Hypocrisy was in high gear on Morning Joe today regarding the Minneapolis ICE shooting. The panel accused President Trump and JD Vance of “prejudging” the situation and “jumping to conclusions.” But the panel repeatedly described Renee Nicole Good as “the victim.” If Good is the victim, that, ipso facto, makes the ICE agents the guilty parties. So who’s prejudging now?
That wasn’t the only instance of hypocrisy/double standards on display. Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson lamented that instead of “trying to calm people’s fears down,” leaders “are simply playing to [their] base and trying to amp it up.” While Johnson didn’t name names, this is MS NOW, so his accusation clearly seemed aimed at the Trump administration.
But when it comes to playing to the base and amping things up instead of calming people’s fears, consider these statements by an array of Democrats:
- Tim Walz called ICE “Trump’s Gestapo,” and declared, as he mobilized the MN National Guard, “we’ve never been at war with our federal government [until now?]”
- Jasmine Crockett called ICE “slave patrols.”
- Ilhan Omar called ICE agents “vile and beyond cruel.”
- Hakeem Jeffries implored people to “fight” the Trump administration “in the streets.”
- Good old Maxine Waters called Trump “lowdown, no good, filthy,” over ICE raids.