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'You cannot de-escalate': Trump urged to increase violence against Minnesota 'insurgents'

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon called on the Trump administration to double down after officers from the Department of Homeland Security killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, over the weekend.

"In Minneapolis is just the center of an outright revolution, highly organized, highly financed, with our enemies, the Chinese Communist Party in back of this, but Soros, many other groups, highly organized, as sophisticated as what they did against our troops in Baghdad during the insurgency there," Bannon argued on his Monday War Room program. "And during the Iraq War, this is highly sophisticated. Under no circumstances can we de-escalate. Under no circumstances can we blink."

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MAGA host on Pretti shooting: 'Time for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act’

The pro-MAGA hosts on Real America's Voice argued that Alex Pretti's death at the hands of DHS officers should prompt President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act against anti-ICE protesters.

"As you can imagine, a number of protests broke out there in Minneapolis, and it really has just been a tragic situation," co-host Terrence Bates noted on Monday. "It's about time for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, just to try to really get a handle on this and send a message."

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Kristi Noem now seen as 'political disaster' as experts suspect her end is nigh: analyst

President Donald Trump is sending his "border czar" to handle the fallout from another fatal shooting during a Department of Homeland Security operation in Minnesota, and CNN's Harry Enten flagged that as a sign that deeply unpopular Kristi Noem might be ousted as secretary.

A Customs and Border Patrol officer shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti over the weekend, less than three weeks after another officer fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good, and Trump announced that Homan would lead the immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area.

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Fox News turns on top DOJ official after DHS calls Alex Pretti a terrorist: 'Not fair'

Fox News host Griff Jenkins fact-checked Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to his face after officials at the Department of Homeland Security alleged that 37-year-old slain nurse Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist.

"Here's a quote from [Fox's] reporting saying there is extreme internal frustration with DHS officials going on television and putting out statements to describe Alex Pretti as a domestic terrorist who was there to inflict maximum damage on federal agents or conduct a massacre even after multiple videos emerged," Jenkins explained on Monday, "to show that these claims appear to be inaccurate."

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'Caught in lies': CNN host directly shames Trump admin for propaganda

CNN's Sara Sidner called out the Trump administration for lying about the fatal shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis.

A Customs and Border Patrol officer shot and killed the 37-year-old Pretti after he came to the aid of two female legal observers during an immigration operation, and the "CNN News Central" host reported live from the city about the administration's claims about the fatal shooting.

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Trump's latest outburst alarms doctor: 'I want his physicians to engage!'

President Donald Trump's recent social media post storm alarmed one doctor, who said on Sunday that he saw it as evidence that the president is suffering a common side effect from having a stroke.

Last week, Trump stayed up late into the night, firing off posts on Truth Social that ranged from attacks against his political enemies to complaints about how he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize and his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The late-night tirade seemed emblematic of someone who is suffering from "agitated depression," which is a common side effect of people who have suffered from a stroke, according to Dr. Bruce Davidson, a professor at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.

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Trump just lit a 'green light' after another American killed in Minneapolis: legal expert

A legal expert issued a dire warning about how President Donald Trump's immigration officers are going to conduct themselves going forward after another American was killed while protesting in Minneapolis.

On Saturday, 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was gunned down by a swarm of immigration officers. The Trump administration claimed Pretti presented a threat to the officer's lives and called him a "domestic terrorist." The administration also claimed Pretti brandished a weapon at officers, even though video from the scene clearly contradicts that claim.

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Leaked ICE memo reveals 'broader effort' of Trump's immigration regime: lawyer

A lawyer representing a group of whistleblowers who leaked a recent Department of Homeland Security memo said on Sunday that the document revealed the "broader effort" of President Donald Trump's immigration regime.

Immigration has been the Trump administration's key issue during its second term. The president has empowered immigration agents to aggressively deport as many illegal immigrants as possible and used his platform to largely shield agents from accountability when they have killed American citizens like Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

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Greg Bovino stuns with 'one of the most Orwellian' Sunday interviews

Customs and Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino stunned an analyst on Sunday after what the analyst described as "one of the most Orwellian" Sunday morning interviews in recent memory.

Bovino joined CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" on Sunday morning, where the two discussed the recent killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, who was shot by CBP agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. During the interview, Bovino said the CBP agents were the real victims in the affair, and told a narrative about the event that Sam Stein, managing editor for The Bulwark, found completely unbelievable given the evidence available in the public domain.

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Fox News host 'outwardly skeptical' as she presses Kash Patel on DHS killing claim

In an uncharacteristic moment on Sunday, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo appeared "outwardly skeptical" of FBI Director Kash Patel as she pressed him on the latest DHS killing.

In the interview, Bartiromo touches on the DHS killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The host asks the head of the FBI, "But how was he threatening Border Patrol? How was he using a gun to threaten?" She then added, "He was filming it."

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CNN host flinches as Greg Bovino claims 'the victims are the agents!' in DHS incident

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino made CNN’s Dana Bash flinch on Sunday after insisting that the Border Patrol agents who fatally shot a Minnesota nurse Saturday were the “victims” in the incident, and not the 37-year-old who was pepper sprayed, beaten and shot ten times while on the ground.

“What our officers are faced with here in Minneapolis are chaotic, very difficult and violent situations,” Bovino said.

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CNN host puts Greg Bovino on the spot over why 'an unarmed man' was shot by agents

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino refused to answer CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday after being pressed about a key detail in Saturday’s deadly federal immigration shooting.

Saturday morning, 37-year-old Minnesota resident Alex Pretti was beaten and fatally shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Pretti was reportedly conceal carrying a firearm during the incident, which was captured on video and appears to show a federal immigration officer removing Pretti’s firearm before he was shot.

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SNL's 'lighthearted' Trump parody blasted as 'failure to read the room' after DHS shooting

Saturday Night Live opened its latest episode with a familiar cold open parodying President Donald Trump, but critics said the show’s usual antics and “lighthearted” jabs were a “gigantic failure to read the room” given a deadly DHS shooting that occurred just hours before the broadcast.

“Sorry to be a buzzkill SNL, but maybe don’t do a lighthearted Trump cold open on the same day his goon squad murdered an American citizen in broad daylight,” wrote Democratic strategist Matt McDermott Saturday night in a social media post on X to their more than 91,000 followers. “It’s not funny anymore – people are dying.”

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