MAGA Senator Crumbles While Defending ICE Shooting on Live TV

Trump’s Sen. Markwain Mullin contradicted himself on live television when he defended a federal immigration agent who shot and killed a Minneapolis mother.

During an appearance on CNN State of the UnionOklahoma Republicans rallied behind ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fired three shots into a vehicle in Minneapolis, killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

“The fact is that Renee Goode was interfering with police activity. There’s no question about that now,” Mullin told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday.

“Once she stopped the ICE agents from doing their job, they got out of the vehicle. Gave her verbal commands, she didn’t listen, and then she deliberately sped up and tried to run,” he said.

Mullin quickly sought to retract that claim.

“I don’t know if he intentionally tried to run over an ICE agent, but there was an ICE agent positioned in front of his vehicle. He accelerated them. At that point, that vehicle becomes a lethal weapon.”

Tapper was quick to note the inconsistency.

“You just said the woman obviously tried to run the guy over, and then you said, at the very least, she was going forward,” Tapper responded.

“I think it illustrates the fact that this is, at the very least, a widely disputed incident full of ambiguities and interpretations. How can anyone believe that she was trying to attack an officer instead of trying to flee the scene?”

Mullin replied that, in his opinion, the distinction did not matter.

“It doesn’t matter,” he said. “Police officers are doing their jobs, and she’s interfering with theirs.”

The shooting — captured on video from multiple angles — sparked immediate tension in the city and a political firestorm over ICE enforcement tactics.

Goode left behind three children: a daughter and son, ages 15 and 12, from her first marriage, and a six-year-old son from her second marriage, which ended with her husband’s death.

When Tapper pressed Mullin on whether Goode’s actions warranted his murder, the senator said yes, repeatedly insisting that his vehicle was being used in a so-called “lethal manner.”

Tapper then pointed out that video footage appeared to show Ross firing into the side of Goode’s car — which Tapper described as “out of harm’s way” from the vehicle. Mullin dismissed the footage.

“Well, that’s very selective imaging that you guys are using there,” he said.

Footage of the shooting that has been widely circulated on social media shows ICE agents yelling at Goode — who had reportedly dropped her six-year-old son off at school — through the window of her SUV as it remained stationary on a Minneapolis street, blocking a lane of traffic.

The video doesn’t look good. The last words he said before being shot were, “It’s okay, man. I’m not mad at you. I’m not mad at you.”

Moments later, a pickup truck pulls up as a woman, believed to be Good’s wife Rebecca, confronts the officer recording the scene. ICE agents are then seen quickly arriving at Goode’s vehicle and ordering him to get out.

“F–king get out of the car,” says the agent.

After failing to open the passenger-side door, Rebecca shouts, “Drive baby, drive.”

An agent is unable to open Good’s locked door. Then she tries to leave the area—first briefly reversing, then turning and moving forward. As the vehicle drives off, three shots ring out, and Good’s SUV crashes into another car parked on a residential street.

Moments after the crash, as Goode lays dying from a gunshot wound to the head, an ICE agent is heard yelling “f–king b—h.” The video, obtained by Alpha News, was taken down shortly after.

While the White House has maintained that Goode was trying to ram Ross properly, Trump claimed that he ran, was hospitalized, and that it was “hard to believe he was alive.”

But critics say the footage is damaging to the administration — especially when it confirms that the agent’s immediate reaction wasn’t to pain from the injury that landed him in the hospital, but instead to yell.

The Daily Beast reached out to Mullin for further clarification.