There is a common, recurring pattern after nearly a year of the second Trump administration. When there’s bad news that Donald Trump doesn’t want to be associated with, he sends his vice president, JD Vance, to deal with the media and take the hit for the administration.
Vance seems completely clueless and blind to the fact that Trump is setting him up.
After an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis while she was observing one of their immigration actions, Vance was deployed by Trump to try to clean up the mess.
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What the vice president did was make the looming scandal even worse for Republicans.
Vance was asked if the ICE agent had been placed on leave or removed from duty, and he responded:
Well, first of all, it was a legitimate law enforcement operation. We were going door to door trying to find criminal illegal aliens and deport them from the United States of America.
Because if you come to our country illegally in violation of our immigration laws, then we have the mandate, and in fact, we have a legal duty to enforce those immigration laws. Whether he was placed on administrative leave, I don’t know the answer to that question. I would refer him to the Department of Homeland Security and they can follow up.
I will say, look, I would appreciate it if everyone would say a prayer for this officer. Look, over the last six months. He was struck twice by a motor vehicle. The first time, it left him with more than 30 stitches and very serious injuries to his legs. This is a guy who has done very, very important work for the United States of America.
He was assaulted, he was attacked, he was injured because of it. He deserves a debt of gratitude, and I think the fact that the media is prejudging this man and talking about him like he’s a murderer is one of the most shameful things I’ve ever seen from the American media.
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Vance claiming that an ICE agent who killed a U.S. citizen acting as an observer deserves our gratitude was bad enough, but what he said about the victim, Renee Good, was even worse.
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