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Chilling call made on MAGA network for Trump to unleash violence on 'domestic enemies'

A caller on a MAGA TV network called on President Donald Trump to unleash violence against his "domestic enemies" on Tuesday.

During the caller segment of "Bolling!" on MAGA TV network Real America's Voice, an individual told Trump that he "hopes he has a plan" for the people protesting immigration raids in Minneapolis. The call happened at a time when tensions over Trump's deportation policies are under increased scrutiny after a swarm of officers killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti, the second high-profile killing in Minneapolis this month.

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Watch live: Trump delivers economy speech in Iowa amid ICE turmoil

President Donald Trump was slated to speak in Iowa on Tuesday to shift focus to the American economy as the country reels over killings in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration agents.

Trump, whose Republican Party expects to face a tough midterm battle, was expected to use the speech in Clive, Iowa, to try and convince Americans that he has his eyes on the economy, according to The New York Times.

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US dollar plunges as Trump admits he's unconcerned with its decline

The dollar fell to $0.83 against the Euro on Tuesday, the lowest it's been since June 2021, after President Donald Trump said that he doesn't care about its continued decline.

“No, I think it’s great,” Trump told reporters in Iowa on Tuesday, according to a report by Bloomberg. The president was responding to a question about whether he was worried about losses in the dollar. “I think the value of the dollar — look at the business we’re doing. The dollar’s doing great.”

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Trump felt 'even worse' after learning ICE victim's parents were 'big fans' of his

President Donald Trump said he felt "even worse" when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed Renee Good in Minnesota because he found out that her parents were "Trump people, Trump fans."

During a Tuesday interview on Fox News, host Will Cain asked Trump about the killing of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol officer.

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Trump admits ousted Border Patrol boss 'maybe wasn't good': 'He's pretty out there'

President Donald Trump Tuesday admitted that Border Patrol enforcer Greg Bovino might not have been the best fit to enforce immigration raids in Minnesota.

In a Fox News interview on "The Will Cain Show" in Urbandale, Iowa, Trump told the outlet that he had some misgivings about putting Bovino in charge of the ICE operations following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

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Trump seethed behind closed doors over Noem's disastrous coverage of Minneapolis shooting

President Donald Trump privately fumed at the TV coverage of Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem after the latest shooting involving a federal agent in Minneapolis, according to one CNN reporter.

Over the weekend, 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by a swarm of immigration agents during a protest in Minneapolis. Pretti was the second U.S. citizen killed by federal officers following Trump's surge of officers in the city. The killings have sparked bipartisan scrutiny of the Trump administration's immigration regime and of Noem, who is facing calls to be impeached or fired.

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Stephen Miller ordered Kristi Noem to say Alex Pretti wanted to 'massacre' ICE: report

White House aide Stephen Miller was reportedly behind false claims that slain activist Alex Pretti was planning to "massacre" law enforcement when federal agents killed him in Minnesota on Saturday.

According to Axios, Miller ordered Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to make the claim about Pretti after he died.

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Trump admin releases man after judge's scathing threat of contempt

The man at the center of a case involving a contempt threat from a judge against the Trump administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief was released from custody Tuesday.

Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz found the administration had failed to comply with court orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants and ordered Todd Lyons, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to appear before him on Friday to answer questions about Juan Tobay Robles, according to The Associated Press.

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Trump's own screenshots caught him breaking the law using auto-deleting app: watchdog

A watchdog group is raising concerns that President Donald Trump may have violated federal recordkeeping laws by using an auto-deleting message application to text world leaders.

On Tuesday, the group American Oversight sent a letter to White House Counsel David Warrington asking for information about whether the president is taking all the required steps to comply with the Presidential Records Act, which requires the preservation of all presidential records—including digital correspondence—during official duties. The group highlighted two posts Trump made on Truth Social last Tuesday in which appeared to reveal that he was using Signal or another similar messaging app to discuss world affairs with world leaders.

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ICE agent's dark threat caught on video: 'I'll erase your voice'

Video of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent threatening to "erase" a resident in Minnesota caught fire on social media this week.

The video, purportedly filmed in January in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was shared in the latest edition of the MinnMax show.

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Trump uncorks new threat to old foe: 'Very bad choice!'

President Donald Trump dropped a new threat to an old international foe on Tuesday.

Trump was slated to speak in Iowa and was arriving in Des Moines where he was expected to speak about the economy amid Republican concerns over upcoming midterm losses when he shared a sharp criticism of Nouri al-Maliki, an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014, a period marked by significant sectarian violence, the rise of ISIS and allegations of authoritarian governance and marginalization of Sunni populations.

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Rock legend gifts entire music archive to Greenland in sharp Trump rebuke

Rock legend Neil Young gifted his entire music archive to Greenland residents.

Young, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, said he hoped the offering “will ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,” Pitchfork reported Tuesday.

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Even Trump doesn't agree with Stephen Miller's wild 'assassin' claim for slain nurse

President Donald Trump broke from his top aide on Tuesday and said he did not think Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis, was an "assassin."

Trump was speaking with reporters outside the White House before he was headed to Iowa when a reporter asked him if he thought Pretti was an "assassin" — something White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller had claimed after Pretti was killed in an incident captured on video. Trump replied "no" to the question.

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