Vice President JD Vance changed course after initially claiming Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot Renee Good, had "absolute immunity."
"After the Renee Good shooting, the administration seemed to suggest that ICE officers enjoyed near complete immunity," one reporter told Vance on Thursday in Minneapolis. "But today you told the Washington Examiner that when appropriate, the administration might take disciplinary actions against ICE agents. So is that a change of opinion?"
"No, I didn't say, and I don't think any other official within the Trump administration said that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity," Vance falsely claimed. "That's absurd. What I did say is that when federal law enforcement officers violate the law, that is typically something that federal officials would look into."
"But of course we're going to investigate these things," he continued. "Of course, we're investigating the Renee Good shooting, but we're investigating them in a way that respects people's rights, and then ensures that if somebody did something wrong, yes, they're going to face disciplinary action, but we're not going to judge them in the court of public opinion."