Trump and MAGA Justify Renee Good’s Death
Runaway Country with Alex Wagner
Runaway Country with Alex Wagner
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Since an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, President Trump and MAGA have labeled her a “domestic terrorist” and come up with one reason after another to justify her death. This week Alex interviews Michel Moore, the former Chief of Police for the Los Angeles Police Department, to hear how law enforcement is interpreting the event. Then she speaks to The Bulwark’s Tim Miller to question the parallel realities Americans seem to be living in, despite ample video footage, and even in cases of life and death.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It has been one week since an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis wife and mother who was blocking ICE officers with her car and was then shot in the face before an ICE agent called her a fucking bitch. |
| 0:16.5 | The entire episode was shocking, as was the response from the Trump administration. |
| 0:22.1 | If you look at what the definition of domestic terrorism is, it completely fits the situation on the ground. |
| 0:29.0 | That is DHS Secretary Christy Noem with CNN's Jake Tapper. |
| 0:33.4 | Noam used that term domestic terrorism the day the shooting happened and she has doubled down on it ever since. |
| 0:40.0 | But that classification was just the tip of the iceberg. The Justice Department is now trying to |
| 0:45.5 | investigate Good's widow, Becky, for her potential ties to activist groups, while it's at the same time |
| 0:52.3 | impeding efforts to investigate the officer who shot |
| 0:55.4 | Renee Good. Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned in protest of the decision |
| 1:01.4 | to characterize Goods shooting as an assault on a federal officer, including the acting |
| 1:07.0 | U.S. attorney for the state of Minnesota, a man who was appointed by Trump just last year. |
| 1:13.9 | But those folks seem to be in the minority. Conservatives have largely fallen in line behind |
| 1:19.7 | Trump, saying that Good's killing was justified and that Good deserved what happened to her. |
| 1:24.7 | I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it's a |
| 1:28.8 | tragedy of her own making and a tragedy of the far left who has marshaled an entire movement, |
| 1:35.1 | a lunatic fringe against our law enforcement officers. The fact is that Renee Good was interfering |
| 1:42.2 | with police activity. This is a woman who was in severe crisis. |
| 1:47.6 | She lived a very sad and very chaotic life. |
| 1:51.7 | Polling from data for progress shows that 68% of Republicans believe that the ICE agent was |
| 1:57.3 | justified in shooting Renee Good, which means that a not insignificant part of this |
| 2:03.1 | country has watched Renee Good's murder and is okay with it. And that begs the question, |
| 2:11.4 | are we living in parallel realities? I'm Alex Wagner, and this week on Runaway Country, how have seemingly |
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