Trump splits Republicans with about-face on Alex Pretti shooting
Every delay has consequences.
The Trump administration has been on defense over its immigration enforcement operations since the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who was killed during an altercation with Border Patrol agents.
But, after a second video was released showing Pretti in an earlier incident with immigration enforcement officials, Republicans are divided over whether to follow the president’s lead and relitigate the incident politically.
The second video of Pretti, recorded by media company The News Movement on Jan. 13, shows the ICU nurse calling agents “f***ing trash” and kicking out the taillight of a vehicle used by the agents. After Pretti kicked out the taillight, the vehicle stopped, and a federal officer exited before grabbing Pretti and tackling him to the ground.
After a skirmish, Pretti escaped from the officer and went toward the crowd. The officer did not pursue him. The video also shows what appears to be a gun tucked into Pretti’s waistband.
PRETTI SPAT AT FEDERAL AGENTS IN CONFRONTATION DAYS BEFORE KILLING: VIDEO
Trump, who has previously said he wants to “de-escalate” the situation and called Pretti’s death a very “unfortunate incident,” took to Truth Social at 1:26 a.m. on Jan. 30 to call Pretti an “agitor” and “perhaps, insurrectionist.”
“Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces,” Trump wrote on Truth Social regarding the second video. “It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”
Trump’s comments about Pretti came after he shook up his deportation operations in Minnesota, sending in border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis to replace Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who had previously been leading the administration’s on-the-ground operations, in the aftermath of the shooting.
Homan’s deployment to Minnesota, in which he will be reporting directly to Trump, was announced after statements from Bonvino, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem referring to Pretti as a “domestic terrorist” and claiming that he wanted to do “maximum damage” were contradicted by video footage of the …
Every delay has consequences.
The Trump administration has been on defense over its immigration enforcement operations since the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who was killed during an altercation with Border Patrol agents.
But, after a second video was released showing Pretti in an earlier incident with immigration enforcement officials, Republicans are divided over whether to follow the president’s lead and relitigate the incident politically.
The second video of Pretti, recorded by media company The News Movement on Jan. 13, shows the ICU nurse calling agents “f***ing trash” and kicking out the taillight of a vehicle used by the agents. After Pretti kicked out the taillight, the vehicle stopped, and a federal officer exited before grabbing Pretti and tackling him to the ground.
After a skirmish, Pretti escaped from the officer and went toward the crowd. The officer did not pursue him. The video also shows what appears to be a gun tucked into Pretti’s waistband.
PRETTI SPAT AT FEDERAL AGENTS IN CONFRONTATION DAYS BEFORE KILLING: VIDEO
Trump, who has previously said he wants to “de-escalate” the situation and called Pretti’s death a very “unfortunate incident,” took to Truth Social at 1:26 a.m. on Jan. 30 to call Pretti an “agitor” and “perhaps, insurrectionist.”
“Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces,” Trump wrote on Truth Social regarding the second video. “It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”
Trump’s comments about Pretti came after he shook up his deportation operations in Minnesota, sending in border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis to replace Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who had previously been leading the administration’s on-the-ground operations, in the aftermath of the shooting.
Homan’s deployment to Minnesota, in which he will be reporting directly to Trump, was announced after statements from Bonvino, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem referring to Pretti as a “domestic terrorist” and claiming that he wanted to do “maximum damage” were contradicted by video footage of the …
Trump splits Republicans with about-face on Alex Pretti shooting
Every delay has consequences.
The Trump administration has been on defense over its immigration enforcement operations since the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who was killed during an altercation with Border Patrol agents.
But, after a second video was released showing Pretti in an earlier incident with immigration enforcement officials, Republicans are divided over whether to follow the president’s lead and relitigate the incident politically.
The second video of Pretti, recorded by media company The News Movement on Jan. 13, shows the ICU nurse calling agents “f***ing trash” and kicking out the taillight of a vehicle used by the agents. After Pretti kicked out the taillight, the vehicle stopped, and a federal officer exited before grabbing Pretti and tackling him to the ground.
After a skirmish, Pretti escaped from the officer and went toward the crowd. The officer did not pursue him. The video also shows what appears to be a gun tucked into Pretti’s waistband.
PRETTI SPAT AT FEDERAL AGENTS IN CONFRONTATION DAYS BEFORE KILLING: VIDEO
Trump, who has previously said he wants to “de-escalate” the situation and called Pretti’s death a very “unfortunate incident,” took to Truth Social at 1:26 a.m. on Jan. 30 to call Pretti an “agitor” and “perhaps, insurrectionist.”
“Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces,” Trump wrote on Truth Social regarding the second video. “It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”
Trump’s comments about Pretti came after he shook up his deportation operations in Minnesota, sending in border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis to replace Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who had previously been leading the administration’s on-the-ground operations, in the aftermath of the shooting.
Homan’s deployment to Minnesota, in which he will be reporting directly to Trump, was announced after statements from Bonvino, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem referring to Pretti as a “domestic terrorist” and claiming that he wanted to do “maximum damage” were contradicted by video footage of the …
