The killing of a US citizen by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis was a five-alarm fire for the Trump administration. But a torrent of untruths, half-truths, smears and innuendo was unleashed by the White House and amplified by its social media and cable television acolytes, in an attempt to douse the flames.
The victim-blaming began almost immediately after news broke of Renee Nicole Good’s killing on Wednesday.
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the homeland security department, a regular administration spokesperson for Ice, declared in a post on X that “one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them – an act of domestic terrorism”.
Multiple Ice officers were hurt, she insisted, when videos of the shooting showed no evidence of this.
Donald Trump repeated the claims in an inflammatory post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday afternoon, and in a later interview with the New York Times, adding the disprovable assertion that: “she didn’t try to run him over, she ran him over”.
JD Vance, the vice-president, joined the fray on Thursday in an angry rant directed at the media during a White House press briefing. It was obvious to everybody, he suggested, that Good was so brainwashed by left-wing ideology that she was determined to kill a law enforcement officer.
“This is classic terrorism,” he said. “Everybody who’s been repeating the lie that this is some...
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