Comic Andrew Schulz is continuous to distance himself from President Donald Trump and his administration, decrying their disastrous “spin” of Alex Pretti’s demise Saturday in Minnesota as “f**king disgusting” on the newest episode of his “Flagrant” podcast.
“Let’s speak about what occurred in Minneapolis,” Schulz mentioned on Wednesday’s episode.
He continued, “ICE murdered an American citizen in chilly blood after which the Trump administration referred to as him a home terrorist. That’s it. Like, plain and easy. I see the administration attempting to spin it, and it’s fucking disgusting.”
Schulz made a mistake in laying out the encounter, complicated the U.S. Customs and Border Safety brokers who killed Pretti with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, however definitely had legitimate cause 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 rapidly seized on Saturday’s taking pictures as a chance guilty the sufferer.
White Home deputy chief of employees Stephen Miller referred to as Pretti a “would-be murderer” who allegedly “tried to homicide federal brokers” earlier than he was killed, whereas Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem mentioned Pretti was partaking in “home terrorism” earlier than he was shot.
“They didn’t also have a second the place they’re like, ‘Hey, we’re reviewing the footage, we’re going to attempt to see what’s actually occurring,’” mentioned Schulz, who voted for Trump in 2024 however has since often criticized him and his administration over varied points.
He continued, “All of them, Trump and all of the cronies, put out collective statements that instantly blamed an American citizen that was exercising his First and Second Modification rights. Proper? He has the best to protest. He has the best to hold a firearm.”
Pretti was lawfully carrying a gun earlier than he was disarmed and fatally shot.
OCTAVIO JONES/AFP/Getty Photographs
“There’s no query about this by any means, and the administration instantly comes out and so they attempt to gaslight the general public, which you can not do when we now have 15 completely different movies of what occurred,” Schulz mentioned concerning the litany of eyewitness footage.
Miller notably modified his tune with an announcement Tuesday, claiming his preliminary rhetoric was “primarily based on experiences” supplied to Homeland Safety by Customs and Border Safety, and saying the White Home is “evaluating” why brokers “could 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 most likely don’t care about his perspective on the more and more unstable political local weather beneath Trump.
He nonetheless concluded: “I don’t assume any of us are having this dialog to, like, curry any goodwill or get individuals to love us or one thing like that. That is one thing that’s undeniably abhorrent and needs to be referred to as out. Easy as that. It’s disgusting.”
