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Coventina

(29,318 posts)
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 05:54 PM 6 hrs ago

The NY Times writes a strongly worded letter!!

The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act.

The federal government owes Americans a thorough investigation and a truthful accounting of the Saturday morning shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti on a Minneapolis street. When the government kills, it has an obligation to demonstrate that it has acted in the public interest. Instead, the Trump administration is once again engaged in a perversion of justice.

Mere hours after Mr. Pretti died, Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, declared without offering evidence that Mr. Pretti had “committed an act of domestic terrorism.” Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, offered his own assessment: “This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”

These unfounded and inflammatory judgments pre-empt the outcome of an investigation, which the Department of Homeland Security has promised. They also appear wholly inconsistent with several videos recorded at the scene.

Those videos showed that Mr. Pretti had nothing but a phone in his hands when he was tackled by Border Patrol agents, and that he never drew the gun he was carrying (and reportedly had a license to carry). Indeed, the videos seem to show that one federal agent took the gun from Mr. Pretti moments before a different agent shot him from behind. Separate analyses by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, CBS News and other organizations all concluded that the videos contradict the Trump administration’s description of the killing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/opinion/alex-pretti-minneapolis-shooting-border-patrol.html?

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I'm sure this will light a fire under Trump's ass!

(I have to say, better that they do this than not. I'm just really devoid of much hope for anything, at this point....)

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The NY Times writes a strongly worded letter!! (Original Post) Coventina 6 hrs ago OP
One article doesn't make up SocialDemocrat61 6 hrs ago #1
You meant 30+ years dpibel 3 hrs ago #4
You're right! SocialDemocrat61 2 hrs ago #5
After many years of enabling and coddling NYT eventually turned on Hitler too. RockRaven 6 hrs ago #2
Not "Congress", NYT Editorial Board. Inaction comes from a very specific group, so name names. JHB 6 hrs ago #3

dpibel

(3,809 posts)
4. You meant 30+ years
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 09:28 PM
3 hrs ago

At least back to the sliming of Al Gore.

And the cheerleading for the Iraq invasion.

RockRaven

(18,862 posts)
2. After many years of enabling and coddling NYT eventually turned on Hitler too.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 05:58 PM
6 hrs ago

And nothing they did after made up for what they had done before.

Nor does it this time.

JHB

(38,032 posts)
3. Not "Congress", NYT Editorial Board. Inaction comes from a very specific group, so name names.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 06:01 PM
6 hrs ago

Republicans.

It's Republicans who are violating their oaths of office and their duties as a co-equal branch of government by refusing to check and balance an out-of-control president.

C'mon, say it! Sound it out if you have to!
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