Why are we writing about this?
Trump referred in this way during an interview with Fox News to the announced changes in immigration operations in Minnesota, including the replacement of the controversial Border Patrol officer, Greg Bovino, who had previously been at the head of the operation. Although Trump stressed that this was not a “retreat”, he announced that he wanted to “de-escalate” the situation a little bit.
– It's such a small change. Everyone who runs a business knows that sometimes you need to make small changes. And you know, Bovino is very good, but he's quite an unusual kind of guy. And in some cases, that's a good thing. Maybe it wasn't good in this case, he explained.
What did Donald Trump say about the situation in Minnesota?
Who was Greg Bovino?
What happened to Alex Pretti?
How did Trump respond to the Minneapolis shootings?
What happened to Greg Bovino?
Bovino, who has so far been the public face of deportation operations, among others. in Minneapolis, Chicago and Charlotte was removed after falsely claiming that the victim of Saturday's shooting in Minneapolis, Alex Pretti, intended to kill the officers. Democrats accused him of radicalism and styling himself like a Gestapo or SS officer.
Donald Trump on the shootings. What did the US president say?
Responding to questions about whether he agreed with his advisers' claims that Pretti was a “terrorist” or a killer, Trump said he did not, although he added that he “didn't like the fact that he was carrying a fully loaded gun and had two magazines” and that “you can't bring a gun.”
— In short, it was terrible. “Both (shootings) were terrible,” Trump said, recalling the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. — I'm not sure about his parents, but I know her parents were huge Trump fans […] So that makes me feel even worse about it,” he admitted.
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