Fox News Host Grills Deputy AG About Alex Pretti Shooting | EUROtoday

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was doubtless not anticipating this degree of warmth from a “Fox & Friends” host.

On Monday’s episode of the Fox News present, co-host Griff Jenkins had a pointed alternate with Blanche about statements from Department of Homeland Security officers after 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti was fatally shot by Border Patrol in Minneapolis on Saturday.

Pretti was wrestled to the bottom by a minimum of six masked federal brokers and fatally wounded after 10 photographs have been fired. DHS later alleged in a press release that Pretti had “violently resisted” officers, regardless of eyewitness video displaying in any other case.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of employees Stephen Miller each baselessly labeled Pretti a “domestic terrorist” and claimed he got down to kill legislation enforcement officers.

Jenkins kicked off his grilling of Blanche by citing reporting from his colleague, Bill Melugin — who posted on X that “half a dozen federal sources involved [in] immigration enforcement” have turn into “increasingly uneasy and frustrated” with the division’s messaging for the reason that taking pictures.

Jenkins quoted extensively from Melugin’s put up, which stated: “There is extreme internal frustration with DHS officials going on television and putting out statements to describe Alex Pretti as a domestic terrorist who was there to inflict maximum damage on federal agents or conduct a massacre, even after multiple videos emerged, to show that these claims appeared to be inaccurate.”

Jenkins then cited a supply of Melugin’s who reportedly stated DHS’s response was a “case study on how not to do crisis PR.”

Afterward, the host requested Blanche a easy query: “Todd, I ask you, based on the DOJ’s purview, do the actions of Alex Pretti amount to domestic terrorism?”

“It’s an investigation, so I’m not going to prejudge what his actions were or were not,” Blanche stated earlier than launching into an assault on political management in Minnesota.

But Jenkins wasn’t having it and ultimately reduce Blanche off.

“With all due respect, sir, my question is more pointed,” Jenkins interjected.

“You are an attorney,” he stated earlier than citing the “legal definition of domestic terrorism” and including that “it doesn’t appear to most of the country that have watched the available video … it does not appear to have met that definition of domestic terrorism. So, I’m just sort of wondering how you in the DOJ are viewing whether your colleagues may have gone too far?”

“Look, I don’t think anybody thinks that they were comparing what happened on Saturday to the legal definition of domestic terrorism,” Blanche stated.

He added, “What we saw was a very violent altercation. And I am not going to prejudge the facts. You’re right, there’s a bunch of video that’s out there. There’s a bunch of video that we haven’t seen yet in the minutes leading up to what happened and what happened afterwards. And you’re right — to the extent there’s body cam or other videos that witnesses are still providing to us. So I’m not describing it as anything except for a tragedy.”

He then went on to bash Minneapolis and its management.

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