Paul is showing more and more signs — signs that he knows Tangerine 2.0 is poisoning America, and poisoning the way his acolytes think, speak and act.

Consider this below, from him this afternoon — related to Kristi Noem’s odious lies. [And, in passing, compare it (in full) to the disgusting one posted by Scott Johnson this morning on the same topic. If anything, Scott — the officer’s body cam makes it even clearer that she was given conflicting commands, and was NOT given a chance to comply before the officer fired. What happened to “de-escalation” — at a protest? In sum, Scott doesn’t understand (or refuses to acknowledge) the applicable law.]

[Yesterday, recall that Paul was offering straw man arguments, on these fronts.] Here, a day Later, however — Paul correctly points out that Kristi Noem is making it much easier to prosecute the involved, quick triggered officer, a man named John Ross — with her statements on behalf of the whole federal government that are demonstrably false.

She is creating a cover up / propaganda story, and trying to taint any future jury pool — where (if he was acting lawfully) none would be needed — or wanted. But this is headed to a state law indictment, just as obtained with Derek Chauvin / George Floyd, now.

So I do applaud Paul for this:

…Kristi Noem, trotting out the Trump administration’s standard overwrought and misleading language, has said that the woman killed by ICE “weaponized” her vehicle and engaged, along with other protesters, in “domestic terrorism.” But Noem does not know whether the woman was trying to injure the ICE officer or simply trying to flee from the scene….

As for “domestic terrorism,” there was none in any version of this unfortunate event.

Terrorism occurs when an individual or a group unleashes violence designed to kill or maim random individuals for the purpose of terrorizing the general population. Even if the woman tried to kill or maim the ICE officer — and again, there’s no reason to assume she did — this would not [amount to] violence against random individuals for the purpose of terrorizing the general population.

Nor are protesters engaged in domestic [he means terrorism, but he typed “violence”] when they try to obstruct ICE officers from doing their job. They are committing crimes, but terrorism isn’t one of them….

Whatever one thinks of Renee Good and her actions that led to the shooting, her six-year-old son is now without a mother…. For Kristi Noem to suggest that the boy’s mother was a domestic terrorist who weaponized her vehicle against federal law enforcement officers not only prematurely and unfairly assumes her guilt and misuses the English language, it is cruel….

Updated: perhaps unsurprisingly, late night on Friday, Hinderaker seeks to distract us from the truth, by claiming “the left” has colluded to create a false narrative here. He fails to identify any false element(s), though. Yawn. [He deludedly also claims to “know” what most people think. Preposterous — he’s done no (even flawed) polling.] So…

Most of all, what we should take from this wanton act of violence by a badge wearing government official… is, as Democratic members of Congress are now resolving (with more than a few sensible GOP regulars) to take away all funding for ICE. That will end the killings.

Nothing gives Trump the right to fund this malign gestapo force, without the purse-strings, clearly held by the Congress.

Onward.