Voters in Iowa who helped elect Donald Trump to a second term in office last year now say they are disgusted by what they’ve seen from his administration in recent weeks when it comes to the issue of immigration and regret casting a ballot for him.
MS NOW’s Vaughan Hillyard spoke to some of those voters, and they said the murder of two protesters — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — by federal agents in Minneapolis has turned them against Trump.
“There were hundreds of Iowans protesting his arrival with signs about the killing of Alex Pretti and these deportation operations that are unfolding. And we saw that there were two protesters in that room that were kicked out. One of them dropped his phone, and a supporter of the president picked it up and smashed it to the ground,” Hillyard noted.
Marsha and Michael are two of the Trump supporters who agreed to speak on camera with Hillyard. Marsha said the immigrant detentions taking place across the country are horrible.
“Not like they’re doing. Not like this. Not like this. This is horrible. Just horrible. I’m sick to my stomach,” she explained.
Michael was asked, “Does what you see make you uncomfortable?”
“Yeah. Yeah,” he replied. “I mean, I think anytime someone gets shot in the street, you should be uncomfortable and ask how we got to that point and what we can do to not get to that point again. It’s happened twice, so something clearly isn’t working.”
“The rules are there,” he added. They need to be enforced but can’t be shooting people in the street either.”
They are indeed shooting people in the streets. And we all have to ask ourselves a question: Is this who we want to be as Americans?
