Trump-Voting Comedian Torches Admin Over Spin Of Alex Pretti Death | EUROtoday

Comedian Andrew Schulz is constant to distance himself from President Donald Trump and his administration, decrying their disastrous “spin” of Alex Pretti’s loss of life Saturday in Minnesota as “f**king disgusting” on the most recent episode of his “Flagrant” podcast.

“Let’s talk about what happened in Minneapolis,” Schulz stated on Wednesday’s episode.

He continued, “ICE murdered an American citizen in cold blood and then the Trump administration called him a domestic terrorist. That’s it. Like, plain and simple. I see the administration trying to spin it, and it’s fucking disgusting.”

Schulz made a mistake in laying out the encounter, complicated the U.S. Customs and Border Protection brokers who killed Pretti with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, however definitely had legitimate motive to sentence the Trump administration’s ongoing “spin.”

Eyewitness movies from Minneapolis seem to point out Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen who labored as an intensive care nurse, filming an altercation involving CBP brokers — earlier than a number of of them wrestled Pretti to the bottom, disarmed him and killed him.

Trump administration officers shortly seized on Saturday’s taking pictures as a chance responsible the sufferer.

White House deputy chief of workers Stephen Miller known as Pretti a “would-be assassin” who allegedly “tried to murder federal agents” earlier than he was killed, whereas Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated Pretti was partaking in “domestic terrorism” earlier than he was shot.

“They didn’t even have a moment where they’re like, ‘Hey, we’re reviewing the footage, we’re going to try to see what’s really happening,’” stated Schulz, who voted for Trump in 2024 however has since continuously criticized him and his administration over numerous points.

He continued, “All of them, Trump and all the cronies, put out collective statements that immediately blamed an American citizen that was exercising his First and Second Amendment rights. Right? He has the right to protest. He has the right to carry a firearm.”

Pretti was lawfully carrying a gun earlier than he was disarmed and fatally shot.

“There’s no question about this whatsoever, and the administration immediately comes out and they try to gaslight the public, which you cannot do when we have 15 different videos of what happened,” Schulz stated in regards to the litany of eyewitness footage.

Miller notably modified his tune with a press release Tuesday, claiming his preliminary rhetoric was “based on reports” supplied to Homeland Security by Customs and Border Protection, and saying the White House is “evaluating” why brokers “may not have been following” correct protocol.

Schulz acknowledged on his podcast that he and his co-hosts interviewed Trump forward of the 2024 election, and that many viewers who’re conscious of this in all probability don’t care about his perspective on the more and more unstable political local weather beneath Trump.

He nonetheless concluded: “I don’t think any of us are having this conversation to, like, curry any goodwill or get people to like us or something like that. This is something that is undeniably abhorrent and should be called out. Simple as that. It’s disgusting.”