Tamara Keith

It's also that the Homeland Security secretary then called them domestic terrorists.

Right.

Created a narrative that was completely and rapidly disproven by video evidence.

Right.

And this is something we have just seen age.

Poorly and more worse and worse and worse, like as each week went by, you know, I was at the press conference where Chris, you know, made those statements about particularly 37 year old Alex Preddy, where she described his actions as acts as domestic terrorism, said that was the facts.

That was the definition of domestic terrorism.

And then you saw this kind of bubbling Republican backlash to those claims over time.

We saw heads of the immigration agencies a few weeks ago get questioned and say, did you guys give information for Secretary Noem to make these claims?

And they said on the record, no, that they did not, that no one under their command did not.

And ICE acting director Todd Lyons went as far as to concede that any messaging from the secretary or on social media or texts or posts could bias an investigation, which the investigation into these shootings is already facing a lot of scrutiny and confusion.

And again, this just got worse and worse for the secretary.

She was asked about these claims again in the House, in the Senate.

Who gave you this information?

Why did you make those claims?

Can you just admit that it was incorrect?

And she kind of just doubled down and tried as hard as possible to walk it back.

But the damage had been done at that point.

The thing here is we have to remember Gnome has been the face of this.

Like Gnome was seen posing in front of the notorious prison Secot that's in El Salvador wearing, you know, luxury items like fancy watches.