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Notice how he didn't say "with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun drawn". The guy was legally carrying and not threatening anyone with a weapon.
At this rate, I'm surprised they didn't accuse Renee Nicole Good of driving a vehicle loaded with explosive material (gasoline).
That's the exact trick they're doing over and over again.
They take two facts.
And then they combine them into a sentence that is factually correct but misleading in the context that it is being used.
'He approached the ICE agents with a firearm'
The fact that the agents didn't know about the firearm until after they decided they wanted to beat up a protestor isn't mentioned at all.
It's lying by telling the truth, a flavor of misinformation and one of the core elements of these fascist's rise to power. Their target demographic has always been the ignorant and uneducated who are unable to understand the tricks being deployed against them.
Like "Trump approached the minors with his penis". Oh, wait, bad example.
I think that Trump is too mush brained to be able to do things like this. It appears, to me, like he's being handled by 'his' staff so that they can control all of the big domestic issues.
You can see when he speaks on the topics he doesn't appear to actually be informed in a way that you would expect the President to be if he were central to decision making. It's like they've left him a few toys to play with, like foreign policy (which, as white nationalists, they do not care about ruining) and soliciting bribes for pardons/federal contracts while they try to implement white supremacist utopia.
The lead on this is Stephen Miller (the egg headed white supremacist official hiding in a military base). AG Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Christie Noem (and their underlings, like Bovino) are the ones pushing his policy through the bureaucracy and running the operations.
Yeah the president is gone, the leave him alone with his enemy, like mamdami, or Petro of Colombia, guys the party has him publicly wanting to take down, and he's best pals with them after 20 minutes. It is kind of funny really.
Half of their target demographic is people that pretend to believe their bullshit and go along because they think they will benefit.