“This despicably misleading headline is exactly why the American people have completely lost faith in the mainstream media,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) explained Wednesday, calling out The New York Times for the way it framed an incident in which a violent illegal immigrant was shot by an ICE agent. On Wednesday, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis was being attacked by an illegal alien fleeing arrest and two others - one using a shovel. The headline of the New York Times article simply says a “man” was shot by a “federal agent,” failing to mention that the man was an illegal alien resisting arrest and that the agent was an immigration enforcement officer under attack: “Federal Agent Shoots Man in Minneapolis, Prompting Tense Protests” The sub-headline adds that the man is a Venezuelan who resisted arrest, but not that he was in the U.S. illegally: “The agent shot a Venezuelan man who was resisting arrest, an official said. Protesters and law enforcement officers clashed for hours, as city officials urged people to go home.” Omitting key details, the story’s first paragraph paints an equally misleading picture of what happened: “A federal agent shot and injured a man in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, federal officials said, an incident that touched off hours of clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers and that came just one week after an immigration agent killed a woman in the city.” “Breaking News: A federal agent shot an immigrant in the leg in Minneapolis, federal officials said, one week after an ICE officer killed Renee Good in the city,” The New York Times says in a X.com post linking to its article. “This journalist knows the facts, was given the truth, and adamantly REFUSES to report it,” DHS responded: “This despicably misleading headline is exactly why the American people have completely lost faith in the mainstream media. This journalist knows the facts, was given the truth, and adamantly REFUSES to report it.” “Here are the facts,” DHS explains: “At 6:50 PM CT, federal law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted traffic stop in Minneapolis of an illegal alien from Venezuela who was released into the country by Joe Biden in 2022. “In an attempt to evade arrest, the subject fled the scene in his vehicle and crashed into a parked car. “The subject then fled on foot. The law enforcement officer caught up to the subject on foot and attempted to apprehend him when the subject began to resist and violently assault the officer. “While the subject and law enforcement were in a struggle on the ground, two subjects came out of a nearby apartment and also attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle. “As the officer was being ambushed and attacked by the two individuals, the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick. “Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life. The initial subject was hit in the leg. “All three subjects ran back into the apartment and barricaded themselves inside. “The attacked officer and subject are both in the hospital. Both attackers are in custody.”

While ignoring how an ICE agent was attacked and beaten by three men (including an illegal) the previous night and the local police were given stand-down orders to live ICE lives forfeit, the cast of ABC’s The View praised far-left Governor Tim Walz for prepping his state’s National Guard to be deployed against ICE. Among these were faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin, who refused to call out the violence against ICE. “I think the most important thing in this moment is that there's de-escalation, that we keep peace in the streets. And Governor Walz said, about a week ago, that he has the Minnesota National Guard on standby,” Farah Griffin said. What she failed to mention was Walz suggesting his state was at war with the federal government. “So they’re prepared to deploy in case these altercations between protesters and ICE keep getting more violent and it's necessary,” she added. “And I think, this is a prudent action by the Governor who received a lot of criticism after 2020 during the George Floyd protest for waiting for too long to call in the National Guard.”   Alyssa Farah Griffin praises Governor Walz for threating to deploy the National Guard against ICE. pic.twitter.com/AgEg6iJgWO — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 15, 2026   In nearly the same breath, she expressed relief that President Trump was talked out of sending in the National Guard during the George Floyd riots that Walz allowed: Now, the state National Guard is very, very, very different than federalizing U.S. troops and putting them into American streets. I see the Insurrection Act as the most-extreme step that a president could take to deal with quelling domestic protests. The last time, I believe, it was used was during the Rodney King protests in 1992. President Trump, I've said this before, he talked about doing it in the summer of 2020; was ultimately talked out of it by General Milley, Mark Esper and others. And it was a good thing, All of this came during a segment about Trump threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to send in the Guard to protect ICE and restore order. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg flaunted her profound ignorance by leading into the segment by admitting she thought the federal deployment had already happened: “So this morning, you-know-who posted that he may invoke the Insurrection Act to end the protests, which would lead him to deploy the military in Minneapolis. Now, I thought he had already done that.” After being corrected, Goldberg tried to excuse her ignorance by blaming federal authorities. “I just find it so odd, because you've already made everybody feel like you've put the military out there because, you know, you've bypassed the police. You've bypassed people whose jobs it is to take care of their city,” she whined.   Whoopi claims Trump has already deployed the military to invade Minneapolis (he has not). pic.twitter.com/eb8coXoU2Q — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 15, 2026   Co-host Sunny Hostin followed up by lashing out at any soldier sent to Minneapolis, suggesting they’re poorly trained and would just make things worse. She even expressed a fear that Trump would somehow invoke the Insurrection act in other countries: And U.S. military aren't trained to provide local law enforcement and so that's just a tinderbox waiting to explode. And I also think it would be much more difficult legally to challenge their actions in court if the Insurrection Act was invoked. And so, that really frightens me actually for the people of not only Minneapolis but and Minnesota but the people in all states in every country because he could do that anywhere.   Sunny Hostin attacks the Minnesota National Guard as poorly trained and will make things worse. She's worried that invoking the Insurrection Act would make it "much more difficult legally to challenge their actions in court." She claims Trump could do it "in every country." pic.twitter.com/dsn5a73hTL — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 15, 2026   Hostin wasn’t the only cast member living in an alternate reality. Co-host Joy Behar had to be talked off a ledge because she had convinced herself that ICE was Trump’s personal stormtroopers who loved to carry out “illegal orders.” “I feel very much alone! I feel like these institutions are not protecting us!” she shrieked. “But when Senator Kelly says don't obey an illegal order, they're not going to obey -- they're going to obey the illegal order.”   Joy Behar suggests ICE is part of the military and claims they want to follow "illegal orders." pic.twitter.com/lFMIqBRBh2 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 15, 2026   All this misinformation came from an ABC “News” show. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View January 15, 2026 11:03:51 a.m. Eastern WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So this morning, you-know-who posted that he -- he may invoke the Insurrection Act to end the protests, which would lead him to deploy the military in Minneapolis. Now, I thought he had already done that. Because I've seen – [Crosstalk] GOLDBERG: - it's the National Guard. SARA HAINES: You know hat, they could have used that Insurrection Act. GOLDBERG: Well, yes, but funny –  I just find it so odd, because you've already made everybody feel like you've put the military out there because, you know, you've bypassed the police. You've bypassed people - SUNNY HOSTIN: It's true. GOLDBERG: -- whose jobs it is to take care of their city. So, you're adding fuel -- my question is supposed to be, do you think he's adding fuel to the fire? I think he is. HOSTIN: He would if he invoked the Insurrection Act and I think people -- that would be militarizing the state. HAINES: Yes! HOSTIN: And U.S. military aren't trained to provide local law enforcement and so that's just a tinderbox waiting to explode. And I also think it would be much more difficult legally to challenge their actions in court if the Insurrection Act was invoked. And so, that really frightens me actually for the people of not only Minneapolis but and Minnesota but the people in all states in every country because he could do that anywhere. JOY BEHAR: But he owns everything. He owns the Department of Justice. HOSTIN: Yes. BEHAR: It's like you say we're not alone and yet I feel very much alone. HOSTIN: It does feels like it's own his private law firm which is not supposed to happen. There's supposed to be checks and balances. (…) 11:06:11 a.m. Eastern ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think the most important thing in this moment is that there's de-escalation, that we keep peace in the streets. And Governor Walz said, about a week ago, that he has the Minnesota National Guard on standby. So they’re prepared to deploy in case these altercations between protesters and ICE keep getting more violent and it's necessary. And I think, this is a prudent action by the Governor who received a lot of criticism after 2020 during the George Floyd protest for waiting for too long to call in the National Guard. Now, the state National Guard is very, very, very different than federalizing U.S. troops and putting them into American streets. I see the Insurrection Act as the most-extreme step that a president could take to deal with quelling domestic protests. The last time, I believe, it was used was during the Rodney King protests in 1992. President Trump, I've said this before, he talked about doing it in the summer of 2020; was ultimately talked out of it by General Milley, Mark Esper and others. And it was a good thing, because what happens is this, so, say Governor Walz has the Minnesota National Guard who are there to make sure protesters aren't getting injured and ICE officers aren't getting injured. Then you bring in a federalized force that answers to the federal government. You could have tremendous clashes. You could have a lot of confusion about authority and it makes this tinderbox situation even more dangerous. GOLDBERG: But that's -- I feel like that's what he wants. BEHAR: Yup. (…) 11:10:12 a.m. Eastern BEHAR: That's why when you say ‘we're not along’ I feel very much alone! GOLDBERG: I know you do. BEHAR: I feel like these institutions are not protecting us! GOLDBERG: You know what, the institutions are. Our police forces, they are trying to do their jobs. Our police guys. They are in the middle of how to deal with these folks who say they are in charge and how to do their jobs. You know, because that's their job to protect us. BEHAR: Yeah. GOLDBERG: So, I've -- you know -- BEHAR: But when Senator Kelly says don't obey an illegal order, they're not going to obey -- they're going to obey the illegal order and then the other side – GOLDBERG: Who are you talking about? BEHAR: The guys who are on Trump's side. HOSTIN: ICE BEHAR: ICE, yeah. GOLDBERG: Some of them may but some of them may not because, remember, there's a whole plethora of people involved in this. So, we'll keep our eyes on it and, Joy, as long as we're here at this table and people are watching, you are not alone. We'll be right back.

CNN’s Inside Politics host Dana Bash had no evidence on Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security was being untruthful when it said that an ICE agent shot a man in the leg in self-defense during an arrest operation after he joined in with other two other would-be assailants, one of whom was wielding a snow shovel. Nevertheless, Bash tried to cast doubt on the situation, claiming DHS is untrustworthy given the video of the shooting of Renee Good. Addressing correspondent Priscilla Alvarez, Bash declared that, “I just want to talk about the reality that we face right now after what happened last week with Renee Good’s killing. And that is this time we don't, as far as we know, have video of what happened with this man being shot in the leg. We do have DHS saying exactly what they said was happened, which is that he was defending himself and it was a bad situation for him. You can fill in those blanks, but because we saw what we saw with our own eyes and because the explanation was so different from DHS last week, it puts the whole question of trust in a very big question mark box.”     DHS also said the officer and the man shot in the leg were hospitalized, so maybe one of CNN’s reporters can do some reporting and confirm DHS’s account. However, Alvarez agreed, “Right. What you're getting at is that the Department of Homeland Security has a credibility issue, one that came up last week when there was the ICE involved shooting of the woman, Renee Good, but also before that, for example, in Chicago, when a federal judge had found that they were not forthcoming with the details of incidents, particularly as it—was involved, protesters and federal agents. The department in this case says that the officer was assaulted, and you could see the chaotic scenes that unfolded there that Whitney was describing.” It doesn’t matter if CNN approves of certain officials labeling Good as a terrorist or any other negative descriptor. The only thing that matters is if the agent, in the heat of the moment. credibly feared for his life and given Good ignored orders to get out of the car, her wife implored her to “drive, baby, drive,” and his subsequent injuries, that appears to be the case. Here is a transcript for the January 15 show: CNN Inside Politics with Dana Bash 1/15/2026 12:04 PM ET DANA BASH: Priscilla Alvarez, I'm going to start with you. I just want to— I'm going to talk to David about the Insurrection Act threat in a second, but I just want to talk about the reality that we face right now after what happened last week with Renee Good’s killing. And that is this time we don't, as far as we know, have video of what happened with this man being shot in the leg. We do have DHS saying exactly what they said was happened, which is that he was defending himself and it was a bad situation for him. You can fill in those blanks, but because we saw what we saw with our own eyes and because the explanation was so different from DHS last week, it puts the whole question of trust in a very big question mark box. PRISCILLA ALVAREZ: Right. What you're getting at is that the Department of Homeland Security has a credibility issue, one that came up last week when there was the ICE involved shooting of the woman, Renee Good, but also before that, for example, in Chicago, when a federal judge had found that they were not forthcoming with the details of incidents, particularly as it—was involved, protesters and federal agents. The department in this case says that the officer was assaulted, and you could see the chaotic scenes that unfolded there that Whitney was describing. 

It seems like the upper echelon of New York Times leadership understands that disclosing the explicit leftist biases of its sources has the potential to undermine the entire credibility of the newspaper’s anti-Trump mudslinging. Times Opinion's international editor Daniel Wakin brought “Venezuelan economist” and Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Senior Fellow Francisco Rodríguez onto his The Opinions podcast to belch about “What Trump Gets Wrong About Venezuela” following dictator Nicolás Maduro’s ouster. “How do I see this? I see this in two ways,” Rodriguez stated on Trump’s gambit for the U.S. to run one of the most notorious communist countries in Latin America. Rodriguez snorted that this was “the crudest expression of imperial power that the U.S. has attempted to exercise since the early 20th century, when it ran Cuba after the Spanish-American War or when it took control of the customs administration of Haiti and the Dominican Republic after it invaded those countries in the 1910s.” What Wakin didn’t bother mentioning throughout the entire 22-minute interview was that Rodriguez’s employer is funded by a litany of leftist donors, including none other than the notorious George Soros. Soros poured at least $1,241,518 into CEPR between 2016 and 2024 alone. Other prominent left-wing donors included the hard-left Ford Foundation and eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. Not exactly a neutral source, eh Wakin? No wonder he didn't bother with being transparent about Rodriguez's implicit political biases.  Of course, neither Rodriguez nor Wakin put too much emphasis on the fact that other world powers like communist China and Russia were exerting massive influence in Venezuela through the Maduro regime. The Wall Street Journal reported January 13 that “Maduro was [China’s] most important ally, an anti-American leader with oil resources, earning Venezuela the rare distinction of an ‘all-weather’ partnership—China’s highest diplomatic honor and a status held by no other country in Latin America.” Radio Free Europe also reported January 14 that “Over more than two decades, Russia has embedded itself in Venezuela's military, energy sector, and political elite, courting Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, both ardent critics of the United States, and establishing a firm foothold in the Western Hemisphere.” In fact, Russia wasn't even mentioned at all! But for the Soros-tied Rodriguez, he complained: “As a Venezuelan, I don’t like having the U.S. president run the Venezuelan oil industry.” Oh, so tyrants like Putin and Xi Jinping exerting massive influence over the oil industry was any better? Wakin offered no pushback to anything Rodriguez said. Rodriguez proceeded to kvetch that the Trump administration could bring Venezuela to economic collapse, like such a collapse didn’t already occur under the Maduro regime, such as when inflation peaked at 63,000 percent in 2018 to hovering around an average rate of 682.1 percent in 2026: Where do I see the problems? I see the problems in the near term, in the short term, and I see the problems in the belief by the U.S. that they can actually run the Venezuelan economy. Because the reality is that President Trump and his cabinet have no idea how to run the Venezuelan economy. My fear is that in the time that it takes for the Trump administration to actually understand why they can’t do what they claim that they’re going to try to do, you could have a full-fledged economic crisis in Venezuela.” Has this guy been living under a rock the past ten years? Times readers wouldn’t know it, because Wakin just lobbed softball questions at Rodriguez throughout the interview. By the way, how could a U.S.-influenced Venezuela perform any worse than 63,000 percent inflation? Trump exercising the principles of the Monroe Doctrine to prevent foreign influence on our Latin American neighbors and expanding access to Venezuela’s enormous oil reserves could be a net economic positive if conducted right. Even Rodriguez admitted, “Look, there’s tremendous economic upside to getting Venezuela access to oil markets again. This is an economy that has the capacity to produce a significant amount of oil.” No kidding compadre! 

In 2025, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his summer guest hosts told a measly 87 jokes making fun of liberals over 156 episodes, or about one liberal joke every two episodes. This year, the trend has continued with Wednesday’s show being the seventh of the year, but the first in which Kimmel told his first two jokes about liberals and even then they were in the context of lamenting that President Trump has defunded PBS. After playing a clip of a House hearing involving his nemesis, FCC chairman Brenden Carr, Kimmel quipped, “Meanwhile, Fredo's godfather, Donald Corleone, has also been working hard to kill PBS. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is the organization that funds PBS, voted to dissolve itself last week after Trump pushed Congress to cut off funding which led a lot of people to believe that PBS was going off the air, which it is not. Poor Oscar the Grouch is now living in an actual garbage can, but PBS is still with us.”     Kimmel then introduced a clip of a satirical PBS ad, “The PBS social media team has been responding to a lot of posts like this that say, "After 58 years PBS has officially shut down," with posts like this: "Hey, uh, so actually, we're still here." And their PR team just put out a video to let everyone know that even though the situation is bleak, they're still going.” The ad mocked various PBS shows, “Masterpiece Theater, Sesame Street, News Hour, Austin City Limits, 22,000 hours and counting of Ken Burns footage. The show with people bringing [bleep] from their garage, and the one where white people find out they're black. PBS. Check your local listings. We're still here, bitch!” Kimmel kids because he loves, “Good. I hope you are here for a long time.” The two PBS jokes (Oscar’s trash can and the fake ad) bring Kimmel into a tie with Stephen Colbert for last place among the five late night shows NewsBusters tracks on a nightly basis. By contrast, thus far Kimmel has told 155 jokes about conservatives, including 21 on Wednesday. Kimmel’s six episodes without a joke about liberals are nothing new. Last year, not including his guest hosts, he had four such streaks: a 13-episode run from April 29-May 29, another one of 10 from October 9-November 3, a seven-episode stretch from September 10-25, and another one of six from December 3-11. Here is a transcript for the January 14 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 1/14/2026 11:47 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Meanwhile, Fredo's godfather, Donald Corleone, has also been working hard to kill PBS. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is the organization that funds PBS, voted to dissolve itself last week after Trump pushed Congress to cut off funding which led a lot of people to believe that PBS was going off the air, which it is not. Poor Oscar the Grouch is now living in an actual garbage can, but PBS is still with us. The PBS social media team has been responding to a lot of posts like this that say, "After 58 years PBS has officially shut down," with posts like this: "Hey, uh, so actually, we're still here." And their PR team just put out a video to let everyone know that even though the situation is bleak, they're still going. NARRATOR: Masterpiece Theater, Sesame Street, News Hour, Austin City Limits, 22,000 hours and counting of Ken Burns footage. The show with people bringing [bleep] from their garage, and the one where white people find out they're black. PBS. Check your local listings. We're still here, bitch! KIMMEL: Good. I hope you are here for a long time.