“I’m not mad at you”

The administration — led by JD Vance, one of the most despicable people in the history of American politics — believes that the video of Renee Good’s murder showing this sequence of events is exculpatory:

You can clearly see her being “Minnesota nice” to the man who shoots her and even smiling at him, with her dog in the back seat, seconds before he kills her. “That’s fine,” she says in her final words to the ICE agent, using a mom’s high pitch. “I’m not mad at you.”

Good’s wife, filming with a cell phone, taunts him a bit from a distance about the fact that ICE changes their license plates every morning, which must have pissed him off. Then he shoots Good in the face three times as she tries to drive away from him, right in front of her wife, and says, “Fuckin’ bitch.”

Admittedly, Fox News seems to understand the problem that a hardcore misogynist creep like Vance is unable to perceive:

Fox News claims to be airing the "entire video" — but they're cutting off before the officer says, "fucking bitch."

[image or embed]— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) Jan 9, 2026 at 1:17 PM

I also agree that it’s probably not an accident that Trump has let Vance be the frontperson on the rush to defend this heinous killing:

if trump thought he had a winning hand here he would be the first person in front of the press. they know it’s bad so they send their little pig man out to gobble up the slop— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) Jan 8, 2026 at 11:12 AM

Call me over-optimistic but I just don’t think this will play at all belong hardcore MAGA types.