Earlier this month, after federal agents shot and killed Renee Good, senior Trump Administration officials responded not with the sobriety such a tragedy demands but with the most incendiary labels they could summon. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Good a “domestic terrorist.” Vice President J.D. Vance doubled down on Noem’s falsehoods, insisting that Good had been “brainwashed” and was part of a “broader left‑wing network,” allegations offered without evidence. He described her death as “a tragedy of her own making,” as though the state bore no responsibility for the bullets its agents fired.