Donald Trump Tried Proving ICE Shooting Claim to New York Times Reporters -- They Pushed Back
Source: The Wrap
Donald Trump Tried Proving ICE Shooting Claim to New York Times Reporters — They Pushed Back
As reporters questioned his framing of events in Minneapolis, Trump had a laptop brought in to watch the video together
Corbin Bolies
Thu, January 8, 2026 at 12:38 PM EST
2 min read
In the midst of a nearly two-hour Oval Office interview, President Donald Trump had a White House aide bring in a laptop to try and prove to New York Times reporters that the woman killed on Wednesday in Minneapolis had run over the agent before being shot.
Times reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs, who was joined by colleagues Tyler Pager, Katie Rogers and David Sanger, recalled how “as a slow-motion surveillance video of the shooting played on the laptop, we told him that this angle did not appear to show that an ICE officer had been run over.”
“Well,” Trump responded. “I — the way I look at it … ”
“It’s a terrible scene,” the president said at the end of the video. “I think it’s horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.”
Kanno-Youngs wrote that the exchange provided a glimpse into “Trump’s reflexive defense of what has become a sometimes violent federal crackdown on immigration, which in this case claimed the life of an American citizen who was protesting ICE’s presence in Minneapolis.”
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