An ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis yesterday.
Millions watched multiple videos from multiple angles. DHS called it “an act of domestic terrorism” and said she “weaponized her vehicle.” The mayor watched a video and said their account was “bullshit.”
Last year, Trump showed a photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia with MS-13 tattoos on his knuckles. Reporters noted the tattoos don’t appear in any other image. His response: I don’t know what to tell you, here’s a picture.
His signature move is to present a counter-artifact so that documented reality becomes “dueling narratives.”
Yesterday Trump posted that the woman ICE shot had “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” and that “it is hard to believe he is alive.” The officer wasn’t hit, wasn’t injured, and video shows him walking around afterward.
This is another Sharpie-doctored hurricane forecast manufactured from nothing. The mayor was right. It was bullshit. Don’t let anyone in your life repeat it unchallenged.
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