Click here for Heather Cox Richardson's diary entry for January 7, detailing the murder of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
It's a very sad story. In short, Ms. Good was murdered, and Kristi Noem and Donald Trump are blatantly lying about it, saying she had weaponized her vehicle in an attempt to run over and kill the agent. There were numerous videos taken -- as is and will be the case with a lot of ICE attacks -- and they exonerate Good of any such attempt.
That both DHS and Trump posted false accounts of the shooting even as there are four videos circulating that reveal those accounts to be lies shows they no longer are making any attempt to justify their actions. Instead, they are demanding Americans abandon reality in favor of whatever the administration says. If this works, it would be a demonstration of totalitarian power, the ability to control how people think. Accepting that lie is a loyalty test.
There's a lot more reporting on the murder, and her diary closes with three financial moves that Trump quietly made today (well, the increase of the military's budget from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion wasn't quiet).
Her article closes:
Simon Rosenberg of The Hopium Chronicles wrote: “Trump has gone completely mad.”
We're in dangerous, dangerous days, folks.
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