There is a common and recurring pattern after almost 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, out to deal with the media and take the hit for the government.
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 operations, Vance was brought in by Trump to try to clean up the mess.
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:
First and foremost, it was a legitimate law enforcement operation. We went door to door 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 obligation, to enforce those immigration laws. As for whether he has been placed on administrative leave, I don’t know the answer to that question. I would refer it to the Department of Homeland Security, they can work on it further.
I will say, look, I would appreciate it if everyone would pray about that, that officer. Look, in the last six months. He has been hit twice by a motor vehicle. The first time it led to more than 30 stitches and very serious injuries to his legs. This is a man who has actually done very, very important work for the United States of America.
He was attacked, he was attacked, he was injured because of it. He deserves a lot of thanks, and I think the media’s bias and talking about this man 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’s claim that an ICE agent who killed an American 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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