Trump Officials Leak His Plans to 'Retaliate' Against States if His Agents Are Arrested [View all]

Trump has named immigration reform his signature cause, so this does not
surprise me one bit. Besides we know retaliation is Trumps first name!!



Trump Officials Leak His Plans to 'Retaliate' Against States if His Agents Are Arrested

As one senior Trump administration official describes it, the mandate was clear: Don’t give an inch, and protect the accused agents “no matter what,” write Zeteo correspondents Asawin Suebsaeng and Prem Thakker.

“Two of the sources add that within the past year, Trump himself has privately said that if one of his immigration agents were ever subject to arrest or prosecuted, he and his administration could retaliate by refusing to hand over the officer, counter by federally charging Democrats or local officials with ‘obstructing’ immigration enforcement, or threaten to further cut off federal funding to the state in question.”

Now that ICE agent Jonathan Ross has killed a 37 year old mother in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the administration is already swinging into action to bar unbiased investigations into the slaying, claiming local courts and prosecutors have no jurisdiction into the murder of one of its own residents. Which we know is only to cover their asses.

Administration officials say the White House and the Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Miller, “gamed out since early last year” what to do if Democrats, or state or local prosecutors, ever moved to arrest or prosecute ICE officers or federal immigration personnel accused of crimes, even murder. Almost instantly after news of the fatal shooting began circulating on social media, the Trump administration and its close allies fanned out to insist to the American people that the victim had it coming, or that Democrats will only suffer more if they try to hold anyone accountable for the killing.”

An anonymous National Guardsman told Zeteo that the ICE agent’s “weapons training, the trigger discipline is completely f—— up” but added that’s “lower down the list of issues.” And there you have it. Nothing Noem says about “his” or “their” training is true. But we already knew that.

The state of Minnesota may yet move to prosecute the ICE agent, but sources say the Trump administration is already “primed to retaliate.”

#DemsUnited #CORRUPT

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