ICEBlock, a new app that allows users to submit information about the location of ICE officers spotted in their community, has shot to the number one spot on the Apple App Store. And it’s largely thanks to publicity from the White House and President Donald Trump’s angry band of fascists.
The ICEBlock app was created by developer Joshua Aaron, who told CNN that he wanted to create something to fight back against the deportations he saw happening in Los Angeles. The city has been terrorized by masked thugs in recent weeks who are abducting people off the streets as part of Trump’s plan to purge the country of anyone deemed insufficiently white.
Trump was taking a tour of a new concentration camp for immigrants in Florida on Tuesday when he and Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security, were asked by reporters about the app. They threatened to go after the news network in typical MAGA fashion.
“We’re working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that,” Noem said of CNN. “Because what they’re doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities, operations. And we’re going to actually go after them and prosecute them with the partnership of Pam if we can. Because what they’re doing, we believe, is illegal.”
Pam is a reference to Pam Bondi, Trump’s extremist Attorney General. And while Trump seemed to agree with Noem’s call for CNN to be prosecuted for reporting on the existence of an app, he seemed even more preoccupied with his recent illegal bombing of Iran.
“And they may be prosecuted also for having given false reports on the attack in Iran,” Trump said. “They were given totally false reports. It was totally obliterated. And our people have to be celebrated, not come home and say, what do you mean we didn’t hit the target?”
CNN, along with other news outlets, reported that Trump’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities may have only delayed the country’s ability to produce a nuke (if it wanted to) by a few months.
Tom Homan, the so-called border czar, appeared on Fox Business on Tuesday to complain about the app as well. “I just can’t believe we’re in a place where a TV network like CNN is talking about this app and educating people on the existence of this app,” Homan told Stuart Varney.
“This is a dangerous job,” Homan continued. “And this app is going to give the bad guy a heads up that we’re coming. Which means more bad guys are going to escape arrest, which makes this country less safe, which is a public safety issue.”
Homan continued that he was sick of people vilifying ICE agents as Nazis and that he wants something to be done by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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