Kristi Noem went on Face the Nation this morning and said ICE hadn’t used chemical irritants against Minnesota protesters.
When told that video contradicted her, Noem blamed the protesters. She also claimed that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “allowed the city of Minneapolis to burn down in 2020.”
Millions of Americans have followed this in real time. We know Minneapolis didn’t burn down because 400,000 people still live there. We know agents used pepper spray and tear gas because a federal judge reviewed the evidence and called it “uncontroverted.” These are lies told to our faces.
Noem is just the latest in Trump’s orbit to gaslight Americans on camera. They shot a woman in the head and multiple private videos exist. They’ve beaten and gassed protesters exercising their First Amendment rights and still more videos exist. But they and their supporters insist that what we see and hear didn’t happen.
New Hampshire’s Episcopal bishop believed the suffering and death he saw. Earlier this week, he ordered his clergy to finalize their wills and prepare for “a new era of martyrdom.” He invoked Jonathan Daniels, a seminary student shot protecting a Black teenager in Alabama in 1965. “It may be that now is no longer the time for statements,” Bishop Hirschfeld said, “but for us with our bodies to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.”
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