President Trump says Renee Goode’s parents were supporters
President Donald Trump said Renee Good’s parents were “huge Trump fans” and hopes they still are.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said he hopes the father of Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot and killed by an immigration officer in Minneapolis, remains a “Trump fan” after his daughter’s death.
President Trump made the comments to reporters on January 20th in the White House press briefing room, touting his accomplishments to commemorate his first anniversary in office.
“When you find out that her parents, especially her father, were huge Trump fans, I hope he still is, but I don’t know,” Trump said of Good. “He was all Trump supporters. He loved Trump. It’s terrible. A lot of people told me that. They said, ‘Oh, he loves you.'” That’s the kind of person he was — I hope he still feels that way. ”
Trump added: “It’s a very, very tough situation. But her father was a great man and her parents were huge Trump fans. It’s very sad. It just happens. It’s terrible.”
Trump spoke for an hour and 45 minutes, moving from topic to topic, including the death of Goode, who was shot and killed by U.S. Customs and Immigration Officer Jonathan Ross on January 7.
The shooting occurred as Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who was interfering with an ICE operation in Minneapolis, drove her SUV through a Los Angeles neighborhood after being asked to get out of her vehicle.
“They’re going to make mistakes. Sometimes ICE can be too rough with someone. You know, you’re dealing with rough people,” Trump said, adding that he “feels terrible” about Good’s death.
CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil told Trump in a Jan. 13 interview that Goode’s father, Timothy Ganger, is a Trump supporter. Mr. Dokoupil had interviewed Mr. Ganger a few days earlier.
In lengthy remarks, President Trump referred to Minnesota demonstrators opposing the expansion of ICE’s presence in the state as “paid agitators and insurrectionists” and singled out the anti-ICE protests that disrupted services at St. Paul’s Church in Minnesota over the weekend.
The president began his remarks by holding up a photo of an individual he said was a criminal immigrant who entered the country illegally and was arrested by the administration.
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