A high-ranking official in President Donald Trump's administration was subjected to ridicule and scorn Sunday after he struggled to answer basic questions.
CNN anchor Dana Bash asked White House Border Czar Tom Homan about Immigration Control and Enforcement officers in Texas and Maine who fatally shot unarmed fathers this month.
"Do you know specifically what happened to the officers involved in the Texas and Maine shootings?" Bash asked. "Are they on administrative leave?"
"I don't know, specifically," he said. "The policy would be to put them on administrative leave."
Bash pressed, "But as border czar, you don't know for sure if they have been?"
Homan shrugged and said, "No."
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was killed during a traffic stop in Texas on July 7 — FBI claims that he had drugs in his car were later disproved.
Joan Sebastian Durán Guerrero, 25, was fatally shot in Maine on July 13 by an ICE agent identified in reports as David Brouillette, an Army veteran whose two ex-wives have accused him of abuse.
Bash quizzed Homan on this point.
"One of the ICE officers connected to the fatal shooting in Maine was accused of abuse by two ex-wives…Should someone with those issues be an ICE agent?" asked Bash.
Homan replied, "No, if those are facts, I don't think he should have ever cleared vetting."
Homan's admissions of ignorance stunned onlookers who expected greater detail from an official who oversees Trump's mass deportation initiative.
"If Tom Homan doesn't know he should be fired on the spot," replied X user Craig Carl. "This is a blatant lie or gross incompetence."
"ICE has vetting?" political commentator Mike Bates quipped. "Who knew!"
"Feckless lying stupid sack of s---," fumed Lizzie Cochrane.
Even Bash joined in on the bashing, as video shows, when Homan declared, "I wouldn't say that mistakes were made."
"We've seen with our own eyes that mistakes were made," she said. "Deadly mistakes were made. At least 5 of them."