Trump repeats baseless claim that Renee Good was part of ‘leftwing network’ of paid agitators

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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