Sometimes those virtue-signaling, 500-pound brains at CNN are almost too crafty by half. To the point where they just about out-clever themselves, and dang if they haven’t done it again.
It’s not like we don’t all know that CNN despises Trump and that CNN anchors and personalities think every illegal alien is another Maryland man just waiting to be free so he can buy a little home in the burbs.
CNN’s mission is to do their level best to make sure those illegals get their share of the American pie, even if it means taking your slice.
In order to do that, they have to mount a stealth mission against the forces of evil – the Trump administration – through all means fair or foul, mostly foul. That includes the nightly diatribes on the various roundtables when Trump policies and enforcement news of the day is loudly decried as inhuman, inhumane, unconstitutional, or all of the above. Even if it means taking repeated corrective ass whuppins from Scott Jennings, they stick like progressive glue to the message no matter what kind of lie they made up to spew.
The ‘reporters’ and ‘news’ anchors have to be a little cagier getting the subversive message across so as not to shred what little credibility they have left, and cause the rest of the six folks in their viewing audience to finally flush the channel from their remote’s station memory.
This was a particularly wicked example of CNN’s creative reporting last night.
Oh, my gosh! The ingenue-like, innocently wide-eyed ‘news’ anchor says to the CNN reporter.’ I heard there’s some chill-axe kind of ICE tracking app people are using. Sounds neat. What exactly is it and HOW DOES IT WORK?
Um…OKAY.
So she shows him.
TRACK REAL-TIME ICE MOVEMENTS JUST LIKE THIS ON THIS APP YOU COULD GET IF YOU WANT RIGHT HERE
🚨Is CNN pushing an app that helps DOXX ICE agents in real time?!
The app “ICEBLOCK” tracks the movements of federal agents and has the potential to put their lives at risk, and CNN is running a “story,” on it.
Will Apple and Google keep this in their app stores?
Will… pic.twitter.com/U340Q8RXz7
— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) June 30, 2025
This is the developer speaking to the reporter in the longer story.
Incredibly sick. CNN reporter @claresduffy did a puff piece with the developer of an app that allows users to track ICE agents in real time. CNN is now providing free advertising for an app that aims to get ICE agents hurt and/or killed in the line of duty.
Why is Apple and… pic.twitter.com/kOKQxXLsoe
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) June 30, 2025
The anchor does think to ask, ‘What are the legal implications?’
You know – about using the app, not about a national news network telling everyone about it, where to find it, and how it works, helping illegals and those who want to interfere with and impede legitimate law enforcement actions.
CNN thinks it’s not a big deal. It’s kind of like when you’re using Waze on a road trip and you use the feature to report a broken-down truck on the side of the road, or you hear the ping to let you know there’s been a cop car on the road ahead.
SAME-SAME, YO
But I really can’t ever recall using the Waze feature to track the guy in the cop car to his house. Or thought to jump between the officer and the speeder sitting in the car he was writing a ticket for.
Maybe I’m looking at things wrong, but the acting ICE director isn’t feeling the love from CNN, either. It’s almost as if he feels the network has it in for his agents and is working for the other side.
NEW: CNN is currently featuring an interview with the creator of an app that tracks federal agents and officers called “ICEBlock” — Acting @ICEgov Director Todd Lyons reacts saying, “CNN’s promotion of an ‘ICE spotting’ app is reckless and irresponsible… Advertising an app that… pic.twitter.com/viQ7qUGtTq
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) June 30, 2025
…Advertising an app that basically paints a target on federal law enforcement officers’ backs is sickening. My officers and agents are already facing a 500% increase in assaults, and going on live television to announce an app that lets anyone zero in on their locations is like inviting violence against them with a national megaphone. CNN is willfully endangering the lives of officers who put their lives on the line every day and enabling dangerous criminal aliens to evade U.S. law. Is this simply reckless ‘journalism’ or overt activism?”
Federal agents and officers are being doxxex regularly across the nation.
While working operations in California—@USBPChiefELC Assistant Chief David Kim’s photo was publicized with phone numbers (none of them were his and only one is operation belonging to someone not affiliated with the federal government) calling for him to leave.
I mean, CNN wouldn’t be showing any bias. They are a straight news organization. No perceptible slant to anything.
Masked ICE officers: The new calling card of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown
When New York City Comptroller Brad Lander returned to a Manhattan immigration courthouse on Friday, days after being arrested while escorting an immigrant whom federal agents detained, he said he again witnessed “a deeply dehumanizing process.”
“We saw three people removed by the same non-uniformed, masked ICE agents who gave no reason for their removal, ripped them out of the arms of escorts in a proceeding that bears no resemblance to justice,” said Lander, who is running for mayor, according to CNN affiliate WCBS-TV.
It has become the new calling card of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown: Federal officers, often masked and not wearing uniforms or displaying badges, arresting people outside courtroom hearings, during traffic stops and in workplace sweeps.
Trump is the first to allow his masked ICE agents to snatch people off the street!
Only…like…yikes. Check the date.
Factory raids, masked ICE agents, dogs and cats living together.
OBAMA
What a shame CNN couldn’t help those poor Maryland men in Tucson with an app back then. You know they would have wanted to just as much as they try to help out now.
Right?
RIGHT
Then again, with Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, they didn’t have to help those folks in the Chuy’s franchises that got raided. The only ones who went to jail were the owners, and the one unlucky illegal immigrant nailed for some crime other than his border jumping.
…But at the arraignment days later in federal court here, no immigrant workers stood before the judge. The only criminal defendants were the owners, Mark Evenson and his son Christopher, and an accountant who worked with them, Diane Ingrid Strehlow. If the Evensons are convicted on all charges against them of tax fraud and harboring illegal workers, they each could face more than 80 years in jail.
Of 42 illegal immigrants caught in the Chuy’s sweep, only one was charged with a crime, and it was not related to the raid. Thirteen workers were processed for immigration violations — which are civil offenses — and detained or deported. The others remained in this country as witnesses or to seek legal status through the immigration courts.
The illegals’ lawyer even said ICE was ‘nice.’
Remember, this raid was in 2011. Look at when these two illegal Mexican brothers got to the States.
…Unusually, even immigration lawyers who represented Chuy’s workers spoke favorably of the federal handling of the case.
“ICE was nice,” said Delia Salvatierra, a lawyer in Phoenix who represents two workers who were in the process of gaining legal status when they were detained. “It was as benign as it can get,” she said. Officers released the two workers so they could pursue their cases in immigration court.
The two of them, who are brothers, said they came to the United States from Mexico in the 1990s. Both had worked most of the time since in Chuy’s restaurants. The eldest, Alejandro Díaz Ojeda, 36, learned to cook the Chuy’s menu. Then he taught his brother, Javier, who is 30.
And then yay! Everybody got to stay even after the raid!
That was the nice, squishy old ICE CNN could get behind. Not the nasty, mean old Trumpy deporty ICE now.
Like Homan says, it’s disgusting that we’re at the point where the folks finally enforcing the law are the bad guys.
🚨BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Border Czar Tom Homan demands an immediate DOJ investigation into CNN for promoting an app that tracks ICE operations to help criminal aliens evade deportation.
“A national media outlet forecasting law enforcement operations. DOJ needs to look at this. Send… pic.twitter.com/1WeNp3ILe8
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 30, 2025
And yet CNN is going to assist the bad guys even if it kills the network and/or gets their pants sued off again.
*thinks*
SOLD!
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