Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ramped up his divisive attacks on the Trump administration even after the president deployed “border czar” Tom Homan to de-escalate the unrest following the shooting of Alex Pretti.
“They started this fire and we are not going to give them credit for putting it out,” Walz told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in his first TV interview since the 37-year-old nurse was shot dead during a scuffle with ICE agents on Saturday.
The embattled governor said he had met with Homan and there was a “tone shift” and “progress,” however, he then needled the border czar, implying that it was insincere.
“I think the thing that I’m most concerned about is that the tone was different. There was a tone shift. I wish it was because of horrific shooting that somebody saw some morality — but I think it’s probably the press,” he jabbed, adding that that Homan never asked about Pretti or his family.
Walz then blasted the Trump administration over its handling of Pretti’s death and the death of Renee Good on Jan. 7, saying that it is infected with “a cruelty that runs so deep.
“He specifically cited the DOJ’s decision to open an investigation into Good’s wife.“It’s a siege in all respects,” he said of the massive immigration operations.
“We have children being pulled from their parents. We have elderly people being drug out in this type of cold with no clothes. It’s just absolute cruelty.”
Walz’s divisive attacks come after Trump tried to calm the tension, saying that the two spoke on the phone and that “it was a very good call” and they “seemed to be on a similar wavelength.”
The president then told Fox News in an interview Tuesday evening that, “we’re going to de-escalate a little bit.”
