Donald Trump appointee Tom Homan was hit with a major backlash after he said Sunday in response to NBC News’ Kristen Welker that it was “hateful rhetoric” that caused ICE to shoot and kill an American woman.
Welker also asked Homan whether he did, in fact, keep an alleged $50,000 bribe or whether he returned it, a question that didn’t sit well with Trump’s border czar. In a separate part of the interview, he said, “We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric.”
“Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It’s just ridiculous,” he added. “It’s gonna infuriate people more which means there’s gonna be more incidents like this.”
Dem candidate Fred Wellman said, “Hateful rhetoric is calling a suburban mom a ‘radical left wing terrorist.’ More hysterics from Temu gangster Homan. Stop treating US citizens as your enemy.”
Dem politician Melanie D’Arrigo said, “‘Calling the ICE agent who murdered an innocent woman a murderer is going to make other ICE agents upset and want to murder other innocent women too,’ is real abuser language from weak men.”
A self-identified ex-GOPer called @PSchmaling also chimed in, saying, “Listening to Tom Homan on Meet the Press telling people to stop hateful rhetoric.”
“That’s rich, he’s spent a year demonizing and threatening every one in the country with a dark complexion and brown eyes,” the user then added.
Writer Matt O’Brien said, “True story: the Nazis only would have committed some mild genocide if people hadn’t called them Nazis so much.”
David Aldridge, Executive Director for the Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values, weighed in with, “Once again, Tom. Your official agency account posted a white nationalist anthem two freakin’ days ago.”
Dr Mickolas, MD, wrote, “If you want the public to not call him a murderer, maybe the government shouldn’t have labeled her immediately as a domestic terrorist.”
Democratic strategist Matt McDermott said, “Put another way, this is an admission that ICE officers are so unprofessional and inadequately trained that simply being criticized might cause them to lose control and resort to violence.”
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