Posted on 01/26/2026 6:00:49 AM PST by thegagline
A key House Republican called on President Trump Sunday to begin yanking ICE agents out of Minneapolis — warning the chaos will only “get worse” after protester Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a federal agent a day earlier.
*** James Comer (R-Ky.) suggested a de-escalation was needed after the 37-year-old ICU nurse was gunned down — especially if “there’s a chance of losing more … innocent lives.”
“If I were President Trump, I would almost think about, OK, if the mayor and the governor are going to put our ICE officials in harm’s way and there’s a chance of losing more, you know, innocent lives or whatever, then maybe go to another city and let the people of Minneapolis decide, ‘Do we want to continue to have all of these illegals? Are we going to allow our governor, attorney general and mayor to get away with this?’” Comer told Fox News’ “Sunday***
*** Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), warned that ICE agents “do not have carte blanche in carrying out their duties.”
“Lawfully carrying a firearm does not justify federal agents killing an American—especially, as video footage appears to show, after the victim had been disarmed,” ***
Trump*** [said] that his administration was “reviewing everything” about the shooting, and will come out with a determination.”
“I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it,” Trump added. “But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest, and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn’t play good either.”***
The president also told the outlet that federal immigration authorities would leave the Twin Cities “at some point,” with “a different group” of federal law enforcement to carry out a sweeping benefits fraud probe centered on Minneapolis’ Somali diaspora.***
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2) Walz, Frey and other Democrats are aiding and abetting an insurrection
3) Again, the riots are being coordinated by the Democrats (See Cam Higby on X re SIGNALGATE)
4) Pam Bondi is useless. I don’t know why she is still our AG
5) Comer and the “other powerful Republicans” are emboldening Walz, Frey, Schumer etc.
6) “I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it,” Trump added. “But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest, and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn’t play good either.”
The Second Amendment and Kyle Rittenhouse would like a word with you.
“”””*** James Comer (R-Ky.) suggested a de-escalation was needed after the 37-year-old ICU nurse was gunned down — especially if “there’s a chance of losing more … innocent lives.” “””””
GUNNED DOWN???????????????? losing more INNOCENT LIVES????
Any thoughts on the innocent lives lost because of crimes by violent illegals?
Pretti wasn’t an innocent life.
And so it begins.
So, that's how we deal with insurrection? We do what that low IQ mayor in Missouri did? She said to back off and let those mongrels burn the city.
How'd that work out? If we pull out of Minneapolis, that's our surrender flag.
GOP: "Quick! Circle the firing squad."
Every. Single. Time.
If they back off in every city that opposes it, all that will do is encourage opposition elsewhere.
Take that RINO POS and torture his ass until he squeals like a DemocRAT. Enough is enough. Either we get serious or we perish. The left is an existential enemy. Treat them as they must be treated...as vermin. Wish this were untrue, but there ‘tis.
<< Trump added. “But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest, and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets >>
And impedes a law enforcement operation, he should’ve added.
Where is the Left getting it’s insider info from ?
This is yet another example of why the Republican Party is sometimes called the stupid party.
You are such a POS. Kyle Rittenhouse wasn’t there to interfere with the cops, he was there to help. But you lying leftist could care less about the fact, you just want to watch the world burb so you can blame Trump. Again, you are such a POS.
Do leftists also believe that they have the right to interfere in a routine traffic stop on the highway? And also armed? You see a police vehicle pulled over on the road and he is performing his duties, and it is the leftist right to stop and intervene with a gun?
This statement implies that those two dirt bags that were shot were innocent...neither were.
I personally did not grieve a single second that they were shot to death...FAFO.
I've been carrying for decades, but I'd never openly carry during a riot, unless I had my pistol out and was going to shoot a bad guy to save my life.
These MN freaks actually believe that the law does not apply to them, but one law surely does, the law of ballistics.
Shoot all rioters.
eff that!
Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna says that there is a money trail leading to Neville Singham funding the L.A. riots.
I posted the letter that former Venezuelan 3 star general Hugo Carvajal Barrios sent to The Dallas Express addressed to President Trump.
And I posted a transcript of Emerald Robinson on The Stephen Gardner Show talking about Hubo Carvajal
December 14, 2025
Carvajal knows the names of American politicians that have been bribed by Venezuela.
He talks about how Smartmatic voting machines have been used to flip the votes.
I posted a link to how Trump’s team turned off the Smartmatic voting machine’s phones for 3 days during the 2024 election.
I gave a link to how American politicians colluded with the 52 Mexican consulates and the Mexican president to sway our elections.
And I posted a huge list of liberals inciting riots after the latest shooting.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4363848/posts?page=67#67
I think they should indeed pull out, and never again send any federal money to that state.
I heard someone else suggest this, Trump agrees to deescalate if Minnesota agrees to allow ICE to arrest people in jails and court houses, basically do away with their sanctuary city laws, in exchange for Trump pulling back.
Minnesota will reject the idea, but you have put the pressure on Minnesota to respond, by rejecting the idea, all the violence can placed at the feet of the rioters and Minnesota politicians.
The dead nitwit wasn’t “legally” carrying. He had no ID which is required under Minnesota law (a law signed by Walz). He was resisting arrest. He was fighting with the officers.
I call “suicide by police”.
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