Widely circulated video of Pretti’s killing by federal agents undercut earlier assertions of him being a gunman
White House officials sought to rapidly distance Donald Trump and top officials from their initial portrayals of the man fatally shot by federal officials in Minnesota as a gunman, as they faced a deepening backlash after video footage was widely seen to undercut their assertions.
The move came as Trump advisers appeared to realize that the caustic portrayals of the man, Alex Pretti, who was reportedly licensed to carry a gun, had turned the killing into an even larger political liability for the president.
Over the weekend, senior administration officials including Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff, called the victim “a domestic terrorist who tried to assassinate law enforcement”, while Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, accused him of perpetrating “the definition of domestic terrorism”.
Is the big lie strategy finally backfiring? I don’t know why it took ten fucking years of this BS but I’ll take it.
Nah, they will just find new ways to set these precedents dishonoring the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 1pth amendments. Probably the 5th too before long.
They are gearing up for fixing elections, these precedents are set on immigration because that is where they have the most support.
If their people buck at executing under false pretense and slandering to justify it, they will find a situation where they will support it.