly labeled a 'white supremacist' after his former employer at a pizza shop told CNN that he was 'anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Jewish.'

In the latest attack, Robert Bowers stormed the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 people.

Bowers was charged on Wednesday in a 44-count indictment with murder, hate crimes and other offenses that could bring the death penalty.