#trump-response

#trump-response

Protests erupted immediately, and Trump officials rushed to make outlandish claims about Pretti, the man who was shot even falsely labeling him an assassin. But multiple videos of the shooting refuted those claims. Trump's initial reaction was to lash out and blame Pretti and Democratic leaders in a lengthy social media rant. But as the outrage grew, the president pumped the brakes a little, and by Monday, was striking a conciliatory tone with Democrats in Minnesota.

Donald Trump has defended his administration's increasingly violent immigration crackdown, describing the 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents as likely a wonderful person whose tough actions justified a lethal response. Trump's comments, made during an interview with CBS News after his visit to a Ford factory in Detroit, came amid rising tensions between federal and local officials in Minneapolis after an ICE agent shot dead Renee Good at the wheel of her SUV on a residential street in Minneapolis last week.

"Horror. An absolute horror," the director, actor and political activist said when asked about the shooting in a TV interview with Piers Morgan. "I unfortunately saw the video of it and it's beyond belief what happened to him and that should never happen to anybody. I don't care what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable."

The savage murder of Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina last month has laid bare the daily terror of American urban life, the hypocrisy of the American mainstream media, and the negligence of the American political elite. On Monday, President Donald Trump briefly addressed the murder during a speech on religious liberty. "When you have horrible killings, you have to take horrible actions," Trump said. "There are evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don't handle that, we don't have a country."