GOP strategist Ford O’Connell appeared Friday on Fox Business and said that the media’s campaign to “prop up Democrats” will continue long after former President Joe Biden’s term ended.
During an appearance on “The Evening Edit,” O’Connell criticized the press for acting without accountability and self-awareness, particularly around controversial issues like immigration and election integrity. O’Connell said he was frustrated over the media’s role in shaping political narratives and added that, even post-Biden, journalists will revert to their old tactics.

“They won’t be held accountable, and they’ll start pulling the same crud again when it comes to Donald Trump or when the next time he advances the nominee,” O’Connell said.
O’Connell also said that current immigration enforcement is a misrepresented issue. The media, he said, allegedly mischaracterizes targeted enforcement operations led by border czar Tom Homan as indiscriminate raids.
“They’re going to continue to go back to their old games. Look what’s happening right now when it comes to ICE,” O’Connell said. “They’re busy trying to claim that Tom Homan’s running raids when he’s actually running targeted enforcement and in many ways a correction from the errors of the Biden administration. They want to harm Trump, and they want to prop up Democrats.”
O’Connell said Homan and his team prioritize deporting dangerous individuals, a policy he says will garner widespread public support.
“Tom Homan and his team are firing on all cylinders, and they understand that if you make the worst go first out of the country, the American public will stick with you on it until you actually make up for the corrections of the Biden era, who tried to literally overrun this country and have an invasion of illegal aliens,” O’Connell said.
Federal law enforcement and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents apprehended nearly 500 undocumented migrants with pending criminal charges in sanctuary cities like New York and New Jersey. The operation extended to cities including Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Miami, and Washington, DC, leading to arrests such as an alleged MS-13 gang member in New York, a Jamaican charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, and a Honduran with a DUI conviction.
The Trump administration had initially planned a major deportation operation in Chicago, poised to deploy up to 200 agents, but media exposure forced Homan to delay.
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