Dive deep into the complexities and controversies surrounding the recent Minneapolis shooting. As tensions rise, Mike analyzes the layers of narratives, from official statements to public perceptions. With a mix of insights and firsthand accounts, this episode provides a comprehensive view into law enforcement challenges and media portrayal, inviting listeners to ponder where they stand on these pressing issues.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America’s culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you’ve been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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It’s going to be one of those days where I’m not going to have to work too hard to get phone calls, I suspect. I’ll give you the number, 800-655-MIKE. It is Monday, January 26th. We had another fatal shooting in Minneapolis. Moments ago, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he is sending Tom Holman, the border czar, to Minneapolis today. President Trump writes he has not been involved in that area but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair and will report directly to me. Separately, Trump said… A major investigation is going on with respect to the massive $20 billion-plus welfare fraud that has taken place in Minnesota and is at least partially responsible for the violent organized protests going on in the streets. Additionally, the DOJ and Congress are looking at Congresswoman, quote-unquote, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who left Somalia with nothing and is now reportedly worth more than $44 million. Time will tell all. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President D.J.T. You know what makes the Minneapolis story so tricky, so difficult, so complicated, is that a bunch of things can be true at once. I walked into the studio after listening to my pal Mark Davis in Dallas. And Mark was pretty critical of Kristi Noem. There are reports that President Trump is unhappy with his Homeland Security, DHS, top brass in response to this shooting of the ICU nurse. And of course, the optics of this are tailor-made for just a Playhouse 90 melodrama. ICU nurse. This guy that shows up to a protest with a loaded 9mm and winds up getting shot repeatedly by Border Patrol officers. Incidentally, for those who are screaming about abolishing ICE, ICE didn’t have anything to do with what happened Saturday in Minneapolis. This was a Border Patrol agent. And so I walk into the studio, and I’ve got this text line, and I appreciate getting text messages. One number does it all. 800-655-MIKE. You could call or text. And the text line says, Mike, please tell your big mouth buddy, Mark, shut up over his criticism of Kristi Noem and Kash Patel. Just report the news and shut up his stupid criticism of how our leaders are trying to handle this mess. He sounds like Don Lemon running off about his stupid criticism. And I thought, well, since I largely agree with Mark… I guess this person isn’t going to be too happy with me either. There’s reporting coming from the White House that President Trump himself is not happy with Kristi Noem. We know what Kristi Noem said, essentially that this guy was a domestic terrorist who was planning to massacre scores of federal agents, or something to that effect. I mean, we can play it. I don’t want to pile on. Make no mistake, I’m not… The administration has a real mess on its hands. And I’m not going to ignore the outrageous, irresponsible comments made by the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, and that goofy governor, Tim Walz. I am certainly not going to pretend that it’s a good idea to bring a loaded 9mm to a protest and wind up scuffling with federal law enforcement. But we also can’t escape the awful conclusion that it appears that this guy was killed after he was disarmed. Now, I don’t know why it happened. I don’t know how this happened. There are reports that this particular Sig Sauer 9mm handgun has a propensity to accidentally discharge. And one of the theories is that when one of the law enforcement officers disarmed the guy, the gun accidentally went off, somebody yelled gun, and they pumped the guy full of bullets. It’s probably a bad shooting. That’s the assessment I got from seven law enforcement officers and officials who I spoke to over the weekend. Seven. I’m not making any of this up. I’ve got no reason to fabricate anything. I’m just telling you what I was told by seven different law enforcement officers or officers. people in supervisory positions. It’s probably a bad shooting. Incidentally, that term, bad, good shooting, that’s a law enforcement term. A good shooting means it’s totally justified, it’s utterly defensible, no one’s going to face any accountability on the law enforcement side. That’s what’s described as a good shooting. A bad shooting is a shooting that did not meet the criteria of the need for the use of lethal force. I’m not going to sit here and pretend as enthusiastic as I may be about law enforcement and its ability and our country’s obligation to enforce existing federal immigration laws. I can’t see video evidence of a guy who was shot after he was disarmed and pretend that he wasn’t shot after he was disarmed. And incidentally, there’s a whole lot of misinformation going on via X and Instagram and TikTok. A lot of people were circling the picture of the gun in the law enforcement officer’s hand and acting like that was the hand of this pretty guy who was killed. Sorry, that was the law enforcement officer who had disarmed him. That doesn’t advance your argument that it was a clean, justifiable, or good shooting. We’ve got a mess on our hands. No way around it. No way around this. And we’ve got really bad, bad actors involved. This Tim Waltz is a bad guy. He’s standing there. pouring fuel on the fire, pretending the children in Minneapolis are hiding in their attics like Anne Frank did during the Holocaust. You heard me right. If you haven’t seen this, the governor of Minnesota is actually comparing children of Minnesota to Anne Frank, the little girl who was hidden in an attic before being discovered and executed in in the gas chambers. It’s a bad guy. It’s Jacob Fry. These are bad people. They are anti-law enforcement, they are pro-illegals, and they are desperately hoping for anything that can distract the country from diving into the widespread, horrific fraud that happened under Jacob Fry and Tim Waltz’s watch. But I cannot come into this studio and in good conscience talk to you, sit in front of this microphone or stare into this camera and pretend that this was anything other than a horrible, awful, chaotic, Mistake. And mistakes were made by a lot of people. You bet this guy should never have walked into this kind of a scene with a loaded 9mm. Of course, we all know that. But you can’t pretend that he wasn’t shot and killed after he was disarmed. And if you know that, where do we go from here? This is so frustrating for me. I am praying for my country. I’m praying for President Trump and our leaders. I’m praying that hearts will be softened. These anti-law enforcement nitwits who are angry that federal immigration laws are being enforced. They’re misguided. They’re delusional. They’re nuts. They’re just nuts. But that doesn’t mean that we should pretend… that a guy wasn’t killed by law enforcement after he was disarmed. Now, I’ll turn it over to you, 800-655-MIKE, 16 past the hour, a lot of text messages already pouring in. California says, so frustrating. Defending the Democrat narrative using law enforcement terms doesn’t help anything. You’re jumping to a lot of conclusions with the attack of the Border Patrol agents and calling it a bad shooting. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t an unjustified shooting. Okay, you have a right to that opinion. If you think it’s justified, you have absolutely every right to feel that way. But so do the rest of Americans who say it’s most unfortunate that a guy got shot and killed after he was disarmed. And that’s a fact that we’re not going to be able to avoid. But let me turn it over to you here in the Relief Factor studios. It’s Monday, January 26th. Welcome aboard 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Hope you join us. 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From the wild world of DC politics to America’s culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you’ve been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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There are a lot of hot takes after the shooting death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota over the weekend. Most of them are bad. I don’t know that there’s a lot of good takes. It’s a mess. It’s not easy. None of it is going to be solved overnight. President Trump earlier today announced that he is sending the border czar Tom Holman to Minneapolis, apparently to investigate the shooting, and whatever you think of the shooting itself. And once again, we’ve got videos that are… informing people’s opinions. One angle shows this, another angle shows that. It’s like Renee Good all over again. Did she aim her car towards the law enforcement officer? Did she not? Was she trying to escape? Is this guy Mother Teresa, an ICU nurse who was just going there to sing Kumbaya? Why did he go up, show up at a protest? with a loaded nine millimeter handgun without any identification which for those keeping score at home that is a crime That is illegal. A lot of great emails pouring into the Mike Gallagher Show. A lot of great text messages. The email address is mike at mikeonline.com if you’d like to share your feedback. The text line is 800-655-MIKE. Our call-in line is 800-655-MIKE. So I don’t think we’ve got to work too hard to get you on board to talk to us because of all the hot takes on the shooting death… of this guy in Minneapolis, the one I’m most interested in is yours. For example, here’s an email from Dale in Texas. I carry every day, and I always carry loaded with one in the chamber, two spare magazines, but I do not fight law enforcement. It’s a pretty important distinction. If you’re going to carry a loaded gun, and incidentally, you’ve got a right to carry a loaded gun, and this guy evidently did. Is it a good idea or a bad idea to show up where people are trying to disrupt a lawful immigration effort with a loaded handgun? Does he have the right to? Apparently he did. I guess he was a legitimate concealed carry holder. Is it a smart thing to do? I kept thinking about his parents who were quoted as saying just a couple of weeks ago, we told him if you go protest, don’t do anything stupid. How heartbroken they must be to now prepare to bury their son who had no business getting in the face of anybody. You want to stand on a street corner and hold up a sandwich board? Knock yourself out. Protest all day long. I often think about the kind of person who thinks it’s wise or productive to get in the faces of law enforcement. Screaming at them, blowing whistles, trying to distract them, honking horns, breaking windows, biting off one of their fingers. You see that little doozy? Oh yeah, one of the activists apparently bit off the finger of one of the law enforcement officers in Minneapolis. What happens to that person? Is that a misdemeanor? In Tim Waltz’s Minnesota? To bite off the finger of a law enforcement officer? There is a… And there’s a lot of misinformation. There are videos that are circulating that are AI. Be very careful. Gosh, I wish we had a way to, I guess trained eyes can tell when video is AI and when it’s not. I can’t tell. Heck, I see elephants do a backflip off the high dive in a swimming pool, and I think that’s real. It all looks real to me. Because I guess I’m a pretty gullible audience. A lot of contentiousness on the airwaves, including over at Fox News. Kristi Noem is being criticized pretty strongly. The Democrats, of course, want to impeach her. It is being reported that President Trump himself is not too happy with her. She, of course, took to the podium and said afterwards this guy was a domestic terrorist who planned to massacre numerous law enforcement officers. And when asked what evidence do we have of that, nobody yet has been particularly forthcoming. But look, all of this is going to come out. It has to. There has to be a thorough and complete and exhaustive investigation into the circumstances involving Alex Preddy’s death. And, of course, one of the bad takes is that it all ought to be turned over to the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota. You’re going to let them investigate it? They’ll have the guy executed. I know it’s a blue, blue state, but they’ll bring back the death penalty for the officer who pulled the trigger, the Border Patrol officer. Here was Fox News Channel’s Peter Doocy talking to Kristi Noem over the weekend with a line of questioning that actually surprised a lot of people.
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There is an angle of the video that we’ve been playing all morning where it shows an officer removing a weapon either from Alex Petty’s waistband or a holster. And he walks away with the weapon before officers start shooting. It appears that Alex Petty was disarmed. If he was disarmed, is it the protocol to use deadly force?
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And that’s all part of this investigation. Every video will be analyzed. Everything will be looked at. And that’s part of the answers that I can’t speak to every single thing that those officers thought. But this happened in seconds. They clearly feared for their lives and took action to defend themselves and the people around them. If you if you watch that and you listen to those videos, you can hear someone yelling gun, gun, gun. And those agents and officers reacted to that. So as this investigation goes forward, all of that will be analyzed.
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That’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Speaking of Fox News, here’s Bill Malugin’s take. I like him a lot. And many people felt his post signaled a real sea change in the reaction that conservatives are having to this particular event. Here’s what Bill Malugin posted yesterday on Fox, on the Fox X account. He writes… Since yesterday’s deadly shooting in Minnesota, I’ve talked to more than half a dozen federal sources involved with immigration enforcement, including several in senior positions. who all tell me they have grown increasingly uneasy and frustrated with some of the claims and narratives DHS pushed in the aftermath of the shooting. Specifically, I’m told there is extreme frustration with DHS officials going on TV and putting out statements claiming that Alex Preddy was intending to conduct a massacre of federal agents or wanted to carry out maximum damage, even after numerous videos appear to show these claims were inaccurate. While they say it was a terrible decision to show up with a gun and inject himself into a federal law enforcement operation, there is no indication Preddy was there to murder law enforcement. As videos appear to show, he never drew his holstered firearm. These sources say this messaging from DHS officials has been catastrophic from a PR and morale perspective as it is eroding trust and credibility, comparing it to when Democrats falsely claimed the border was closed or that Haitians were being whipped at the border. Some of these sources have described DHS’s response to the shooting as a case study on how not to do crisis PR. One said they are so fed up that they wish they could retire. Another said DHS is making the situation worse. And another added that DHS is wrong and we are losing this war. We are losing the base and the narrative. These sources all believe this is going to end up being what they call a bad shooting, a crappy situation, he doesn’t use the word crappy, that happened in seconds where agents likely heard gun, then the disarmed firearm may have had an accidental discharge that spooked the agents, and they shot. The agents do not have the luxury of multiple slow-motion angles and had to make split-second decisions. All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda, he writes, but have serious hesitations about the way it is being carried out and the messaging that comes with it. Many of the sources have expressed frustration that ICE is routinely blamed for the actions of Border Patrol, a completely separate agency. He concludes that statement by saying, I reached out to DHS for comment, and they did respond. They said, here’s DHS’s response to Bill Malugin at Fox News. We have seen a highly coordinated campaign of violence against our law enforcement. This individual committed a federal crime while armed as he had obstructed an active law enforcement operation. As with any situation that is evolving, we work to give swift, accurate information to the American people. As more information… becomes available. All right, let’s turn it over to you. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453 here in the Relief Factor Studios. One number does it all. Call or text. Join us. I also hope you join the Rough Greens community. If you’ve got a dog, even a cat, and you’ve got problems with, you’re seeing that they’ve got scratches, they’re scratching, they’ve got digestion problems. Look, Dr. Dennis Black learned a long time ago that most canine health problems share one common root cause, a weakened immune system, often from years of eating dead processed food. Well, that’s why Rough Greens is such a game changer. I mean, you sprinkle it on top of your dog’s food, let them go to town, they love the taste of it, and boy, does it make a big difference. I’ve seen it in the Hudson household with little Jesse, Peg and Joey’s beloved cocker spaniel. I want you to try Rough Greens for yourself for free. We’re going to send you a free Jumpstart trial bag. You just cover the shipping costs. Go to roughgreens.com. That’s R-U-F-F. Ruff is spelled R-U-F-F. RuffGreens.com. Enter the promo code MikeG. Let me send you a free jumpstart trial bag of Ruff Greens. You just cover the shipping. Ruff Greens. So great. Your dog will ask for it by name. Is losing weight getting harder and harder as you get older? It’s not your fault. You’re eating better, you’re moving more, but your body isn’t responding the way it used to. That’s not willpower, that’s metabolism. For many people, years of dieting is quietly slowing down your metabolic system. So the harder you try, the less progress you make. I was dealing with the exact same thing five years ago. I made a call to PhD Weight Loss. It changed my life. At PhD Weight Loss, they help people identify what’s actually blocking fat loss, and they fix the root cause. I’ll see you next time. 864-644-1900 or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com and tell them Mike Gallagher sent you.
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I just had a friend of mine ask me, Mike, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you think the Minneapolis shooting death of Alex Preddy hurts the Trump administration? And this friend of mine, his theory is it’s about a 7 or an 8. I don’t know how this is going to play out. I do know that President Trump is sending Tom Holman, the border czar, to Minneapolis. The Wall Street Journal interviewed President Trump last night. He would not commit one way or the other to whether this was a so-called good or clean shooting. A good shooting is what law enforcement uses. It’s a term they use. If it’s justified or if it’s not, I am convinced that this administration will not bow to mob rule. Did you see the picture of the law enforcement officer who had his finger bitten off by one of these rabid protesters? Wonder what happened to the protester. Wonder what the penalty is for biting the finger off a cop. Huh. You’re not seeing a whole lot of media coverage about that, are you? There have been some terrible, terrible takes on all of this, some good, some bad, some awful. A lot of smart people reacting. Michael Schellenberger had a great monologue. It’s about five minutes long, probably too long to play this hour, but I’ve posted it on my X account, and I hope you follow us there, at Gallagher Show on X. And Michael Schellenberger, who’s the investigative journalist, who wrote the book San Francisco, about how progressives and leftists are absolutely ruining big cities. He posted a commentary that was spot on. So did Batya Sarkar. Ungar Sargon. Now, this is a young woman I’ve seen on NewsNation before. I saw this on NewsNation last night, a clip that I wanted to share with you, because there’s a lot of wild-eyed extremist reaction going on, on both sides. I mean, there’s some people that are posting altered AI videos of Preti supposedly with a gun in his hand. As far as I could tell from all the different angles and the video analysis, which, of course, law enforcement does not have the benefit of seeing, he never got his hand on his weapon. He was armed. He did not apparently carry identification. That’s a crime in and of itself. He was directing traffic. He clearly was down there to… to be a presence when law enforcement is trying to carry out. And incidentally, lost in all of this, they were trying to detain and arrest a violent illegal who was apparently charged with beating his wife. Check out Batya Angar Sargon, and I want to get your take on what she had to say. And I also want you to answer the question that my friend asked a few minutes ago. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much does this hurt the Trump administration’s efforts to do the right thing when it comes to illegal immigration in America? Feel free to jump on board and join us with that answer to that difficult question. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Welcome aboard. It’s Monday here in the Relief Factor Studios. Whenever there’s a huge news story like this, I always lean into you. I always want to get as many calls, as many American voices as possible on this show, because I want to find out what you really think about… an event like this. So feel free to join us now, 800-655-6453. Over at News Nation, here’s what I think is really smart analysis from Batya Angar Sargon.
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The left and the right see these killings in very different ways. You have the left-wing narrative, which is that these two people, Rene Good and Alex Preddy, did nothing wrong, that they were out there doing defending innocent people in a completely nonviolent way and were murdered for standing up for the vulnerable. And then you have the right wing version of it exemplified by the administration, which is that these two people were domestic terrorists who had come out in order to do violence. And I think that the truth of the matter, Natasha, is somewhere right in the middle Obviously, both Renee Good and Alex Preddy believed that they were doing the right thing, that they were standing up for vulnerable, innocent people, when in fact what they were doing was impeding law enforcement trying to detain violent criminals. And in the case of Alex Preddy specifically, what you saw was the gun get taken away from him. And then the president alluded to the specific gun that it was, the Sig P320, perhaps possibly discharged. And then the officers there thought that they were being attacked. And they shot him, just like in the case of Renee Good, where she actually did strike the officer. ICE officer with her car. And of course, when it comes to whether a shooting is justified or not, the question at stake is whether the law enforcement officer thought that their life was in danger. And I think in both of these cases, you can see that that was a very reasonable interpretation. Now, that said, Natasha, the administration coming out and calling these people terrorists I really think that that is unjustifiable. I think the president is not happy about it. We had this Wall Street Journal interview where he said, let’s wait and see. Basically, he would not come out and say whether he supported the agent. And I just think that in this moment, it is so important that as Americans, we take down the temperature. Now, I also don’t think that we can say that it would be appropriate to immediately withdraw ICE as a result of this backlash because of course the majority of Americans continue to support mass deportations and the vast majority of Americans continue to support deporting criminals. And so it cannot be the case that mass violent protests would then undermine the will of the people who voted for this. So of course the The truth, as we always say on News Nation, is in that place where reasonable Americans can meet from left and from right.
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Well, I hope that’s possible. I don’t know if reasonable, if there is common ground with people who think that it’s OK to show up and impede a law enforcement operation, a lawful law enforcement operation. I do think she’s right that the perception that ICE and Border Patrol is just running around rounding up innocent people. is being believed by too many people. And of course, that’s not what’s happening at all. But here we are. Is there a way to find common ground with people who think it’s a good idea to arm up, load yourself up with a lot of ammunition, don’t bring any identification with you, show up, and immerse yourself into a law enforcement operation with your loaded weapon? Is there a way to find common ground with people who think that this guy, this nurse, was some kind of a terrorist who had plans to massacre a whole bunch of law enforcement officers? If there’s evidence to that, I hope they’ll present it. If that’s a theory, is that a responsible thing to advance? 800-655-MIKE. 15 past the hour. We’ll get your take on all of it. I promise. Your call, your voice, your perspective coming up. Let me give you a perspective about weight loss. Everybody I know who’s tried PhD weight loss has lost a bunch of weight, and they’ve kept it off. I think between my colleague here at Salem, Chris Stegall, and his producer, Fast Eddie, I think they’ve lost 70 pounds between the two of them. I know my dear friend Joey Hudson and his wife Peg have lost a ton of weight. I’ve lost over 50 pounds. And you don’t rely on a shot in the belly for the rest of your life. You’re not starving yourself. I was never hungry when I lost my 53 pounds of weight loss, and I know how to keep it off. Look, make the call that can change everything for you because at PhD Weight Loss, they help you identify what’s actually blocking fat loss and fix the root cause. If you want to understand why your body might not be cooperating, call PHD Weight Loss. Mention Fix My Weight Loss when you call them to unlock their New Year’s special. You can get your consultation absolutely free from PHD Weight Loss. Just tell them to Fix My Weight Loss when you call 864-644-1900. Call 864-644-1900. That’s 864-644-1900. Or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com. MyPhDWeightLoss.com. It works.
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You should see me trying to find Navage over at the drugstore near here. You watch and see. And I think I found a location at a CVS. So after the show, I’m going to go to the CVS, buy this Navage. It’s $100 because people are claiming that works better than the neti pot. You watch myself. You watch. I’ll drown myself. That’ll be it. Call Joey. Get him on standby. Because I’m going to drown myself trying to attach this device to my nostrils and not, you know, have water shoot out all over the place like it did this morning when I tried the stupid neti pot. And I know it’s allergies. And people keep telling me if you can just flush your nostrils out, you’ll feel a lot better. Gosh, I hope so. Navage, apparently it’s like it goes back into your nostrils. You watch. I’ll wind up in the hospital tonight. I’ll be the first person hospitalized. for overdosing on Navaj liquid trying to clear up my allergy problems. At least I can think clearly thanks to ThinkFactor. It’s made to help you think clearer and perform better every day. It’s a powerful blend of nutrients that unlocks mental clarity and precision, nurtures your memory, boosts your attention, and yes, ThinkFactor comes from the same folks who brought us ReliefFactor. Gosh, do I appreciate ThinkFactor. They might not be able to help me with my stupid allergy problem, but they sure have helped my mind, my focus, my concentration. If you’re realizing that your memory isn’t what it used to be, this is a game changer. If you’ve been thinking, I wish I could feel more clear, more focused, more in control of my day, now you can. Try ThinkFactor. See the difference it can make for you. Call 800-4-RELIEF. to order Think Factor. Think Factor by Relief Factor. Or you can just visit relieffactor.com, relieffactor.com, learn more, order Think Factor today. 800-4-RELIEF or go to relieffactor.com. I think we used to do ads for Navaj, didn’t we, Eric? Do you remember Navaj? I’ll tell you what, if it works, I will absolutely get on the Navaj bandwagon. Somebody just texted me, Navaj is the greatest. You won’t even feel the water going in. Your nose are coming out. Yeah, but this is me. You don’t realize. I’m not good at stuff like this. I try to navigate this crap by myself, and I can’t figure it out. So we’ll see. You know, back to Minneapolis for a moment. Does it not dawn on anybody that these things keep happening in one city? How many people have you seen… shot and killed during an immigration enforcement operation in Chicago. Or New York. Or L.A. Or Memphis. Or Dallas. Or Atlanta. Wonder why it keeps happening in Minneapolis. Steve Scalise, the congressman from Louisiana, appeared on CBS with Margaret Brennan yesterday. He had some choice words for why this is happening in the state of Minnesota and in the city of Minneapolis.
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You don’t see these numbers either, though. When we looked, for example, at the federal response in New Orleans, I mean, it’s just a fraction of the number of federal agents. Nearly 3,000 is quite a lot for a city the size of Minneapolis.
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Well, that’s because they didn’t get resistance in cities like New Orleans, where, you know, when you look in Minneapolis and I just listened to the chief and you could hear him lamenting four times. I think he said that they’re strapped so thin. And let’s keep in mind, Minneapolis is a city that defunded their police. That’s not the chief’s fault. That’s the failed Democrat leader’s fault. But at the same time, when they defund the police, that leaves the chief stretched thin. And so he was made a decision not to assist ICE.
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By the way, that chief, he’s a piece of work, Brian O’Hara. And I’ve not quite figured out what his story is. I believe he’s from New Jersey. I think his wife, isn’t his wife law enforcement in Jersey? How does that work? How are you the police chief of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and your wife is a detective or a cop or somebody in New Jersey? Do they go back and forth? How does that even work? Here he was, and I loved what somebody pointed out about how rich it is, how delightful it is to see the left all of a sudden fall in love with the Second Amendment. Since Alex Preddy had a loaded handgun, now all of a sudden they’re celebrating the Second Amendment.
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this is an individual that was a city resident it appears that he was present exercising his first amendment rights to record law enforcement activity and also exercising his second amendment rights to lawfully be armed in a public space in the city so i think very obviously there are serious questions that are being raised and i think the greater issue is Even if there is an investigation that ultimately proves that at the time of the shooting it was legally justified, I don’t think that even matters at this point because there is so much outrage and concern around what is happening in the city.
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None of that even matters. The merits of this don’t even matter because there’s a lot of outrage. If there’s outrage, well, that should carry the day, as long as there’s outrage. And this is why Trump is in a bad position. Because if anybody is unwilling to tuck tail and run, it’s going to be Donald Trump. You think that he’s going to let federal law enforcement get chased out of Minneapolis? Because of activists and protesters blowing their stupid whistles and banging their pots and pans and impeding traffic and getting in the face of law enforcement and doing their best to prevent the deportation efforts that are underway? You think Trump’s going to say, okay, well, yeah, mob rule, mob rule. The mob wins. I’m out. Let’s go. Let’s pull out everybody. That’s not going to happen. Ken’s in Illinois. Ken, you’re on the Mike Gallagher Show, 20 before the hour. Hello, Ken. Hey, Mike. How are you? I’m good. Long-time listener.
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Good. Thank you. Thank you. I’m a big Trump supporter. I’ve been to three of his rallies, voted for him three times, and lifelong Republican. But I have to disagree. I think there’s some hypocrisy here. You know, with the Trump administration and yourself, and, you know, just with the masks, you know, every day prosecutors and judges are not masked. Giuliani wasn’t masked when the mafia was going after him because he was prosecuting them. Curtis Lewa was shot by the mafia. He doesn’t wear a mask.
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Those are all public figures, and you know that. No, no, they are. They are. But these guys, I think…
SPEAKER 08 :
OK, and I hear you. And I think that there is a lot of brainwashing going on coming from the governor of Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis, you know, telling these crowds that they’re dealing with Nazis and all this. But then on the other side. I can see the other side, that the Trump administration and Noam and Patel and everybody, that they’re emboldening these ICE agents with the masks, too, to think that they can be above the law, lawless thugs, and there’s no accountability. You probably remember back to the early 90s. I used to listen to, of course, Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy on the radio. You know, we had Bill Clinton and Janet Reno, and we were all far-right radicals if we thought they shouldn’t be shooting a guy at Ruby Ridge. who was off the grid or, you know, the Waco thing, all that. And it’s completely a flip script now, kind of Rittenhouse. I think he was fine walking around with his AR-15.
SPEAKER 04 :
So let’s go back because I’m trying to figure out where you’re coming from. So if they didn’t wear masks, you’d be okay with their legal enforcement operations?
SPEAKER 08 :
I want every illegal alien removed from this country as soon as possible, whether they’re committing other crimes or not.
SPEAKER 04 :
So that’s not what I asked. If they remove their masks, would you then be okay with what they’re doing?
SPEAKER 08 :
I would be okay with them doing their job, yes. Of course, the two murders in Minneapolis, the woman in the car that was clearly turning her wheel to the right and trying to leave, and the guy that was just filming Saturday that was shot for no reason while laying on the ground. See, I mean, this is where…
SPEAKER 04 :
This is where we lose you. And, you know, this is kind of where you go off the rails. And I have to tell you, you sound like a nice guy, but I have to tell you, every single caller who starts out, I voted for Trump. I’m a Trump supporter. I listened to Rush Limbaugh. Now, let me tell you how the guy was just standing on the corners filming and they murdered him. Or let me tell you how Renee Good, she was just dropping her child off. She was just in her car, driving down the street, admiring the scenery. It makes us wonder, Ken, if you’re not somebody, when you’ve got to say, I voted for Trump three times. Chris DeGaulle says this beautifully all the time on his show. It’s like an alarm ought to go off. I’m a Trump supporter. Because you know what? You’re probably not.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mike Gallagher.
