Newsmax Host Holds Phone Like A Gun To Defend Agents Who Shot Alex Pretti | EUROtoday

Newsmax host Greg Kelly ludicrously held up his cellphone to argue that the system might look “a little bit” like a gun as he defended immigration brokers for fatally taking pictures 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

On Monday’s episode of “Greg Kelly Reports,” Kelly displayed a picture of Pretti holding a cellphone shortly earlier than he was shot to dying on Saturday and urged that federal brokers could have confused it for a gun.

“In a weird way, that phone, I think, can be mistaken for a gun,” he argued. “Now, [Pretti] has a gun, a rather bizarre gun, in his holster. I wanna show you something else.”

Asking his producer to take down the picture of Pretti from the display screen, Kelly brandished his personal cellphone, holding it sideways and pointing it within the air like a gun.

Pretti was by no means seen holding his cellphone in such a way within the footage that has circulated of his killing.

“Does that look like a gun?” Kelly requested. “I think it does a little bit. It’s a phone. It’s black, like most phones. That’s crazy stuff.”

Elsewhere within the episode, Kelly condemned Pretti for “showing up the way he did” at a protest, which he known as a “very, very, very stupid thing.”

In a very surprising second, the Newsmax host performed a clip of ABC’s Jonathan Karl describing Pretti as an “avid outdoorsman,” “competitive cyclist,” and former Boy Scout — and seized upon these descriptions to match the slain 37-year-old nurse to a serial killer.

Dennis Lynn Rader, higher identified by the pseudonym BTK, additionally “liked to hunt, he was a family man, everybody liked him, his mother liked him – all that stuff,” Kelly started, whereas a side-by-side picture of Pretti and Rader appeared on display screen. “Dennis Rader and Alex.”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t just pretend because you’re dead, you’re, like, this superior person,” he continued, later including: “People are kind of projecting positive qualities on somebody they don’t know.”

Kelly was not the one right-wing pundit in charge Pretti for his personal dying this week. On Monday, podcaster Megyn Kelly instructed her listeners: “I know I’m supposed to feel sorry for Alex Pretti, but I don’t. I don’t. Do you know why I wasn’t shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because I kept my ass inside and out of their operations.”