Progressives will be progressives, regardless of which continent they happen to live on. And they always seem to be on the side of those who despise law and order and never on the side of the ‘normies’ who bear the consequences of the normalization of lawlessness.
European liberal media are acting as the cohorts of the U.S. leftist press when it comes to covering the shameful incitement by progressive actors and the deranged attacks by protesters against ICE officials in Minnesota. Those responsible for the chaos are glorified, while those working to enforce the law and make the United States safer are regularly demonized.
Take the example of Alex Pretti, the man shot dead by an ICE agent after he showed up to a ‘protest’ armed and engaged in repeated physical altercations with law enforcement officials. Liberal Italian newspaper La Repubblica saw fit to dedicate a whole article to the response of ‘solidarity’ of Italian nursing associations to the statement by the American Nurses Association, issued following the death of Pretti. According to La Repubblica, “The wave of indignation has now crossed the ocean and has arrived in Italy, too, concerning the murder (sic) of Alex Pretti … by ICE agents sent to Minnesota by Trump … Their Italian colleagues, shocked by the violence in the United States, have responded to the call … by the American Nursing Association for a full and transparent inquiry … They are also worried about the presence of ICE agents in Italy during the Olympic Games.” What on earth?
There is no point in looking for reporting in such media about the condition of the ICE agent who suffered internal bleeding after being rammed by Renée Good, the woman shot dead in an earlier incident in Minnesota. (Good is regularly referred to in the liberal media as “a mother of three.” No mention, meanwhile, of the family of the ICE agent, who are now apparently in hiding after they were doxed by leftist agitators.) There was (and still is) no trace of the same liberal media reporting on signallings of solidarity or “indignation” when Laken Riley, an Augusta nursing student, died at the hands of a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in 2024. On the contrary: the most important thing British leftist outlet The Guardian had to say about her murder was that “The killing of the 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley on the campus of the University of Georgia on 22 February has drawn national media interest and political activity in ways that other homicide cases do not, in part because it provides an easy target for rightwing election sloganeering.” (italicized for emphasis)
No words of sympathy for the innocent victim whose life was taken by a person who should not have been in the United States to begin with.
Similarly shocking is the way the liberal media in Europe reported on the disruption of a church service in Minneapolis. No words of compassion for the churchgoers who were left in terror after the illegal occupation of their place of worship. No opinion, in fact, about whether it is normal and acceptable to march into a house of God and intimidate the worshippers. No: reporting on activist-posing-as-reporter Don Lemon, risen from irrelevance after taking part in the infamous storming of St. Paul United Methodist Church, finally being charged (arrested but then released) in the case for his participation in the shameful incident, French Liberation explains that the reason for the protest was that one of the pastors is an ICE agent—as if that is something that warrants violence! The same Liberation that earlier dedicated an entire article to describing ICE as an “opaque” institution that acts as “the armed arm of the Trump regime.”
As if this were not enough, most recently, the American and Western European progressive media have gotten themselves an unlikely competitor in the who-can-demonize-law-enforcement-better game. Telex.hu, a Hungarian liberal outlet posing as ‘independent’ but heavily financed by foreign foundations propped up by the European Commission, and earlier by the Biden administration, published an article the other day about Greg Bovino with the following headline: ”Downfall of the little Napoleon in a Nazi coat, the face of Trump’s deportations“
It is hard to decide whether this can be regarded as an exceptional low even by liberal journalism standards or hailed as a rare moment of sincerity that reveals the almost insane hatred of Trump and what he stands for. As MEP András László (Fidesz / Patriots) highlighted in his tweet, deportations in the U.S. are ”an issue that hardly concerns Hungarians and the majority is against illegal immigration and Hungary has no issues removing illegals because we don’t allow them in.”
Luckily, the Trump administration is having none of the liberal gaslighting and is determined to enforce immigration laws—which is what the American people elected the 47th president to do and what most Europeans would like to see happen on the Old Continent, too.
Rooting for Chaos and Lawlessness? Demonizing ICE—in Europe
A protester holds a placard reading “Trump to the guillotine”, as she takes part in a rally against U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the National Assembly in Paris on January 28, 2026.
DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP
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Progressives will be progressives, regardless of which continent they happen to live on. And they always seem to be on the side of those who despise law and order and never on the side of the ‘normies’ who bear the consequences of the normalization of lawlessness.
European liberal media are acting as the cohorts of the U.S. leftist press when it comes to covering the shameful incitement by progressive actors and the deranged attacks by protesters against ICE officials in Minnesota. Those responsible for the chaos are glorified, while those working to enforce the law and make the United States safer are regularly demonized.
Take the example of Alex Pretti, the man shot dead by an ICE agent after he showed up to a ‘protest’ armed and engaged in repeated physical altercations with law enforcement officials. Liberal Italian newspaper La Repubblica saw fit to dedicate a whole article to the response of ‘solidarity’ of Italian nursing associations to the statement by the American Nurses Association, issued following the death of Pretti. According to La Repubblica, “The wave of indignation has now crossed the ocean and has arrived in Italy, too, concerning the murder (sic) of Alex Pretti … by ICE agents sent to Minnesota by Trump … Their Italian colleagues, shocked by the violence in the United States, have responded to the call … by the American Nursing Association for a full and transparent inquiry … They are also worried about the presence of ICE agents in Italy during the Olympic Games.” What on earth?
There is no point in looking for reporting in such media about the condition of the ICE agent who suffered internal bleeding after being rammed by Renée Good, the woman shot dead in an earlier incident in Minnesota. (Good is regularly referred to in the liberal media as “a mother of three.” No mention, meanwhile, of the family of the ICE agent, who are now apparently in hiding after they were doxed by leftist agitators.) There was (and still is) no trace of the same liberal media reporting on signallings of solidarity or “indignation” when Laken Riley, an Augusta nursing student, died at the hands of a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in 2024. On the contrary: the most important thing British leftist outlet The Guardian had to say about her murder was that “The killing of the 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley on the campus of the University of Georgia on 22 February has drawn national media interest and political activity in ways that other homicide cases do not, in part because it provides an easy target for rightwing election sloganeering.” (italicized for emphasis)
No words of sympathy for the innocent victim whose life was taken by a person who should not have been in the United States to begin with.
Similarly shocking is the way the liberal media in Europe reported on the disruption of a church service in Minneapolis. No words of compassion for the churchgoers who were left in terror after the illegal occupation of their place of worship. No opinion, in fact, about whether it is normal and acceptable to march into a house of God and intimidate the worshippers. No: reporting on activist-posing-as-reporter Don Lemon, risen from irrelevance after taking part in the infamous storming of St. Paul United Methodist Church, finally being charged (arrested but then released) in the case for his participation in the shameful incident, French Liberation explains that the reason for the protest was that one of the pastors is an ICE agent—as if that is something that warrants violence! The same Liberation that earlier dedicated an entire article to describing ICE as an “opaque” institution that acts as “the armed arm of the Trump regime.”
As if this were not enough, most recently, the American and Western European progressive media have gotten themselves an unlikely competitor in the who-can-demonize-law-enforcement-better game. Telex.hu, a Hungarian liberal outlet posing as ‘independent’ but heavily financed by foreign foundations propped up by the European Commission, and earlier by the Biden administration, published an article the other day about Greg Bovino with the following headline: ”Downfall of the little Napoleon in a Nazi coat, the face of Trump’s deportations“
It is hard to decide whether this can be regarded as an exceptional low even by liberal journalism standards or hailed as a rare moment of sincerity that reveals the almost insane hatred of Trump and what he stands for. As MEP András László (Fidesz / Patriots) highlighted in his tweet, deportations in the U.S. are ”an issue that hardly concerns Hungarians and the majority is against illegal immigration and Hungary has no issues removing illegals because we don’t allow them in.”
Luckily, the Trump administration is having none of the liberal gaslighting and is determined to enforce immigration laws—which is what the American people elected the 47th president to do and what most Europeans would like to see happen on the Old Continent, too.
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