DOJ strikes sharply different tone than DHS on death of Alex Pretti
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A senior Justice Department official struck a notably more cautious tone on Monday than the Department of Homeland Security had one day earlier over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen who was killed by a Border Patrol agent during an enforcement operation in Minnesota.
One day after the shooting of Pretti, who was armed during a physical confrontation with Customs and Border Protection agents Saturday morning, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche emphasized the need for restraint even as other Trump administration officials publicly assigned blame to Pretti and framed the shooting as necessary to stop a broader deadly attack on federal agents.
FOX & FRIENDS: Do the actions of Alex Pretti amount to domestic terrorism?
BLANCHE: Look, it's an investigation, so I'm not going to prejudge
FOX: It doesn't appear to most of the country to have met that definition
BLANCHE: I don't think anybody thinks they were comparing…
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2026
“You cannot look at a 10-second video and judge what happened,” Blanche said during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. While defending the actions of the immigration agents involved, Blanche stressed that video clips circulating online do not capture the full context of the encounter. “That’s exactly why you have to have an investigation,” he said.
Blanche notably contradicted the words of DHS officials, including Secretary Kristi Noem, who said Saturday that Pretti’s actions mirrored those of “domestic terrorism.”
“I don’t think anybody thinks they were comparing what happened Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism,” Blanche said. “I’m not describing it as anything except for a tragedy.”
Following Pretti’s death on Saturday, Noem and other officials moved swiftly to condemn him, with some labeling Pretti as someone who “committed an act of domestic terrorism.”
Kristi Noem is a complete ignoramus. If getting in a scuffle with federal agents makes someone a "domestic terrorist," then January 6 must've been the biggest "terrorist attack" in American history
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) January 25, 2026
Gregory Bovino, a top official overseeing Border Patrol operations, told CNN’s State of the Union that “the suspect put himself in that situation,” adding that “the victims are the Border Patrol agents there,” as video of the shooting played onscreen.
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This affects the entire country.
A senior Justice Department official struck a notably more cautious tone on Monday than the Department of Homeland Security had one day earlier over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen who was killed by a Border Patrol agent during an enforcement operation in Minnesota.
One day after the shooting of Pretti, who was armed during a physical confrontation with Customs and Border Protection agents Saturday morning, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche emphasized the need for restraint even as other Trump administration officials publicly assigned blame to Pretti and framed the shooting as necessary to stop a broader deadly attack on federal agents.
FOX & FRIENDS: Do the actions of Alex Pretti amount to domestic terrorism?
BLANCHE: Look, it's an investigation, so I'm not going to prejudge
FOX: It doesn't appear to most of the country to have met that definition
BLANCHE: I don't think anybody thinks they were comparing…
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2026
“You cannot look at a 10-second video and judge what happened,” Blanche said during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. While defending the actions of the immigration agents involved, Blanche stressed that video clips circulating online do not capture the full context of the encounter. “That’s exactly why you have to have an investigation,” he said.
Blanche notably contradicted the words of DHS officials, including Secretary Kristi Noem, who said Saturday that Pretti’s actions mirrored those of “domestic terrorism.”
“I don’t think anybody thinks they were comparing what happened Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism,” Blanche said. “I’m not describing it as anything except for a tragedy.”
Following Pretti’s death on Saturday, Noem and other officials moved swiftly to condemn him, with some labeling Pretti as someone who “committed an act of domestic terrorism.”
Kristi Noem is a complete ignoramus. If getting in a scuffle with federal agents makes someone a "domestic terrorist," then January 6 must've been the biggest "terrorist attack" in American history
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) January 25, 2026
Gregory Bovino, a top official overseeing Border Patrol operations, told CNN’s State of the Union that “the suspect put himself in that situation,” adding that “the victims are the Border Patrol agents there,” as video of the shooting played onscreen.
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DOJ strikes sharply different tone than DHS on death of Alex Pretti
This affects the entire country.
A senior Justice Department official struck a notably more cautious tone on Monday than the Department of Homeland Security had one day earlier over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen who was killed by a Border Patrol agent during an enforcement operation in Minnesota.
One day after the shooting of Pretti, who was armed during a physical confrontation with Customs and Border Protection agents Saturday morning, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche emphasized the need for restraint even as other Trump administration officials publicly assigned blame to Pretti and framed the shooting as necessary to stop a broader deadly attack on federal agents.
FOX & FRIENDS: Do the actions of Alex Pretti amount to domestic terrorism?
BLANCHE: Look, it's an investigation, so I'm not going to prejudge
FOX: It doesn't appear to most of the country to have met that definition
BLANCHE: I don't think anybody thinks they were comparing…
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2026
“You cannot look at a 10-second video and judge what happened,” Blanche said during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. While defending the actions of the immigration agents involved, Blanche stressed that video clips circulating online do not capture the full context of the encounter. “That’s exactly why you have to have an investigation,” he said.
Blanche notably contradicted the words of DHS officials, including Secretary Kristi Noem, who said Saturday that Pretti’s actions mirrored those of “domestic terrorism.”
“I don’t think anybody thinks they were comparing what happened Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism,” Blanche said. “I’m not describing it as anything except for a tragedy.”
Following Pretti’s death on Saturday, Noem and other officials moved swiftly to condemn him, with some labeling Pretti as someone who “committed an act of domestic terrorism.”
Kristi Noem is a complete ignoramus. If getting in a scuffle with federal agents makes someone a "domestic terrorist," then January 6 must've been the biggest "terrorist attack" in American history
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) January 25, 2026
Gregory Bovino, a top official overseeing Border Patrol operations, told CNN’s State of the Union that “the suspect put himself in that situation,” adding that “the victims are the Border Patrol agents there,” as video of the shooting played onscreen.
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