Dave Rubin stunned his audience when he played a direct-message clip on his show showing CBS’ Tony Dokoupil asking former President Trump what he would say to the father of Renee Nicole Macklin Good. The short exchange landed in the middle of a national firestorm over an ICE operation that turned deadly, and Rubin used it to push back on the mainstream narrative that rushes to blame law enforcement. Conservatives are right to demand a clear-eyed look at the full context before handing the media and partisan officials another talking point to smear patriots who put their lives on the line.
The facts are now out there for anyone willing to see them: Renee Good, a 37-year-old American mother, was shot and killed during an ICE operation in Minneapolis, and the details circulating online have been messy and contradictory. Video of the incident shows agents approaching her SUV and one agent firing multiple shots at close range, while federal officials insist the agent acted in self-defense. The disputed footage and the conflicting accounts have inflamed protesters and raised legitimate questions about procedure and accountability in federal operations.
What makes this a breaking political crisis is how quickly the Biden administration’s allies and local left-wing officials leaped to criminalize federal law enforcement while simultaneously demanding the authority to investigate the same incident. Federal authorities moved to take control and limited state access to evidence, a decision that has rightly alarmed Minnesotans who believe in transparency and local oversight. Instead of calming the public, those moves have fueled distrust and given extremists ammunition to escalate protests into national chaos.
Against that backdrop, Trump’s response — as highlighted in the Rubin clip and echoed by administration officials — was straightforward and unapologetic: support agents on the ground and insist law and order must be restored. That stance infuriates the left, which prefers spectacle over justice, but it also reassures working Americans who expect their government to protect them from lawlessness. Families grieving a tragic loss deserve answers, yes, but they don’t deserve this tragedy to be turned into a cudgel for political theater by people who would rather score points than seek truth.
Let’s be blunt: the outrage industry and many in the mainstream press are weaponizing this death to dismantle the very agencies that keep our streets and borders safer. Conservatives should demand accountability, but we should also stand with the brave men and women who take the risks most Americans refuse to. If federal agents are going to be micromanaged, scapegoated, and then criminalized for making split-second decisions in chaotic situations, the next generation of patriots will think twice before stepping up.
America needs a sober, transparent investigation that isn’t driven by partisan grandstanding or performative virtue-signaling. Patriots want answers and due process, not a rush to judgment that paints law enforcement as the enemy and hands a victory to the mobs. Republicans and independents should push for full access to the evidence, protection for officers’ legal rights, and a commitment from elected leaders to allow justice — not mobs or cable anchors — to determine what really happened.
In the meantime, hardworking Americans should remember who keeps their neighborhoods safe and who profits politically from chaos. Stand with law enforcement and demand a fair, transparent probe that serves the family, the public, and the truth — not headlines. If Democrats and the media want to play politics with pain, then conservatives will keep fighting for accountability, respect for order, and the rule of law that protects every American family.
