The White House said Good should be seen as a “deranged lunatic.” Then the president learned of her father’s politics.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/why-the-white-house-shifted-its-tone-on-renee-good-and-the-deadly-ice-shooting
As recently as last week, the official White House line was that Renee Good, the Minnesotan who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, deserved to be seen as a “deranged lunatic” who was engaged in “domestic terrorism.”
During his mind-numbing White House press conference Tuesday, Donald
Trump adopted a very different tone, saying that he “felt terribly” about what transpired.
Trump: "ICE is gonna be too rough with somebody. They're gonna make a mistake sometimes. I felt horribly when I was told the young woman had the tragedy. But when I learned her father is - I hope he still is, but I don't know - was a tremendous Trump fan. It's terrible. It's so sad. It just happens"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-20T19:32:31.853Z
.....Trump explained that he’d learned that the victim’s father “
was a tremendous Trump fan,” referring to himself in the third person. “He was all for Trump. Love Trump. … A lot of people said, ‘Oh, he loves you.’”
The president concluded, “I hope he still feels that way.”
It was a painful reminder that to Trump’s way of thinking, one of the most notable things about Good was how much one of her relatives liked him. The president was perfectly comfortable with his White House publicly condemning the victim, right up until he discovered her father’s political views, at which point it became time for a shift — which is every bit as morally vacuous as it sounds......
What’s more, if the president genuinely believes that ICE agents are “going to make mistakes sometimes,” he could support federal investigations into such “mistakes.”
Except, in this instance, that’s not happening. Despite the fact that, according to The Washington Post, an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting
“and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of Jonathan Ross, the officer who shot Good,” Trump’s Justice Department quickly decided to shut down any additional federal scrutiny of what transpired.
Indeed, we’re left with a related question that the administration has so far failed to addres
s: If Team Trump has decided there will be no federal investigation into the Good killing, will administration officials agree to get out of the way of state and local law enforcement, which remain interested in learning what happened?
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