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Emails show Trump official’s thirst for violence against protesters ⁠0%

By Ja'han Jones⁠97%

3/27/2026, 6:51:30 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Politically Left Leaning Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 65.6% saturation with 263 hits. Analysis detected 1,696 faulty-reasoning hits from 401 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠0% (0 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.

Newly unearthed emails show a top Trump administration official’s thirst for violence against people protesting the administration’s racist anti-immigrant crackdown last summer. 
Donald Trump has a long history of publicly fantasizing about police violence. 
The emails, which were shared with the Los Angeles Times but have have not been viewed by MS NOW, speak to the culture of violent intimidation that the president has helped fuel at the Department of Homeland Security, an agency that has become a megaphone for white supremacist propaganda. 
The emails in question were uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act request by watchdog group American Oversight. 
They reportedly show Joseph Mazzara, a State Department employee who at the time was DHS’ acting general counsel, suggesting that federal agents should have beaten demonstrators who tried to breach a protective line at a federal building while protesting Trump’s authoritarian deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles. 
Per the Times’ report: 
On June 11, he wrote: ‘Every time I read about the battering ram incident I’m just floored at how wild that is.’ 
Referring to law enforcement as ‘they,’ he continued: ‘They should have, when they brought the line in, just started hitting the rioters and arresting everyone that couldn’t get away from them. 
No one likes being hit by a stick, and people tend to run when that starts happening in earnest.’ 
The Department of Homeland Security didn’t respond to requests for comment. 
Mazzara was later appointed deputy commissioner of U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection. 
The Times cites reporting from Politico that said Mazzara was among a group of employees Kristi Noem took with her to work at the State Department after she was ousted as homeland security secretary. 
DHS didn’t immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment. 
This story, of a top legal official at DHS being found pushing violent extremist rhetoric, bears similarity to this piece I wrote in January, concerning a U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer who returned to work despite being linked to a social media account known for promoting bigotry and fascism. 
The Trump administration’s deadly anti-immigrant crackdown became so brutal last year that even some popular figures who have supported the president compared it to Nazism. 
That reputation is only bolstered by these revelations of violent bloodlust by a top lawyer formerly tasked with advising the people waging that crackdown. 
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401 words analyzed.

Speakers

6speakers38%attributed speech248writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 49 words • 100.0% coverageAmerican Oversight • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 49 words • 100.0% coverageLos Angeles Times • 4 words • 0.0% coverageJoseph Mazzara • 22 words • 100.0% coverageJoseph Mazzara • 31 words • 100.0% coverageJoseph Mazzara • 19 words • 100.0% coverageDepartment of Homeland Security • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageCustoms and Border Protection • 4 words • 0.0% coverageKristi Noem • 34 words • 100.0% coverageDepartment of Homeland Security • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Joseph Mazzara

100%flagged-word coverage
72 attributed words47% of attributed speech97% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-70.4 ptsWriter: 96.8%Joseph Mazzara: 26.4%26.4%Unattributed Quote+73.6 ptsWriter: 0.0%Joseph Mazzara: 73.6%73.6%Quote-first Misdirection+70.0 ptsWriter: 3.6%Joseph Mazzara: 73.6%73.6%Politically Left Leaning B-38.7 ptsWriter: 38.7%Joseph Mazzara: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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