ICE’s War Turns Deadly, Trump Seizes Oil Tankers, and RFK’s At It Again
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Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Jessica Tarlov, and our Friday regular is back for 2026. We didn't let you go over the holiday. The one and only Aaron Parnas. Aaron, Happy New Year. How was your huge break? Happy New Year. It really wasn't much of a break. Oh, you were posting last. I feel like you were relaxed. That's true. I was posting last because I actually didn't leave my couch for I think it was like 10 straight days. I didn't know what day it was half the time between like the day before Christmas and January 3rd. And then I decided to sleep in on January 3rd and then woke up to us bombing Venezuela. So then my break had an abrupt end very quickly. Yeah. OK, that's fair. I don't think that people expected that that's what the weekend before you have to get back to work is going to be like, you know, thinking like Sunday scaries.
And then you're like, oh, actually, Majora's in Brooklyn suddenly. Yeah. He's writing rap songs with Diddy. Yes. Some of the memes have been great. Like Diddy being like, what are you in for? And he's like oil. And then Diddy's like oil. Me too. Yeah. You know, except I don't really think it's about the oil. But I yeah, it's a it's a little it's all crazy. Anyways, here we are. Happy New Year. A few things I wanted to chat with you about. First, the fatal ice shooting in Minneapolis, then Trump's expansion ambitions around the world. That's the Maduro chat. RFK Jr. 's vaccine pullback and the latest on the Epstein investigation. So let's start in Minneapolis, where an ICE agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a widow and mother with a young child.
Federal officials are calling it self-defense. Local leaders say that doesn't hold up, with weeks of warnings about ICE activity and Mayor Fry calling this a test of the, quote, endurance of our republic. This isn't just one tragic death. It really feels like a flashpoint over federal power, local authority and breakdown of trust. What are your top line thoughts on what happened? I know, I mean, we were texting and sending back and forth different angles on the car, the slowdown, you know, the fast forwards. What are your thoughts this morning? Yeah, I have a few thoughts. Number one, I think America has never been so divided when it comes to immigration enforcement ever. I mean, truly, truly ever, because within minutes of the horrific shooting, people took sides immediately and there was no like middle ground.
There was no like, let's just see what happened. It was immediately one side saying one thing, one side saying the other thing. But to that end, one side had the responsibility of making sure all the facts were right before putting out a statement, and that was the federal government. When the federal government releases a statement on an officer-involved shooting, or in this case, an ICE-involved shooting, they have the responsibility to ensure that what they're putting out is factual and accurate. And the Department of Homeland Security's initial statement saying that this was domestic terrorism, that it was clearly self-defense without having any iota of an investigation being conducted before all of the angles of the video were even released, that is irresponsible.
And then for the president to come out and say that, oh, I'm so shocked that this ICE officer is barely surviving in a hospital and that he was, quote, run over by a vehicle when the video is clear as day, that none of that is actually true, that is also irresponsible. And I think that it just underscores kind of the lack of trust Americans have in government. And it is a flashpoint for where we are in the second Trump administration, I think, for the first time. And I was hearing not just from Democrats yesterday. I was hearing from some Republicans yesterday who were like, what the hell is happening? Like, why was this ICE agent even there? Like, why was this ICE agent pulling out a weapon and firing multiple times into the vehicle?
Like, even if you take that first shot out, shot number two, three, and four, if you look at it, the vehicle was not close to that officer.
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