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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJD Vance reposted a Stephen Miller tweet calling Alex Pretti "an assassin" who "tried to murder federal agents"
Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was âan assassin who tried to murder federal agents.â
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-01-25T13:50:50.644Z
Chasstev365
(7,297 posts)Irish_Dem
(80,283 posts)dalton99a
(92,629 posts)EarlG
(23,457 posts)Your federal government has declared that anyone legally carrying a firearm while filming a law enforcement operation is an "assassin" whose intent is to "murder federal agents."
Exercising your First and Second Amendment rights simultaneously is now the Trump Administration's legal justification for killing you, and then publicly smearing you.
Are you paying attention?
GusBob
(8,180 posts)Lie to make us sick, lie to make us poor, lie after they massacre on the streets
Only the dead know the end of their lies
orangecrush
(29,039 posts)Vinca
(53,476 posts)of guns by citizens. That's their only basis for this stupid claim. The guy legally had a gun on him, but the only thing in his hand was a phone. They grabbed the gun from wherever it was on his body and then shot him. Where are all the 2nd amendment lovers? Shouldn't they be concerned if carrying a gun legally automatically makes you a threat in the eyes of the wannabe king?
Kid Berwyn
(23,470 posts)No immunity for traitors.
bronxiteforever
(11,180 posts)But he still overdid the eyeliner.
Dear_Prudence
(1,077 posts)I live in Cincinnati and Springboro is a neighboring community. During the campaign, Vance bore false witness against these neighbors, claiming they eat cats. Spouting false piety and donning Catholicism like its a party hat, he unrepentedly and flagrantly violated one of the Ten Commandments. He's a bigot, a liar and slanderer, and a hypocrite. To quote Maya Angelou, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
dalton99a
(92,629 posts)OGBuzz
(57 posts)Thiel has declared that 'democracy cannot be trusted' and his company Palantir is developing technology that will turn America into a surveillance state.
dalton99a
(92,629 posts)Wicked Blue
(8,626 posts)Katcat
(556 posts)Should be ostracized for the rest of his unnatural life for the evil he hides inside himself.
LessAspin
(1,882 posts)Because they're doing nothing to broaden their base.
Quite the opposite.. they seem to be actively signaling support to the most extreme elements of the base.
Must be hoping to stay in power by force but Vance doesn't have the cult following Trump has. JD is going down.
Initech
(107,810 posts)Hopefully Yarvin and the Fox propagandists will join them.
Initech
(107,810 posts)We are better than they are. This whole wretched administration needs to be flushed.
kacekwl
(8,952 posts)calling them liars. To their face or otherwise.
LetMyPeopleVote
(176,080 posts)I have no doubt that Miller is behind the attacks on Pretti and Good
Stephen Miller ordered Kristi Noem to say Alex Pretti wanted to 'massacre' ICE: report
— Ed Smith (@esmith51.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T22:16:03.952Z
www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-assassin/
According to Axios, Miller ordered Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to make the claim about Pretti after he died.
"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem insisted in remarks that were reported by Axios.
One source told the publication that officers involved in the shooting "all shut up and got lawyers real quick, so there wasn't a lot of information."
Miller then directed DHS to assemble a statement, including information about Pretti's firearm.
"Stephen heard 'gun' and knew what the narrative would be: Pretti came to 'massacre' cops," one source pointed out.
Miller later asserted in a post on X that Pretti was an "assassin." The language was repeated by Noem and Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino.
The White House held a meeting with Noem on Monday, but Miller was not present.
"Noem has complained to others that she feels she's being hung out to dry over the episode and has made sure to emphasize she took direction from Miller and the president," Axios reported.