Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was sprayed with a liquid while calling for the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem.

Omar was speaking at a town hall event on Tuesday evening when a man walked up from the crowd and sprayed her in the chest with the liquid. She appeared stunned for a second before advancing angrily on the man.

‘We will continue. These f**king a**holes are not going to get away with it!’

He was tackled and arrested soon after. The man was later identified as 55-year-old Anthony James Kazmierczak.

“I’m going to finish my remarks. It is important for me to continue,” Omar said after going back to her podium. “We will continue. These f**king a**holes are not going to get away with it!”

Minneapolis Police Department spokesperson Trevor Folke said that the congresswoman was not hurt.

The incident was captured in video footage from several different angles, as well as close-up photographs.

Police said he used a syringe to spray the liquid. Kazmierczak is being held at the Hennepin County Jail without bond on suspicion of third-degree assault charge.

RELATED: Ilhan Omar mocks Trump and others for praising Charlie Kirk: ‘These people are full of s**t!’

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Many on social media immediately began to question the circumstances surrounding the incident and many suggested that the congresswoman had staged the attack to elicit sympathy.

The president weighed in on the issue and landed strongly on the side accusing Omar of a hoax.

“I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud,” Trump said. “She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.”

An email reviewed by Blaze News showed that the Justice Democrats political action committee had immediately begun a campaign asking for donations on Omar’s behalf. Those donations would be split with the PAC.

RELATED: Ilhan Omar compares Stephen Miller’s immigration rhetoric to Nazism

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The U.S. Capitol Police said they would seek the most serious charges against the man to deter other attacks. A report from Alpha News cited sources that said the liquid had been identified by hazmat officials as apple cider vinegar.

Omar posted a defiant statement on social media.

“I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work,” she wrote. “I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.”

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A delivery nurse was stripped of her ability to practice in Florida after she posted a video online wishing harm on a pregnant Trump administration official.

A video circulated on social media of Lexie Lawler, a then-nurse for Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital, stating that she hopes White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt suffers a painful childbirth that leaves her with permanent injuries.

‘Making statements that wish pain and suffering on anyone, when those statements are directly related to one’s practice, is an ethical red line we should not cross.’

“As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear. I hope that you f**king rip from bow to stern and never s**t normally again, you c**t,” Lawler stated in the video.

Lawler was fired this week from her position with Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital.

“The comments made in a social media video by a nurse at one of our facilities do not reflect our values or the standards we expect of health care professionals,” a spokesperson for the hospital told the Palm Beach Post. “Following a prompt review, the individual is no longer employed by our health system.”

“While we respect the right to personal opinions, there is no place in health care for language or behavior that calls into question a caregiver’s ability to provide compassionate, unbiased care,” the spokesperson added.

RELATED: ‘Make their lives f**king miserable’: Deranged leftist nurse apparently urges poisoning and drugging ICE agents

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier reacted to the Lawler video, stating, “Being fired isn’t good enough. Any healthcare worker who fails to uphold his or her obligation to provide adequate, safe healthcare should not be licensed in Florida. No excuses!”

Lawler responded to the public pushback in a separate video posted to social media.

“They murdered a man in Minnesota, and you motherf**kers are coming after me because I used bad language?” Lawler said, referring to the death of Alex Pretti. “F**k you. I’m on the right side of this. F**k you.”

RELATED: More than 100 outraged community members denounce elementary school teacher over 2-word post about ICE

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Uthmeier announced on Wednesday that Lawler “is no longer allowed to practice nursing in Florida.”

“Making statements that wish pain and suffering on anyone, when those statements are directly related to one’s practice, is an ethical red line we should not cross. I’m proud of @FLSurgeonGen for taking this decisive action,” he wrote.

Lawler’s husband, Tim, created a GoFundMe requesting $14,000 in donations for his wife’s legal fund. As of Wednesday afternoon, the fund had raised over $10,000.

“Lexie Lawler was fired for political speech,” the GoFundMe post reads. “She is a liberal woman who used her personal social media — on her own time — to sharply criticize a public figure tied to a cruel, harmful administration. Her words were blunt, angry, and unapologetic. They were directed at power, not her workplace. That speech was lawful. The retaliation was real.”

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As Minnesota descends into chaos reminiscent of 2020, one viral post on X has Americans like BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock pondering how Christians should be responding to the world being set on fire, yet again.

“If u can’t clearly & boldly state the craziness of Democrats being unable to define what a woman is & saying men can get pregnant, AND the madness of Republicans defending the murder of Alex Pretti, then you’re following a political party/ideology & not The Lord Jesus Christ,” Fox Sports analyst Chris Broussard wrote in a post on X.

“How should Christians be responding to ICE officials and the killing of Alex Pretti? How should we be responding to this controversy?” Whitlock asks his panel on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

“We should always respond prayerfully. We should always respond according to scripture, according to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. That’s with any situation,” BlazeTV contributor Anthony Walker responds.

“It becomes so layered that we actually lose the situation at hand. So that’s why, I again, I underline prayerfully, scripturally, and spiritually,” he adds.

BlazeTV contributor Virgil Walker also believes the proper response should be looking to God.

“Whether it was the death of George Floyd, or the death of anyone, regardless of their ethnicity, regardless of the conditions by which death occurred, we should mourn the loss of an image bearer created in the image of God. Regardless of ideological framework, regardless of all of the camera angles, regardless of any of that,” Walker responds.

He also points out that scripture tells us not to rejoice in the death of the wicked.

“I’m not saying that Alex was wicked, that man who passed away was wicked … I’m simply saying that if we’re not going to rejoice in the death of the wicked, we should not rejoice in anyone’s death,” he explains.

However BlazeTV contributor Shemeka Michelle has a bit of a different take.

“I’ve been frustrated, Jason, over this entire thing … the idea that Christians are just supposed to be, I don’t know, like these weak, perfect people. And I’m really tired of people trying to qualify Christians and tell us how we’re supposed to feel or think about certain social issues that are happening in the country,” Michelle says.

“I feel like my empathy button is broken,” she adds.

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The Democrat-controlled Virginia General Assembly gave final legislative approval earlier this month to a proposed constitutional amendment that would give lawmakers emergency powers outside the 10-year redistricting process to gerrymander the Old Dominion’s congressional maps.

“Virginia’s proposed redistricting amendment is a response to what we’re seeing in other states that have taken extreme measures to undermine democratic norms. This approach is short-term, highly targeted, and completely dependent on what other states decide to do themselves,” Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) said last week.

“Virginia will be responsive and targeted, but only with the will of the people. I trust the voters to get this right,” she continued.

However, Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley Jr. ruled on Tuesday that the approval of the proposed amendment — which former Gov. Glenn Youngkin characterized as a “shameless, reprehensible political power grab by Democrat lawmakers” — was illegal.

‘Take a look in a mirror.’

Hurley noted in his ruling that Democratic lawmakers failed to follow the right procedure concerning the passage of a constitutional amendment. Democrats failed in part by flouting the requirement that a two-thirds supermajority approve of the introduction of the unrelated subject of redistricting at last October’s special legislative session, he said.

“This blatant abuse of power by a majority IGNORES their own rules and resolutions thereby trampling ANY and ALL procedural rights of the minority,” Hurley wrote.

Hurley noted further that using the special session to pass the measure in October was impermissible because early voting in the Virginia’s 2025 elections had already begun and “the Constitution REQUIRES an intervening election FOLLOWING the first passage of a proposed Constitutional Amendment.”

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The judge also indicated that Section 30-13 of the Code of Virginia — which requires the posting of such a constitutional amendment at the front of every courthouse and its publication by clerk of the House of Delegates no “later than three months prior to the next ensuing general election of members of the House of Delegates” — was not followed.

“Defendants woefully argued that the posting could occur three (3) months prior to the 2027 election and still comply with the statute even if the proposed Constitutional Amendment was voted on in the Spring of 2026,” Hurley wrote.

Hurley, evidently concerned about state Democrats’ recent efforts to change related rules on the fly, noted, “Even if the General Assembly is NOT required to follow its own Rules and Resolutions, and even if ‘election’ is narrowly defined as ‘Election Day,’ the Court FINDS the General Assembly FAILED to comply with Section 30-13 of the Code of Virginia, which therefore PROHIBITS the proposed amendment from being submitted to the voters for their consideration.”

Julie Merz, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said the ruling was a “rogue decision” and expressed confidence it would be overturned on appeal.

The Democratic leaders in the Virginia House and Senate said in a joint statement, “Republicans who can’t win at the ballot box are abusing the legal process in an attempt to sow confusion and block Virginians from voting. We will be appealing this ruling immediately.”

The Virginia GOP noted in response that those Democrats now accusing Republicans of “abusing the legal process” were just found to have “violated the VA Constitution by trying to force a vote on a constitutional amendment to give themselves more political power without following the rules.”

“Maybe take a look in a mirror,” the state GOP added.

Failure on appeal could spell trouble for Democrats in the midterm elections. CNN indicated, after all, that Virginia “represents the largest potential number of seats Democrats still could pick up through redistricting.”

While bad news for Democrats if the ruling stands, those congressional Republicans whose districts were targeted — Reps. Rob Wittman, Jen Kiggans, John McGuire, and Ben Cline — will likely be able to breathe easier.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended President Donald Trump’s Venezuela policy Wednesday, telling lawmakers that negotiations with Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro had repeatedly failed and that the administration exhausted every diplomatic option before acting to arrest him.

Rubio appeared before the Senate following the Jan. 3 operation that resulted in Maduro’s removal, a move that triggered sharp debate over presidential war powers and congressional oversight.

‘For the first time in 20 years, we are having serious counter-narcotics talks with Venezuelan authorities about going after narcotics organizations,’

According to Rubio, Maduro proved incapable of honoring agreements, making continued negotiations futile.

“He’s broken so many deals, not even the Vatican has been willing to interact with Maduro in the past because he’s broken so many of these deals,” Rubio said. “He’s just simply not a guy you can make a deal with.”

RELATED: ‘We are not doing this any more’: Rubio to strip billions in foreign aid from ‘NGO industrial complex’

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Rubio said Maduro’s strategy was to stall until political conditions in Washington changed.

“What he wanted to do was tap us along and buy three years of time until he could deal with a new administration that he thought may be more favorable,” he said.

“He was an impediment to progress.”

Rubio argued that meaningful reform in Venezuela was unattainable as long as Maduro remained in control, highlighting the impossibilities of the release of political prisoners, the transition of the country’s oil industry to a legitimate oil industry, and the erosion of Iranian, Russian, or Chinese influence.

“None of these things would have been possible as long as Maduro was there,” he said.

He told lawmakers that the president acted only after “exhausting” all other avenues.

RELATED: ‘You should f**king kill yourself’: DHS releases terrifying audio of anti-ICE agitator threatening Minnesota agent

Rubio emphasized that Maduro’s removal has opened doors that had been closed for decades, particularly on drug enforcement and countering foreign adversaries in the region.

“For the first time in 20 years, we are having serious counter-narcotic talks with Venezuelan authorities about going after narcotics organizations,” Rubio said.

He said similar progress is being made to push back against hostile foreign influence.

“For the first time in 20 years, we are having serious conversations about eroding and eliminating the Iranian presence, the Chinese influence, the Russian presence as well.”

Rubio added that there is growing interest within Venezuela to repair relations with Washington.

“In fact, I would tell you that there are many elements there in Venezuela that welcome a return to establishing relations to the United States on multiple fronts,” he said.

Rubio’s testimony came after Republicans narrowly blocked a war powers resolution that would have limited Trump’s ability to conduct further military action in Venezuela without congressional approval. Vice President JD Vance was forced to break a tie vote.

Several lawmakers from both parties have complained about what they describe as insufficient communication from the administration, particularly surrounding the Maduro operation and broader foreign policy shifts.

Democrats, including Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, argued that the administration failed to present evidence justifying urgent action without consulting Congress, according to Reuters. Republicans, meanwhile, remain divided between backing Trump’s aggressive foreign policy and reasserting Congress’ constitutional authority regarding military action.

Rubio said the administration is focused on stability, not escalation, and stressed that long-term goals remain in development.

He also addressed broader regional diplomacy, saying that the administration hopes to re-establish alliances that were previously impossible.

“We’re not there,” he said. “This thing still is in its infancy.”

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A decorated U.S. Marine veteran — who reportedly survived dangerous military missions overseas — was shot and killed at his Missouri home during what was supposed to be the sale of an iPhone on Facebook Marketplace, according to police. The distinguished service member allegedly spent the last moments of his life delivering a heartbreaking message to his family.

According to KOMU-TV, police were dispatched around 8:15 p.m. Jan. 18 concerning reports of gunshots at a residence in Columbia.

‘While stationed in Baghdad, Burke founded the Oasis Church.’

The Columbia Police Department said in a statement that 42-year-old Michael Ryan Burke was shot at his home.

Citing court documents, the New York Post reported that Burke was trying to sell his iPhone 15 Pro for $585 after arranging the sale on Facebook Marketplace.

Court docs said Burke provided a buyer with his address, and around 8:10 p.m. one of the suspects messaged the seller: “I’m here.”

Moments later, the transaction reportedly spiraled into violence, and Burke was shot. He was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

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Police arrested Alexis Baumann, Kobe Aust, and Joseph Crane, all 18 years old, along with a fourth individual whom authorities identified as a juvenile.

Citing court documents, the New York Post reported that one suspect confessed to investigators that they had “arranged to meet with the victim under the ruse of buying the victim’s cell phone.”

The Post reported that Baumann told investigators she drove the group to Burke’s home, and Crane and the juvenile went inside.

KOMU-TV in a separate story reported that Baumann confessed to investigators that she heard three gunshots from inside the home and recalled that the juvenile ran out of the home; the suspects drove away from the crime scene, according to court documents.

Citing the probable cause statement, WDAF-TV reported that detectives used traffic cameras to determine that the suspects’ car traveled in the direction of a nearby Walmart.

Just after the shooting, Burke’s stolen phone was sold at an ecoATM at a nearby Walmart, according to court documents.

Court documents indicated that surveillance cameras caught Baumann and the juvenile suspect selling the phone at Walmart.

A day before Burke was killed, the juvenile stole another cell phone under the guise of a Facebook Marketplace sale, according to court documents. The Post reported that the juvenile told the alleged victim, “If you touch me, I’ll shoot you.”

Baumann and Aust were arrested on charges of second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and first-degree burglary; Crane and the juvenile were arrested on charges of second-degree murder, armed criminal action, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, and unlawful use of a weapon, Columbia Police said.

All three 18-year-old suspects are being detained without bond at the Boone County Jail, while the unidentified juvenile is being held at the Boone County Juvenile Office.

(L to R) Kobe Aust, Alexis Baumann, Joseph Crane. Image source: Boone County (Mo.) Jail

Jerry Reifeiss — who met Burke 24 years ago as a fraternity brother at Mizzou’s Sigma Nu — revealed the Marine’s heartbreaking last goodbye.

Reifeiss told KRCG-TV that Burke contacted his mother and sister: “He texted them saying that, ‘Hey, I’m dying, and I love you.'”

“That was just Ryan,” Reifeiss continued. “He always put people in front of him and wanted to make sure people knew how he felt.”

Before he died, Burke reportedly called 911 and gave a description of his attackers to the dispatcher.

“He didn’t want to go on to the next life and pass away without providing some information to us here that would bring justice to these people and let people know he always loves them,” Reifeiss said.

Reifeiss said of the arrests, “I’m very happy the police did their job and were able to get these people very quickly, assuming these are the correct people.”

Burke’s obituary said he served as a “Force Reconnaissance Marine in the United States Marine Corps, holding the rank of Staff Sergeant, with both active-duty and reserve service.”

Burke was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. From 2014 to 2021, Burke served as a medic in Baghdad.

While stationed in Baghdad, Burke founded the Oasis Church. According to his obituary, Burke also founded Holy Smokes — a men’s Bible study group. Burke also preached and taught in Uganda, the Philippines, Kenya, the U.K., and throughout the U.S.

The obituary states, “He was deeply committed to creating lasting impact, helping fund schools and churches in Africa and Asia, including support for 14 churches in the Philippines.”

One of Burke’s passions was fighting human trafficking, and he worked both locally and internationally to help victims.

Burke also served as a firefighter with the city of Columbia.

Police said there is an “active and ongoing investigation” into the alleged murder.

Anyone with information about this case is urged to contact the Columbia Police Department at 573-874-7652 or call CrimeStoppers at 573-875-8477.

The Columbia Police Department did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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Jack Posobiec is sounding the alarm that the growing unrest surrounding ICE operations is no accident, but part of a coordinated effort to intimidate, obstruct, and destabilize law enforcement.

And he believes Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) is in on it.

“These situations, obviously they’re always unfortunate, right? Obviously the chaos and the confusion and any time a human life is lost, it’s totally unfortunate. But imagine that you’re an ICE officer, and you have an entire city who is out to get you,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales tells Posobiec.

“They’ve created these chats to monitor you, to follow you, to harass you, to intimidate you, to obstruct you from doing your job. … How can we be surprised that this happened?” she asks.

“I think it also helps to kind of zoom out and look at the context in so many of these situations,” Posobiec replies. “Tim Walz, who’s the governor of Minnesota, he could right now issue an executive order saying that he wants the state police and the local police to work with ICE, and that they would be able to go out and provide security.”

“But that’s not what he’s done. No, Tim Walz has sent out the National Guard to go give milk and cookies and doughnuts to the agitators that are out there at the Whipple Center. He’s actually taking sides against ICE,” he continues, pointing out that the tactics being used against ICE are eerily similar to the Chinese Communist Party.

“And it occurs to me that, ‘Oh, yeah. Didn’t Tim Walz go to China 30 times, including lying about being there during Tiananmen Square?’ So, you wonder why it looks like a Chinese Communist insurgency,” he says.

“That’s exactly where Tim Walz learned how to do this stuff. These guys are operational. They are trained,” he adds.

Posobiec has also learned that the protests are “more heavily organized than Portland, more heavily organized than CHAZ, than anything that we’ve seen before.”

In fact, it’s so insidious that Posobiec tells Gonzales, “We’re dealing with a domestic Marxist insurgency.”

“What do the Marxists do? What do the communists do? They use them as a martyr, these useful idiots, because they want to create the crisis because then they can use the crisis to destabilize the actual party in power or the government that’s in power, because they want to take power themselves,” he says. “This is a tried and true communist tactic.”

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A nurse may have lost her job after she posted several videos on social media seemingly encouraging people to poison Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to prevent them from enforcing immigration laws.

Libs of TikTok shared a compilation of videos allegedly from Malinda Rose Cook’s social media. Cook reportedly worked for the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.

‘Nobody’s gonna die, just enough to incapacitate them, get them off the street for the next day.’

“I thought of something good,” the nurse apparently states in the first video. “Sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic: All of the medical providers, grab some syringes with needles on the end. Have them full of saline, or succinylcholine, you know, whatever, whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe.”

Succinylcholine is a muscle relaxant used as a local anesthetic to cause short-term paralysis.

In a second video, while wearing her scrubs, she seemingly tells viewers, “For today’s resistance tip, I vote, anybody got any poison ivy, poison oak in their yard? Get some of that up, with gloves, obviously. Get it in some water.”

She then apparently describes soaking the poison ivy and oak in a gallon of water and putting the tainted water in a water gun.

“Aim for faces, hands,” the medical worker appears to say.

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In a third video, she suggests that single women use dating apps to set up dates with ICE agents.

“They’re an ICE agent, bring some Ex-Lax, put it in their drinks. Get ’em sick. You know, nobody’s gonna die, just enough to incapacitate them, get them off the street for the next day,” she seems to say. “Highly easily deniable. You know, you could get sick too. ‘Won’t eat there again.’ I’m just saying, let’s get ’em where they eat.”

“Somebody’s not going to be supporting these guys. Where’s the hotel where they eat? Who makes that breakfast? Let’s find them,” she adds.

“Let’s make their lives f**king miserable,” she continues, according to the video.

“Anything you can do to make the living conditions bad.”

She also apparently suggests hiding dead fish in their hotel rooms.

“Just stay toxic,” she concludes.

RELATED: More than 100 outraged community members denounce elementary school teacher over 2-word post about ICE

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VCU Health released a statement yesterday, announcing that a health care worker had been placed on administrative leave while an investigation was underway.

“We prioritized the health and safety of anyone who comes to us for care,” the statement read. “We are aware of a series of videos that appear to have been posted by an individual confirmed to be an employee of our health system. The content of the videos is highly inappropriate and does not reflect the integrity or values of our health system.”

Later that same day, VCU Health stated that it had terminated the individual’s employment.

“Following an investigation, the individual involved in the social media videos is no longer employed by VCU Health. In addition, VCU Health has fulfilled its reporting requirements under Virginia state law,” it stated.

Cook was previously listed on VCU Health’s website but has since been removed.

Blaze News reached out to VCU and Cook for comment.

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On Monday, January 26, President Trump announced that he had had “very good” and “productive” conversations with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) amid the escalating anti-ICE protests, violence, and backlash over fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

According to statements from all three, their conversations centered on de-escalating tensions from the anti-ICE protests and federal immigration operations in Minnesota, including potential reductions in federal agent numbers, allowing state-led investigations into the recent fatal shootings by agents, cooperation on handing over criminal noncitizens from state custody, reassigning Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, and assigning border czar Tom Homan to oversee matters on the ground.

Many people on the right interpreted this as the Trump administration caving to leftist protesters. Glenn Beck confesses that that was his initial reaction upon hearing the news.

“When I first saw this story yesterday … I thought, is he waving the white flag? What is he doing? … Is this all about the election and getting re-elected and he’s got to make nicey-nice?” he admits.

But deeper scrutiny led Glenn to believe that it is not surrender but rather “counterinsurgency” that we are witnessing in the Twin Cities.

“We’re seeing Trump shift the battlefield, not abandon it,” he says, explaining that if Trump were legitimately surrendering, he would “end the enforcement nationwide,” “call off ICE operations,” “publicly repudiate Homan or Miller,” “admit wrongdoing,” and “accept the ‘Gestapo snatching people off the streets’ narrative.”

But “none of that happened,” says Glenn.

Instead, Trump “narrowed the enforcement criteria. Political pressure is rerouted, optics cooled, legal authority preserved, responsibility transferred back to the states,” he explains. “This is not a surrender. I believe this is a reframing of the fight, and it’s really smart.”

From the get-go, Trump was clear about ICE’s objective, says Glenn: “Get the really bad criminals off the streets.”

“So the goal was never ICE agents everywhere all the time. The goal was this: Force blue-state leadership to choose publicly and unmistakably between protecting violent criminals or cooperating with federal law enforcement,” he explains.

Minnesota was sliding into irremediable chaos, which would only benefit the radical left, which is aiming to cultivate a “legitimacy crisis,” he says. Escalation is exactly what the insurrectionists wanted Trump to do.

But he smartly didn’t drop the hammer. Instead, he made some moves in order to win the “optics war” — one of them being relocating Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, whom Glenn calls “a walking headline” and a “symbol” for the left’s anti-ICE movement.

This one move, Glenn says, accomplished a number of things. It weakened the Senate shutdown talks, took the media’s favorite villain out of the story, and moved the fight from “personality back to policy.”

“This is classic Trump,” he says.

“Never die on someone else’s hill if it isn’t the hill you chose. … Only die on the hill you choose,” he adds, quoting Trump’s iconic 1987 book “The Art of the Deal.”

“So when he talks to Walz and Frey, I don’t think this is capitulation. I think these were traps.”

To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the video above.

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Senate Democrats were caught this week trying to rehabilitate an old grievance and use a three-year-old tragedy to mobilize more opposition to the Trump administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law.

On Tuesday, Democrats on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee shared a picture of 8-year-old illegal alien Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, noting she “died in government custody.”

‘It’s really f**ked up how Trump let her die in 2023.’

“She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care,” said the Democrats’ post on X. “We need to reform immigration detention.”

However, Democrats neglected to mention that Anadith died on the Biden-Harris administration’s watch in 2023, when the southern border was effectively open and border facilities were overwhelmed.

Anadith, a girl with a heart condition who was born in Panama to Honduran migrants, was brought illegally into the U.S. on May 9, 2023. While waiting for a deportation flight to Honduras with her mother, father, and two siblings in a Customs and Border Protection facility in Harlingen, Texas, the girl experienced a medical emergency and died.

CBP indicated that during her intake at the Donna Processing Facility in Donna, Texas, the girl was medically assessed and “did not complain of any acute illnesses or injuries.” Days later, however, she “voiced complaints of abdominal pain, nasal congestion, and cough” and was “prescribed and administered doses of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu), as well as Ondansetron (Zofran).”

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Former Biden spokesman Andrew Bates. Photographer: Oliver Contreras/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Following agency protocols, the family was moved to Harlingen, which was used specifically for cases requiring medical isolation. At the Harlingen facility, the girl continued to receive medical attention and medication; however, her condition worsened. After her mother’s unsuccessful requests for an ambulance, the girl suffered a seizure. She was taken to Valley Baptist Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead on May 17, 2023.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee — several of whom have advocated for cuts to Department of Homeland Security funding — claimed in a minority staff report last year that CBP facilities are chronically understaffed and that “the circumstances that resulted in Anadith’s death were unfortunately not an aberration, but indicative of systemic problems with the provision of medical care in CBP facilities and CBP’s broader failure to properly oversee that care.”

Democrats concern-mongered in their report that “more individuals and children may die” under the Trump administration.

As with their January 2025 minority report, Senate Democrats’ Tuesday tweet appears aimed at exploiting a tragedy that occurred under the previous Democrat administration — and under a homeland security secretary Democrats refused to impeach — to condemn the current administration.

One critic, EV Partners founder Robert Sterling, wrote in response to the Democrats’ viral tweet, “Man it’s really f**ked up how Trump let her die in 2023.”

Conservative writer Brian Pfail noted, “I’m not one for party politics, but this is an outright disgusting grievance post to emotionalize views on border enforcement. Low-information liberals will attribute this to the Trump admin, yet it was Biden. To them, none of these deaths are valued beyond political fervor.”

As other critics began to pile on, Biden’s former deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates reflexively worked on damage control, writing, “Not about Democrat or Republican/left or right. Just absolutely wrong.”

Republican operative Tim Murtaugh said in response, “What’s remarkable, Andrew, is the level of pride you must have felt when posting this, completely unaware that it had happened while you worked in the White House yourself. Just remarkable. Top notch work from beginning to end.”

Bates dug in his heels, writing, “I stand by what I said. It’s horrible and shouldn’t have happened.”

“What makes me proud is that the American people are rejecting the cruelty that ICE is forcing on Americans and immigrants, putting all of us in danger,” added the former Biden spokesman, who does not appear to have spoken out at the time of Anadith’s death.

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