Nicolle Wallace is a reader of propaganda, not a reporter. She read from the Washington Post and the New York Times, conducted no investigation, and brought on a Washington Post reporter and ex-CIA Director John Brennan to support her narrative. At the start of her two-hour show, she claimed Venezuela isn’t directing or facilitating Tren de Aragua’s activities, arguing this makes Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act illegitimate and that Donald Trump is deporting “migrants” with “no semblance of due process.” The last time I watched her fake news show, she was pushing the same narrative.
Wallace read from the Washington Post: “That assessment found that the Venezuelan government is most likely not directing the activities of the gang known as Tren de Aragua or facilitating its operations in the US.” She added: “A reminder, this assessment said this quote, while Venezuela’s permissive environment enables TDA, Tren de Aragua, to operate, the Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the US. Statements like that are very inconvenient for the Trump administration in invoking the Alien Enemies Act...”
Wallace also said, “The Trump administration is using it to deport migrants without any semblance of due process being given to them and then sending them to a notorious prison in El Salvador. With their justification for using the AEA, Alien Enemies, Act blown to smithereens by their own government, the Trump administration, instead of backing down on the deportations, has instead started a crackdown on the fact-finders and truth-tellers in their own intelligence community.”
She emphasized that the Venezuelan government “probably does not have a policy” of cooperating with Tren de Aragua. Does she believe a lack of formal policy clears the Maduro regime of responsibility? Wallace’s claim that Venezuela’s “permissive environment” isn’t equivalent to directing Tren de Aragua’s U.S. operations ignores how enabling a gang’s activities through inaction effectively supports its transnational crimes. She also avoids the possibility of covert directives from the Maduro regime. Then she read from the New York Times. The headline said: “Spy Agencies Do Not Think Venezuela Directs Gang, Declassified Memo Shows.”
Nicolle continued, “Now the firing of the number one and two officials at the National Intelligence Council sends an unmistakable message...” Then she read a quote from Democrat Jim Himes from The Washington Post, with a photo of Tulsi Gabbard on the screen, that said: “Absent evidence to justify the firings, the workforce can only conclude that their jobs are contingent on producing analysis that is aligned with the President’s agenda, rather than truthful and apolitical.”
Both people who were fired, Mike Collins and Maria Langan-Riekhof, have worked in U.S. intelligence for three decades each. That alone justifies their dismissal—you don’t stay in the U.S. government for 30 years by being truthful or apolitical. Yet Nicolle Wallace, a reader, not a reporter, portrays them as such to mislead her viewers. She reads establishment propaganda for a living, which is why she has a two-hour, five-day-a-week show on MSNBC.
Wallace frames Trump’s deportations of illegal alien criminals, which she calls “migrants,” as violating due process and denies Venezuela’s role in directing or facilitating Tren de Aragua’s actions. Her narrative defends the establishment and discredits Trump’s policies. This isn’t journalism—it’s establishment lies and propaganda pretending to be news.