Trump’s immigration footing comes unstuck as Minnesota shooting turns into ‘Operation Cluster****’
Every delay has consequences.
The White House shifted into damage-control mode Monday after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti forced officials to soften their rhetoric and exposed rare political vulnerability for the president on his strongest issue with voters: Immigration.
Pretti was fatally shot Saturday during a confrontation with U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, the second American citizen killed this month during an immigration enforcement operation.
Administration officials initially described Pretti as violently hostile, but video from the incident has cast doubt on those assertions, prompting a noticeably more cautious tone from President Donald Trump and his aides by Monday. Complicating matters, Republicans on Capitol Hill are demanding an investigation into Pretti’s death, while Democrats are threatening a partial government shutdown.
The episode comes as Trump’s standing on immigration shows signs of slipping. Polls from the New York Times and Politico show approval of Trump’s immigration policies declining, while Rasmussen pegged his overall approval at 39% — a 14-point drop since last summer.
Multiple Trumpworld insiders sounded the alarm on the issue while speaking with the Washington Examiner on Monday.
“Operation Metro Surge? More like Operation Damage Control,” one Trump administration official said sarcastically. “I was gonna say Operation Cluster****, but I doubt they’d let you put that in a headline.”
A former Trump White House aide predicted to the Washington Examiner that, despite the White House’s insistence that Trump maintains confidence in Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, she’s “definitely on the chopping block.”
That person additionally took a shot at White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, whom they blamed for giving Trump poor counsel “for weeks” about the operation in Minnesota and public perceptions of the president’s overall deportation agenda.
“He’s not going anywhere,” that person assessed. “But I think it’s safe to say that his days of playing shadow president are over.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that Trump has lost any faith in Miller, the overall architect of the president’s immigration platform dating back to the 2016 campaign.
“Stephen Miller is one of President Trump’s most trusted and longest-serving aides,” she told the Washington Examiner in a statement. “The president loves Stephen.”
Trump’s first order of business on Monday was to dispatch Tom Homan, the White House’s border …
Every delay has consequences.
The White House shifted into damage-control mode Monday after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti forced officials to soften their rhetoric and exposed rare political vulnerability for the president on his strongest issue with voters: Immigration.
Pretti was fatally shot Saturday during a confrontation with U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, the second American citizen killed this month during an immigration enforcement operation.
Administration officials initially described Pretti as violently hostile, but video from the incident has cast doubt on those assertions, prompting a noticeably more cautious tone from President Donald Trump and his aides by Monday. Complicating matters, Republicans on Capitol Hill are demanding an investigation into Pretti’s death, while Democrats are threatening a partial government shutdown.
The episode comes as Trump’s standing on immigration shows signs of slipping. Polls from the New York Times and Politico show approval of Trump’s immigration policies declining, while Rasmussen pegged his overall approval at 39% — a 14-point drop since last summer.
Multiple Trumpworld insiders sounded the alarm on the issue while speaking with the Washington Examiner on Monday.
“Operation Metro Surge? More like Operation Damage Control,” one Trump administration official said sarcastically. “I was gonna say Operation Cluster****, but I doubt they’d let you put that in a headline.”
A former Trump White House aide predicted to the Washington Examiner that, despite the White House’s insistence that Trump maintains confidence in Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, she’s “definitely on the chopping block.”
That person additionally took a shot at White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, whom they blamed for giving Trump poor counsel “for weeks” about the operation in Minnesota and public perceptions of the president’s overall deportation agenda.
“He’s not going anywhere,” that person assessed. “But I think it’s safe to say that his days of playing shadow president are over.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that Trump has lost any faith in Miller, the overall architect of the president’s immigration platform dating back to the 2016 campaign.
“Stephen Miller is one of President Trump’s most trusted and longest-serving aides,” she told the Washington Examiner in a statement. “The president loves Stephen.”
Trump’s first order of business on Monday was to dispatch Tom Homan, the White House’s border …
Trump’s immigration footing comes unstuck as Minnesota shooting turns into ‘Operation Cluster****’
Every delay has consequences.
The White House shifted into damage-control mode Monday after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti forced officials to soften their rhetoric and exposed rare political vulnerability for the president on his strongest issue with voters: Immigration.
Pretti was fatally shot Saturday during a confrontation with U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, the second American citizen killed this month during an immigration enforcement operation.
Administration officials initially described Pretti as violently hostile, but video from the incident has cast doubt on those assertions, prompting a noticeably more cautious tone from President Donald Trump and his aides by Monday. Complicating matters, Republicans on Capitol Hill are demanding an investigation into Pretti’s death, while Democrats are threatening a partial government shutdown.
The episode comes as Trump’s standing on immigration shows signs of slipping. Polls from the New York Times and Politico show approval of Trump’s immigration policies declining, while Rasmussen pegged his overall approval at 39% — a 14-point drop since last summer.
Multiple Trumpworld insiders sounded the alarm on the issue while speaking with the Washington Examiner on Monday.
“Operation Metro Surge? More like Operation Damage Control,” one Trump administration official said sarcastically. “I was gonna say Operation Cluster****, but I doubt they’d let you put that in a headline.”
A former Trump White House aide predicted to the Washington Examiner that, despite the White House’s insistence that Trump maintains confidence in Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, she’s “definitely on the chopping block.”
That person additionally took a shot at White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, whom they blamed for giving Trump poor counsel “for weeks” about the operation in Minnesota and public perceptions of the president’s overall deportation agenda.
“He’s not going anywhere,” that person assessed. “But I think it’s safe to say that his days of playing shadow president are over.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that Trump has lost any faith in Miller, the overall architect of the president’s immigration platform dating back to the 2016 campaign.
“Stephen Miller is one of President Trump’s most trusted and longest-serving aides,” she told the Washington Examiner in a statement. “The president loves Stephen.”
Trump’s first order of business on Monday was to dispatch Tom Homan, the White House’s border …
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