Domenico Montanaro
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He was not pointing a gun at anyone.
He had a gun on him that was taken off of him.
According to the video, he was shot in the back.
And I think that a lot of people had already been saying in the run up to all of this, that ISIS tactics had been too harsh, that the Trump administration had been acting too
in ways that they disagree with on deportations.
We even saw a lot of moderate Republicans before this saying, you know, go after the gangsters, not gardeners, in the words of Maria Salazar, the congresswoman from Florida.
And, you know, now with this shooting, there does seem to be an effort on the part of Republicans to want to dial this back, at least moderate Republicans.
MAGA certainly is all on board with Trump's tactics and will back him, whatever.
But Trump even himself is seemingly saying,
a little uncomfortable with the optics anyway of what people are seeing on television.
Yeah, it's notable.
I mean, people have been pointing to, remember Kyle Rittenhouse, who brought an assault weapon and killed somebody at a protest in
And, you know, the Republicans and the right were very much on his side saying, you know, hey, he's just trying to police his neighborhood, essentially.
And J.D.
Vance, the now vice president, was one of the people out front talking about that.
Well, look, I just have to say politically, he's got to get everybody in his administration speaking from the same page.
same book because right now they're all over the place.
The people who are essentially in charge of ICE, Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security, advisors within the White House like Stephen Miller have been saying things like Miller said that this was a potential would-be assassin when there's absolutely no basis for that at all.
You saw Kristi Noem after Macklin Good was killed
say that she was immediately saying she was a domestic terrorist.