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At the White House on Friday, Donald Trump endorsed his vice-president\u2019s baseless claim<\/a> that Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman killed by an ICE agent<\/a> in Minneapolis on Wednesday, was part of a shadowy \u201cleftwing network\u201d trying \u201cto incite violence\u201d against federal agents.<\/p>\n Asked by a Fox News correspondent to expand on JD Vance\u2019s comments about Good, the president said that the vice-president \u201cis generally very accurate\u201d and then cited what he referred to as evidence that at least one person in Good\u2019s vicinity when she was killed was \u201cprobably a paid agitator\u201d.<\/p>\n The claim that none of the protesters who oppose his mass deportation campaign are motivated by horror at what is being done to their neighbors, but must be paid operatives, is a familiar one for Trump, who has made it repeatedly in recent months.<\/p>\n In Good\u2019s case, Trump focused on the fact that, in video of federal agents killing her that was recorded by a witness, someone could be heard screaming the word \u201cshame\u201d repeatedly, which indicated to him that that person must have been \u201ca professional troublemaker\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI watched that,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThere was a woman screaming: \u2018Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!\u2019 She was a[n] agitator, probably a paid agitator, but in my opinion she was an agitator, a very high-level agitator, so professional. She wouldn\u2019t stop screaming.\u201d<\/p>\n It was unclear whether the person who screamed \u201cshame\u201d at the ICE officers at least 10 times during the incident was the person who recorded the video, or someone standing near her. But the president\u2019s assertion that only a paid agitator would scream at ICE agents carrying out immigration raids on the streets of American cities is contradicted by hundreds of recorded incidents over the past year.<\/p>\n The video did capture a witness to the killing of Good screaming \u201cshame\u201d at the agents at two different points. First, the person screamed the word twice<\/a> as the agents attempted to pull Good from her vehicle and then opened fire.<\/p>\n