Jon Lovett

A lot of people have noted this, that Pretty became a nurse in 2021, which meant that he saw what was unfolding in COVID and decided that he wanted to be in the medical profession.

But Noam and Bovino and all these people, they'll lie about anybody.

They're lying about people all the time.

They've been lying about people they've grabbed off the street.

They've been lying about people they've put in detention.

There's just only some of those stories where it's so egregious and the person so obviously deserving of more that it gets this kind of attention.

And so the tragedy, right, is that this

wonderful and beloved person was gunned down because of poorly trained, angry, twitchy, aggressive federal agents who feel beholden to and protected by Donald Trump and his goons.

We went to the memorial where he had been killed, and you just see so many people who they're just standing there in silence, just really unable to move.

A lot of people have never been to anything like that before.

They've never felt this before.

They've never experienced anything in their communities like this before, so wrenched by this.

And it's all just so completely avoidable.

And the lying about it, I've seen a bunch of people scratching their chins to complain about all the ways in which everyone but Noam and Bovino and all these people are ultimately responsible and ICE is ultimately responsible and the Border Patrol responsible.

But the lying is escalation.

The lying is a form of ratcheting up the tension.

And it's only because pretty is such a like a tribune to good values that they've kind of had to blow up in their faces.

There's something about Vance, that unrelated story about the lunch incident...

It was dinner.

Don't worry, it was dinner.