CNN Brings Renee Good’s Father-In-Law For Comment… Was NOT Expecting What He Had To Say

Most times, when you see a ‘mainstream’ media outlet bring on a guest, it will to push an established narrative forward. It’s a tried-and-true formula. Our team good, their team bad. This guest, however defied all of the usual categories.

When outlets like CNN bring on guests, they like to showcase either sympathetic guests, in the case where they are advancing Dem talking points, or they like to show decidedly unsympathetic guests, where they are defending GOP positions.

This guy, didn’t fit into any of their categories. He had nothing bad to say about Renee Good, the widow of his late son, who herself was killed in her confrontation with the ICE officer. She was a good mom to his grandson, he said. She was full of life.

But at the same time, he had no condemnation of the ICE officer, either. The harshest thing he could say about either is that some of their choices and behaviour fall short of the biblical example.

He doesn’t blame ICE. He doesn’t blame Renee. He wishes all involved were walking in the spirit of God.

NEW: Renee Good's former father-in-law says he doesn’t blame ICE, calls on people to love one another, turn from their wicked ways and turn to God.

CNN’s Erin Burnett kept prodding Timmy Macklin Sr. to get him to take a side.

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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 14, 2026

In fact, throughout this interview, scripture references flowed as freely as anything else he had to say. The man has his chapter and verse down cold. He had no ill-will for anyone. He couldn’t say enough good things about her as an amazing person, and was up-front that he had failings in his own life that would prevent him from judging others. It was just a shock that this happened to her.

And that’s going to make it hard for viewers to write him off as some kind of a firebreathing, insensitive hack.

While we’re on the topic, CNN referenced the ICE agent being in hiding.

What they did not mention is (1) why he is in hiding, or (2) his physical condition after the incident.

As for his hiding, it comes in response to being doxxed by (among others) Dem influencers on social media. Not surprisingly, he is now facing death threats. For the record, this is the precise reason ICE agents do not show their faces while working.

As to his physical condition? It is reported he has been suffering from internal bleeding as a result of being struck by a vehicle. Add that to the blender as yet one more data point to consider in the overheated rhetoric on whether the ICE agent’s response was some kind of a malicious, cold-blooded murder.