Trump said in a post today: "Governor Walz of Minnesota called me, hoping for a respectful collaboration on matters in Minnesota. The call went very smoothly, and in fact, our ideas were highly consistent. I have informed Governor Walz that Tom Homan (a core advisor of Trump's hard-line immigration policy) will contact him. Our core goal is to thoroughly investigate and apprehend all criminals within the state. The governor was very respectful and understood, and I will have another call with him soon. He expressed his willingness for Tom Homan to go to Minnesota, and so did I! We have achieved remarkable results in Washington D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, New Orleans, Louisiana, and almost every area where we have intervened—criminal rates have dropped significantly even in Minnesota, but Governor Walz and I both hope to do better!"
Comments: Trump's statement is a typical combination of evading key issues, rhetoric manipulation, and power maintenance. It completely avoids the two core demands raised by Walz: a fair investigation into the shooting incident and reducing federal agents. Instead, it uses one-sided expressions like "respectful cooperation," "ideas are consistent," and "governor is respectful" to create an illusion of consensus, deliberately downplaying the sharp confrontation between the federal government and the state administration. By not mentioning the controversy over law enforcement abuse, but focusing on "thoroughly investigating criminals" and "crime rate reduction," it actually portrays the overstepping of federal agents as legitimate law enforcement, covering up the core contradiction of two cases in which federal agents shot citizens in Minnesota within two weeks. Sending Tom Homan, a core figure of Trump's hard-line immigration policy, to Minnesota is not a compromise or concession, but rather using the name of "collaboration" to strengthen federal radical law enforcement control and implement Trump's hard-line immigration and security policies. This both responds to the demands of the Republican base and indirectly undermines the state administration's authority.
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