Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says President Donald Trump and his administration “have no credibility” regarding details of the shooting Wednesday in Minnesota by a federal immigration agent — because they “deliberately” mischaracterized Renee Good after she was killed last week.
The senior law enforcement analyst on Thursday joined CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown to discuss Trump’s threat of invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 should protesters in Minnesota continue, in the president’s words, “attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.” there.
Tensions in Minneapolis increased Wednesday after a federal officer shot a person in the leg in purported self-defense. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security said two other people had attacked the officer while he was attempting to make an arrest.
When asked if the shooting was “justified,” McCabe torched the DHS as untrustworthy.
“They have no credibility in terms of the way that they are talking about and characterizing the people involved in these events,” said McCabe. “They absolutely mischaracterized, deliberately mischaracterized Ms. Good and her partner as terrorists.”
