REVEALED: ICE shooting victim’s father is a Trump supporter as president delivers conflicted message in tense interview
President Donald Trump delivered a heartfelt message to Renee Good’s conservative father after she was shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week.
Speaking with CBS News’ Tony Dokoupil at a Ford plant in Detroit, the president struck a solemn tone and admitted his deeper feelings about the young mother’s passing.
Good was killed after she inserted herself into the middle of an ongoing ICE raid last week and was shot after videos showed her accelerating her vehicle towards an agent.
‘Her father, who was a big supporter of yours, he’s heartbroken right now,’ Dokoupil told the president, revealing that Good’s father, Timothy Ganger, backed Trump.
‘He’s also heartbroken because your administration so quickly has come out and said she’s a domestic terrorist,’ the CBS host asked. ‘What do you want to say to her father right now?’
Trump began: ‘That’s great. And I do, I think it’s great, and I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances, was a very solid, wonderful person.’
‘But many ways, the bottom line is, look, we have hundreds of 1000s of murderers in our country, killers. ICE is trying to get them out,’ the president responded. ‘ICE is working very hard to get them out, their job is being made very, very difficult.’
Trump noted that the way Good drove the car away put the officers in a tough position.
President Donald Trump sent a heartfelt message to Renee Good’s father, who is a supporter of his, during a CBS News interview on Tuesday
Renee Good, 37, was shot and killed by ICE officers after she blocked a motorcade and sped her vehicle towards an agent
His sentiments echo what the Department of Justice has also said, which is that there is currently no basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the Good’s shooting.
While an FBI probe is ongoing, lawyers in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division were informed last week that they would not contribute to the investigation at this time, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal department deliberations.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche released a statement on Tuesday saying ‘there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation.’
Trump and Dokoupil clashed elsewhere in the interview as the president was grilled on the economy, Iran and the administration’s attacks on Fed chair Jerome Powell.
The host and the president, at times, spoke over each other, and Dokoupil pressed the president on Americans who feel prices remain too elevated.
‘Mr. President, help me understand when I travel the country, and I go all over the place, and I talk to everyday Americans, they tell me they don’t feel it.’
Trump snapped back: ‘I inherited a mess of crime, I inherited a mess of inflation, I inherited a mess of places closing up and going to other countries.’
If Democrats won the last election, Trump said, ‘I doubt it in this case, but you never know … you wouldn’t have this job.’
Trump told the CBS host that if Kamala Harris won in 2024 that Dokoupil would have a smaller salary in a tense back and forth
Later in the interview, Dokoupil told the president that he believes he’d still have his job even if Democrats won.
‘Yea but a lesser salary,’ Trump quickly quipped.
