Trump repeats baseless claim that Renee Good was part of ‘leftwing network’ of paid agitators
President’s assertion that only a paid agitator would scream at ICE agents contradicted by hundreds of video recordsAt the White House on Friday, Donald Trump endorsed his vice-president’s baseless claim that Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday,...
<p>President’s assertion that only a paid agitator would scream at ICE agents contradicted by hundreds of video records</p><p>At the White House on Friday, Donald Trump endorsed his vice-president’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/jd-vance-ice-agent-killing-minneapolis-trump">baseless claim</a> that Renee Good, the 37-year-old <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/minnesota-ice-shooting">woman killed by an ICE agent</a> in Minneapolis on Wednesday, was part of a shadowy “leftwing network” trying “to incite violence” against federal agents.</p><p>Asked by a Fox News correspondent to expand on JD Vance’s comments about Good, the president said that the vice-president “is generally very accurate” and then cited what he referred to as evidence that at least one person in Good’s vicinity when she was killed was “probably a paid agitator”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/trump-repeats-baseless-claim-renee-nicole-good">Continue reading...</a>
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