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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Chump lies and lies some more

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

CONVICTED FELON DONALD CHUMP SPOKE TO THESE REPORTERS THIS EVENING AT THE WHITE HOUSE -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS. HE SEEMED DAZED AS WE WERE USHERED INTO THE OVAL OFFICE. "DID YOU LIKE MY 'SHOULD HAVE BEEN MY THIRD TERM' LINE," HE ASKED.

NO, WE DID NOT. AND WE DID NOT HEAR ANYTHING NEW IN HIS SPEECH. IT WAS THE SAME NONSENSE HE'S BEEN SPOUTING FOR MONTHS AND YEARS. NOT ONE WORD WAS ABOUT BRINGING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER. HE HAD NO POLICY SUGGESTIONS, LET ALONE PROPOSALS.

THE CLOSEST YOU HAD TO A POLICY PROPOSAL WAS THE PROGRAM YOU CLAIMED THAT WOULD GIVE AMERICANS 401KS AND THAT'S SOMETHING PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN SIGNED INTO LAW IN 2022.

THAT WOKE THE SLEEPY GRUMP UP.

"I HAVE SHOWN AMERICA WHAT WINNING IS!" HE SHREIKED. "NEVER BEFORE HAS AMERICA WON! ONLY WHILE I AM IN THE WHITE HOUSE DOES AMERICA WIN!"

REALLY? WE DIDN'T WIN IN WWII? OR IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR? OR DURING THE POST-WAR ECONOMY? WE DIDN'T WIN WHEN WE CAME UP WITH VACCINES AND IMMUNIZATIONS? WE DIDN'T WIN --

"NO!" HE HISSED, TOSSING HIS HEAD BACK SO HARSHLY THAT HIS JOWLS SHOOK AND HIS COMB OVER FELL TO THE SIDE. "PEOPLE TELL ME, 'WE'RE NOT USED TO WINNING IN OUR COUNTRY UNTIL YOU CAME ALONG'."

THESE PEOPLE WHO TELL YOU THAT, WE ASKED, DO YOU SEE THEM RIGHT NOW?

"YES, I DO!" CHUMP YELLED AND POINTED TO AN EMPTY SPACE ACROSS FROM HIS DESK.

IF THE ECONOMY IS DOING SO GREAT, AS HE FALSELY CLAIMED, WHAT ABOUT SPEAKER OF THE CLOSET MIKE JOHNSON TELLING CBS NEWS YESTERDAY OF THE ECONOMY -- CHUMP'S FAILED ECONOMY -- THAT "YOU DON'T FLIP A SWITCH RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION AND IT ALL JUST IS FIXED MAGICALLY"?

CHUMP'S EYES WENT WIDE AND HE STARTED TO SPEAK BUT SUDDENLY HIS HEAD DROPPED TO HIS CHEST, HIS EYES FIRMLY SHUT, AND HE BEGAN SNORING.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Let's start with the big news, Convicted Felon Donald Chump's actions have been covered up by Attorney General Pam da Bimbo Bondi. Edith Olmsted (THE NEW REPUBLIC) reports:

The Department of Justice withheld multiple documents including allegations against President Donald Trump from its release of files on alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, according to an investigation by NPR.

The Department of Justice failed to release documents relating to three interviews the FBI conducted between July and October 2019 with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child. Only the first interview, conducted on July 24, 2019, is available to the public. In that conversation, she doesn’t mention Trump at all.

However, the woman’s allegations against the president still appeared in a 21-page slideshow included in files. “[REDACTED] stated Epstein introduced her to Trump who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit,” the FBI said. “In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.” This allegedly occurred in the mid-1980s when she was “approximately 13-15 years old.”

A record of the FBI interviews does appear in the files—on a list of discovery files given to Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell before her trial. By allowing Maxwell to retain information that the public does not have, Trump’s DOJ has enabled her to maintain potential blackmail over the president, according to independent journalist Roger Sollenberger.

Colby Hall (MEDIAITE) adds:

On Tuesday morning, NPR published a stunning report on serial numbers and discovery logs that do not line up with what the Justice Department has posted online. Some of the missing materials relate to allegations involving President Donald Trump. The department declined to explain the discrepancies.

Congress ordered the release of these files. The DOJ controls the archive. Reporters compare internal catalog numbers to public postings and find gaps. The department offers assurances but no reconciliation of the record.

The allegations are grave — they involve claims of sexual abuse of minors — and they remain unproven. FBI case files contain interviews and leads that do not automatically translate into charges. That distinction matters, and it makes the integrity of the release process more important, not less.

The Epstein rollout has been ragged from the start. Victim names were exposed and then corrected. Documents were pulled down and reposted. Privacy reviews were cited. Deadlines were blamed. Now the public learns that dozens of pages reflected in official logs are not available for review. Even if each decision has an internal explanation, the outward picture is disorder in the execution of a congressionally mandated transparency law.

Disorder produces the same practical result as concealment. The public cannot tell what is complete, what is withheld, and why. The record becomes contestable. Accountability drifts.

Last week, I argued that the Epstein file rollout carried the feel of a cover-up because the public was being asked to trust a process it could not independently verify. NPR’s reporting moves that concern from instinct to documentation. When internal logs point to pages the public cannot see, the question stops being rhetorical and becomes procedural.

There is also a political fact that cannot be ignored: This is very clearly Donald Trump’s Justice Department. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche serve at his pleasure. The release process that now appears to shield him from clarity is being overseen by officials loyal to him. That reality demands a level of precision and documentation that leaves no room for doubt.

The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee issued the following statement:

For the last few weeks, Oversight Democrats have been investigating the FBI’s handling of allegations from 2019 of sexual assault on a minor made against President Donald Trump by a survivor.

Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor.

Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover up.

And the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee also issued this yesterday:

Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement after it was exposed that the Department of Justice withheld and removed some Epstein files related to allegations that President Donald Trump sexually abused a minor, a violation of both the Oversight Committee’s subpoena and the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

“For the last few weeks, Oversight Democrats have been investigating the FBI’s handling of allegations from 2019 of sexual assault on a minor made against President Donald Trump by a survivor.

“Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes. Oversight Democrats will open a parallel investigation into this.

Under the Oversight Committee’s subpoena and the Epstein Files Transparency Act, these records must immediately be shared with Congress and the American public. Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover up,” said Ranking Member Robert Garcia

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Dan Mangan (CNBC) reports it as follows:

The Department of Justice has withheld from public disclosure in its Epstein files database memos and notes about FBI interviews, including those of a woman who has alleged President Donald Trump sexually abused her when she was a minor, MS NOW reported Tuesday.

The woman, who was interviewed in July 2019 by the FBI about allegations against convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, alleged that "Trump forced her to perform oral sex on him 35 years ago, when she was 13 or 14 years old, and subsequently hit her," MS NOW reported, citing a source who has reviewed unredacted documents.

"That allegation appears in a 2025 PowerPoint presentation detailing each of the FBI's Epstein-related investigations and a spreadsheet of unconfirmed tips called into the bureau's National Threat Operations Center reviewed by MS NOW," the outlet reported. "MS NOW has found that of at least four interviews the FBI conducted with the woman related to the Epstein investigations, only one memo — and no handwritten notes — reflecting such an interview is included on the DOJ site."

MS NOW's report came hours after NPR first reported that the DOJ withheld from its public database of Epstein documents files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor.

DOJ "also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump," NPR reported.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Alex Pretti's murder is a time to pull together and demand change and mourn

Alex Pretti was murdered by the Chump administration. There's no excuse or justification.

I don't usually post during the week unless it's a group post. But Betty's "To my Black brothers and sisters" went up. Ann texted me about it and she's already posted "What Betty said." So let me be clear as a Black man, I don't want hear Black YOUTUBERS who think it's time to say nah-nah-nah. A man was murdered by the government. That's outrageous. If you're focused on the fact that he's White, you're missing the point. It was wrong. The whole plan being carried out is wrong.

Lurie, we don't need your half-assed bulls**t where you attack White people. And Lurie, you got White girl hair. Don't think it's natural but maybe it is. At any rate, your White girl hair makes your attaks on White people even more ridiculous. You're trying to be White with that hair and then you turn around and attack White people and make fun of them for being the victims of violence.

Bitch, please.

Here's C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"

Monday, January 26, 2026. Another Minnesota murder carried out by Chump's gestapo.

Federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday fatally shot a 37-year-old man, the second person to be shot and killed in the city during a ramped-up immigration enforcement effort by the Trump administration, the authorities said.

At least two other people have been shot by federal law enforcement agents in Minneapolis this month — one in the leg and another, Renee Good, 37, in the head, killing her.

After Ms. Good’s death on Jan. 7, protests have taken place in the city, raising tensions with federal agents. State and local officials have called for federal agents to leave the city.

They murdered him. They murdered an American citizen. Another one.

And they know they murdered him. They lie to deny that's what happened.

But they murdered him and to try to get away with it, they smear him with lies. So they killed his body and since killing his body? They've worked overtime to kill his reputation.

Before we get to the lies from Chump and his minions, let's hear from people who actually knew Alex.

Wendy Grossman Kantor (PEOPLE) reports:

"I'm saddened to the deepest part of my heart," veteran Sonny Fouts, 71, tells PEOPLE of Pretti's death

When Alex Pretti appeared on the local news, Minneapolis Air Force veteran Sonny Fouts immediately recognized him. Just two weeks ago, Pretti was the ICU nurse who cared for Sonny, 71, all night after a major surgery.

“I’m saddened,” Sonny tells PEOPLE of Pretti's death. “I’m saddened to the deepest part of my heart.”

Sonny and his significant other, Kimberly Fouts, met Pretti, 37, on Jan. 12, when the 71-year-old underwent a descending aorta aneurysm repair procedure at the VA Medical Center, where the nurse was employed.

The surgery took nine hours, and Sonny was then admitted to the ICU, where he was cared for overnight by Pretti.

During the surgery, Kimberly had been waiting in the family room from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m., when she was told that she could visit Sonny in his ICU room.

“I walked in, and Sonny's just hooked up to so many machines and needles and tubes, and Alex was his nurse and he just lightened the situation,” Kimberly recalls. “There are nurses who come in and don’t really say anything, and Alex was not like that. I appreciated that I immediately felt comfortable with him. And I felt that Sonny was in good hands."

“I do remember how he comforted me, helped me, did his job,” adds Sonny, a retired musician who played saxophone and guitar and was a singer-songwriter. “He made me feel as comfortable as possible. He made me laugh a few times — and I certainly didn’t feel like laughing.”

Sonny appreciated that Pretti comforted and cared for Kimberly, too.

Renee and Alex were murdered by Chump & company. And instead of an apology, a realization, efforts to make changes, they act like the killers they are and instead attack the victims.

Can you imagine being a friend or family member of Renee's or of Alex's and hearing the administration lie non-stop?

It's disgusting. And that it's coming from so-called public servants whose salary that we pay? That's beyond offensive. It's beyond outrageous.

And it's not going away. The outrage is building and it's cutting across political lines. AP's Mary Clare Jalonick reports:

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that she believes Noem is attempting to "mislead the American public” about the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old protester in Minneapolis.

The call from Rosen, a moderate from Nevada who was part of the group that helped Republicans end the 43-day government shutdown last year, comes amid a growing fury from congressional Democrats who have also vowed to block funding for the Homeland Security Department. A House resolution to launch impeachment proceedings against Noem has the support of more than 100 Democrats, but few Senate Democrats have so far weighed in.

“Kristi Noem has been an abject failure leading the Department of Homeland Security for the last year — and the abuses of power we’re seeing from ICE are the latest proof that she has lost control over her own department and staff,” Rosen said in a statement to The Associated Press.

And it's no longer just Democrats in Congress calling for Kristi Noem's impeachment.

Saturday, WSWS noted the murder of Alex:

This morning, only a few hours ago, ICE agents carried out a second cold-blooded execution of a citizen of Minneapolis. This killing has taken place only a few blocks from where Renée Nicole Good was murdered little more than two weeks ago.

The video of this atrocity shows that the ICE agents fired their guns repeatedly into the body of their victim as he lay helpless on the ground.

This crime is the response of the Trump administration to yesterday’s powerful and peaceful demonstration against ICE’s reign of terror against the workers and youth of Minneapolis.

These murders and other acts of violence are being perpetrated with the full support of the Trump administration. Following Renée Good’s killing, the government denounced the victim as a terrorist and declared that there would be no criminal investigation into the circumstances of the shooter. The ICE agent who murdered her has gone scot-free.

Just one day before the city-wide general strike, Vice President Vance came to Minneapolis, where he once again defended the murder of Renée Good and denounced opponents of ICE’s violent rampage as “far-left agitators.” One can be certain that in private meetings Vance instructed ICE to continue its operations and assured its agents that they would be fully supported by the government.

The reign of terror by Trump’s ICE stormtroopers must be stopped.

So that's a moderate Democrat outraged and a Socialist publication outraged. That's no where near the end of it. Reanna Smith (THE MIRROR) notes podcaster Tim Pool is calling out the government's lies as well:

"Yea uh this is civil war," Pool wrote as he shared a post by Democratic strategist Matt McDermott claiming that Attorney General Pam Bondi is "openly using state violence as a bargaining chip to seize election infrastructure."

Bondi sent a three-page letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with three requests following Pretti's death. One called for the Department of Justice to be given "access to voter rolls".

The Attorney General stated: "Third, allow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to access voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota's voter registration practices comply with federal law as authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1960. Fulfilling this common-sense request will better guarantee free and fair elections and boost confidence in the rule of law."

[. . .]

But while Pool branded Pretti a "radicalized leftist," he questioned the Trump administration's narrative that he was out to "massacre" law enforcement officers.

"I don't believe this for 2 seconds," he wrote. "There's no reason to think he was trying to massacre LEOs."

Sarah Fortinsky (THE HILL) reports former US House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene also has a problem with the murder of Alex:

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) urged President Trump’s MAGA base to “take off their political blinders” as she expressed skepticism about the use of force deployed during the latest shooting in Minnesota involving a federal immigration agent.

In a post on the social platform X, Greene touted her support for law enforcement and immigration enforcement, but she also defended the right to legally carry firearms, indirectly pushing back on claims that 37-year-old Alex Pretti posed a threat to federal officers by virtue of carrying a firearm.

“I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens and I support law enforcement. However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment,” Greene wrote. “Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm.”

“I support American’s 1st and 4th amendment rights,” she continued. “There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing.”

People are standing up. You've got the ongoing protesters. You've got moderates, Socialists, MAGAs and Democrats. Senator Chuck Schumer has found his spine. Caroline Linton (CBS NEWS) reports:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Saturday that Democrats will not put up the necessary votes to advance a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of immigration agents shooting and killing a man in Minneapolis on Saturday.

"What's happening in Minnesota is appalling —and unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans' refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE," Schumer said in a statement. "I will vote no. Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included."

Other Democrats speaking out?

Senator Adam Schiff's office issued the following:

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker to react to the killing of another U.S. citizen at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis, the lack of a real, independent investigation of the shooting by the administration blocking local authorities’ involvement, and the ongoing abuse of power and force being exhibited by immigration enforcement agencies in Minnesota and across the country.

Schiff made clear that he will not support additional funding for DHS, ICE or CBP, the agencies responsible for the escalating chaos and the recent shootings, calling on Republicans to not force a government shutdown by controversially including more money for immigration enforcement in the funding bills later this week. He also reiterated demands for real congressional oversight to understand the corruption, fraud, and abuse being exhibited by the Department of Homeland Security and the Trump White House after providing billions of dollars to ICE and CBP over the past year.

View the full interview here.

Key Excerpts:

On Deputy Attorney General Blanche’s blame on local officials and law enforcement and the lack of a complete investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti:

[…] “For him to blame the cities and blame the states for flooding the streets of America with thousands of poorly trained agents who are shooting Americans in cold blood, in the street and through windshields, is despicable. What the American people have seen is horrifying. And I was really struck by a couple things of your interview with him. First, you asked him repeatedly, is there any evidence that you have seen or heard that Alex Pretti drew the weapon on agents or brandished the weapon? And he could not answer that question. And you know, if there was evidence of that, he would have said so. He then accused you of gaslighting the administration, which is also absurd. He would have you disbelieve anything you see.”

[…] “I was a prosecutor for almost six years. There does need to be investigation of both of these killings and a lot more, but no one, no one, can have confidence that DHS will do that properly. When the head of that agency has called these victims “domestic terrorists” without knowing anything, when the White House is calling them domestic terrorists, who can believe an investigation led by people who have already reached their conclusion? Local officials, local law enforcement need to be involved in these investigations. It needs to be objective, and we simply can’t accept an administration that says, “Don’t believe your lying eyes.”

On his position on the upcoming vote on Department of Homeland Security funding:

“I’m not giving ICE or Border Patrol another dime, given how this agency, these agencies are operating. Democrats are not going to fund that. The government will shut down if Republicans insist that that it be joined with other government funding. It will be a Republican decision. They understand we’re not going to go along with this, and we hope some of the Republicans in the Senate may see those scenes in the streets and be as repelled as we are and vote against that continuation of violence.”

[…] “They will make the decision there in the majority if they want to shut down the government so they can perpetuate this violence. But I’m not going to be a part of it, and I think anyone who votes to give them more money to do this will share in the responsibility and see more Americans die in our cities as a result.”

On the corruption and fraud in the DHS spending:

“They have thrown so much money at these agencies they don’t know what to do with it, and there is no question that when we actually get a chance to do oversight again, which I hope will happen after this November, you are going to find all kinds of corruption in how that money is going out. I have no question, you will find sole source contracting going out to friends of people in the administration, and money wasted hand over fist. They talk a good game about cutting down on waste, fraud, and abuse. There is going to be enormous waste, fraud, and abuse in DHS, given how money is being spent without any kind of real oversight. So, I wouldn’t make the problem worse to begin with, but I would also overhaul those agencies.”

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But it's not just those groupings of people. There are other Republicans, for example. Sanjana Karanth (HUFFINGTON POST) reports:

A growing number of Republicans are pushing for an investigation into the tactics that federal immigration authorities are using in Minnesota after ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed over the weekend.

Several videos of the incident on Saturday showed the 37-year-old holding his phone in one hand as he filmed Border Patrol activity. When Pretti tried to help a female observer who had been shoved by a federal agent, several other agents attacked him with pepper spray and wrestled him to the ground. At least one agent repeatedly shot Pretti, killing him and sparking more chaos.

“This is a real tragedy. I think the death of Americans, what we’re seeing on TV, it’s causing deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability. Americans don’t like what they’re seeing right now,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

“What is the endgame? What is the solution? And, you know, we believe in federalism and state rights, and nobody likes feds coming into their state,” he added. “And so what’s the goal right now? Is it to deport every single non-U.S. citizen? I don’t think that’s what Americans want.”

Steven Sloan (AP) adds:

A host of other congressional Republicans, including Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas and Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, pressed for more information. Their statements, in addition to concern expressed from several Republican governors, reflected a party struggling with how to respond to Saturday’s fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse at a VA hospital.

[. . .]

The killing has raised uncomfortable questions about the GOP's core positions on issues ranging from gun ownership to states' rights and trust in the federal government.

Cassidy, who is facing a Trump-backed challenger in his reelection bid, said on social media that the shooting was “incredibly disturbing” and that the “credibility of ICE and DHS are at stake.” He pushed for “a full joint federal and state investigation.” Tillis, who is not seeking reelection, urged a “thorough and impartial investigation” and said “any administration official who rushes to judgment and tries to shut down an investigation before it begins are doing an incredible disservice to the nation and to President Trump’s legacy.”

It's also nurses. Katie Herchenroeder (MOTHER JONES) explains:

The nation’s largest union of registered nurses fervently renewed their demand to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cease current deportation operations in American cities after a federal immigration agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old registered nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday.

“The nation’s nurses,” National Nurses United, which has more than 225,000 members nationwide, began in a statement, “who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them.”

“This time,” they continued, “they have executed one of our fellow nurses.”

It's also gun right advocates. David McAfee (RAW STORY) notes Ka$h Patel, head of the FBI got caught lying on FOX "NEWS:"

But it wasn't just Dem voices chiming in. Instead, the MN Gun Owners Caucus also added, "This is completely incorrect on Minnesota law."

"There is no prohibition on a permit holder carrying a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines at a protest or rally in Minnesota," the group wrote.

When a reader noted that Pretti reportedly wasn't carrying an ID, which he is required to do under the state's concealed-carry law, MN Gun Owners Caucus hit back with a simple reply:

"It’s a $25 ticket," the group answered Sunday.

The group was also asked about the state's magazine restrictions, to which it replied, "There are none."

And let's applaud the journalists who get lies spit in their face by Chump and his henchman and instead of going along with the lie or being silent, they do their job and correct the record. Brownshirt Greg Bovino appeared on CNN Sunday to spread lies. Kathleen O'Boyle (THE MIRROR) notes:

The 37-year-old nurse and legal gun owner was shot and killed by federal agents during protests against immigration enforcement operations in the city. Officials initially claimed Pretti posed an imminent threat to officers, but bystander footage and multiple witness statements show a far more complicated encounter.

Bash repeatedly urged Bovino to provide evidence that Pretti had intended to carry out violence against law enforcement. “There is no evidence – unless you have evidence, I would love to see it if there is – that he was intending to massacre law enforcement other than that he was there and he had a gun lawfully,” she said. It comes after an out-of-control ICE agent screamed a horrific three-word slur before shooting a woman 5 times.

Bovino lied because that's what trash does -- especially trash that likes to dress up in Nazi garb. We're not required to advance his known lies. Back to the article after his lies:

Bash pushed back, noting that Pretti was there to 'film and document' the protests, which is legal, and that 'from everything we have seen, Pretti was the one being assaulted by law enforcement.'

Again, we have no time for the lies of a Nazi lover so we'll not bother with Bovino. Back to the article after his lies:

As the exchange concluded, Bash delivered a blunt final statement, “There is no evidence he was perpetrating violence.”

Pretti, a registered nurse who worked at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, had no criminal history beyond minor traffic violations. According to officials, he legally carried a handgun. Video reviewed by multiple news outlets shows Pretti holding a phone and filming moments before he was tackled by officers, sprayed with a chemical agent, and pinned to the ground. Footage appears to show an officer removing a gun from Pretti’s waistband before shots were fired.

And she's exactly right, "There is no evidence he was perpetrating violence." They lied about Renee and now they're lying about Alex. A government that serves the people will make mistakes. They will not lie to cover up those mistakes. But that's what's happening. Chump and his minions have now murdered two American citizens in Minnesota. Instead of apologizing and launching investigations into the actions of Chump's gestapo, the administration compounds their crimes by attacking the dead. They lie about the dead, they smear them. This is not an accountable government.

He should be losing it. A) He's responsible and B) he's losing everything: Nurses, labor, gun right activists, MAGA, Democrats, Republicans. The mid-terms are more or less ten months away and Chump is running every voting faction off.

THE GUARDIAN notes:

The man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.
A video circulating online on Saturday morning, which matches the reported location of the shooting mentioned by the officials, showed a man being wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers before being shot what appears to be several times. At least two officers can be seen with their weapons drawn.
In a second, more comprehensive video of the shooting, obtained and posted online by Drop Site News, Pretti appeared to come to the defense of an observer who had been shoved to the ground by a federal officer. That officer then sprayed Pretti with a chemical agent, repeatedly, before tackling him to the street along with other agents.
At least five agents surrounded Pretti on the ground, and one appeared to fire a shot at him at close range. The shot was followed by a volley of more shots, after which Pretti’s body goes still. The visual evidence in the second video seems consistent with the interpretation that a gun appeared to have been taken away by one agent just before another shot him.
Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara later said during a press conference on Saturday that Pretti’s only known previous interaction with law enforcement was for traffic tickets. O’Hara also noted Pretti was “a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry”.
[Edited to remove the remarks of Bovino who, again, is a known liar.]
It’s the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis, in addition to another non-fatal shooting, amid a major crackdown in Minnesota by federal agents. Officials urged people to “remain peaceful and recognize there is a lot of anger and questions around what has happened”.
Protesters were heard calling “shame, shame” at officers after Pretti’s shooting, blowing whistles and shouting for ICE to leave the city. The agents responded with teargas and flash-bang grenades.
Minneapolis’s mayor, Jacob Frey, called on Donald Trump to “end this operation” of federal immigration enforcement agents and officers surging into Minneapolis, and demanded that the US president “take action now to remove these federal agents”. At the same press conference, police chief Brian O’Hara acknowledged immense anger in the city at the shooting but pleaded for calm.
Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, has staged national guard troops ready to help in keeping order in Minneapolis as protest and outrage at violent conduct by federal immigration personnel continue. Walz had activated them earlier in January, putting them under his orders to be ready if needed. Staging essentially means gathering and preparing to be on the streets. Initially, some troops are going to guard a federal building.
Walz called the operation of immigration enforcement that has surged into Minneapolis a “federal occupation”. He said he had seen bystander footage of the fatal shooting of Pretti and said it was “sickening”.

Donald Chump did not get voted into a second term by a majority of Americans. Not by a majority of voters who turned out (he got 49% of the vote, not even fifty) and not by a majority of Americans who were eligible to vote. -- (approximately 90 million American adults who were eligible to vote did not vote in 2024. Chump got 77.3 million voters. More people -- close to 90 million -- didn't vote than voted for him. And 75 million vote for Kamala. Neither grouping -- all eligible voters or just those who voted -- delivered Chump a majority of votes.

New topic . . .

Let's move to a video that a number of you are e-mailing requesting for it to be highlighted. I'm not going to. At 10:44 pm Pacific Time last night, I actually put it the "scheduled" rotation. And I listened to it while scheduling other videos to go up overnight.

And?

I pulled it. I don't have time for bulls**t -- yeah, it's a catchy title and it's a good topic.

But I don't post lies.

I don't need brainless bimbos. I don't. I look askance at the woman to begin with -- she's in her 30s or 40s and, until this year, was calling herself either "Politics Girl" or "Political Girl" -- I can't remember which.

But get your facts straight, bimbo, or get off that platform. You cheapen it and you weaken it.

I don't care what else is in the video. It's like a new show that everyone's raving about: STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS!!!! A SHOW WOMEN SHOULD LOVE!!!! Really? Because this woman didn't love it. I turned it off five minutes in. Pro-women shows? They don't start with a song where a man's trashing a woman. They also don't start with a song (the same song, in fact) written by a man who's beaten and abused two women that we know of. Pro-women shows don't advance the popularity of a man guilty of multiple acts of terrorism (domestic violence is terrorism). Whatever positives the show might offer, they've undermined themselves. Just like a bimbo doing 'analysis' that includes lies advanced by Donald Chump.

I'm not in the damn mood. We need more female voices. Ones worth hearing. Bimbos in front of microphones aren't helping us. Don't we already see that on THE MAJORITY REPORT where Emma attacks female politicians and promotes male politicians just like the guys on the show do? Watching Roland yesterday (clip below) the first show that came to mind was the crap-ass MAJORITY REPORT.