Speaker 1: Sadly. By now, I'm sure each and every one of
you have all seen the horrific video of ICE agents
attacking and killing Alex Preddi, thirty seven year old man
was murdered by ICE this weekend. Preddi was an icy
you nurse at a VA hospital, a government agent if
you think about it, and all the stories that are
coming out about him show how he was a selfless
man who died protecting people and fighting for our freedom.
And again, sadly, maga's response has been inhumane, literally labeling
Preddy a domestic terrorist and spreading lies about the facts
of the incident. Now, while all this is happening, our
President Well Trump is unhappy with how the situation is
being handled and posted this this morning that he is
now sending Tom Homan to Minneapolis. Let me show you
what he posted in it, He writes, I am sending
Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved
in that area, but knows and likes many of the
people there. Tom is a tough but fair and will
report directly to me. Separately, a major investigation is going
on with respect to the massive twenty billion dollar plus
welfare fraud that has taken place in Minnesota and is
at least partially responsible for the violent, organized protests going
on in the streets. Additionally, the DOJ and Congress are
looking at Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who left Somalia at nothing
and is now reportedly worth more than forty four million dollars.
Time will tell all thank you for your attention to
this matter. President DJT. I'm blown away, as I'm sure
each and every one of you are. I can't understand
why why he put out that post? Who allowed him
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Trump and his sick of fans, of course, have literally
handled these ice murders horribly. No other way to describe it.
Horribly isn't even maybe a strong enough adjective. This is
what he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview
just last night. In it, he writes, Trump says the
administration is reviewing everything about Minneapolis shooting. In an interview,
the president says immigration enforcement officers will at some point
leave the area, but that couldn't happen fast enough. He
goes on to say the President criticized Preddy, the thirty
seven year old who was killed by a Federal Border
Patrol agent Saturday morning on a Minneapolis street, for carrying
a gun during protest activity. I don't like any shooting.
I don't like it, Trump added, But I don't like
it when somebody goes into a protest and he's got
a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded
up with bullets. Also, that doesn't play good either. And
finally he turns around and writes, at some point we
will leave. We've done They've done a phenomenal job. He
said Trump didn't offer a timeframe for when agents might depart,
and asked if agents would leave soon. He praised what
the administration had done already in Minnesota and said, we'll
leave a different group of people there for the financial fraud. Again,
what a what an absolute terrible, terrible statement to make.
He conflates two completely different things. If you believe that
there's a fraud, and I'm not going to say that
there isn't, I don't know. But if you think there's
a fraud, sure investigated, But you don't investigate it with
guys with walking around with ar fifteens and flap jackets
and masks and bare spray and irritant and rubber bullets
and pepper bullets literally shooting, literally killing two innocent Minnesota citizens,
Americans dead right there in the street for no other reason.
Then ICE just they're just incapable of handling this, as
they call it, Operation now. ICE is Greg Bavino. He
tried to claim that Border patrol agents are actually really
the victims here. Play the clip with respect.
Speaker 2: It feels as though in some ways you're blaming the
victim here. Uh, the victims are the Border of Batral agiance.
I'm not blaming the border patal agents. The victim are
the border batal agents. The suspect put himself in that situation.
The victims are the border batal agents there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dana did not let him go, by the way,
I watched that interview and afterwards I literally felt like
I wanted to throw up. You know, as somebody that
had sat in Trump's orbit for almost a decade and
a half, it has to be acknowledged that Trump is
all about branding. I mean, that's really what the Trump
organization was, real estate and opportunity branding company and Steven Miller.
As I write in my sub stack of today, Stephen
Miller's deadly Ice branding is tanking Trump every single day.
You know, I write that the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti,
the thirty seven year old intensive care nurse who worked
at a VA hospital caring for veterans, has detonated straight
through the administration's messaging firewall. Pretty wasn't a gang member,
he wasn't an undocumented immigrant, he wasn't threatening anyone. He
was an American citizen legally carrying a firearm, recording Ice
officers with his cell phone, and today he is dead
and he's ware the branding catastrophe becomes undeniable. And you
know that it's undeniable when even Marjorie Taylor Green is
waving the red flag. Now, you know, I've told you
countless times about the talking points that get spread around
the Trump camp, all the enablers, all the surrogates. Going on.
This weekend we saw a clearly obvious example, and I
do want to show you a clip comparing what DHS
Christine Nome and ICES Greg Bavino were saying in their
press conferences. It's insane. Play the clip.
Speaker 3: An individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a nine
millimeters Femi automatic.
Speaker 1: Hand automatic handgun.
Speaker 3: The officers attempted to disarm these individual, but the armed
suspect reacted violently and for the loss of his fellow officers.
Fire Defensive medics were on the scene immediately and attempted
to deliver medical age to the subject, but he was pronounced.
Speaker 1: The pronounced at the scene.
Speaker 3: The suspect also had two magazines with in them and
they were all rounds. He also had no idea this
looks like such a way where were an endividual arrived
with the individual once maimum damage on individuals, And.
Speaker 1: I want to be crystal clear, Stephen Miller is one
hundred percent behind that insane rhetoric. And this is what
he posted after Alex Predi was murdered. Let me show
you what he said. It would be assassin try to
murder federal law enforcement, and the official Democrat account sides
with the terrorists. You know, I want to be crystal
clear about something in Trump world. Branding matters because, as
in any brand, it shapes trust, and right now Stephen
Miller is eroding it faster than any Democrat ever. Could
you see? Trump doesn't need to abandon border security. Actually,
most Americans support it. They believe in strong borders. They
don't believe people should just be able to come and
go as they see fit. What he does need is
to abandon the aesthetic of cruelty that Stephen Miller has
welded to it, because once the public associates your administration
with needless bloodshed, constitutional shortcuts, and street level chaos, there's
no amount of spin can fix it. None. To have
these two reading off of the same script, the same
insane rhetoric, it's got to tell you exactly the fear
that they have and the angst that the Ice agents
who are murdering Americans in the street in front of people,
all of whom have their cameras rolling, really has to
concern them. But you know, not all Democrats are joining
Maga's unhinged behavior.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: In fact, this was another thing that blew my mind.
Fox is Maria Bartiroma, who you know, I don't care
for at all. She is rarely, ever, ever offside with
the Trump administration. But even she is concerned, even she
is upset about the murder of Alex Pretty play the clip.
Speaker 2: But how was he threatening border patrol? You've collected the evidence,
you said, right, you have the handgun in.
Speaker 1: Your possession, that's right.
Speaker 2: And how was he using that handgun in terms of
threatening border patrol?
Speaker 1: What was the threat? He had his camera right, he
was filming it.
Speaker 4: That's something that I let the DHS and the prosecutors
because they are the ones investigating in that case.
Speaker 5: I don't want to stylize that evidence. But I trust
the men and women on the ground who are trained professor.
Speaker 1: Okay, anytime that they don't want to answer, anytime that
they cannot answer a question, what they do all of
a sudden, hands up, We don't want to talk about
the investigation. They just called them it to mastic terrorists.
They said that he had loaded magazines, ready to go,
armed and ready. But now they don't want to talk
about anything. They when Maria Bartiroma again, Maria Bartiroma turns
around and puts Cash Patel on the chopping block and says,
how can you turn around and say that he was
doing anything other than legally videotaping the scene. Well, once again,
now they're not going to talk about it. Even Tim Poole,
the right wing commentator, he didn't side with Trump on
this one either. Let me show you what he said.
He turned around, he wrote empty hand, then gun in hand.
Appears the man may have been disarmed before being shot.
This is a chain of events in a greater conflict.
Neither side cares at this point what justifies it or doesn't.
I don't see Trump winning this one. And he's right
in fact again in my substext Stephen Miller's deadly ice branding.
Stephen Miller isn't enforcing policy anymore, That's not what this
is about. He's literally turning Trump's presidency into the worst
ad campaign of Trump's political life. As I finish, I say,
ignore the warning signs and Steven Miller, he doesn't just
sink the message. He burns the brand to the ground,
and he's going to take the presidency with it. Let
me be crystal clear about another thing. Even the poll
numbers prove that Trump is pushing the absolute wrong narrative.
Let me show you what it says in it. It
turns on says Trump's approval on immigration. That was his
strong suit. Fifty nine percent disapprove, thirty nine percent do approve.
How about that almost sixty forty that was his strong suit. Now,
despite the numbers, Trump's lackeys, they continue to deflect. They
keep telling you doing great. Greg Bavino, as an example,
was asked if he plans to take accountability for these debts. Now,
I don't want to shock you, but I guarantee you'd
probably guess what his response was. Play the clip. Mister
Charles R.
Speaker 6: Agency Ice, we'vousing two separate people shot and killed by
your officers.
Speaker 1: Within seventeen days. Do either of you plan on taking
any accountability for those actions?
Speaker 4: Two suspects?
Speaker 6: All right, you're correct, two suspects have them shot and
suspects that assault, delay of struct or threaten a law
enforcement officer's life. It goes back to the choices that
we just talked about, when individuals make poor choices, poor decisions,
come into a law enforcement situation, and active law enforcement
situation conspire to come into that situation.
Speaker 4: Whether that's based on ideology, we don't know that'll be
in the investigation that we just talked about. That's what
we based second decisions on. And our law enforcement officers
are saying they man hold on, they managed to come
home at the end of ship.
Speaker 1: Okay, this guy is sick. There's no other way to
describe it. He is sick. He is mentally deranged. And
I'm going to give you a little prediction. I think
Christy nom I think Greg Bavino. I think they all
get the and Kesh Patel all get shit canned within
the next sixty days. Now, I do want to end
on a clip of Governor Tim Walls. Breaks your heart
when you listen to the guy explaining how the situation
in Minneapolis has spiraled out of control. Play the clip.
Speaker 5: We're no longer having a political debate, We're having a
moral debate. We all want secure borders and immigration enforpacement
that prioritizes criminals. And I want to thank the press,
especially the local press, who has done a deep dive
to show that's exactly what Minnesota does. But what you're
saying is not common sense, lawful or humane enforcement. That's
not what this occupation is about.
Speaker 1: It's not. It's not. There's not one person that I
know other than maybe Greg Bavino who saw that video
in the way that he does. This is a group
of thugs, no different than a mob, no different than
a murder in any city in any state, a gang murder.
They swarmed this guy, they beat him, and then they
killed him, and then worse, they left him for dead
in the street for a while before taking any action
to try to save his life, if that was even possible.
And this, this has to stop, And as always, thanks
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