Free Republic

MS NOW Thought Alex Pretti Wasn’t Pretty Enough So They Heavily Altered His Image Alex Pretti has been all over the news since he was shot while engaged with Customers and Border Protection officers in Minneapolis. The fury over CBP and ICE in the dysfunctional city has leftists attempting to elevate the armed insurgent’s status to a combination of martyr and saint. MS NOW took their brainwashing to the next level by adding beautification to the mix. They heavily enhanced his headshot and displayed the new and improved Pretti on Nicolle Wallace’s show.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump shifted toward a more conciliatory approach with Democratic leaders in Minnesota on Monday, a sudden change in tack following an outcry over the second fatal shooting by federal agents in the state this month during the administration's nationwide crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The about-face comes after Saturday’s shooting death of Alex Pretti by federal agents raised doubts — including from some Republicans — over how the Trump administration has gone about aggressively deporting migrants and confronting protesters opposed to the policy.

The president told 'New York' magazine he feels "the same as I did 40 years ago" in a new interview about his aging“I hate to waste a lot of time on this, but if you’re going to write a bad story about my health, I’m going to sue the ass off of New York magazine," he said. "There will be a time when you can write that story, maybe in two years, three years, five years — five years, no one is going to care, I guess. Go ahead and sit down.” Speculation about Trump's health has run rampant in...

Reading CNN’s ridiculous hot takes on the Trump economy is enough to knock a few points off your intelligence quotient. Its TDS-afflicted reporters consistently behave as if writing in contradiction just to sour public opinion doesn’t affect the credibility of their arguments. CNN Business Senior Writer Allison Morrow didn’t even try to hide the inconsistency in her January 23 anti-Trump screed headlined, “Trump’s ‘run it hot’ economic strategy could work — but it’ll cost Americans dearly.” Did you catch that? If Trump’s economic plans work out as intended, how will it hurt Americans? Wouldn’t that outcome be the antithesis of...

Recently released federal data shows the rate of improper payment in Minnesota's Medicaid program is far below the national average, the state's Department of Human Services says. According to the data released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the error rate in Minnesota is slightly over 2.1%, compared to the national average of 6.1%. The human services department says the data was collected before it started implementing measures to cut down on fraud risk. "We're committed to making Minnesota a national model for preventing fraud and catching errors," said Shireen Gandhi, the temporary human services commissioner. "This...

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, speaking of the shooting death of anti-ICE protester Alex Pretti, Scarborough said: "Many people were describing [it] as an execution-style shooting."Joe, if you want to accuse ICE of the execution-style shooting of Alex Pretti, have the decency and guts to say so yourself, instead of putting it in the mouths of "many people." The bare minimum that journalistic integrity required was to name names of some of those "many people." But you failed to clear even that low bar. Shame on you. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Popular conservative on liberal news network continues exposing leftist viewers to reality!Conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings is on a roll this week, destroying a trio of liberals as he promotes President Donald Trump’s America First agenda from within the belly of the mainstream media beast. On Tuesday, during a panel discussion featuring Parkland High School shooting survivor-turned anti-2nd Amendment activist Cameron Kasky, Jennings called out his colleagues for allowing the young March For Our Lives co-founder to accuse President Trump of being “part of” a “human sex trafficking network.” “You gonna let that sit?” Jennings asked after Kasky made the...

The liberal nepo baby son of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones is 'too spooked' to return to CNN after he was eviscerated by Scott Jennings last year, insiders say. Dylan Douglas, 26, an actor and political radio host, was reportedly left so upset by his on-air confrontation with Jennings that he is 'done with tough interviews', according to Hollywood insider Rob Shuter's Substack. Shuter cited sources close to Douglas that say he has made it 'crystal clear' he is done with all hostile interviews, including CNN and 'any outlet where a host might dare to challenge him.'

We’re in the middle of the Australian Open right now, one of the 4 major tennis tournaments collectively known as the “grand slams,” and it didn’t take long for a press conference to turn into a circus down in Melbourne. Several American tennis stars are being praised for how they handled a series of “baited” questions from a reporter seemingly intent on eliciting a condemnation of Donald Trump and the United States. Remember this is a tennis tournament, a pretty big one, and rather than using your press credentials to ask tennis players ab0ut… oh, I don’t know… tennis? We’re...

President Donald Trump declared that The New York Times must “pay a price” on Thursday after the Gray Lady and Siena University released a new poll suggesting that just 40% of registered voters approve of him. In a write-up about the survey, the Times’ chief political analyst Nate Cohn observed that “The major demographic shifts of the last election have snapped back. In today’s poll, Mr. Trump’s approval rating by demographic group looks almost exactly as it did in Times/Siena polling in the run-up to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. If anything, young and nonwhite voters are even...

Cameron Kasky came to national attention as a student activist at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school after the tragic shooting there in Parkland, Florida in 2018.His first notorious turn on CNN came on Jake Tapper's screechy anti-conservative town hall, where he said then-Sen. Marco Rubio reminded him facially of the Parkland mass shooter, Niklas Cruz. Kasky has attempted emulate his fellow student at that school, David Hogg, and grift off the Parkland anti-gun halo. He recently attempted to run for Congress in New York but quickly withdrew from that race and somehow ended up as a first time panelist on...

It happens almost every week, in almost every stadium. If you blink you’ll miss it. The sight of several young, wealthy, influential men bowing in submission to a higher power is a glitch in the matrix. It doesn’t fit the script. It is a glaring disconnect between the reality of the players and the media covering them. It’s time we turned the cameras back on, and if the networks don’t, the players will do it for them.

Chris Cuomo warns CNN’s Scott Jennings over his refusal to stop using the term ‘illegals’: ‘Don’t be a tough guy’ NewsNation host Chris Cuomo warned CNN analyst Scott Jennings Wednesday that if he keeps using the term “illegal aliens,” somebody might beat him up. Cuomo accused Jennings of acting like a “bully” and a “tough guy” when he dismissed activist Cameron Kasky’s assertion that “you don’t get to say the word illegals anymore,” during a recent CNN panel. Jennings refused to stop using the term and repeatedly asked Kasky, “How are you going to enforce your edict on me?” “What...

VIDEOYou can always rely on CNN's Manu Raju to serve up plenty of Democrat Hopium even if an election is many months away in the future as you can see here. Your Humble Correspondent drops his normal irreverent attitude and provides serious insights into Manu's large servings of Democrat Hopium.

As its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis intensifies, the Trump administration is leaning into messaging that borrows from phrases, images and music about national identity that have become popular among right-wing groups. ...The administration says it’s tired of criticism that its messaging is framed around white supremacy or Nazi slogans. “It seems that the mainstream media has become a meme of their own: The deranged leftist who claims everything they dislike must be Nazi propaganda,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said. “This line of attack is boring and tired. Get a grip." César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a law professor at Ohio...

In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that Mr. Trump would “sue” the news outlet if it did not air an interview unedited.It was an aside, caught on camera, that said a lot about the uneasy business of conducting journalism today.Moments after President Trump finished taping a 13-minute interview on Tuesday with the “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil in Michigan, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, approached Mr. Dokoupil and his colleagues to convey a message from the president.“He said, ‘Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the...

Last weekend, hundreds of protesters gathered in California’s state capitol to denounce the killing of 37-year-old Renee Good by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In California alone, demonstrations took place in 60 different communities. Most proceeded without incident, but on Tuesday, a protester at an ICE facility in Santa Ana was hit in the face by a projectile fired by a federal agent. President Donald Trump has denounced the anti-ICE protests, saying they are being organized by “professional agitators,” and that law enforcement “should not have to put up with this stuff.”

More than half of Americans in a survey released Friday rated President Trump’s first year back in office as a “failure.” The CNN/SSRS survey found that 58 percent of U.S. adults said 2025 was a failure for the president on a number of issues. Another 42 percent said the year was a “success,” and about 1 percent had no opinion. Overall, 61 percent of respondents said they disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job. Of that number, 35 percent cited personal behavior — including putting self-interests above the nation, bullying and being disrespectful, erratic behavior, allegations of racism,...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday delivered an epic rebuke of a leftist reporter after he accused an ICE agent of “recklessly” and “unjustifiably” killing crazed leftist Renee Good when she tried to run the agent over with her vehicle. Good was fatally shot last week by an ICE agent in self-defense, sparking outrage in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when she tried to kill an ICE agent. This sparked nationwide outrage from left-wingers and rioting in Minnesota. President Trump has threatened to invoke the insurrection act, stating on Thursday, “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and...

The plan was never to become an ICE agent. The plan, when I went to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Career Expo in Texas last August, was to learn what it was like to apply to be an ICE agent. Who wouldn’t be curious? The event promised on-the-spot hiring for would-be deportation officers: Walk in unemployed, walk out with a sweet $50k signing bonus, a retirement account, and a license to brutalize the country’s most vulnerable residents without consequence—all while wrapped in the warm glow of patriotism. At first glance, my résumé has enough to tantalize a recruiter for America’s...