VIDEO & ARTICLE: ‘Gunned down?’ GOP strategist shut down after making stunning claim in support of ICE 11OKT25

THE lies being broadcast by the ass licking sycophants of the drumpf / trump-vance administration about the anti-ice, hsi & cbp gestapo protest would be laughable but for the fact so many of the magat cultist believe them. The number of people who choose to be ignorant and reject the truth is amazing and frightening. This from RawStory is a perfect example of what we are up against..... 

‘Gunned down?’ GOP strategist shut down after making stunning claim in support of ICE

Republican strategist Lance Trover was shut down on CNN’s “Table for Five” Saturday after making the false claim that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents were being “gunned down” on the streets of Chicago, Illinois.

The panel was discussing the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to a Venezuelan opposition leader on Friday despite President Donald Trump’s assertion that he was more deserving of the award when political advisor Jamal Simmons, former communications director for former Vice President Kamala Harris, argued why Trump was undeserving of the prestigious honor.

“Troops are moving into American cities, American pastors [are] being hit by pepper-spray bullets, people [are] being snatched out of cars by ICE agents,” Simmons said. “It's hard to see how anybody in the international community would say this man is the symbol of peace.”

Trover pushed back on Simmons’ comments, blaming the chaos on the streets of Democrat-run cities on “left-wing lunatics,” and not on the Trump administration.

“What you're talking about what's going on in the streets [is] the chaos caused by these left-wing lunatics who want to go in and corner the ICE agents who are just doing what they were told they needed to be [doing] by the voters last November!” Trover said.

Trover went on to claim that ICE agents had been “trapped” by protesters in Chicago and Portland, Oregon – likely referring to ongoing demonstrations in both cities – though no credible reports describe agents being surrounded or prevented from leaving by crowds.

Simmons fired back by asking Trover if he’d seen the images of a Chicago pastor that had been struck in the head with a pepper-spray bullet, to which Trover posed his own follow-up question.

“Did you see the picture of the ICE agents being gunned down on the streets of Chicago?” Trover said.

“Gunned down?” Simmons repeated. “I think that would have made more news.”

There is no credible evidence of ICE agents having been “gunned down” in Chicago or elsewhere. The only firearm fatalities that have been credibly reported as it relates to ICE are incidents in which ICE agents themselves fatally shot and killed an individual, such as Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, who was killed by ICE agents in September in Chicago.

The Department of Homeland Security, which ICE operates under, said that Villegas-Gonzalez had driven his car at officers before being fired upon by ICE agents, though footage of the incident has undermined DHS’s explanation for the killing.

  

VIDEOS: PORTLAND POLICE VS ICE & ANTI ICE BANNER & OREGON NATIONAL GUARD DEFENDS PROTESTORS & ACTUAL FOOTAGE FROM PORTLAND & THE HILARITY IN PORTLAND CONTINUES

PORTLAND POLICE VS ICE GESTAPO

ANTI ICE BANNER RETURNS TO PORTLAND

OREGON NAT GUARD ON PEACEFUL PORTLAND PROTEST

THIS IS ACTUAL FOOTAGE FROM PORTLAND 10OKT25

THE HILARITY CONTINIES IN PORTLAND WITH SEC OF HOMELAND CRUELTY KKKRISTI NOEM 10OKT25

UPDATE: IMMIGRANTS GETTING FREE HEALTHCARE & VIDEO: GOP MISLEADS WITH THE CLAIM THAT DEMS WANT TO GIVE FREE HEALTHCARE TO "ILLEGAL" IMMIGRANTS 3OKT25

 

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Utah Democrats receive threatening voice messages in wake of Charlie Kirk's killing 12SEP25

So what l'm gathering from Republicans is that everyone must stop calling their actions fascists, but Republicans can call anyone who opposes them communists, socialists, vermin, enemy of the people, radical left, Marxists... do I have that right?

 VIOLENCE, criticism and defamation of and threats against gop / greed over people (or guardians of sexual predators or guardians of pedophiles)-republican party, of the neo-nazi drumpf / trump-vance administration, of "christian" nationalist and of right wing social engineering triggers accusations of promoting hate, division, and violence by the left as well as threats of violence, criticism, defamation, retaliation and persecution of all on the left, including practitioners of free speech and anti-violence advocates by the fascist drumpf / trump-vance administration and their sycophants in state and local governments, education systems and business communities. Reaction by the right to the same directed to anyone on the left? Most of the time crickets....We must continue the fight defending our democratic Republic!This from ABC News

Utah Democrats receive threatening voice messages in wake of Charlie Kirk's killing

"It's sad that we've gotten to this place in our country," Rep. Romero said.

BySasha Pezenik

September 12, 2025, 4:44 PM

Just hours after an assailant gunned down conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus Wednesday, voice messages containing a torrent of expletive-laden insults were sent to Democratic members of the Utah state House, blaming them for Kirk's killing, according to audio of two calls obtained by ABC News.

The calls came in just after 10 p.m. on Wednesday night to House Democrats' staff work numbers from an unidentified male caller, who called the Democrats "demons" and "enemies to the American people."

"You should find somewhere else to f---ing live. You murderous terrorist animals, you despicable f---ing subhuman, f---ing violent, disgusting f---ing animals. You murdered that man in front of his f---ing family, you evil f---ing pieces of s---, subhuman f---ing garbage," the man said. "I don't even want to see the f---ing color blue in the state of Utah ever again. I'm gonna burn everything blue in my entire f---ing house."

In a second message, the same caller directly addressed a staff member by name and told them to "leave the f---ing state."

"You murdered that man in front of his f---ing family," the caller said, adding, Democrats nationwide belonged in "hell."

Utah House Democrats have shared with law enforcement the threatening voicemails and emails they've received in the wake of Kirk's assassination, House minority leader Rep. Angela Romero told ABC News.

Romero added that the calls were particularly intimidating at this raw time of heightened political tension and rhetoric.

"It made me feel uneasy, especially being a woman and a woman of color in a super red state -- so it's not like this is my first rodeo, but this really made me feel uncomfortable," Romero said.

She said a separate caller told her, "I was despicable, I shouldn't serve in office, it's my fault that Mr. Kirk was murdered."

Other lawmakers have said they received threats following Kirk's killing. Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican who is running for governor in South Carolina, announced Friday her office had been "bombarded" with "threatening phone calls" -- and accused Democrats for the "hateful" messages.

The vitriol levied at uninvolved lawmakers since Wednesday's shooting has had a chilling effect on the American tradition of lawmakers' community engagement — as well as the open debate and political discourse Kirk himself espoused.

Romero said she has canceled her own door-knocking that had been scheduled for this weekend. She had planned on canvassing and "getting people's feedback" as they're poised to go through redistricting. She has recommended that others in her caucus consider doing the same.

"I decided this probably wasn't the best time, and I'd rather people be safe than be put in a compromising position," Romero said.

"I don't maybe agree with [Kirk's] political ideology, but he still had a family that loved him, he still had a partner, he still had children. Just because you don't agree with someone on their policy stances doesn't mean that you silence their voice by murdering them, whether it was Mr. Kirk or whether it was Representative Hortman," Romero said, referring to the Minnesota Democratic lawmaker gunned down on her doorstep with her spouse earlier this year in another act of political violence.

"At the end of the day, we're all human. And it's sad that we've gotten to this place in our country where people can't even have conversations anymore," Romero said.

VIDEO: IN THE AFTERMATH OF CHARLIE KIRK'S MURDER.....

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This man should be the one speaking on college campuses… “They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.” Watch and please share.....

THE EPSTEIN FILES & CLIENT LIST: NOT FORGOTTEN, NOT BURIED

charlie kirk - The widespread and sympathetic coverage of his death is closely tied to the current political climate. NOT MY pres drumpf / trump and his perverted inner circle highlight kirk’s role as a ‘friend’ and ‘ally,’ which lends the event more significance than it might objectively warrant. I call it deflection.

US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GOP / GUARDIANS OF PEDOPHILES-REPUBLICAN PARTY. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES & CLIENT LIST!!!

GUARDIANS OF PEDOPHILES US SENATE 10SEP25 & ( VIDEO ) CHARLIE KIRK CALLED FOR THE TOTAL RELEASE OF ALL EPSTEIN FILES

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September 15, 2025 Since the very worst of the pandemic, getting a Covid booster has been a relatively straightforward process. You head to your local pharmacy, stick out your arm, and jab! Protection received. But because this is 2025, the very worst timeline, securing a vaccine today means navigating a confusing patchwork of state rules and federal guidance. As my colleague Julia Métraux writes in her latest: Now, in an increasingly anti-vaccine public health regime, Americans are subject to a patchwork of state rules on who qualifies for the Covid vaccine and under what circumstances, as right-wing legislators and governors like Florida’s Ron DeSantis race to outdo one another in reducing access not only to Covid shots but vaccination in general. For a growing share of people in the US, that leaves crossing state lines as the best option to get the updated vaccine: a new era of interstate vaccine tourism. There’s yet another layer. On Friday, CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), now filled with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointees, will meet to discuss new potential Covid vaccine guidance. In states that still require prescriptions for the Covid vaccine or did until recently, many people have already reported issues in actually getting the shot. I endured some of this personally last week upon calling my primary care doctor for a prescription. They, in turn, listed off a sampling of preexisting conditions I needed to have to qualify for a booster. By the end, we both knew where the conversation was headed: Me, without a script. But exactly one day later, my state became the latest to officially break with federal guidance and expand booster access. Soon enough, my doc called to let me know that I could go straight to my local Walgreens and get boosted after all.  So here I am, newly jabbed and relieved, but experiencing a strange deja vu from the early days of the Covid vaccine. It's a memory I don't wish to recall, and yet here we are: federal officials choosing a sicker America. —Inae Oh

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