The White House on Friday published an article naming more than two dozen prominent Democrat officials as political agitators, accusing them of fanning the flames of domestic violence through “Gestapo-style” rhetoric.
The Trump administration claims that the recent sniper attack on the Dallas ICE facility, in which a shooter dropped into a rooftop position, inscribed “ANTI-ICE” on ammunition, and opened fire at detainees and ICE personnel, is the horrific epilogue of years of left-wing incitement.
The administration’s statement links the Dallas shooting directly to a “1,000% surge” in assaults and attacks on federal agents, asserting that the rhetoric from top Democrat leaders has “provided moral cover” to radicals who see violence as the logical next step.
President Trump, in a post on Truth Social, placed blame squarely on Democrats, writing:
“I have been briefed on the deadly shooting at the ICE Field Office in Dallas, Texas. It has now been revealed the deranged shooter wrote “Anti-ICE” on his shell casings. This is despicable!
The Brave Men and Women of ICE are just trying to do their jobs, and remove the “WORST of the WORST” Criminals out of our Country, but they are facing an unprecedented increase in threats, violence, and attacks by Deranged Radical Leftists.
This violence is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to “Nazis.”
The continuing violence from Radical Left Terrorists, in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, must be stopped. ICE Officers, and other Brave Members of Law Enforcement, are under grave threat.
We have already declared ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization, and I will be signing an Executive Order this week to dismantle these Domestic Terrorism Networks. I AM CALLING ON ALL DEMOCRATS TO STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW!
The Trump Administration is fully committed to backing Law Enforcement, Strong Borders, securing our Homeland, deporting Violent Illegal Criminals, and fully rooting out the Left Wing Domestic Terrorism that is terrorizing our Country. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
According to the White House, the list includes governors, federal legislators, and local officials whose statements over recent years have, in the administration’s view, constructed a narrative of moral justification for attacking ICE and law enforcement.
Here’s the rogue’s gallery of Democrat leaders whose toxic rhetoric has blood on its hands:
- Gov. Tim Walz smeared ICE as the “modern-day Gestapo.”
- Gov. Gavin Newsom likened ICE to “secret police,” calling them “authoritarian” and proclaiming a “right to push back.”
- Gov. JB Pritzker claimed the country is becoming “Nazi Germany” because ICE is “grabbing people off the street… and disappearing them.”
- Rep. Robin Kelly smeared ICE as the “Gestapo” and a “betrayal.”
- Rep. Jasmine Crockett compared ICE to “slave patrols.”
- Rep. Sylvia Garcia referred to ICE agents as “thugs.”
- Rep. Delia Ramirez attacked ICE as “a terror force.”
- Rep. Pramila Jayapal called ICE agents “deranged,” accused them of “kidnapping,” and said “resistance” to ICE is “inspiring.”
- Rep. Rashida Tlaib said ICE is “terrorizing our communities” and “turning our country into a fascist police state,” and called it a “rogue agency.”
- Rep. Ayanna Pressley said ICE is “terrorizing our communities.”
- Rep. Max Frost compared ICE operations to “some of the worst horrors and crimes against humanity” in history.
- Rep. John Larson said ICE is “the SS” and “the Gestapo.”
- Rep. LaMonica McIver incited people to “shut down the city” because “we are at war.”
- Rep. Stephen Lynch smeared ICE agents as “the Gestapo” and “nondescript thugs.”
- Rep. Dan Goldman compared federal agents to “secret police” who must be unmasked.
- Rep. Becca Balint called ICE agents “vigilantes” who can’t be trusted.
- Rep. Ilhan Omar said ICE agents are “vile and beyond cruel,” and that the agency should be abolished.
- Rep. Nikki Budzinski called ICE agents “dangerous and reckless.”
- Sen. Bernie Sanders asked people to “figure out a way to stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible.”
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren claimed ICE is “intentionally stok[ing] fear” and “tear[ing] communities apart.”
- Rep. Hakeem Jeffries implored people to “fight” the Trump Administration “in the streets” and declared ICE agents “will be unsuccessful” in protecting their identities “no matter what it takes.”
- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to the neo-Nazi group NSC-131.
- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson accused ICE of being “secret police” who are “terrorizing our communities.”
- Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass spread a disgusting, fabricated hoax that ICE “kidnapped” a woman on her way to work.
- Rep. Gil Cisneros claimed ICE has “terrorized” people through “racial profiling.”
- Rep. Eric Swalwell said it was his “priority” to ensure ICE agents “are no longer faceless,” comparing them to “some 1800s bank robber or some KGB officer in Russia.”
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said ICE “should not exist.”
- Rep. Kweisi Mfume challenged the Trump Administration to “a street fight.”
- Rep. Jerry Nadler accused ICE agents of “hiding misbehavior because otherwise why would they be wearing masks?”
