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Donald Trump has exposed himself as a cowardly fraud who wants the language of moral authority without accepting its cost. Right, so this isn’t one of those moments where you say “we’ve seen this before” and move on, because we haven’t. Donald Trump is a president openly threatening another country by saying leaders are responsible when their forces shoot civilians, and then almost immediately presiding over a federal agency shooting an American woman dead and daring anyone to question it – in fact his administration have gone to great lengths to justify it. That’s not hypocrisy by accident, that’s unhinged governance clashing with reality. Trump says Iran’s leadership should fall if protesters are shot, then his own administration blames Renee Nicole Good for her own death, praises ICE, promises escalation, and shuts the door on scrutiny. Same rule. Same logic. Same outcome. Except this time it’s happening on US streets, under US authority, with no pretence of restraint. So in this video I’m going to walk through how Trump has trapped himself with his own threats, how ICE is where his mouth finally gets him stuck, and why this will never go away. He has nailed himself to this and no amount of scrubbing will wash away the stench. Right, so Donald Trump has spent the past week threatening Iran’s leadership with consequences if Iranian security forces shoot protesters. He has said the United States will not tolerate it, that leaders are responsible for what their forces do, and that legitimacy collapses when a state kills civilians and then excuses it. That statement now sits on the record not as opinion but as a rule he has chosen to assert in public, carrying weight because it is being used to justify coercion abroad. And yet, at the same time, a federal agent working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement has shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis during an ICE operation. That killing happened on US soil, carried out by a federal agency operating under presidential authority, followed immediately by senior officials defending the agent in question, defending the agency, and escalating enforcement rather than pausing it. Those two things are not separate stories. They now operate inside the same moral and political picture, whether the White House likes it or not. Renee Good was a US citizen. She was not a foreign national. She was not an enemy combatant. She was not operating in a war zone. She was killed during a domestic federal enforcement action. That alone removes any refuge or excuses that federal power usually relies on. This was not a border. This was not overseas. This was the US executive using armed force inside one of its own cities against one of its own citizens and then moving immediately to justify it.
By Damien WilleyDonald Trump has exposed himself as a cowardly fraud who wants the language of moral authority without accepting its cost. Right, so this isn’t one of those moments where you say “we’ve seen this before” and move on, because we haven’t. Donald Trump is a president openly threatening another country by saying leaders are responsible when their forces shoot civilians, and then almost immediately presiding over a federal agency shooting an American woman dead and daring anyone to question it – in fact his administration have gone to great lengths to justify it. That’s not hypocrisy by accident, that’s unhinged governance clashing with reality. Trump says Iran’s leadership should fall if protesters are shot, then his own administration blames Renee Nicole Good for her own death, praises ICE, promises escalation, and shuts the door on scrutiny. Same rule. Same logic. Same outcome. Except this time it’s happening on US streets, under US authority, with no pretence of restraint. So in this video I’m going to walk through how Trump has trapped himself with his own threats, how ICE is where his mouth finally gets him stuck, and why this will never go away. He has nailed himself to this and no amount of scrubbing will wash away the stench. Right, so Donald Trump has spent the past week threatening Iran’s leadership with consequences if Iranian security forces shoot protesters. He has said the United States will not tolerate it, that leaders are responsible for what their forces do, and that legitimacy collapses when a state kills civilians and then excuses it. That statement now sits on the record not as opinion but as a rule he has chosen to assert in public, carrying weight because it is being used to justify coercion abroad. And yet, at the same time, a federal agent working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement has shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis during an ICE operation. That killing happened on US soil, carried out by a federal agency operating under presidential authority, followed immediately by senior officials defending the agent in question, defending the agency, and escalating enforcement rather than pausing it. Those two things are not separate stories. They now operate inside the same moral and political picture, whether the White House likes it or not. Renee Good was a US citizen. She was not a foreign national. She was not an enemy combatant. She was not operating in a war zone. She was killed during a domestic federal enforcement action. That alone removes any refuge or excuses that federal power usually relies on. This was not a border. This was not overseas. This was the US executive using armed force inside one of its own cities against one of its own citizens and then moving immediately to justify it.