When Trump\u2019s top health goon was tasked with answering for the president\u2019s brutal immigration crackdowns, he placed the blame on the press for amplifying \u201cTrump derangement syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted<\/a> Friday on The Joe Rogan Experience <\/i>that some of the scenes that came out of Minneapolis last month\u2014namely the killing of<\/a> two American citizens<\/a> by federal agents\u2014were \u201cvery disturbing.\u201d But Kennedy faulted the media and \u201cDemocrats\u201d rather than the administration that gave the orders for the Midwest operation.<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing that makes it most disturbing, is because there\u2019s so much interaction with protesters, which is weird that the Democrats are telling protesters to go out there and stop law enforcement from doing its job,\u201d Kennedy said to host Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThat\u2019s not how protests usually work,\u201d he asserted. \u201cIf you don\u2019t like U.S. drug policy\u2026 you wouldn\u2019t send people to try to interfere with people who are, who are uh, who are arresting a drug dealer. And when you have thousands and thousands of people doing that, there\u2019s going to be thousands of interactions, and some of those are going to end badly because you have armed people doing dangerous things. And when you have crowds doing that, it\u2019s going to blow up.\u201d <\/p>\n Kennedy, 72, then alluded to how ICE operations in Minneapolis are winding down\u2014after two deaths and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s bungled messaging.<\/p>\n \u201cNobody is happy with the way that things have looked, particularly in Minnesota, but a lot of it is because of this capacity of the press to take \u2018Trump derangement syndrome\u2019 and amplify it into public outrage and set up a situation,\u201d Kennedy claimed.<\/p>\n ICU nurse Alex Pretti and unarmed mother Renee Good, both 37, were shot to death by federal immigration agents in two separate incidents in January. Their deaths were captured by numerous cellphone videos showing that neither of them was attacking officers when the shootings occurred. Still, following both of their killings, Noem and other administration officials referred to Good and Pretti as \u201cdomestic terrorists.\u201d <\/p>\n Kennedy went on to draw comparisons between the Trump administration\u2019s deportation actions and those of former President Barack Obama. <\/p>\n \u201cPresident Obama deported more people than President Trump did\u2014the most in history,\u201c Kennedy said. \u201dNobody cares.” He went on to claim that 76 people were shot during the deportation process during the Biden administration and that \u201cnone of it made headlines.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201dAbout half of those people were killed. None of it made the news. Now, because it\u2019s Trump doing it, you have the entire Democratic Party and the media establishment saying, \u2018Oh, look at the horrible things. He\u2019s a dictator.\u2019 But he\u2019s doing what he promised to do to the American people.\u201d <\/p>\n For his part, Rogan also said some of the scenes came off as disturbing to people. But the podcaster and UFC commentator, who endorsed Trump<\/a> in 2024, argued that they should also be disturbed by how some protests are organized. Rogan even questioned their legality.<\/p>\n \u201cThese protests are organized and paid for, and that\u2019s crazy, right?\u201d Rogan, 58, fretted. \u201cWhen you find that out, and you find out that people can actually be paid to protest, and that they provide them with signs\u2014they tell them what they do. It\u2019s organized. They have Signal chats.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Kristi](\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/52WNKQCFUVARRH522SGITDWGAI.jpg?auth=b6743fc2a4e2be7e2bd44079c0681b2372f14da675698f22a1b3cd99edf87685&width=800&height=533\")
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