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Lying ICE Agent Busted Pointing Gun in Face of American-Born Mom

The immigration goons dramatically escalated a confrontation even though their lives were not in danger.

A disturbing video has emerged of a woman being surrounded by ICE goons and having a gun pointed at her after federal immigration agents falsely suggested she had tried to hit them with her car.

Carolina Molina, an American citizen and a mother, posted the viral cellphone footage online showing the tense encounter in Northern Virginia, where an ICE agent drew and pointed a firearm at her while claiming she was following them and had “almost ran us over.” The masked ICE agent also threatened to arrest Molina, prompting her to inform them that she is a legal U.S. citizen.

However, dashcam footage from Molina’s vehicle shows that she never attempted to run over any ICE agents with her car. Instead, the immigration agents were seemingly upset that Molina—who works with attorneys to offer counseling services in immigration cases—had called them a “hoe” and a “f---ing b---h” while they were detaining two people.

After Molina explained to the ICE agents that she had dashcam footage of the moments leading up to one of them pointing a gun at her, they soon departed without arresting or detaining her.

She told WUSA9 she was driving to law offices in Falls Church, Virginia, to hand out business cards but decided to turn around after pulling into the parking lot in case there were immigrants in the building.

A clip of the shocking incident has gone viral in the wake of the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was shot three times at point-blank range by an ICE agent after the agent falsely suggested she was trying to run them over in Minneapolis.

The Trump administration was also quick to try to paint Good as a “domestic terrorist,” despite video evidence suggesting otherwise.

Speaking to WUSA9 about the incident, Molina described her fears about how badly the confrontation could have escalated.

“I was looking down a barrel, and he could have shot me, and he could have gotten away with it,” she said.

Molina added that she does not regret hurling insults at the ICE officers. “I know my laws. I’m an American citizen. I have my First Amendment rights. I can say what I can, what I want, and I don’t feel like I should have a gun pointed to my head because you didn’t like being called a hoe.”

Democratic Virginia Rep. Don Beyer shared the clip of the ICE officer pointing a gun at Molina on X, while stating that he will be “demanding answers and consequences.”

“While I am relieved that she is safe, the habitual dishonesty and dangerous and unjustified escalation seen in this video matches what we have seen from ICE agents across the country,” Beyer wrote. “This kind of misconduct and threat of force against members of our communities cannot be tolerated.”

Aaron Fritschner, Beyer’s deputy chief of staff, posted: “DHS has lied about these incidents over and over again and been caught in the lies over and over again. They are lying now, and nobody should believe them.

In a statement to NBC Washington, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that an “anti-ICE agitator began to drive her car in circles around our ICE officers and then attempted to harm officers by weaponizing her vehicle against them—all in an attempt to help illegal aliens get away.”

“Fearing for their safety, ICE officers conducted a vehicle stop of the driver,” the statement adds. “Necessary background information of the driver was taken and she could face criminal prosecution as a result of her actions.”

The Daily Beast has contacted DHS for further comment.

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How Trump Just Earned the Presidency’s Profile in Cowardice

His predecessors fought battles and saved lives; he snuck out in an in-flight meals truck.

By making a planeload of staff and reporters into unwitting decoys as they departed a NATO summit in Turkey on July 8, President Donald Trump presented America and the world with a profile in cowardice.

Just imagine the delight of the mullahs of Iran when they learned this week that what was described as a “credible threat” caused Trump to secretly switch planes on the tarmac in Ankara by sneaking onto a catering container.

If there had indeed been a threat, the perpetrators would have been led to believe their singular target was aboard. Everybody else on the plane would have been collateral damage.

Back in April, Trump boasted that in his war of choice with Iran, “We can do whatever we want.”

His secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, declared in March that our warfighters were establishing “total dominance.” Hegseth said the conflict’s timeline “is ours and ours alone.”

That sound you can now hear is of mullahs laughing.

As everyone now knows, Trump initially sought to cover up his return from Turkey with compound lies, at first saying that he had decided not to return on the new Air Force One so service members in Europe could see firsthand this “magnificent” gift to the U.S. from Qatar. He added that he would be taking the long-serving Air Force One for “old time’s sake.”

Word later leaked that there was a “credible threat” against Trump and that, for all its magnificence, the new plane did not yet have an air defense ”package” comparable to the one in the older plane.

Only this week did we learn that even the older plane was deemed insufficiently safe for the president.

Photos show two catering containers hoisted alongside the older Air Force One, apparently so Trump could be spirited on one of them to a waiting military plane, having chickened out in a time of war, leaving others unknowingly in harm’s way

The sides of the containers read “Turkish DO & CO.” It might as well be “AIR TACO.”

Trump had then flown undercover in the military plane to Midenhall Air Force Base in England, arriving around the same time as both the old Air Force One and the new one. He slipped aboard the new one, where he was joined by the staff and reporters who had just arrived on the old one, unaware he had not been with them all along. They all flew back to America.

As reported by the White House Historical Society, the first President to travel by airplane on official business was Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 12, 1943. He avoided the threat of Nazi U-boats by crossing the Atlantic in a Boeing 31 Air Boat called the Dixie Clipper to Casablanca in North Africa. He was over Haiti on the return leg of the 17,000-mile round trip when he celebrated his 61st birthday.Among the three future presidents who served in World War II was George H.W. Bush, who, at 20, was the Navy’s youngest pilot when his BF Avenger torpedo bomber was hit by anti-aircraft fire off the coast of Japan in August, 1943. He completed his bombing run before bailing out. He was in the water when a submarine periscope appeared. He drew his pistol and was ready to do battle when the submarine that then surfaced proved to be American. He was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the nation’s second highest medaLJohn F. Kennedy was the 26-year-old Navy Lt. j.g. commanding Patrol Torpedo Boat 109 when it was struck by a Japanese destroyer. A remarkable survival tale began with a three-and-a-half-mile nighttime swim while pulling a man from his crew by the belt. It became a book and a movie. He subsequently wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage about political bravery shown by others.

Richard Nixon served with less distinction, but he did step up when the call to service came. Other presidents who did the same do not include our present one.

In 2018, Trump said that he felt “extremely brave” when he and his wife, Melania, visited Asad Air Base in Iraq the day after Christmas. He seemed to be only half joking when he added that he wanted to award himself the Congressional Medal of Honor. He has joked repeatedly about wanting a Purple Heart.

Trump did have a remarkable moment after his ear was grazed by a would-be assassin’s bullet in July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, when he memorably rose, bloody-faced, with an upraised fist, but that seems to have been the instinctive showmanship of a man who always sees himself at center stage. He seems to have done nothing on record for the sake of others.But Trump proved with a catering container on the tarmac in Turkey that he is unhesitatingly willing to place others in harm’s way.

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ps:And dodged the draft 5 times! This man is worse than a coward!!!!!

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Trump’s Moral Vacuum Reveals Truth About Bone Spurs President

Trump was willing to sacrifice the lives of Americans to save his own skin.

Has it really come to this? A scared old man and his Pentagon bully cowering in a catering truck, knowing they could be sending friends and colleagues into the greatest peril.

This is what our leaders look like. A commander-in-chief and secretary of defense willing to use the lives of other Americans as decoys to save their own skins. Not in theory, playing war games on computer screens in faraway lands, but right there. Feet away.

It will go down in history as the day we finally saw Donald Trump for who he is ... a Wizard of Oz who uses trickery and deception to rule. A small man with a big voice. The great irony is that his immense moral vacuum was exposed by a real-life ruse that he cannot explain away.

Trump was deferred five times from fighting in Vietnam as a young man, four because of his college education and once for spurious bone spurs. He never fought like brave presidents from our past like John F. Kennedy, George H. W. Bush, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Ulysses S. Grant, and George Washington.

The only struggle he had was for ratings. But this could end up being Trump’s Fall of Saigon.

After being smuggled onto a military aircraft leaving Air Force One and most of the U.S. party on board as a decoy to a threatened Iranian terror attack last month, Trump returned to tell the unwitting journalists he had abandoned that he was “number one” on Tehran’s hit list.

“But if I go, you go. Right?” he said.

Imagine the outrage had Trump returned safely to Washington with his plane blown to smithereens and he had done nothing to help those on board. Even worse, he used them to save himself.

Over the past nineteen months, we have watched the illusion of Trump’s strength peel off like an old, stinky onion. The smell of corruption has become more pungent with each discarded layer.

The magic was in his brazenness. We held our presidents up to higher standards and, for a while at least, Trump benefited from that.

He insisted the economy was hot as we charged headlong toward a $40 trillion deficit, sought to portray every immigrant without papers as a murderer and a rapist, told us we were winning wars when the evidence clearly showed we weren’t, and sent soldiers into our cities and claimed they made them safe.

He pretended that by talking a lot, he ran the most transparent administration, ignoring the fact-checks and obvious mistruths.

And if we didn’t agree, he went on the attack. Belittling. Haranguing. Insulting.

The illusion of strength. The illusion of American power. And the reality of a catering truck.

A bombastic Trump left Turkey on July 8 after meeting with world leaders at a NATO summit in Ankara. The U.S. had renewed military attacks on Iran the night before, but there was no apparent connection to the decision to switch the presidential party—including Trump and the press pool—from the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747-8 they flew in on to the older Air Force One it replaced.

Unbeknownst to anybody at the time, including the White House press corps, members of the military, administration officials, and the crew, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—and maybe others—were sneaked onto an airport catering truck used to restock airline meals and supplies.

Trump was ferried in secrecy to a smaller Air Force C-32A, according to the Washington Post, which originally reported the switch, and flown to England, where he joined the rest of the traveling U.S. party in the older blue-and-white-striped Air Force One for the flight across the Atlantic.

The reason for the deception was the threat of an Iranian assassination attempt, presumably targeting Trump’s plane.

The media, all sitting ducks, were warned to pull down their blinds and were not told about the threat.

Trump’s reaction when the New York Times first reported last month that the Qatari airliner wasn’t properly equipped with the defensive attributes of previous Air Force One jets was to subpoena its journalists in an attempt to uncover their sources.

The most likely outcome of Tuesday’s reports will be renewed attacks on the messenger. Expect anger and investigations launched to find the leakers.

Trump may argue that he was only doing what he was told by the Secret Service. But there were so many other ways to keep everyone in the traveling party safe.

We saw something similar when Trump and his Cabinet were rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, leaving the rest of us at the mercy of a gunman. Fortunately, on both occasions, the danger was allayed. Nobody died. But any illusion that Trump truly cares for his citizens has been stripped away.

He only really cares about one person. And situations like these reveal him to be much less of a person than anybody thought.

Magicians hate it when their tricks are discovered. Because once the illusions are shattered, there’s really nothing much left at all...

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