Trump admin 'dropping the ball' by calling protestors 'domestic terrorists': MAGA lawmaker

Former MAGA Rep. Trey Gowdy, who is now a host on Fox News, was aghast after seeing the U.S. government try to label the latest ICE shooting victim a "domestic terrorist."

In the past three weeks, federal agents have shot and killed two protesters, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Each time, administration officials said that they were clearly an example of "domestic terrorists" attempting to kill law enforcement.

"So, when you perpetuate violence against a government because of ideological reasons and for reasons to resist and perpetuate violence, that is the definition of domestic terrorism," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a press conference Saturday.

On Monday, however, the administration appeared to shift. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, on “Fox & Friends,” implied that Noem never said that.

“I don’t think anybody thinks that they were comparing what happened on Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism,” Blanche claimed.

CNN Pentagon correspondent Dasha Burns posted a clip of Gowdy speaking on Fox, saying that the administration is "dropping the ball" on messaging about the killing of Pretti in Minnesota.

“We certainly should not be labeling him as a domestic terrorist who was going to execute cops. There is no evidence to support that," Gowdy said in the video Burns clipped.