President Donald Trump commented Renee Good was likely “a very solid, wonderful person, but her actions were pretty tough,” he said in an interview with CBS.
CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil told Trump that Good’s father is a Trump supporter but is deeply upset by his daughter’s death and the administration’s portrayal of her. In response, Trump said “Well, I want to say to the father that I love all of our people.”
“They can be on the other side. As you say, he might be on my side,” Trump said, with Dokoupil interjecting to say her father is a supporter. “And I think that’s great. And I do, I think it’s great. And I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances, was a very solid, wonderful person, but her actions were pretty tough.”
Trump went on to say his administration is trying to remove “hundreds of thousands of murderers in our country” and that the jobs of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are “being made very, very difficult.”
“And you know, when you look at that tape, it can be viewed two ways, I guess,” Trump said. “But when you look at the way that was, that car was pulled away, there are a couple of versions of that tape that are very, very bad.”