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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 records

At 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, was part of a shadowy “leftwing network” trying “to incite violence” against federal agents.

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”.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/trump-repeats-baseless-claim-renee-nicole-good

Author : Robert Mackey

Publish date : 2026-01-10 02:44:00

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