{"id":403493,"date":"2026-01-12T19:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/403493\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:33:13","slug":"trump-79-answers-simple-question-with-bizarre-word-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/403493\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, 79, Answers Simple Question With Bizarre Word Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump gave a bizarre response to a simple question about what it would mean for the ICE agent who killed a woman in Minneapolis to be immune from prosecution. <\/p>\n

Members of the administration have falsely claimed<\/a> that ICE agents enjoy \u201cabsolute immunity\u201d after Wednesday\u2019s killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen who was shot in the face while trying to drive away<\/a> from the scene of an ICE protest. <\/p>\n

On Sunday, a reporter aboard Air Force One asked Trump, 79, how the administration defined \u201cabsolute immunity,\u201d and what it would mean for ICE agents. <\/p>\n

\"ReneePresident Trump described Minnesota mother Renee Nicole Good as “very violent.” Facebook <\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s seen it,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cA woman who\u2019s very violent. She\u2019s a, you know, very radical person. Very sad what happened. Her friend was very radical.\u201d <\/p>\n

Asked again how he would define absolute immunity, the president offered an even more muddled reply. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I\u2019m going to let the people define it. But immunity, you know what immunity, what knows means as well as I do,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Trump seemed to be describing bodycam video<\/a> that showed Good sitting behind the wheel of her car and calmly telling the ICE agent who would shoot her minutes later, \u201cThat\u2019s fine, dude, I\u2019m not mad at you.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Immigration agents circled Good\u2019s SUV while another woman believed to be Good\u2019s wife, Rebecca, stood outside and filmed them. The agents then ordered Good to get out of her car. She tried to pull away instead, and an agent shot her three times in the head. <\/p>\n

\u201cF—ing b—-,\u201d the agent yelled while the car continued for a few feet before swerving and crashing into parked cars. <\/p>\n

Both Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem originally said Good was trying to run over the agents with her car, with Noem accusing the Christian stay-at-home mother of \u201cdomestic terrorism.\u201d <\/p>\n

After video emerged showing that in fact Good\u2019s tires were turned<\/a> away from the agent, Yale Law School graduate Vice President JD Vance implied the facts were irrelevant because the shooter was \u201cdoing his job\u201d and was therefore covered by full federal immunity.<\/p>\n

\"ViceLegal experts have called BS on JD Vance’s claim that ICE officers enjoy absolute immunity. Alex Wong\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

In fact, the Supreme Court has held that the president enjoys absolute immunity from criminal persecution for all \u201cofficial acts,\u201d but has not extended that same protection to other federal officials. <\/p>\n

The Trump administration has nevertheless tried to prevent the state of Minnesota, which has jurisdiction over potential murder cases, from investigating Good\u2019s killing. Over the weekend, thousands of people protested her death at hundreds of anti-ICE rallies<\/a> in cities across the U.S. <\/p>\n

Asked aboard Air Force One whether he believed it was necessary to use deadly force against Good, Trump refused to give a straight answer. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was highly disrespectful of law enforcement,\u201d said Trump, who last year pardoned more than 1,500 defendants who attacked police officers during the deadly Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cYou saw that they were harassing them, were following for days and for hours. Uh, and I think frankly they\u2019re professional agitators.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"InRenee Nicole Good’s death has sparked nationwide protests. Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Good and her wife had just dropped off their 6-year-old son at school when they came across protesters trying to disrupt an ICE raid and decided to stop, according to Good\u2019s ex-husband. <\/p>\n

When the reporter tried to ask Trump whether \u201cdisrespect\u201d was enough to justify summarily killing a U.S. citizen, the president interrupted her. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to find out\u2014and we are going to find out\u2014who\u2019s paying for it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The administration has repeatedly claimed that millions of anti-Trump protesters are being paid by shadowy radical groups, but that somehow the FBI has not yet figured out who\u2019s behind the vast conspiracy. <\/p>\n

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump gave a bizarre response to a simple question about what it would mean for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1072,46162,6009,4801,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-403493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-jd-vance","tag-kristi-noem","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}