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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Even The Wall Street Journal is now turning on the administration, calling the immigration crackdown a moral and political debacle after federal agents killed a nurse in Minneapolis.
What did The Wall Street Journal call the Trump administration's Minnesota immigration crackdown?
And they're basically saying that the administration's story doesn't add up. The administration is now scrambling. Trump has demoted his Border Patrol commander, his hype man, Greg Bovino, and they're pretending this is a calm and measured pivot. But this is damage control. The cracks are spreading inside of MAGA. Even conservative voices are starting to say, why is it that the government is shooting people simply because they were carrying guns? We're going to break down the chaos, the hypocrisy. I'm also going to speak to Dr. Zeke Emanuel about the Maha movement. and his latest book. And of course, Megan Kelly's maybe most disgusting comments of all time. I thought she supported the First Amendment.
I thought she supported the Second Amendment. Who knows? Clips, videos and the podcast, of course, on Spotify and Apple podcasts. It's all happening today.
We start today with The Wall Street Journal's bomb that they just dropped on Donald Trump, not MSNBC. So sorry, MS.
Why was Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino demoted and what does it signal?
Now, not the nation, not some left wing thing. This is The Wall Street Journal editorial board. They aren't just criticizing Trump. They are calling the immigration crackdown a moral and political debacle. This is not the language you would typically expect from a conservative editorial board, from a newspaper owned by News Corporation, which also owns Fox News. Now, here's what happened. I know many of you already know the details. Thirty seven year old ICU nurse Alex Pretty was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Trump administration immediately goes on the offensive. Kristi Noem says he showed up to inflict damage and kill law enforcement. There's no evidence of that. Stephen Miller says Alex Pretty was a domestic terrorist.
There's no evidence of that. And the problem is the video, quite frankly, the multiple videos.
Which MAGA allies and conservative voices began breaking ranks over the killing of Alex Pretti?
And according to The Wall Street Journal, the videos show Pretty trying to help a woman who had been pepper sprayed. He is a nurse after all. He gets tackled. He's on the ground with a phone in his hand. Agents find a concealed gun and disarm him. And then they shoot him and then they shoot him again and again and again. And The Wall Street Journal says the Trump administration story just isn't believable. It is a right wing paper saying the stink of Trump isn't passing the smell test. And then they go even further. The W The Wall Street Journal says that this is the worst incident so far in what is becoming a broader disaster for Trump's presidency, a moral disaster, but also a political disaster. And I think this is maybe the key part.
Trump ran in twenty twenty four as the strong man on immigration. He was going to dominate this issue. He might fail everywhere else. But he is going to be pleasing the country when it comes to immigration. And not only is the country saying we don't approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration, even The Wall Street Journal is saying that this is an approach that's backfiring and they are saying it is time to pause ICE operations in Minneapolis altogether. It's time to rethink the strategy. We can't be targeting hotel maids and gardeners. And after all, Trump said he was going to focus on serious criminals anyway, not left wing activism. You might be saying, oh, that must be that must be what some left wingers said needs to happen now.
This is what The Wall Street Journal says needs to happen at this point in time. And it is effectively the right wing establishment saying, dude, you were screwing this up. Now, the the other part of this that I think is extraordinarily important is that I don't even necessarily know that The Wall Street Journal is doing this for moral reasons. Maybe they are. And it would be great if they were. But this is a political calculation, primarily where Trump is not just losing the left. He's also losing the center right and the business conservatives and the people that often show up to clean up the messes of Donald Trump and what was supposed to be Trump's big accomplishment.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:12
2
What did The Wall Street Journal call the Trump administration's Minnesota immigration crackdown?
0:12–1:23
3
Why was Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino demoted and what does it signal?
1:23–2:15
4
Which MAGA allies and conservative voices began breaking ranks over the killing of Alex Pretti?
2:15–4:47
5
How did Trump’s Truth Social message and personnel reshuffle aim to manage the Minnesota crisis?
4:47–7:48
6
Why did Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt struggle to defend the administration's narrative?
7:48–26:56
7
What contradictions did Kash Patel make about gun rights and protests across interviews?
26:56–30:09
8
Why did Megyn Kelly say people should 'stay inside' after the Alex Pretti shooting and why is it controversial?
30:09–1:13:40
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