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A mother shoved to the ground in front of her children in the hallways of a immigration courthouse in New York. A young woman pulled from her car and handcuffed on a busy street in Key Largo, Florida. A child care worker dragged out of her workplace in Chicago, in front of parents and children. A pregnant woman yanked by one arm through the snowy streets of Minneapolis.  In each of these cases, the aggressors were men working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and their actions were caught on video widely shared online.  Then came Renee Nicole Good. Last Wednesday, the 37-year-old mother of three and her wife had dropped off their 6-year-old son at school and were blocks away from home when they stopped by an ICE protest to “support their neighbors,” according to Good’s wife, Becca. People had gathered to blow whistles and shout to alert nearby residents about ICE’s presence in Minneapolis’ Central neighborhood. Video taken at the scene from different angles and analyzed by multiple news outlets shows Good trying to leave as an ICE agent grasps at the driver-side door handle of her car. A second agent, later identified as Jonathan Ross, was standing toward the front of the car. He fired at least three shots aimed at Good as she attempted to drive away. An agent can be heard saying in one of the videos, “Fucking bitch” after the shots were fired. Good was killed.  President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have, without evidence, accused Good of attacking Ross and justified his actions as self-defense.  There is no database tracking when ICE agents use force against women. But a growing number of videos captured throughout the first year of the second Trump administration offer some insight into the violent encounters that women have experienced: broken car windows, yanking, shoving, pepper-spraying and shootings, all of them out in the open and available on social media.  ICE agents’ history of violence against men, women and transgender people in detention facilities has been documented. Gender-based violence researchers told The 19th that the widespread visibility of physical violence against women in public spaces does not happen in a vacuum and goes hand-in-hand with the policies and messaging coming from the administration. The visible attacks shared online come on the heels of President Donald Trump insulting women reporters as “piggy” and “ugly” and downplaying the severity of domestic violence. They also come at a time when reproductive rights and access to gender-affirming care have been significantly restricted, and as funding for gender-based violence services and research centering women and LGBTQ+ people has been stripped.  “All of these things converge to entrap women and make more violence in their lives and have fewer ways for them to escape the violence,” said Dr. Carolyn West, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington Tacoma. “So, it’s not just the violence in your home, it’s the violence in your workplace, it’s the violence in the larger community. It’s state-sponsored violence; all of these things converging together.” “State-sponsored violence,” as West refers to it, is a term used by researchers to discuss violence perpetrated by government authorities, including local and federal police and ICE agents.  Between 1999 and 2015, the percentage of women who made up the population of people experiencing police use of force increased from 13 percent to 25 percent according to an analysis by the nonprofit think tank Prison Policy Initiative. A study published in the journal for the National Academy of Sciences, based on data from 2013 to 2018, found that Indigenous women and girls experienced a lifetime risk of 4 per 100,000 potentially being killed by police, while the rate for Black women and girls ranged from 2.4 to 5.4 per 100,000; the rate for White women and girls was 2 deaths per 100,000. A 2022 survey of LGBTQ+ people found that 25 percent said they were verbally assaulted during their most recent encounter with police, 13.4 percent said they were sexually harassed and 12.8 percent said they were physically assaulted.  Data tracking use of force by members of law enforcement is underreported and not standardized across the thousands of law enforcement agencies throughout the country, so what is available does not fully reflect the scope of the issue.  For example, the most recent data from government sources, news and academic analysis do not capture specific rates of force among immigration officials against women. One report, by the American Immigration Council, indicates that ICE encounters and arrests with women increased from the end of the Obama administration through the beginning of Trump’s first term. Scenes of Latinas on the receiving end of violence by ICE agents are more common among recent online videos, in part because about half of all immigrants in the United States are from Latin America.  This dearth of more complete data is more apparent in the current Trump administration, researchers said. Over the course of the last year, executive orders on gender and diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility banned the use of certain words. As a result, federal departments and some advocacy groups that cater to marginalized populations removed these words from information in their grant applications and on their websites. “I’m writing something now and I’ve got seven configurations of the word gender that can’t be used in a grant application,” said Dr. Earl Smith, a professor of women and gender studies at the University of Delaware. West stated that the lagging research and support for data create a vicious cycle: without updated data, it becomes impossible to show there is a problem, she said. “It’s almost like a willful ignorance,” West said. “If we can not collect the data, if we defund all these programs, and if nobody’s counting, then there’s the gaslighting that says, ‘Well, there’s no data to say there’s a problem.’” This has been part of the challenge when speaking about violence by ICE agents since the start of the second Trump administration, researchers said.

A mother shoved to the ground in front of her children in the hallways of a immigration courthouse in New York. A young woman pulled from her car and handcuffed on a busy street in Key Largo, Florida. A child care worker dragged out of her workplace in Chicago, in front of parents and children. A pregnant woman yanked by one arm through the snowy streets of Minneapolis.  In each of these cases, the aggressors were men working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and their actions were caught on video widely shared online.  Then came Renee Nicole Good. Last Wednesday, the 37-year-old mother of three and her wife had dropped off their 6-year-old son at school and were blocks away from home when they stopped by an ICE protest to “support their neighbors,” according to Good’s wife, Becca. People had gathered to blow whistles and shout to alert nearby residents about ICE’s presence in Minneapolis’ Central neighborhood. Video taken at the scene from different angles and analyzed by multiple news outlets shows Good trying to leave as an ICE agent grasps at the driver-side door handle of her car. A second agent, later identified as Jonathan Ross, was standing toward the front of the car. He fired at least three shots aimed at Good as she attempted to drive away. An agent can be heard saying in one of the videos, “Fucking bitch” after the shots were fired. Good was killed.  President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have, without evidence, accused Good of attacking Ross and justified his actions as self-defense.  There is no database tracking when ICE agents use force against women. But a growing number of videos captured throughout the first year of the second Trump administration offer some insight into the violent encounters that women have experienced: broken car windows, yanking, shoving, pepper-spraying and shootings, all of them out in the open and available on social media.  ICE agents’ history of violence against men, women and transgender people in detention facilities has been documented. Gender-based violence researchers told The 19th that the widespread visibility of physical violence against women in public spaces does not happen in a vacuum and goes hand-in-hand with the policies and messaging coming from the administration. The visible attacks shared online come on the heels of President Donald Trump insulting women reporters as “piggy” and “ugly” and downplaying the severity of domestic violence. They also come at a time when reproductive rights and access to gender-affirming care have been significantly restricted, and as funding for gender-based violence services and research centering women and LGBTQ+ people has been stripped.  “All of these things converge to entrap women and make more violence in their lives and have fewer ways for them to escape the violence,” said Dr. Carolyn West, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington Tacoma. “So, it’s not just the violence in your home, it’s the violence in your workplace, it’s the violence in the larger community. It’s state-sponsored violence; all of these things converging together.” “State-sponsored violence,” as West refers to it, is a term used by researchers to discuss violence perpetrated by government authorities, including local and federal police and ICE agents.  Between 1999 and 2015, the percentage of women who made up the population of people experiencing police use of force increased from 13 percent to 25 percent according to an analysis by the nonprofit think tank Prison Policy Initiative. A study published in the journal for the National Academy of Sciences, based on data from 2013 to 2018, found that Indigenous women and girls experienced a lifetime risk of 4 per 100,000 potentially being killed by police, while the rate for Black women and girls ranged from 2.4 to 5.4 per 100,000; the rate for White women and girls was 2 deaths per 100,000. A 2022 survey of LGBTQ+ people found that 25 percent said they were verbally assaulted during their most recent encounter with police, 13.4 percent said they were sexually harassed and 12.8 percent said they were physically assaulted.  Data tracking use of force by members of law enforcement is underreported and not standardized across the thousands of law enforcement agencies throughout the country, so what is available does not fully reflect the scope of the issue.  For example, the most recent data from government sources, news and academic analysis do not capture specific rates of force among immigration officials against women. One report, by the American Immigration Council, indicates that ICE encounters and arrests with women increased from the end of the Obama administration through the beginning of Trump’s first term. Scenes of Latinas on the receiving end of violence by ICE agents are more common among recent online videos, in part because about half of all immigrants in the United States are from Latin America.  This dearth of more complete data is more apparent in the current Trump administration, researchers said. Over the course of the last year, executive orders on gender and diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility banned the use of certain words. As a result, federal departments and some advocacy groups that cater to marginalized populations removed these words from information in their grant applications and on their websites. “I’m writing something now and I’ve got seven configurations of the word gender that can’t be used in a grant application,” said Dr. Earl Smith, a professor of women and gender studies at the University of Delaware. West stated that the lagging research and support for data create a vicious cycle: without updated data, it becomes impossible to show there is a problem, she said. “It’s almost like a willful ignorance,” West said. “If we can not collect the data, if we defund all these programs, and if nobody’s counting, then there’s the gaslighting that says, ‘Well, there’s no data to say there’s a problem.’” This has been part of the challenge when speaking about violence by ICE agents since the start of the second Trump administration, researchers said.

A mother shoved to the ground in front of her children in the hallways of a immigration courthouse in New York. A young woman pulled from her car and handcuffed on a busy street in Key Largo, Florida. A child care worker dragged out of her workplace in Chicago, in front of parents and children. A pregnant woman yanked by one arm through the snowy streets of Minneapolis.  In each of these cases, the aggressors were men working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and their actions were caught on video widely shared online.  Then came Renee Nicole Good. Last Wednesday, the 37-year-old mother of three and her wife had dropped off their 6-year-old son at school and were blocks away from home when they stopped by an ICE protest to “support their neighbors,” according to Good’s wife, Becca. People had gathered to blow whistles and shout to alert nearby residents about ICE’s presence in Minneapolis’ Central neighborhood. Video taken at the scene from different angles and analyzed by multiple news outlets shows Good trying to leave as an ICE agent grasps at the driver-side door handle of her car. A second agent, later identified as Jonathan Ross, was standing toward the front of the car. He fired at least three shots aimed at Good as she attempted to drive away. An agent can be heard saying in one of the videos, “Fucking bitch” after the shots were fired. Good was killed.  President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have, without evidence, accused Good of attacking Ross and justified his actions as self-defense.  There is no database tracking when ICE agents use force against women. But a growing number of videos captured throughout the first year of the second Trump administration offer some insight into the violent encounters that women have experienced: broken car windows, yanking, shoving, pepper-spraying and shootings, all of them out in the open and available on social media.  ICE agents’ history of violence against men, women and transgender people in detention facilities has been documented. Gender-based violence researchers told The 19th that the widespread visibility of physical violence against women in public spaces does not happen in a vacuum and goes hand-in-hand with the policies and messaging coming from the administration. The visible attacks shared online come on the heels of President Donald Trump insulting women reporters as “piggy” and “ugly” and downplaying the severity of domestic violence. They also come at a time when reproductive rights and access to gender-affirming care have been significantly restricted, and as funding for gender-based violence services and research centering women and LGBTQ+ people has been stripped.  “All of these things converge to entrap women and make more violence in their lives and have fewer ways for them to escape the violence,” said Dr. Carolyn West, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington Tacoma. “So, it’s not just the violence in your home, it’s the violence in your workplace, it’s the violence in the larger community. It’s state-sponsored violence; all of these things converging together.” “State-sponsored violence,” as West refers to it, is a term used by researchers to discuss violence perpetrated by government authorities, including local and federal police and ICE agents.  Between 1999 and 2015, the percentage of women who made up the population of people experiencing police use of force increased from 13 percent to 25 percent according to an analysis by the nonprofit think tank Prison Policy Initiative. A study published in the journal for the National Academy of Sciences, based on data from 2013 to 2018, found that Indigenous women and girls experienced a lifetime risk of 4 per 100,000 potentially being killed by police, while the rate for Black women and girls ranged from 2.4 to 5.4 per 100,000; the rate for White women and girls was 2 deaths per 100,000. A 2022 survey of LGBTQ+ people found that 25 percent said they were verbally assaulted during their most recent encounter with police, 13.4 percent said they were sexually harassed and 12.8 percent said they were physically assaulted.  Data tracking use of force by members of law enforcement is underreported and not standardized across the thousands of law enforcement agencies throughout the country, so what is available does not fully reflect the scope of the issue.  For example, the most recent data from government sources, news and academic analysis do not capture specific rates of force among immigration officials against women. One report, by the American Immigration Council, indicates that ICE encounters and arrests with women increased from the end of the Obama administration through the beginning of Trump’s first term. Scenes of Latinas on the receiving end of violence by ICE agents are more common among recent online videos, in part because about half of all immigrants in the United States are from Latin America.  This dearth of more complete data is more apparent in the current Trump administration, researchers said. Over the course of the last year, executive orders on gender and diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility banned the use of certain words. As a result, federal departments and some advocacy groups that cater to marginalized populations removed these words from information in their grant applications and on their websites. “I’m writing something now and I’ve got seven configurations of the word gender that can’t be used in a grant application,” said Dr. Earl Smith, a professor of women and gender studies at the University of Delaware. West stated that the lagging research and support for data create a vicious cycle: without updated data, it becomes impossible to show there is a problem, she said. “It’s almost like a willful ignorance,” West said. “If we can not collect the data, if we defund all these programs, and if nobody’s counting, then there’s the gaslighting that says, ‘Well, there’s no data to say there’s a problem.’” This has been part of the challenge when speaking about violence by ICE agents since the start of the second Trump administration, researchers said.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) defended a Ford plant’s decision to suspend a worker for calling President Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” on Wednesday, arguing there is no such thing as freedom of speech in the workplace. During an interview with Paul on Piers Morgan Uncensored, host Piers Morgan played a clip of Trump flipping the bird at 40-year-old auto worker TJ Sabula after Sabula heckled him during a visit to a Detroit Ford plant this week. Sabula was suspended from his job shortly after the incident. “Do you think the president’s response was appropriate?” asked Morgan after playing the clip, to which Paul replied: I guess I would start with the person who yells. People think that freedom of speech means you can say anything you want, anywhere you want, but if you work for me and I’m Mr. Ford and I say you have to behave with decorum whether it’s President Obama or President Trump, I’ll fire your ass if you’re not polite and you need to be polite. At your workplace, you’ve got to. You do not have freedom of speech to call your boss a knucklehead […] Private property means the people who control the property have some controls over your behavior. So the person was inappropriate. Whether the president was inappropriate or not, I’m not going to make a judgement on it. I wasn’t there, I didn’t hear it, but I think it’s a useful lesson about speech that you can say anything you want, the government shouldn’t put you in jail, but your employer has no obligation to keep you on if you’re rude when you’ve invited the president to your business. Morgan responded, “Sounds like you’re kind of defending the president’s right to flip the bird.” “Take it as you will. Interpret it as you must, Piers,” concluded Paul. Paul’s defense of the president came just a day after Trump called him a “stone-cold loser.” The senator shrugged off Trump’s insult towards him on Piers Morgan Uncensored, making a joke about WWE star Stone Cold Steve Austin. Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored. The post Rand Paul Rushes to Defend Trump for Flipping Off Auto Worker — a Day After President Called Him a ‘Stone-Cold Loser’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) defended a Ford plant’s decision to suspend a worker for calling President Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” on Wednesday, arguing there is no such thing as freedom of speech in the workplace. During an interview with Paul on Piers Morgan Uncensored, host Piers Morgan played a clip of Trump flipping the bird at 40-year-old auto worker TJ Sabula after Sabula heckled him during a visit to a Detroit Ford plant this week. Sabula was suspended from his job shortly after the incident. “Do you think the president’s response was appropriate?” asked Morgan after playing the clip, to which Paul replied: I guess I would start with the person who yells. People think that freedom of speech means you can say anything you want, anywhere you want, but if you work for me and I’m Mr. Ford and I say you have to behave with decorum whether it’s President Obama or President Trump, I’ll fire your ass if you’re not polite and you need to be polite. At your workplace, you’ve got to. You do not have freedom of speech to call your boss a knucklehead […] Private property means the people who control the property have some controls over your behavior. So the person was inappropriate. Whether the president was inappropriate or not, I’m not going to make a judgement on it. I wasn’t there, I didn’t hear it, but I think it’s a useful lesson about speech that you can say anything you want, the government shouldn’t put you in jail, but your employer has no obligation to keep you on if you’re rude when you’ve invited the president to your business. Morgan responded, “Sounds like you’re kind of defending the president’s right to flip the bird.” “Take it as you will. Interpret it as you must, Piers,” concluded Paul. Paul’s defense of the president came just a day after Trump called him a “stone-cold loser.” The senator shrugged off Trump’s insult towards him on Piers Morgan Uncensored, making a joke about WWE star Stone Cold Steve Austin. Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored. The post Rand Paul Rushes to Defend Trump for Flipping Off Auto Worker — a Day After President Called Him a ‘Stone-Cold Loser’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) defended a Ford plant’s decision to suspend a worker for calling President Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” on Wednesday, arguing there is no such thing as freedom of speech in the workplace. During an interview with Paul on Piers Morgan Uncensored, host Piers Morgan played a clip of Trump flipping the bird at 40-year-old auto worker TJ Sabula after Sabula heckled him during a visit to a Detroit Ford plant this week. Sabula was suspended from his job shortly after the incident. “Do you think the president’s response was appropriate?” asked Morgan after playing the clip, to which Paul replied: I guess I would start with the person who yells. People think that freedom of speech means you can say anything you want, anywhere you want, but if you work for me and I’m Mr. Ford and I say you have to behave with decorum whether it’s President Obama or President Trump, I’ll fire your ass if you’re not polite and you need to be polite. At your workplace, you’ve got to. You do not have freedom of speech to call your boss a knucklehead […] Private property means the people who control the property have some controls over your behavior. So the person was inappropriate. Whether the president was inappropriate or not, I’m not going to make a judgement on it. I wasn’t there, I didn’t hear it, but I think it’s a useful lesson about speech that you can say anything you want, the government shouldn’t put you in jail, but your employer has no obligation to keep you on if you’re rude when you’ve invited the president to your business. Morgan responded, “Sounds like you’re kind of defending the president’s right to flip the bird.” “Take it as you will. Interpret it as you must, Piers,” concluded Paul. Paul’s defense of the president came just a day after Trump called him a “stone-cold loser.” The senator shrugged off Trump’s insult towards him on Piers Morgan Uncensored, making a joke about WWE star Stone Cold Steve Austin. Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored. The post Rand Paul Rushes to Defend Trump for Flipping Off Auto Worker — a Day After President Called Him a ‘Stone-Cold Loser’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) defended a Ford plant’s decision to suspend a worker for calling President Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” on Wednesday, arguing there is no such thing as freedom of speech in the workplace. During an interview with Paul on Piers Morgan Uncensored, host Piers Morgan played a clip of Trump flipping the bird at 40-year-old auto worker TJ Sabula after Sabula heckled him during a visit to a Detroit Ford plant this week. Sabula was suspended from his job shortly after the incident. “Do you think the president’s response was appropriate?” asked Morgan after playing the clip, to which Paul replied: I guess I would start with the person who yells. People think that freedom of speech means you can say anything you want, anywhere you want, but if you work for me and I’m Mr. Ford and I say you have to behave with decorum whether it’s President Obama or President Trump, I’ll fire your ass if you’re not polite and you need to be polite. At your workplace, you’ve got to. You do not have freedom of speech to call your boss a knucklehead […] Private property means the people who control the property have some controls over your behavior. So the person was inappropriate. Whether the president was inappropriate or not, I’m not going to make a judgement on it. I wasn’t there, I didn’t hear it, but I think it’s a useful lesson about speech that you can say anything you want, the government shouldn’t put you in jail, but your employer has no obligation to keep you on if you’re rude when you’ve invited the president to your business. Morgan responded, “Sounds like you’re kind of defending the president’s right to flip the bird.” “Take it as you will. Interpret it as you must, Piers,” concluded Paul. Paul’s defense of the president came just a day after Trump called him a “stone-cold loser.” The senator shrugged off Trump’s insult towards him on Piers Morgan Uncensored, making a joke about WWE star Stone Cold Steve Austin. Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored. The post Rand Paul Rushes to Defend Trump for Flipping Off Auto Worker — a Day After President Called Him a ‘Stone-Cold Loser’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) defended a Ford plant’s decision to suspend a worker for calling President Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” on Wednesday, arguing there is no such thing as freedom of speech in the workplace. During an interview with Paul on Piers Morgan Uncensored, host Piers Morgan played a clip of Trump flipping the bird at 40-year-old auto worker TJ Sabula after Sabula heckled him during a visit to a Detroit Ford plant this week. Sabula was suspended from his job shortly after the incident. “Do you think the president’s response was appropriate?” asked Morgan after playing the clip, to which Paul replied: I guess I would start with the person who yells. People think that freedom of speech means you can say anything you want, anywhere you want, but if you work for me and I’m Mr. Ford and I say you have to behave with decorum whether it’s President Obama or President Trump, I’ll fire your ass if you’re not polite and you need to be polite. At your workplace, you’ve got to. You do not have freedom of speech to call your boss a knucklehead […] Private property means the people who control the property have some controls over your behavior. So the person was inappropriate. Whether the president was inappropriate or not, I’m not going to make a judgement on it. I wasn’t there, I didn’t hear it, but I think it’s a useful lesson about speech that you can say anything you want, the government shouldn’t put you in jail, but your employer has no obligation to keep you on if you’re rude when you’ve invited the president to your business. Morgan responded, “Sounds like you’re kind of defending the president’s right to flip the bird.” “Take it as you will. Interpret it as you must, Piers,” concluded Paul. Paul’s defense of the president came just a day after Trump called him a “stone-cold loser.” The senator shrugged off Trump’s insult towards him on Piers Morgan Uncensored, making a joke about WWE star Stone Cold Steve Austin. Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored. The post Rand Paul Rushes to Defend Trump for Flipping Off Auto Worker — a Day After President Called Him a ‘Stone-Cold Loser’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) defended a Ford plant’s decision to suspend a worker for calling President Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” on Wednesday, arguing there is no such thing as freedom of speech in the workplace. During an interview with Paul on Piers Morgan Uncensored, host Piers Morgan played a clip of Trump flipping the bird at 40-year-old auto worker TJ Sabula after Sabula heckled him during a visit to a Detroit Ford plant this week. Sabula was suspended from his job shortly after the incident. “Do you think the president’s response was appropriate?” asked Morgan after playing the clip, to which Paul replied: I guess I would start with the person who yells. People think that freedom of speech means you can say anything you want, anywhere you want, but if you work for me and I’m Mr. Ford and I say you have to behave with decorum whether it’s President Obama or President Trump, I’ll fire your ass if you’re not polite and you need to be polite. At your workplace, you’ve got to. You do not have freedom of speech to call your boss a knucklehead […] Private property means the people who control the property have some controls over your behavior. So the person was inappropriate. Whether the president was inappropriate or not, I’m not going to make a judgement on it. I wasn’t there, I didn’t hear it, but I think it’s a useful lesson about speech that you can say anything you want, the government shouldn’t put you in jail, but your employer has no obligation to keep you on if you’re rude when you’ve invited the president to your business. Morgan responded, “Sounds like you’re kind of defending the president’s right to flip the bird.” “Take it as you will. Interpret it as you must, Piers,” concluded Paul. Paul’s defense of the president came just a day after Trump called him a “stone-cold loser.” The senator shrugged off Trump’s insult towards him on Piers Morgan Uncensored, making a joke about WWE star Stone Cold Steve Austin. Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored. The post Rand Paul Rushes to Defend Trump for Flipping Off Auto Worker — a Day After President Called Him a ‘Stone-Cold Loser’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) defended a Ford plant’s decision to suspend a worker for calling President Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” on Wednesday, arguing there is no such thing as freedom of speech in the workplace. During an interview with Paul on Piers Morgan Uncensored, host Piers Morgan played a clip of Trump flipping the bird at 40-year-old auto worker TJ Sabula after Sabula heckled him during a visit to a Detroit Ford plant this week. Sabula was suspended from his job shortly after the incident. “Do you think the president’s response was appropriate?” asked Morgan after playing the clip, to which Paul replied: I guess I would start with the person who yells. People think that freedom of speech means you can say anything you want, anywhere you want, but if you work for me and I’m Mr. Ford and I say you have to behave with decorum whether it’s President Obama or President Trump, I’ll fire your ass if you’re not polite and you need to be polite. At your workplace, you’ve got to. You do not have freedom of speech to call your boss a knucklehead […] Private property means the people who control the property have some controls over your behavior. So the person was inappropriate. Whether the president was inappropriate or not, I’m not going to make a judgement on it. I wasn’t there, I didn’t hear it, but I think it’s a useful lesson about speech that you can say anything you want, the government shouldn’t put you in jail, but your employer has no obligation to keep you on if you’re rude when you’ve invited the president to your business. Morgan responded, “Sounds like you’re kind of defending the president’s right to flip the bird.” “Take it as you will. Interpret it as you must, Piers,” concluded Paul. Paul’s defense of the president came just a day after Trump called him a “stone-cold loser.” The senator shrugged off Trump’s insult towards him on Piers Morgan Uncensored, making a joke about WWE star Stone Cold Steve Austin. Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored. The post Rand Paul Rushes to Defend Trump for Flipping Off Auto Worker — a Day After President Called Him a ‘Stone-Cold Loser’ first appeared on Mediaite.