As Jennifer Rubin explains, the reason Trump's ratcheting up the diversionary fits — the FBI raid in Georgia, arresting Don Lemon, etc. — even as he refuses de-escalation in Minnesota is that he's caught between a rock and a hard place.

MAGA is driven by theocratic fury fed by white supremacy. MAGA wants the assaults on immigrants.

#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://newrepublic.com/article/205923/trump-gop-panic-ice-grows-maga-goes-off-rails-race-traitor

As Jennifer Rubin explains, the reason Trump's ratcheting up the diversionary fits — the FBI raid in Georgia, arresting Don Lemon, etc. — even as he refuses de-escalation in Minnesota is that he's caught between a rock and a hard place.

MAGA is driven by theocratic fury fed by white supremacy. MAGA wants the assaults on immigrants.

#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://newrepublic.com/article/205923/trump-gop-panic-ice-grows-maga-goes-off-rails-race-traitor

"The actual physical seizure of a state’s voting materials was a Rubicon we hoped Trump would not dare cross. But here we are, and it’s only January."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #TulsiGabbard #FultonCounty #BigLie #2020Election #lies #disinformation
/17

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/theyre-seizing-the-ballots-and-voter

"Respectable white people are now keenly aware that the logical conclusion of a decades' worth of anti-immigrant hatred includes murdering white people and they don't like it. They are shocked to discover that authoritarianism did not stop at the color line."

~ John Stoehr

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #WhiteSupremacy
/5

https://www.editorialboard.com/americans-are-shocked-to-discover-authoritarianism-did-not-stop-at-the-color-line/

"Those in the media who choose to treat propaganda as the story, who begin from lies rather than from events, are also complicit. The border is the crack, the lies are the wedge, and the people who accept those lies are opening it wider."

See also T. Snyder's discussion of these issues in the video linked below.

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #media
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNBKQDNT0I

“'We’re gonna de-escalate a little bit,' Donald Trump said on Fox News Tuesday.

Sounded good. But it was absolute nonsense.

This malignant sadist has zero interest in moderating the abuses of his lawless police state."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #AlexPretti #TomHoman #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #violence #PoliceState
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/there-will-be-no-real-de-escalation

"Donald Trump is enormously dangerous. And we would be fools to look at a small rhetorical retreat from the horrors of his armed occupation in Minneapolis as a victory that will last."

~ Edwin Eisendrath

#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/congress-clawing-back-ice-funding

Approval numbers are plummeting, he feels checked with ICE and Minnesota (though he refuses to de-escalate). Queue wild diversions, from raiding an election office, resurrecting lies about the 2020 election being stolen, advancing Tulsi Gabbard as the new face while Kristi Noem is shoved to the side, arresting Don Lemon.

As Peter Rothpletz says,

"A floundering Donald Trump gaslights on overdrive."

#Trump #lies #misinformation. #ICE #violence #authoritarianism
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https://zeteo.com/p/blowing-smoke-and-mirrors

You don’t get much more official than executing a #judicial #warrant. Concealing #evidence after the fact is a separate offense that also fits what is publicly known about both the #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti cases. The resulting #criminal penalties would attach to anyone who conspired in that concealment. This could reach more senior figures in the #Trump admin who acted to hinder #justice by using #lies & #slander to deflect responsibility &—worse—to score political points from the deaths.

#law

"Everywhere we’re seeing signs that ICE, the White House and its virtual army of influencers, agitators and generalized degenerates are losing control of the public narrative surrounding the murder of VA ICU nurse and activist Alex Pretti."

~ Josh Marshall

#AlexPretti #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #GregBovino #murder #execution #Minneapolis #CBP #ICE #lies
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-pro-ice-primal-scream-chorus-fragments-and-the-underbussing-begins

"Everywhere we’re seeing signs that ICE, the White House and its virtual army of influencers, agitators and generalized degenerates are losing control of the public narrative surrounding the murder of VA ICU nurse and activist Alex Pretti."

~ Josh Marshall

#AlexPretti #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #GregBovino #murder #execution #Minneapolis #CBP #ICE #lies
/1

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-pro-ice-primal-scream-chorus-fragments-and-the-underbussing-begins

"Added together,🚨Trump has said the windfall from his tariffs will help cover nearly $6T in costs. That’s >22X more than the admin’s own estimates for how much revenue his taxes on imports will generate this year."
-S Lincicome

Trump's lies🚨about "his" #tariffs are egregious, but his lies about the cold-blooded murders he incited & condoned are ABOMINABLE‼️

#Murder #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Fascism #Evil #StateVIolence #Economy #Lies #DHS #AbolishICE #ICE #Protest #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2026/trumps-tariff-promises-dont-add-up-heres-math/

"Added together,🚨Trump has said the windfall from his tariffs will help cover nearly $6T in costs. That’s >22X more than the admin’s own estimates for how much revenue his taxes on imports will generate this year."
-S Lincicome

Trump's lies🚨about "his" #tariffs are egregious, but his lies about the cold-blooded murders he incited & condoned are ABOMINABLE‼️

#Murder #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Fascism #Evil #StateVIolence #Economy #Lies #DHS #AbolishICE #ICE #Protest #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2026/trumps-tariff-promises-dont-add-up-heres-math/

"They are lying murderers, so I think we ought to issue natural consequences that attend lying and murder. We should stop trusting them. Every word they say should be taken as a lie. Even occasional truths that come from their mouths should be understood as serving larger lies. Every intention should be presumed malicious."

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
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"These Republican authorities murder because they intend to murder, and if you listen to them you'll hear them say as much. They lie about the murders and their intent in order to justify the murder, because they intend to murder some more—much more, as much as they will be permitted.

This means that we're dealing with a massive national gang of lying murderers."

~ A.R. Moxon

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/44

https://www.the-reframe.com/the-shovel-next-time/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

"While agents of the state engage in brazen extrajudicial killings, the highest levels of government lecture us from their microphones that these are law enforcement agents protecting American communities. It does not seem to matter to them that we can see the killings with our own eyes, from multiple angles, in near-real-time."

~ Kyle Varner

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/46

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/in-trumps-dual-state-dissenters-face

"While agents of the state engage in brazen extrajudicial killings, the highest levels of government lecture us from their microphones that these are law enforcement agents protecting American communities. It does not seem to matter to them that we can see the killings with our own eyes, from multiple angles, in near-real-time."

~ Kyle Varner

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/46

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/in-trumps-dual-state-dissenters-face

The following excerpts are from an affidavit made yesterday by an eyewitness to the execution of Alex Pretti, in the case filed in federal court against Kristi Noem and others:

"The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them—he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun."

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #fascism #Minneapolis
/3

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26505743-tinchersealedwitnessdec012426pdf/

"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed."

~ Michael and Susan Pretti

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/1

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-update-pam-bondi-demands-voter

"They are lying murderers, so I think we ought to issue natural consequences that attend lying and murder. We should stop trusting them. Every word they say should be taken as a lie. Even occasional truths that come from their mouths should be understood as serving larger lies. Every intention should be presumed malicious."

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
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