{"id":65335,"date":"2026-02-04T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/i-knew-trump-would-target-minnesota-i-didnt-expect-this-level-of-violence-rachel-leingang\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:00:41","slug":"i-knew-trump-would-target-minnesota-i-didnt-expect-this-level-of-violence-rachel-leingang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/i-knew-trump-would-target-minnesota-i-didnt-expect-this-level-of-violence-rachel-leingang\/","title":{"rendered":"I knew Trump would target Minnesota. I didn\u2019t expect this level of violence | Rachel Leingang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m reporting on a political retribution campaign, disguised as immigration enforcement, in the community where I live<\/p>\n<p>I knew they would come here.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a president hell-bent on retreading 2020 and retaliating against your enemies, the midwestern state that started the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/george-floyd\">George Floyd<\/a> protests, with a generous social safety net and diverse population, governed by a vice-presidential candidate you vehemently hate, is a certain target.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/04\/trump-minnesota-ice-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m reporting on a political retribution campaign, disguised as immigration enforcement, in the community where I live I knew they would come here. If you\u2019re a president hell-bent on retreading 2020 and retaliating against your enemies, the midwestern state that started the George Floyd protests, with a generous social safety net and diverse population, governed &#8230; <a title=\"I knew Trump would target Minnesota. I didn\u2019t expect this level of violence | Rachel Leingang\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/i-knew-trump-would-target-minnesota-i-didnt-expect-this-level-of-violence-rachel-leingang\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I knew Trump would target Minnesota. I didn\u2019t expect this level of violence | Rachel Leingang\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}