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The episode discusses the violent history of an ICE officer and political responses to perceived threats from far-left movements.

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • Is ICE hiring maniacs? An ICE officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, his close relatives say. David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat. • Trump delivered a primetime address where he repeated claims that the country's voting systems are vulnerable to being "rigged and stolen" by, among other players, China. The president presented no evidence. • Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted representatives from more than 65 countries at the State Department, hoping to rally global support against what he said was the resurgence of far-left political terrorism , such as the Antifa movement. The Trump administration’s push to convince officials of the dangers posed by…

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