Opinion: Trumpy Nut Who’s Giving ICE Electric Shock Gloves Is Exposed

Animated Gif by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images The founder and CEO of the company contracted to supply ICE agents with shock gloves has said the Hand of God played a role in Donald Trump becoming president.

“I think President Trump is doing a great, fantastic job,” Jeff Niklaus of Compliant Technologies said last year on Stand in the Gap Today , a Christian podcast on the American Pastors Network.

Niklaus is a retired Army helicopter pilot, and the primary focus of the podcast was the Jan.

29, 2025 mid-aid collision between a military UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet (PSA Flight 5342) in the notoriously congested airspace around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

He suggested that God also played a direct role in this crash that killed 67.

“There’s so many near misses that I think the odds are we knew that the Lord allowed that to happen that day,” he said.

“And it’s a sad situation and nobody wants to see that happen again.” He proceeded into secular silliness, suggesting the Biden administration’s DEI policies bore part of the blame.

“But we have to understand there’s other agendas that came into play with the, if you want to call it the philosophy of a previous administration allowing people in cockpits and maybe other people weren’t allowed.” He then went full MAGA.

“And then we also know the effects of the vaccines,” he added.

Niklaus and Compliant Technologies did not respond to a query from the Daily Beast about the genesis of the 351-volt Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, or GLOVE, that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly committed up to $20 million to purchase under a single-source, no-bid contract.

The Kentucky-based company’s website, which declares Compliant “#1 in Hands-On De-Escalation,” does have several videos showing GLOVES in action.

The subjects appear to be quickly immobilized.

“That sucked! That was terrible,” one subject exclaims.

An on-screen caption reads, “It does suck.