Ex-Trump official left tongue-tied as Jake Tapper tears apart defense of nurse's killing
CNN anchor Jake Tapper clashed with a Republican former Trump administration official on Tuesday in a fiery back-and-forth over the killing of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration agents.
Chad Mizelle, who previously served as the chief of staff to the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi and general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration, was asked by Tapper his thoughts on the killing of Pretti. When he tried to defend the immigration agents and blame Pretti for his own death, Tapper pointed to the removal of Border Patrol enforcer Greg Bovino and the Trump administration's growing blame of him behind the scenes.
"Jake, I very much don't agree with that... If you want to lay blame at somebody's feet, it is squarely on Tim Walz in the Minnesota officials who have called ICE the modern day Gestapo, who have told ICE to get the f out of our city, who have encouraged their citizens to protest against ICE, to blow whistles against ICE, to organize Signal chats against ICE," Mizelle said. "You know, not the Signal chats thing directly, but all of that type of agitation has been heavily encouraged. And it's exactly that type of agitation that leads to unfortunate circumstances, like we saw with Alex Pretti." ...