I believe that Trump wants ICE agents to be attacked amd hurt during Sunday raids

[Tom Rinaldo]

He is broadcasting in advance exactly where and when and who will be raided. That violates all law enforcement procedures. It puts all agents involved in those raids at much greater physical risk of harm with absolutely NO benefit of surprise working in their favor. Some of those who have now been warned that they might be raided might well use that warning to help evade capture, but the chance that a handful might instead fight back also increases.

Trump gives me absolutely no reason to believe that the latter isn't his actual goal. He would gladly sacrifice some ICE agent as a martyr for his anti-immigrant crusade, and he would knowingly set up a scenario where that becomes a more likely scenario. Because he would serve his political ends. I would not be shocked if he's already had some aid prepare a generic eulogy that he can personally deliver were an ICE agent to die this weekend.

[hurple]

1. Yup

And those magats will eat it up as usual

[ChicagoRonin]

2. I'm imagining a much more classically sinister scenario

Report: Subject shot while attempting to flee

[BeckyDem]

3. He is a marketer, and that is what he is selling..provoking. I agree.

Nothing he stoops to surprises me, we should expect it and be prepared as much as possible.

[Freethinker65]

4. IF Trump does not delay the threatened ICE raids yet again....

What he wants is video of menacing looking brown males and their supporters being overpowered by ICE. He also will want big numbers which he will inflate each time he speaks of the raids. This is why he will target decent hard working families and groups, respected members of their communities, that will be easiest to amass. Of course, many of these people live in major cities, so Trump can also attempt to pit "urban lawless liberals" against "peaceful rural conservatives".